Menstrual products are not as accessible as they can be at UTRGV. UTRGV restrooms for both males and females should have menstrual products available in them at no cost. To provide a safe and accessible environment, we are advocating for UTRGV to join Intersectional Feminist Student Organization (IFSO) in ensuring menstrual products on both the Edinburg and Brownsville campuses. For this initiative's beginning, we are proposing placing small baskets with menstrual pads and tampons in the female and male restrooms of the Student Unions/libraries on both campuses, the UREC and ESTAC. In total, 12 different accessible spots. UTRGV should not only allow this initiative but have an active role in it. UTRGV can donate pads and IFSO members will practice responsibility and community outreach by picking them up and ensuring that pads are refilled on a biweekly basis or as needed.

After 12 years of government inaction to provide protection for the citizens of the state of Michoacan against all types of criminal abuses - robbery, kidnapping, killings, violation of women and girls - by government abetted criminals, Dr. Mireles and other community members armed themselves for self protection. The government has arrested Dr. Mireles and some of his companions as they responded to a call for aid by a family that was being attacked by criminals. Before being arrested by a large group of armed military and police, Dr. Mireles asked the government forces to aid them in helping the family in need. The government forces replied that they did not have permission to provide aid. The arrest of Dr. Mireles and his companions followed. Mexico's corrupt government is using repression to continue abetted corruption by criminals.

Our schools must be havens for learning where students can feel safe and not have to worry about being gunned down in their own classrooms or on the playground. Military-style assault weapons are weapons of war and have no place in our communities. We DEMAND that you stand with our lives and against the NRA. We DEMAND that you ban assault weapons, like the AR-15 used in Parkland, Florida this past week. We DEMAND that you retrieve this petition in person at Indivisible Lowville's March 12, 2018, at 7:00 pm, located at 5535 Bostwick Street, Village of Lowville Municipal Building, Lowville, NY 13367. We will wait for you to arrive and pick up the petition. You are welcome to stay for the meeting if you'd like.

As the rest of the state becomes more progressive in their parental leave policy and continues to make incremental change to catch up to the rest of the world, for some reason the administration at Voc Tech has become more restrictive. We are asking for no more than what you are legally able to afford us for leave under FMLA and MMLA currently. To appreciate and understand that your faculty gives their students 100% everyday, and that all we ask is that this administration allows them to do the same for their own families. The staff deserves at the very least 12 weeks, being able to use their sick time in that span how they see fit regardless of how you become and parent or your sex. We ask again that the administration reopen negotiations for the parental leave policy and just do the right thing.

A mere 12 closely divided “battleground” states received all of the 253 general-election campaign events in the 2012 campaign. Colorado (which is smaller than Minnesota) received 23 events, while Minnesota received only one (a visit from Republican vice- presidential candidate Paul Ryan). Wisconsin (which is the same size as Minnesota) received 18 events. But under a national popular vote, every voter in every state would matter in every presidential election. A vote in Minnesota (from a Republican, Democrat, or independent) would be just as valuable as a vote in a closely divided state such as Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio, or Florida. Tell Minnesota state legislators to join states like New York in supporting the National Popular Vote bill (HF 799 / SF 585) now!

President Trump needs to call for a two-week shelter-in-place order, now, as part of a coherent national strategy for the coronavirus to protect Americans and their livelihoods.

I am a concerned citizen. The viability of my independent physician’s practice is important to me. I believe that independent physicians are important for affordable and high quality patient care, and patient choice. I am concerned about the rising cost of health care. I am concerned that the number of independent doctors has.

Whittier Elementary NO 4th K Classroom petition We, the undersigned, hereby request that the Seattle School Board strike the line item of “Repurpose Whittier space” to add a 4th kindergarten classroom from the 2012 – 2013 attendance plan, unless there is specific and public demographic info to support that need AND there is assurance that this is a one year only assignment. If it is not possible to strike the line item, then we hereby request the line be amended to ensure that there is active community involvement on determining how the space gets repurposed. We request this for the following reasons: • The district’s attendance data does not show the necessity for adding a 4th K classroom to ensure children within the Whittier school attendance area (as set by NSAP) have access to the school. • As of the October 1, 2011 enrollment count, Whittier had 69 kindergarteners enrolled, accommodating 55 children in our attendance area, plus 14 children whose addresses are outside the attendance area. This translates to 20% of current year K students come from outside the school’s attendance area, demonstrating that there is healthy access for students within the attendance area as well as for siblings. Even with any anticipated growth in our attendance area population of six-year olds, three kindergartens seems sufficient to handle that population. • Adding an additional classroom will increase demand for school resources, both in terms of physical space (lunchroom, playground), funds, and administrative, teaching, and supervisory assistance, thereby impacting the QUALITY of education of the current students; our PE and Music teachers give up their planning time to accommodate the bolus of children already at Whittier. • Adding ~25 more children will impact safety on the playground • There isn’t space in the lunchroom to accommodate ~25 more children, and lunchtime is currently run with military precision to get everyone through. Many parents have complained that the current lunchtime set-up does not adequately ensure children have enough time to eat. • One area that is under discussion for repurposing is the Whittier Kids Preschool: The preschool serves ~50 local families, and provides a "community pathway" where 80% of the kids who graduated last year went into Whittier Kindergarten. The preschool serves as a significant community resource, and aids those children in fostering not only early education, but early connections within their age cohorts as well. Additionally, the families are relying on that preschool for their fall enrollment plans as well. • There are medium and long term implications that will be created with this plan that the District has not addressed. With no medium or long term plan, the District is unintentionally creating a situation that could have significant repercussions for our community. Whittier presently has three first grade classrooms to accommodate students from our existing three kindergartens PLUS the influx of spectrum-qualified first graders who transfer to Whittier each year. In 2011-12, each of the three first year classrooms has 28 students enrolled (84 total). In 2010-11, our school had 83 first-graders enrolled. Whittier cannot absorb an additional kindergarten classroom in 2013-2014 without adding a fourth first grade classroom, and later a fourth second grade classroom, and so on and so on. There are not six spaces within Whittier to “repurpose”, therefore the addition of a kindergarten classroom in 2012-13 means the school would be unable to host those children in the subsequent years without a significant program change OR an extremely restrictive redrawing of the attendance boundaries, which would have the effect of breaking siblings apart. We do not support a plan that would insure major enrollment problems and the breaking apart of families in the year 2013-2014.

WE THE PEOPLE need to stand and fight together to stop the number of people dying from heroin overdoses. Heroin is killing people in staggering numbers in Massachusetts. More often than not, it is killing our younger generation, daily. We are losing the youth of our nation.

Children's Hospital Center is contracting with Douglas Development Corporation to build a parking garage directly behind Comcast near the Brookland Metro Station in Washington, DC's Ward 5. This project will bring thousands of additional cars and shuttle buses to our already congested residential neighborhood. More cars will mean increased traffic, increased pollution and will threaten pedestrian safety. The garage will operate 24 hours a day and is slated to provide parking for Children’s Hospital employees as well as “pay to park” hourly spots. It is estimated that this garage will add up to 3,000 additional cars and shuttle buses per day – snarling traffic, spewing pollution and threatening pedestrian safety in our residential neighborhood. The garage will be for Children’s Hospital Corporation not Brookland residents. Advisory Neighborhood Association members in the area closest to the proposed garage voted unanimously to oppose the garage. If you are concerned about this project and are worried about increased traffic, air pollution and community safety please join us in asking Children’s Hospital to pull out of the deal and DUMP THE GARAGE CONTRACT!