Greedy drug companies keep recklessly raising drug prices. We must have laws to stop this OUTRAGEOUS price gauging. Issue 2 is a law will save Ohio taxpayers $400 million dollars per year... right off the bat!! It will also serve to lower drug prices for more than 4 million Ohioans.

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Edo State, located in Nigeria's tropical forest, is facing some of the highest rates of deforestation in Africa. And a recent order by the state's governor will give over 345,000 acres of land to a foreign palm oil company. These forests are held sacred by local indigenous communities who have resided here since time immemorial. “The water in our streams is very clean and clear and has healing properties,” says local Chief Esogban of Umokpe “We clean up the stream every year. This is sacred land. If Okumu Palm Oil Company comes here, things will go wrong.” We need your help to urge to the governor of Edo State to cancel this palm oil concession! Tell the governor of Edo State to protect the forest!

We are environmentally conscious mothers, grandmothers, and Costco members who are aware that for every ounce of plastic produced, between one and five ounces of greenhouse gases are made. As a company with roots in the Northwest, Costco is in the position to influence vendors to be more responsible to the health of members and their children.

I worked all my life and contributed to Social Security! What gives Congress the right to cut my benefits?

As an advocacy coordinator the GIant Sequoia National Monument is our classroom. As an environmentalist, I feel protecting Mother Earth from private or governmental exploitation is my duty..

To End the New Jersey Bear Hunt!

Having met with negative results on numerous attempts to have this bust removed, we the undersigned are again requesting. It is today as it has always been offensive, oppressive and a constant reminder to Pueblo people of color and Natives of the genocide it represents.

If the forests on the Eastern shoreline remained during Hurricane Sandy, they would have buffered the rising waters and perhaps there would not have been the kind of destruction we witnessed as well as the tragic loss of life. Proposed development of this land puts the surrounding community at risk of serious flooding, traffic, and pollution and endangers wildlife and makes economically vulnerable people responsible for picking up the pieces when harm is done.

Chronic Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas that does not heal and gets worse over time leading to irreversible damage of the pancreas. Individuals with Chronic Pancreatitis can suffer from an acute attack of pancreatitis at any time. During an acute attack the enzymes created by the pancreas to digest food stays inside of the pancreas causing the organ to digest itself resulting in significant and often debilitating pain. Repeated episodes of acute and/or chronic inflammation can cause irreversible damage to the pancreas further progressing the disease and pain relief becomes less effective often times requiring invasive treatments, including pain pumps and surgery. Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis are facing an ever increasing threat to their quality of life as a result of the Opioid Epidemic with laws being enacted restricting and/or prohibiting access to narcotic pain medication. While the Opioid Epidemic must be addressed there needs to be a balance to ensure patients with serious conditions are protected and afforded access to narcotic pain medication they rely on to simply get through the day and to remain active participants in the workplace as well as to maintain quality of life.

It’s a pretty basic principle: the public should have confidence in the independence of the Supreme Court. By speaking at the Trump Hotel at an event that will put money in the President’s pockets, Justice Gorsuch would violate that trust. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments about Trump’s travel ban and a lower court is currently hearing arguments about Trump’s conflicts of interest. President Trump’s stake in Trump businesses presents serious conflicts of interest and ethical questions—exposing the president to bribery and allowing him to profit off the presidency by using his position to promote his businesses. Justice Gorsuch, who has repeatedly sided with big money interests throughout his judicial career, should make it clear that he is committed to maintaining his independence and does not condone Trump’s conflicts of interest by canceling his appearance.

At this point in time, these Confederate statues in our city of Richmond and in the state of Virginia as a whole, are only serving as locations for violent fringe groups (KKK, Neo-Nazi groups, Confederate groups, White Supremacist groups) to gather and express their hate for unity and inclusion among our citizens. Their rallies are meant to terrorize our communities and divide us in our efforts to establish equality for every citizen, and more importantly, provide safe communities for every citizen to dwell. We did not need statues to educate about the Holocaust, nor do we need statues to educate about the Civil War - this war was about perpetuating the institution of slavery for economic gain in the southern states - it was about violating the most basic human rights of Africans in viewing them as property. A timeline of the genesis of the Confederate sites shows two notable spikes. One comes around the turn of the 20th century, just after Plessy v. Ferguson, and just as many Southern states were establishing repressive race laws; lynchings and the KKK terrorism were peaking. The second runs from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s—the peak of the civil-rights movement. In other words, the erection of Confederate monuments has been a way to perform cultural resistance to black equality. The time is long overdue that we address the problem of these domestic terrorist groups that have been in this country for decade upon decade. One of the easiest things to do is to take away their places of congregating - these Confederate statues. Remove these statues and either put them in museums, auction them off and use the funds for our city, or destroy them. Do not give these domestic terrorist groups any more locations to assemble and terrorize our communities.