Governor Pritzker, we are asking you to: 1. "Buy Into Western Illinois University" by quickly appointing a new Board of Trustees who will work with the greater university community to develop a new vision and direction for Western Illinois University. 2. "Buy Into Western Illinois University" by providing emergency funding for the current fiscal year to rescind any pending layoffs and prevent future layoffs and program eliminations.

We, the undersigned call on you to support the Administration's current negotiating policy of diplomacy with Iran, and oppose crippling and provocative new sanctions on Iran, that could lead to more war. Continue to follow the Joint Plan of Action already signed with Iran where the United States has 'agreed to refrain from imposing new sanctions on Iran.' Allow diplomacy to continue, and vote against more war.

New Mexico should welcome Syrian refugees, who are fleeing the same perpetrators of violence that struck Beirut and Paris. Governor Martinez’s opposition to settling Syrian Refugees in New Mexico does not align with the compassion we expect from our state. Because Gov. Martinez has no authority to close our borders to Syrian refugees, her remarks only inflame a reactionary sense of xenophobia.

The Sorina family in New Orleans - like many other families across America - have been kicked out of their home. They made their payments but still lose their home as a result of heartless and unfair bankers. Help put the pressure on Bank of America! http://outfront.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/28/8-years-after-katrina-new-orleans-homeowners-forced-to-fight-for-homes/?sr=sharebar_facebook

Here are 20 recent ideas from CAP’s (Center for American Progress) policy teams to create middle-class jobs and promote an economy that works for everyone. Many of these ideas build on the ideas presented in our "Meeting the Jobs Challenge" initiative launched in 2009... it's now 2013 and we could STILL use these ideas and should be hearing Congress bring about jobs bills incorporating some of these initiatives. Let's get a new jobs bill conversation started! Sign this petition if you think this conversation seems to have slipped out of the crosshairs of Congress. Sign this petition to let our leaders know this is not an issue to be put aside. Sign this petition to let the elected officals now - job creation is an issue to address now! 20 ways to create jobs 1. Upgrade our nation’s roads, bridges, and other basic infrastructure: 18,000 new jobs for every $1 billion invested. 2. Launch a rehab-to-rent program to turn tens of thousands of government-owned foreclosed homes into affordable rental housing, stabilize neighborhoods, and put construction workers back on the job: 20,000 new jobs a year. 3. Implement new EPA rules governing toxic emissions from power plants: 40,000 new direct jobs. 4. Protect health care reform, which will reduce health insurance premiums, expand coverage, and create jobs: 250,000 to 400,000 new jobs a year for the next decade. 5. Retrofit for energy efficiency just 40 percent of the nation’s residential and commercial building stock and unleash massive demand for domestic labor: more than 625,000 new jobs over a decade. 6. Extend emergency unemployment benefits to long-term unemployed workers hurt by the economic downturn: more than 700,000 jobs. 7. Expand the payroll tax cut for employees and extend it to employers through 2012: more than 1 million jobs. 8. Extend national service programs to provide young people with full-time positions in AmeriCorps, VISTA, YouthBuild, and the youth service and conservation corps: 60,000 new jobs. 9. Pass Home Star, Building Star, and Rural Star legislation to make homes and buildings energy efficient while supporting the hard-hit construction industry: 250,000 new jobs a year. 10. Reduce the nation’s dropout rate by half to add $9.6 billion in economic growth and $713 million in increased tax revenue: 54,000 new jobs. 11. Convert offshore wind power to electricity: 20 direct jobs for each megawatt produced in the United States. 12. Protect funding for community health centers over the next five years to provide health and related services at clinics and in the local business communities: 300,000 new jobs. 13. Protect the National Park Service from budget cuts, corporate interests, and antigovernment rhetoric to support jobs in outdoor recreation across the country: 247,000 jobs. 14. Increase freight rail capital investment: 7,800 direct and indirect jobs for every $1 billion invested. 15. Create a $10 billion trial-employment program with potential to help an estimated 1 million small businesses and startups hire long-term unemployed workers: 2 million new job opportunities. 16. Construct new power transmission lines to reshape our electric transmission grid and create new employment: Generating 20 percent of power with wind can create more than 500,000 jobs. 17. Expand the federal “jobs accelerator” program: Just $200 million in funding could result in 1,800 new businesses employing thousands of workers. 18. Reject a federal proposal to mandate employer use of the E-Verify eligibility verification system and protect 770,000 American jobs. 19. Revamp small-business financial assistance programs to better serve the needs of innovative, high-growth potential startup firms. 20. Create a “common application” for federal programs that foster the growth of small businesses.

CNN, CBS, FOX News, ABC and other news media outlets have followed Trump around like dogs in heat since the beginning of his candidacy. The media is in great part guilty of breaking this country and it's time they fix it. ASAP assign investigative journalists to do their job for America. Insist on access to Trump's tax returns, investigate his business ties to Russia and Russian election hacking. Insist that Trump's associations with organized crime, Wall Street cronyism and his chronic lies prohibit his eligibility to enter the Oval Office. ASAP! Contact: 1. CNN HQ (Atlanta) 404-827-1500, option #1. CNN corporate office phone 404-827-1700 Customer service number for CNN's Washington D.C. bureau is 202-898-7900. http://www.cnn.com/feedback/ 2. NBC 212-413-6142 or e-mail [email protected] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10285339/t/contact-nbc-news/ 3. CNBC 201-585- 2622 201-583-5453 4. Fox News 212-301-3000 212-301-4229 5. MSNBC 212-664-4444 212-664-4426 6. CBS 1 (212) 975-3247 http://www.cbsnews.com/contact-us/ 7. ABC news ABC World News Tonight Phone Number 212-456-4040 212-456-2795 [email protected] http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&cat=ABCNews.com%20comments Click on this link for more! http://www.nytix.com/Links/TV/articles/newsmediacontacts.html

We, the undersigned petitioners, firmly insist that the New Jersey Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee add John Henry Lawson to its Medal of Honor roll. As the committee is already aware, Mr. Lawson was a member of the gun-crew on the USS Hartford, whose commander, Admiral Ferragut, famously yelled at the Battle of Mobile Bay, “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! Badly wounded by an enemy shell that had killed most of his gun party, Lawson stayed at his position supplying ammunition till the enemy was subdued. For his actions on August 5, 1863 Lawson was awarded the Medal of Honor. Lawson and his large family moved to Camden during the 1870s. From that period through the 1880s, the Lawsons lived on Branch Street in the Centerville section of the city. Following his death in Philadelphia, in 1919, Lawson was buried in Lawnside, New Jersey. Some of his descendants still reside in south Jersey. Whereas, John Henry Lawson established deep roots in New Jersey and; and Whereas, the social benefits of inclusion should be a goal of the publicly supported New Jersey Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee; and Whereas the Sesquicentennial Committee already features Mr. Lawson as a New Jersey serviceman on its website at http://www.njcivilwar150.org/njgtw.htm; We petition the committee to add the name of African American hero John Henry Lawson to its website and other databases identifying Medal of Honor winners from New Jersey [http://www.njcivilwar150.org/njmoh.htm].

New evidence supports allegations that the Fairbanks Four were falsely convicted of the 1997 murder of John Hartman. The Alaska Innocence Project filed petitions in September 2013 to exonerate George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin Roberts, and Eugene Vent - the Fairbanks Four - based on this new evidence. The State of Alaska was given six months to conduct an investigation of the new evidence and perform a thorough review of the entire case. The State of Alaska has a vested financial interest in upholding the guilty verdicts of the Fairbanks Four, as numerous lawsuits against law enforcement and the court system would result if these men were to be found innocent. This vested interest compromises the State of Alaska's ability to conduct a fair and impartial review of the new evidence. Sixteen years after the murder of John Hartman, who was white, the guilt or innocence of the four men incarcerated for this crime, who are Native American, remains highly controversial. If the State of Alaska again finds these men guilty, many will legitimately suspect a cover-up by the State, and this murder case will remain controversial and unresolved in the minds and hearts of many Alaskans. The controversy surrounding John Hartman's murder can only be resolved if a third, neutral party conducts the investigation of the new evidence that exonerates the Fairbanks Four. The State of Alaska, by mere virtue of investigating itself, cannot be neutral in this investigation, and therefore should not conduct it. The people who sign this petition respectfully request that the federal Department of Justice conduct the investigation of the new evidence in the John Hartman murder.

Prevent the new state police firing range from coming to Hampton, CT. Sign the petition, let your voice be heard.

Cutting Social Security is not an option. We must strengthen the program and create new avenues that bring working families the stability they need.