Updating this petition from Sept 2017, to include several important developments. Our Government this month continues to labeling this Treaty as irresponsible, dangerous, blaming it as a divisive measure, destabilizing our world, and “an easy” way, not doing the hard work of diplomacy. We know the opposite is true. We are expanding NATO, and enforcing on our allies our strict nuclear weapon policies as a test of loyalty. We are expanding our nuclear weapon facilities, testing, university research, and spending the these most dire greatly needed resources of our talent on new improved nuclear weapons, and greater destructive forces, instead of applying them to our task at hand…. Climate and environmental remediation, and decommissioning our weapons. We are breaking all laws, international and our own military codes, and directly, daily endangering humankind. Once again, we use the fear of Russians as our reasoning for our building anew. Russian colleagues who i’ve sat with can’t believe we are seeing this again. Pres. Gorbachev is still alive and can’t believe it. The millions who built bridges together in science, education, the arts and culture can’t believe it. Just because leaders don’t remember basic conflict resolution tenents, doesn’t mean we citizens need to be obedient to their endless rhetoric and threaten to destroy each other, the whole earth. In honoring our soldiers, let it be clear, there is NO courage, no bravery, nor wisdom, nor valor, nor patriotism in nuclear weapons. No common sense. No humanity. No reason, except short term profit. for a few, wrapped selfishly in our flags. ** Over 90 % of the citizens of Germany, a democracy and ally, want our 20 H-bombs out of their land now. ** 53 or more of 59 Members of the Scottish Parliament want the nuclear armed Trident submarines out of Scotland now! Their citizens clearly do NOT want what our Representatives say they do, “Protection under our umbrella”. They don’t believe in this. They believe nuclear weapons are extremely costly and dangerous and keep us all insecure. They no longer believe the lie. They believe in law that protects. And they believe we can create many more and better jobs with these resources. The Kings Bay Plowshares 7, seven of our colleagues who entered our largest nuclear weapon naval base, with banners of Martin Luther King, Jr. , with prayer and candles, who are upholding every moral and humanitarian law we can think of, are being tried at this moment in Federal Court in Georgia, to the fullest extent (possibly decades in prison), focusing on the cutting of a fence which hides truth, rather than the reality of sacrificing their lives for their fellow human beings, the greater good, the 10 Commandments, and Pope Francis’s call. They are standing up in the middle of the belly of a non democratic, hidden, criminal, most dangerous congressional industry. Please lend them (us all) your support and make it an issue with your representative: www.KingsBayPlowshares7.org Every democratic process to even begin a discussion of the basics of this grave concern has been denied consideration, or discussion, or making it to the floor to be mentioned. Recent examples are The SANE Act of 2012, and again 2017 by Sen. Blumenthal, Sanders, and Markey, etc. Efforts simply disallowed by the committee chairs. Period, end of discussion, gone from view, and media. Democracy? Many states and cities are beginning to pass and look into creating new resolutions once again, as we did in the 1980s, against the industry that makes and threatens all with omnicidal devices, and begin divestment from our industries that make them. Please bring it to your town, city, state. Several great resources for these actions: www.NuclearBan.US, https://www.psr.org/blog/resource/back-from-the-brink-a-call-to-prevent-nuclear-war/, and, www.DontBankOnTheBomb.com, and www.codepink.org, among others. A few excellent new 2018 editions have come out addressing all you need to know about standing up to this industry with clarity, facts, and widened truth: Commander Robert Green’s “Security Without Nuclear Deterrence.”, Daniel Ellsberg’s “Doomsday Machine”, and Timmon Wallis’s “Disarming the Nuclear Argument”. Don’t listen to the US defilement of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, read it yourself, and listen to the Nobel Ceremony as to why they gave the Peace Prize to ICAN. Priceless. Read the clear statements of Pope Francis, and the results of his international symposium on it. The core of Christian, Jewish and other teachings oppose the possession and threat of such devices, and the others the industry is making as we speak. * Below is the Petition as its was from Sept. 2017. You’ve signed, thank you, Please share as you can. Onward, Togeher. Updating this petition from Sept 2017. to include several important developments. Our Government this month continues to labeling this Treaty as irresponsible, dangerous, blaming it as a divisive measure, destabilizing our world, and “an easy” way, not doing the hard work of diplomacy. We know the opposite is true. We are expanding NATO, and enforcing on our allies our strict nuclear weapon policies as a test of loyalty. We are expanding our nuclear weapon facilities, testing, university research, and spending the these most dire greatly needed resources of our talent on new improved nuclear weapons, and greater destructive forces, instead of applying them to our task at hand…. Climate and environmental remediation, and decommissioning our weapons. We are breaking all laws, international and our own military codes, and directly, daily endangering humankind. Once again, we use the fear of Russians as our reasoning for our building anew. Russian colleagues who i’ve sat with can’t believe we are seeing this again. Pres. Gorbachev is sti...

The County Judge & Sheriff's Department don't represent the city of Newton or our people correctly, it's quite disturbing

This petition asks for the permanent removal of Officer Jeff Payne for illegally arresting Nurse Alex Webbel for doing her job. His abuse of power is not consistent with the honorable behavior of a police officer.

ESPAÑOL MÁS ABAJO The Matthews Board of Commissioners is considering a zoning petition submitted by Matthews Ventures LLC, together with the consulting firm Moore & Van Allen. If approved, the area will be rezoned to allow apartment complexes to be built on the property where we currently live. In order to build these apartments, our families will have to move our homes, so that the land can be developed for these apartments. Many of our homes are too old to move. We would have to leave them behind, losing all we have invested in them. The rest of us would have to pay thousands of dollars that we don't have to move the homes that can be moved. We are hardworking families that moved to this area, because it is affordable and most importantly the good schools for our children. This is a nice tranquil area to raise our families. Help us stop the gentrification of the area where we live. #SaveOurHomes #SaveOakhaven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- La Junta de Comisionados de Matthews está considerando una petición de zonificación sometida por la compañía Matthews Ventures LLC, junta con la firma de consulta Moore & Van Allen. Si aprobada, las reglas de zonificación de la area donde vivimos serán cambiadas para permitir que se construyan complejos de apartamentos en la propiedad donde actualmente vivimos. Para poder construir estos apartamentos, nuestras familias tendrían que mover nuestros hogares. Muchas de estas casas son demasiado viejas para mover. Tendríamos que dejarlas, perdiendo todo lo que hemos invertido en ellas. Los que sobramos tendríamos que pagar miles de dólares que no tenemos para mover las casas que si se pueden mover. Somos familias trabajadoras, las cuales nos mudamos a la area porque es económica y mas importante por las buenas escuelas para nuestros hijos. Es una zona tranquila para criar a nuestras familias. Ayúdennos parar el aburguesamiento de la area donde vivimos. #SalvenNuestrasCasas #SalvenOakhaven

We all by now have seen the video of Det. Jeff Payne placing Nurse Wubbels in handcuffs for doing her job. He was not doing his. He was in fact violating the oath he took after graduating the police academy. He violated her civil rights. He was attempting to violate the civil rights of an unconscious patient. For these egregious offenses WOW he was put on paid administrative leave. *Vox reports that he's only been suspended from the phlebotomy unit, he's still working cases. Not Acceptable! Not good enough any longer. Not good enough for Salt Lake City, New York City, or the city of Baltimore, not good enough for the United States. It is time that police officers are forced to do their duties not just to protect the citizens but to serve them too. The National Fraternal Order of Police won't stop it. It's up to MoveOn members to do it.

One Member of Congress is trying to use the government funding process to attack Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether or not the President and his campaign team were involved in Russia’s attempts to interfere in our elections. We can't let the rest of Congress go along with him. Last week, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) introduced an amendment to a major spending bill that would end funding for Mueller's investigation after 180 days -- and prevent the probe from looking into anything that happened before Trump made a formal announcement for his campaign in July 2015. The proposal cuts against our commitment to the rule of law -- 80% of Americans believe Mueller should be allowed to finish his investigation. And there are multiple bills before Congress with bipartisan support that would protect Mueller from presidential interference. But Congress has a bad habit of rolling unrelated ideological proposals like this into must-pass legislation in order to push through their pet proposals. Now, Rep. DeSantis is trying to use the threat of a funding crisis to deny Americans the answers we deserve about Russian election meddling. Our representatives in Congress have a duty to hold the executive branch accountable -- not abuse the legislative process to cover for him. Congress must pass a clean spending bill without ideological riders and does not obstruct or limit the scope of Special Counsel Mueller's probe.

Sam Clovis is blatantly unqualified for the top scientist job at the USDA. He’s a political operative and former talk radio host, not a scientist. Clovis has said climate science is “junk science.” He also has a history of racist rants, including calling progressives “race traders and race traitors." And he’s vocally against fair wages for working people. It has also been revealed that Clovis is vehemently against civil rights protections for the LGBT community. This is someone who shouldn’t be in any sort of leadership position -- let alone running key federal programs to protect our food system. Tell Senator Gardner to reject Clovis to lead the USDA's science program!

Sam Clovis is blatantly unqualified for the top scientist job at the USDA. He’s a political operative and former talk radio host, not a scientist. Clovis has said climate science is “junk science.” He also has a history of racist rants, including calling progressives “race traders and race traitors." And he’s vocally against fair wages for working people. It has also been revealed that Clovis is vehemently against civil rights protections for the LGBT community. This is someone who shouldn’t be in any sort of leadership position -- let alone running key federal programs to protect our food system. Tell Senator Manchin to reject Clovis to lead the USDA's science program!

Sam Clovis is blatantly unqualified for the top scientist job at the USDA. He’s a political operative and former talk radio host, not a scientist. Clovis has said climate science is “junk science.” He also has a history of racist rants, including calling progressives “race traders and race traitors." And he’s vocally against fair wages for working people. It has also been revealed that Clovis is vehemently against civil rights protections for the LGBT community. This is someone who shouldn’t be in any sort of leadership position -- let alone running key federal programs to protect our food system. Tell Senator Collins to reject Clovis to lead the USDA's science program!

Sam Clovis is blatantly unqualified for the top scientist job at the USDA. He’s a political operative and former talk radio host, not a scientist. Clovis has said climate science is “junk science.” He also has a history of racist rants, including calling progressives “race traders and race traitors." And he’s vocally against fair wages for working people. It has also been revealed that Clovis is vehemently against civil rights protections for the LGBT community. This is someone who shouldn’t be in any sort of leadership position -- let alone running key federal programs to protect our food system. Tell Senator Portman to reject Clovis to lead the USDA's science program!

Sam Clovis is blatantly unqualified for the top scientist job at the USDA. He’s a political operative and former talk radio host, not a scientist. Clovis has said climate science is “junk science.” He also has a history of racist rants, including calling progressives “race traders and race traitors." And he’s vocally against fair wages for working people. It has also been revealed that Clovis is vehemently against civil rights protections for the LGBT community. This is someone who shouldn’t be in any sort of leadership position -- let alone running key federal programs to protect our food system. Tell Senator Klobuchar to reject Clovis to lead the USDA's science program!

Sam Clovis is blatantly unqualified for the top scientist job at the USDA. He’s a political operative and former talk radio host, not a scientist. Clovis has said climate science is “junk science.” He also has a history of racist rants, including calling progressives “race traders and race traitors." And he’s vocally against fair wages for working people. It has also been revealed that Clovis is vehemently against civil rights protections for the LGBT community. This is someone who shouldn’t be in any sort of leadership position -- let alone running key federal programs to protect our food system. Tell Senator Heitkamp to reject Clovis to lead the USDA's science program!