Increasing funding for school would allow for more stable educational opportunities, bettering the future for millions of students.

Hands off Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park. We, the undersigned, will not allow the privatization of our public land. We stand firmly against Governor Scott's plan to encourage private business to rent our State Parks for grazing cattle or growing trees. We urge you to stand against special interests and work to preserve not privatize! The following is excerpted from the FCAT reading for Grade 4. Have you ever heard of Paynes Prairie? It is one of the most important natural and historical areas in Florida. Paynes Prairie is located near Gainesville. It is large, 21,000 acres. This protected land is called a preserve. The Florida Park Service manages the preserve. Human Occupation Man has lived on Paynes Prairie a very long time. He lived there as far back as 10,000 B.C. At one time, the Seminoles lived there. The prairie is thought to have been named after King Payne, a Seminole chief. Preserve The Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park is open year round. The Florida Park Service works hard so that the park will appear as it did in the past. It offers many opportunities for recreation. At the park you can camp and picnic. You can hike and bike. You can boat and fish. You can ride on horse trails. And you can see lots of nature and wildlife. You can see Florida as it was in the early days. Today, Paynes Prairie is preserved land. It is occupied by visitors and Florida Park Service employees.

Millions of essential workers across the country are rising to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic and, unfortunately, are having to put their lives at risk to care for our communities. Essential workers from health care professionals to farm workers and grocery workers to bus drivers deserve support on the same scale they are providing to all of us. Pass an essential workers bill of rights in the next federal relief package to provide needed protections, compensation, and safety nets to all essential workers.

Amending the Railway Labor Act to include a Nursing Mother's Clause that allows women the opportunity to stay home for a "minimum" of six months (without punitive action) in order to breastfeed a child while requiring all airlines/airports to uphold the Break Time For Nursing Mothers Law (In accordance with all guidelines).

Please eliminate NorthWestern Energy overcharges for street lighting and use refunded money to finance, without the need for tax or electricity rate increases, conversion to energy efficient LED street lighting.

We demand that Coca-Cola drops its deal with Monster Energy. Coca-Cola is set to become a major investor in Monster Energy in a deal that would greatly expand the distribution of Monster Energy drinks in the U.S. and abroad. Energy drinks can cause major health problems and Monster Energy has been criticized for marketing to children. We demand that Coca-Cola protects our children and drops the deal with Monster Energy.

This petition calls for the impeachment of Judge Emily Miskel of the 470th Judicial District Court for breaching the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct through her misuse of power and authority over her Court. A magistrate who believes she can ignore the law and the rights of American Citizens in her Court is one who does not contribute to the betterment of society. In this Court, ruled by bias and personal opinion, as opposed to law and equitable reasoning, abused parties (attorneys and clients) are suppressed into adherence. For fear of suffering retaliatory interactions with this Judge in future cases, attorneys succumb to her authority, even if it compromises their ethics. Judge Emily Miskel is a prime example of a public servant who abuses a position of power and authority, which was designed to protect the rights of all who enter a Court of law. Instead she uses her position as Judge to further her own professional endeavors by cultivating business and political relationships. It would be more than inequitable for this abuse of power, which violates the rights of citizens, to go without penalty. To protect our own rights and the rights of our fellow citizens from such treatment, we must assemble, unite and demand reconstruction. Everyone in Collin County knows, including attorneys who are forced to accept the process, that District Court Judges such as Judge Emily MIskel act under the "good old boy" system making it understood that the attorney with the higher political reign wins every time such as found in Collin County records. It is a political hierarchy and Judge Emily Miskel along with others act not in the best interest of the child and its family but instead based on what decision will best further their political interests to ensure top campaign contributions by attorneys, and how much money they are paid under the table to give a favorable outcome for a certain party.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us into an unprecedented national emergency. This emergency, however, results from a deeper and much longer-term crisis - that of poverty and inequality and of a society that ignores the needs of 140 million people who are poor or a $400 emergency away from being poor. These millions of people are in dire need of critical attention immediately. We call on you to fulfill your moral and Constitutional responsibilities: expand the COVID-19 emergency provisions to care for us all, enact our Moral Agenda immediately and full fund and protect the US Postal Service and vote by mail in every state.

THE PEOPLE’S PETITION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CITY OF PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BENEFIT AGREEMENT (CBA) ORDINANCE We, the following, individuals, nonprofits, businesses, and faith based organization, request Pittsburgh’s City Council to ensure that impacted neighborhoods and communities, residents, and business are beneficiaries and not victims of economic development projects that use public resources including grants, tax abatement, and other public subsidies provided from and through the City of Pittsburgh, State of Pennsylvania, and the federal government. Community Benefit Agreements (CBAs) establish a contractual relationship between directly impacted communities/neighborhoods and the developer of economic development projects that receive public grants, subsidies, and various tax supports as well. We call upon Pittsburgh’s City Council to support the proposed Community Benefit Agreement (CBA) ordinance that will establish provisions for developers to ensure that Pittsburgh low income residents have access to jobs and employment opportunities, environmental mitigation, housing assistance, public safety enhancements and other measures. As the City of Pittsburgh concentrates on urban revitalization and with all of the development taking place throughout the City, it is noted that there is no protection of residents rights within the strategies of re-development. There is no clear plan of economic revitalization for the residents of the most vulnerable populations that reside in the most livable city in the United States, the City of Pittsburgh. With multi millions of dollars planned for development it is Vital that disparity rates be addressed. One critical way to address these disparities is by the creation of a Community benefits Ordinance for the City of Pittsburgh. This Ordinance or Law will reinforce and set in place contractual binding agreements that require community participation at all tables when it comes to development dollars, financial packages and tax incentives/abatement created for revitalization of the Urban Communities, and that our participation is required at all levels and planning stages. The following are requested Standards for the proposed Community Benefits Agreement Ordinance: 1. Community Impact Reports (CIRs) required before any agreements are met with any area of government. CIRs will be provided to the community affected by distributing to all registered voters within the area. 2. Low Income Housing based on the Median Income of the affected Community. 3. Workforce Development and Training 4. Incubation of Small Businesses 5. First Source Hiring 6. MWDBE Professional Contracts 7. Participation in a “Growth Fund” to be directed toward future Youth and Economic Initiatives within that area of the Development. 8. Guidelines stating that no one individual, community organization or CDC other than The Community Benefits Agreement Ordinance Alliance - A City-wide collaborative initiative, can make the decision for the broader community residents.

Dear Army Corps of Engineers, Protecting Bristol Bay should be of utmost importance to the Army Corps of Engineers. The Army Corps should protect Bristol Bay, its world-class fisheries and indigenous communities, by considering the following during permitting and ultimately rejecting mining in Bristol Bay: This application is incomplete. The Army Corps should not issue a Draft Environmental Impact Statement without more information from the Pebble Partnership. There is no baseline information for significant parts of Pebble’s proposal, including the proposed transportation corridor, port or use of Lake Iliamna. Any baseline data Pebble has supplied is more than 10 years old and is not a reasonable basis on which to analyze project impacts. The Pebble Partnership should also provide an independently prepared economic feasibility analysis. This is routinely done for other mines like Donlin and without it, the Corps could be analyzing and the public could be commenting on a hypothetical mine. To proceed with the NEPA process under these conditions is a waste of government resources and of the people’s time. The Environmental Protection Agency found that a mine smaller than what Pebble is currently proposing would pose “significant and irreversible harm” to Bristol Bay’s waters and would result in “a complete loss of fish habitat.” Pebble’s current plans will permanently destroy 4,000 acres of wetlands and more than 5 miles of anadromous streams, levels that exceed EPA’s proposed restrictions on the mine. The Army Corps must compare Pebble’s plans to the EPA’s analysis before moving forward with permitting. The Army Corps must look at a range of alternatives beyond Pebble’s mine site and include alternatives for mining copper and gold somewhere other than Bristol Bay. The Army Corps should use a realistic scope of Pebble Mine to assess its impacts. Pebble asks the Corps to limit the review to an unreasonably small 20-year mine that likely is not economic, while it touts to potential investors that the mine can operate for 200 years and have 11 billion tons of ore. The Army Corps must look at the full extent of mining the Pebble deposit, and not ask the public to participate in a process that is founded on a permit application that is missing such basic components. Please stand with the Bristol Bay communities and abundant wildlife. Please reject Pebble’s permit application as incomplete, lacking environmental and economic baseline data, and lacking the information needed for government agencies to assess the massive amount of impacts that Pebble is proposing. Thank you,