This week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals released a ruling on Texas v United States that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program is unlawful, sending the fate of the program back to Judge Hanen in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas to further decide. DACA is an administrative relief program that temporarily protects eligible immigrant youth from deportation and grants them work permits. While DACA renewals remain open for now, Judge Hanen has ruled against DACA before, and a negative ruling would devastate millions of people, including DACA recipients, immigrant youth, our communities, and our country. DACA was won through the organizing of thousands of young people of color, who have remained resilient despite incessant anti-immigrant attacks. This fight is far from over – we need to step up to have their backs against anti-immigrant, Republican-appointed judges by demanding permanent protection for all Dreamers and immigrant youth.  But speaking out is not enough. Congress must act to provide permanent protection, such as citizenship, before it’s too late. DACA is right and legal and has helped hundreds of thousands of young people finish school, apply for work permits, and be protected from detention and deportation. The Republicans in congress have attacked DACA since its inception, and this conservative court decision affirms just how relentless Republicans are. Deportations rip families and our communities apart, and Congress has the power to protect our immigrant communities immediately by delivering permanent protections, like citizenship. Inaction or opposition from members of Congress is unacceptable and will be viewed as support for keeping our immigrant communities vulnerable. Add your name to this petition demanding that Congress take action immediately to protect hundreds of thousands of immigrant youth from detention and deportation!

Climate scientists have long predicted extreme weather events caused by climate change. But Congress is defunding satellites necessary for understanding the origins, frequency, and severity of killer storms. Shutting down science when the weather is killing people is like shutting down medical research when you discover ebola.

People are dying because of this "opioid crisis". But it's not what you think! The CRISIS is that legitimate pain patients are not getting the medications they need. This is because Opioids are being taken away from legitimate patients who truly need them! Only 1% of pain patients ever become addicted to their medications!

Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, has thrown the fate of Harriet Tubman's place on the U.S. $20 bill into question. Born enslaved and renowned for her tireless work to abolish slavery and win women the right to vote, Tubman was chosen during the Obama administration, to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. For his part, Jackson is largely remembered as the impetus behind the forced removal of Native Americans from their lands east of the Mississippi River, sending them on a march west now known as the Trail of Tears. Lew understood that the fate of Tubman on the $20 rested with his successor. When asked if he worried about whether his decision would be overturned, he's reported to have replied, "I don’t think somebody’s going to probably want to do that--to take the image of Harriet Tubman off of our money? To take the image of the suffragists off?” But then, Lew couldn't have imagined the toxic duo of Trump and Mnuchin. Symbols, like a powerful Black woman on our nation's $20 bill, matter. Especially today in the wake of so much Trump-fueled racist horror. That's why it's important that Mnuchin experience a quick and barbed rebuke from Americans across our nation--taxpayers who both pay for an use our nation's currency. And the message couldn't be clearer: Tubman stays.

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If he's confirmed, Bernhardt will play a key role in deciding the fate of our National Monuments and public lands. But Bernhardt is an oil industry shill and climate denier. So we need you to speak up and stop him from being confirmed!! Tell your Senators: Don't put the fate of our National Monuments in the hands of a Big Oil crony!

The so-called "Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017" would increase fracking, allow easier approval for dirty oil and gas pipelines, and exempt dams for hydro power from environmental laws. We need your help to stop it! Tell your Senators: Stop this giveaway to the fossil fuel industry!

The Phillips 66 Oil Company is trying to bring more tar sands oil to the San Francisco Bay Area. That means more climate pollution. More threats to public health. And more profits for Big Oil. We need your help to stop this project! Tell Bay Area clean air officials: No more tar sands in San Francisco Bay!

Walmart, Lowe's, Home Depot, True Value and over 110 other retailers have all taken steps to eliminate bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides from the plants and products they sell. But Ace Hardware is holding out. We need your help to pressure the company to join its competitors! Tell Ace Hardware: Stop selling bee-killing pesticides NOW!

Join the campaign urging CalPERS and the New York State Common Retirement Fund to Divest Trump SoHo. We the people have the power to hold Donald Trump accountable to the U.S. Constitution. Right now, the hard-earned dollars of state employees like firefighters, police officers, and public workers are being paid into a real estate fund that transfers millions to the Trump Organization to manage the Trump SoHo in New York City, New York. Those payments from state pension funds fall into a scheme that ultimately puts money directly into President Trump’s pockets and violates the Domestic Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the New York State Common Retirement Fund have a long history of leadership on ethics, corporate governance, and transparency. As fiduciaries, they also have a responsibility to act according to the highest ethical standards and legal standards and to avoid conflicts of interest.

The U.S. Capitol should not be a home to symbols of white supremacy and slavery. Unfortunately, there are multiple statues in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall that do exactly that. These statues represent the faces of the Confederacy, and they must be moved out of the U.S. Capitol building and into a museum. It is time for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to take a stand against symbols of white supremacy and slavery. They must back the removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol Building. U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has called for these statues to be removed. U.S. Senator Cory Booker has introduced a resolution calling for the same. When will Congress take action?

I like working at Starbucks on Saturday mornings. That’s when the families come in with their little ones in tow after soccer practice or dance rehearsals or a fun day in the park. But seeing parents with their kids while I’m on shift sometimes makes me incredibly sad. I want to start a family of my own one day, but as a gay man, Starbucks doesn’t believe I should be included in its paid parental leave policy. In a little more than a month, the company I love will begin discriminating against people like me, who will be adopting children to start our families, by omitting us completely from their paid parental leave policy. Tell Starbucks to stop discriminating against dads, gay families, adoptive parents and hourly employees through its unequal paid parental policy. Just two years ago, Starbucks was proud to stand up for the rights of LGBTQ+ people to marry the people they love. But today, they’re planning to implement a parental leave policy that disproportionately leaves LGBTQ+ people out. When Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson assumed his new position this spring, he said, “We’re in the business of doing things that are based on our principles….and things that we think make our partners proud and that help us with our business.” This is a moment for him to live up to that promise. When I decide to have a family, I want to be able to be there for my child for those first critical months, but Starbucks’ policy leaves me out. I’m not the only one. Under the new parental leave policy, Starbucks will give corporate moms 3x more maternity leave than baristas — and while corporate office dads and adoptive parents will have 12 weeks, those of us in the stores get no time at all. And because the vast majority of Starbucks’ employees of color work in stores, thousands of us will be left out. Join me in asking CEO Kevin Johnson to live up to his word and include everyone in paid parental leave at Starbucks — before the company launches its discriminatory policy on October 1. Let’s win this!  — Ryan Cervantes Barista, Los Angeles