Dear Illinois Democratic Congressional Representative: As a voter in your district, I urge you to join with over 30 of your colleges and sign the Grayson-Takano letter promising to vote against any cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits -- including raising the retirement age or cutting the cost of living adjustments that your constituents earned and need. Democrats built these popular programs. Boldly declare your intention to protect and expand them as necessary.

Anne Hoskins, a utility executive, should not be serving on a PUBLIC Commission that regulates utility companies! We need a Commissioner who will advocate for consumers and serve Maryland ratepayers, NOT the utility industry.

Designate March 31st as Cesar Chavez Day, an official state holiday, in Florida.

To refer to Haiti and African countries as “sh**-hole” nations whose people should not be allowed to immigrate to this country in favor of Norwegians is nothing short of overt unabashed racism. To ALL Congresspeople, Republican and Democrat, denounce the bigoted and divisive statements made by Donald Trump.

Pay standards for all state and federal government employees, holding any position therein, should be equal to, but no greater than the national median income levels for similar private sector positions. The average income for government employees is $67,691 and the average income for private sector households is $39,138. Government employees continually reap huge annual incomes in pay and benefits at a great cost to the private sector. This tax burden is unfair.

Water is a human right and all people deserve access to safe and affordable water. I urge you to take immediate action to stop the ongoing, discriminatory, devastating attacks on Detroit's water access; restore all water services, call off the water shutoffs, and ensure fair and affordable water access for all Detroit residents by maintaining full public control of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department municipal water system.

On Monday a federal judge made it so school districts in Iowa can mandate masks, at least temporarily. For the good of our community, we need a universal mask mandate for our school district now. This is necessary to slow the spread of COVID-19. Let's do this for: -our healthcare workers -our students -our staff -our vulnerable community members. Although vaccinated people are generally not getting severely ill with Covid-19, they are still spreading it, causing severe illness in others. This is why everyone, including the vaccinated, should be masking up!

Represent California. Support comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship.

Stop XeNOphobia – Justice for the victims of xenophobia in South Africa Recently the number of violence and horrific act against immigrants in South Africa especially on immigrants from African nations has been off the chart. Witnesses and video footage on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube shows how much the level violence is escalated. The situation is becoming out of control. This act of violence is happening again and again in South Africa. In short memory on May 12, 2008 a series of riots started in the township of Alexandra (in the north-eastern part of Johannesburg) when locals attacked migrants, killing two people and injuring 40 others. In that very same year, over 22 people killed in Johannesburg alone. In late May 2009, reports emerged regarding a possible resurgence of xenophobic related activity and the organizing of attacks in the Western Cape. Reports of threats and secret meetings by local businessmen surfaced reports emerged of secret meetings by local businessmen discussing 'what to do about Somali shopkeepers'. In 2010 the press carried numerous articles claiming that there would be massive planned xenophobic violence at the end of the 2010 Football World Cup. In July 2012 there were new attacks in parts of Cape Town and in Botshabelo in the Free State. On May 30, 2013, 25-year-old Abdi Nasir Mahmoud Good, was stoned to death. The violence was captured on a mobile phone and shared on the Internet. In June 2013 three Somali shopkeepers had been killed. It seems like the very roll of African nations played for the freedom of South Africa only short lived and forgotten by South Africans. Fellow South Africans are brutally killing the very same people fought for their freedom from apartheid. Since the beginning of April 2015, xenophobic attacks have been witnessed many in Durban and other areas in South Africa. South Africans are looting foreigner’s properties and attacking immigrants, mainly from other African countries. As of today, at least six people have been killed in Durban alone. The video footage from this barbaric act of violence documents: 1) Immigrants burnt alive. Some of them were tied their hands around car tires and they lit to burn with car tire 2) Immigrants stoned to death by violent mobs 3) Immigrants butchered and sliced alive to death 4) Immigrants attached by knives 5) Immigrants killed by firearms 6) Immigrants critically wounded 7) Immigrants robbed their housed and their small shops 8) Immigrants displaced from their homes and gathered in churches and police stations 9) Immigrant kids scattered all over due to the mob attack separating from their parents Despite the fact that Xenophobia is the list to expect in a democratic countries South Africa, it is happening at least on a yearly bases since 1995. In this petition we urge that: 1) Immediately to stop xenophobic attack once and for all in South Africa 2) Justice to be service for the victims 3) Immediate medical attention to be provided for the injured 4) To provided proper shelter for the displaced immigrants who are sheltered in churches and police stations 5) To facilitate a third country to move the immigrants to safe destination 6) South Africa to pass a strict law to guarantee such act of violence, at any level, would not happen again We strongly urge everybody to sign this petition so that we can alert the Governments of our South Africa, the Governments of African Nations, the African Union, International Criminal court (ICC), the United Nations, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Amnesty International, Human rights watch and other human right organizations. Let us stand together and voice for the voiceless.

As concerned community members and supporters of equality and justice in Palestine, we are deeply disturbed by the complete cancellation of the Building Bridges Club meeting on Occupied Palestine and call upon the administration of the Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) to respect its First Amendment obligations and allow the meeting to take place without interference. As a public charter school, OCSA is bound to respect students’ First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution, and its blatant violation of those Constitutional rights sets a worrying precedent. By shutting down inconvenient events that do not fit the administration’s political biases, the administration violates their own principles of fostering “student growth and education.” The administration’s political bias against Palestinians and toward the Israeli narrative is patent in its actions and creates a double standard. OCSA has a school-approved Israel club— a club that has been allowed to present not once, but twice, about the “Israel-Palestine Conflict” without any sort of censorship or screening from Administration in the past two school years. In comparison, when a club flyer advertising a meeting discussing the history of Palestine centering the perspectives of Palestinian people was posted on Instagram, not only was it forcibly taken down in under 24 hours, but the club meeting itself was shut down almost immediately. Thus, we call upon the OCSA administration immediately to: 1) publicly rescind their statement that the Building Bridges meeting on Occupied Palestine was against its core values, and to acknowledge the harm that this censorship has brought upon the Palestinian students of OCSA. 2) ensure that the free speech rights of Palestinians and their supporters are afforded equal protection at OCSA. 3) let the Building Bridges Club present about this topic in the future without censorship, in the same way that the Israel Club was not censored when they presented about this topic two times within the last two school years.