Funding for public and charter schools in the Commonwealth of Pennsyvlania shall be apportioned by dividing the number of funds collected in all school districts by the number of students served, state-wide, and then assigned as grants, or vouchers, per each student. The parents of each student will determine to which school, public, charter, private, or parochial such funding should be directly paid. If the cost per child of attending such school is completely covered, then the school has been paid. If the cost is greater, then it is up to the parent to pay the difference, seek scholarship aid from private sources, or choose a different school. Funding must remain discrimination-free. Vouchers or grants, as named in this petition, will be available to all children attending school in the Commonwealth without regard to race, religious affiliation (of the child or of the school), gender, sexual orientation, or political affiliation of the child or of the parent. The funding, whether for private, charter or government-run public schooling, is to be used for secular educative purposes only, and never for the explicit teaching of religion, except in a comparative religions or social studies class, if such is available as an elective in a valid social studies curriculum. Otherwise, it is to be devoted to the teaching of mathematics, reading, writing, grammar, social science, science and so on, recognized by the Commonwealth as valid curricula. Nothing in this act seeks to demand nor deny the teaching of religion in the Commonwealth, but rather seeks to keep funding for all non-religious teaching separate, and accountably executed . The nature of state-wide funding, rather than parochial, district by district, funding is to break down economic barriers that create economic ghettos that segregate rich and poor students, isolating talent from means.

Whoever wins the most votes should be elected president. Pass the National Popular Vote compact and reform the outdated, anti-democratic Electoral College

Hanahn’s Law: DWD (Driving While Distracted) Please support us in working on getting a law passed in her name that will change the investigation process in cases of fatalities at the scene of the incident. We are looking into writing a bill to get passed into law so that others don’t get away with taking anyone’s life and not having any accountability or consequences. Please sign our petition to help get legislation to promote a bill that will be passed into law for DWD. This will help current, also future families, get the justice and closure they deserve and need in the tragedy of a loved one in similar situations.  

Please sign the petition Lawsuit Challenges Solitary Confinement at California Prison by Center for Constitutional Rights Thursday May 31st, 2012 11:25 AM The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison who have spent between 10 and 28 years in solitary confinement. The legal action is part of a larger movement to reform inhumane conditions in California prisons’ Security Housing Units (SHU), a movement dramatized by a 2011 hunger strike by thousands of SHU prisoners; the named plaintiffs include hunger strikers, among them several of the principal negotiators for the hunger strike. Lawsuit Challenges Solitary Confinement at California Prison Prolonged Solitary Confinement at Pelican Bay is Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Torture, Lawyers Say May 31, 2012, Oakland – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison who have spent between 10 and 28 years in solitary confinement. The legal action is part of a larger movement to reform inhumane conditions in California prisons’ Security Housing Units (SHU), a movement dramatized by a 2011 hunger strike by thousands of SHU prisoners; the named plaintiffs include hunger strikers, among them several of the principal negotiators for the hunger strike. The class action suit, which is being jointly filed by CCR and several advocate and legal organizations in California, alleges that prolonged solitary confinement violates Eight Amendment prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment, and that the absence of meaningful review for SHU placement violates the prisoners’ right to due process. “The prolonged conditions of brutal confinement and isolation such as those at Pelican Bay have rightly been condemned as torture by the international community,” said CCR President Jules Lobel. “These conditions strip prisoners of their basic humanity and cross the line between human treatment and barbarity.” Advocates hope that the suit will strike a blow against the increasingly routine use of solitary confinement in American prisons. SHU prisoners spent 22 ½ to 24 hours every day in a cramped, concrete, windowless cell. They are denied telephone calls, contact visits, and vocational, recreational or educational programming. Food is often rotten and barely edible, and medical care is frequently withheld. More than 500 Pelican Bay SHU prisoners have been isolated under these conditions for over 10 years, more than 200 of them for over 15 years; and 78 have been isolated in the SHU for more than 20 years. Today’s suit claims that prolonged confinement under these conditions has caused “harmful and predictable psychological deterioration” among SHU prisoners. Solitary confinement for as little as 15 days is now widely recognized to cause lasting psychological damage to human beings and is analyzed under international law as torture Additionally, the suit alleges that SHU prisoners are denied any meaningful review of their SHU placement, rendering their isolation “effectively permanent.” SHU assignment is an administrative act, condemning prisoners to a prison within a prison; it is not part of a person’s court-ordered sentence for his or her crime. California, alone among all fifty states and most other jurisdictions in the world, imposes extremely prolonged solitary confinement based merely on a prisoner’s alleged association with a prison gang. Gang affiliation is assessed without considering whether a prisoner has ever undertaken an act on behalf of a gang or whether he is – or ever was – actually involved in gang activity. Moreover, SHU assignments disproportionately affect Latinos. The percentage of Latino prisoners in the Pelican Bay SHU was 85% in 2011, far higher than their representation in the general prison population, which was 41%. The only way out of SHU isolation alive and sane is to “debrief,” to inform on other prisoners, placing those who do so and their families in significant danger of retaliation and providing those who are unable to debrief effectively no way out of SHU isolation. Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, California Prison Focus, Siegel & Yee, and the Law Offices of Charles Carbone are co-counsel on the case. The case is Ruiz v. Brown, and it seeks to amend an earlier pro se lawsuit filed by Pelican Bay SHU prisoners Todd Ashker and Danny Troxell. The case is before Judge Claudia Wilken in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Click here to read the complaint. ------------- The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive forc...

Dear Governor Parson, The undersigned faith leaders and lay people from across Missouri urge Governor Parsons to issue an immediate shelter in place plan and to enact the other demands in this letter for the welfare of the people. While we are different in our expressions of faith, our various sacred texts and faith principles demand us to take care of the sick, and protect, advocate for and provide for all of GOD’s children, especially the vulnerable. Given the rapid advance of the COVID-19 virus in the United States and in Missouri, we must act now to protect the health of those with preexisting conditions, compromised immune systems, our children, elderly, uninsured, incarcerated, immigrants and the unsheltered. The COVID-19 crisis amplifies the inequities that exist in all of our systems. We urge you and the State Legislators to do the following: Put a statewide strict shelter in place plan in effect immediately. Provide paid sick and family leave to all workers with no exceptions. Expand Medicaid to give healthcare access to over 230,000 low-income Missourians at risk of dying. Provide free testing for COVID-19 for the under and uninsured and waive Medicaid copays. Secure additional COVID-19 tests for the state. Ensure that medical professionals have the necessary PPE to assist in protecting themselves. Provide testing in low income, African American, other communities of Color and immigrant neighborhoods. Not only is our health and welfare at risk but our democracy is at risk. We are grateful that municipal elections have been pushed back to June, but we believe this is inadequate without providing additional access to democracy during this time of uncertainty. We join the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition in urging the following: Expansion of absentee voting by mail, including adoption of no-excuse absentee voting, elimination of the notary requirement for absentee ballots, and multiple options for requesting and returning of absentee ballots. At minimum, current absentee voting due to incapacity or illness should explicitly include those practicing social distancing or self-quarantine as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Expansion of options for in-person absentee and early voting, allowing more citizens to vote over time rather than in a cluster on Election Day. Expansion of voter registration options to include online options. Polling place modifications to ensure public safety and to protect accessibility for voting populations that have traditionally faced barriers to the ballot. Robust voter education campaigns funded by the State. We join the 270 faith and community leaders in Southwest Missouri in demanding a Statewide plan for the unhoused. They are amongst the most vulnerable for illness and death. Protect our unhoused siblings by: Ordering municipal officials to identify and authorize locations throughout the state to be used to provide self quarantine facilities for the unhoused. Ensure emergency shelters continue to operate 24 hours a day. Ensure shelters have a standard for cleanliness and that residents of shelters and self quarantine spaces have adequate access to showers, sanitizing products, restrooms and food. Finally, the incarcerated are at a greater risk because of crowded conditions, and immigrants are at risk as some without documentation may not seek medical care. Governor, we are asking you to work with local prosecutors and judges to: Release non violent offenders Release ICE detainees Provide PPE to inmate workers, law enforcement and correctional facility personnel. Do not allow ICE to pick up people near health facilities, grocery stores or pharmacies. With the state motto, "Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law,” as a profound reminder, it is a great opportunity to put the welfare of Missourians over profits and partisanship by protecting the health and welfare of the most vulnerable. Governor, we are urging you to demonstrate the seriousness of this deadly virus by taking action to preserve the health and welfare of the people of Missouri. There is a scripture in the New Testament of the Christian Bible found in Matthew 25: 35-40: “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’” Help us to ensure that we can all ensure that the “least of these” are protected during this time of pandemic.

We, the undersigned, call on California Governor Gavin Newsom, to Revise or AMEND the Felony Murder Rule. The Felony Murder Rule, which says that a PERSON who is not directly responsible for someone's DEATH can be prosecuted for first-degree murder. As I'm sure you know, if convicted of the Felony Murder Rule, the only penalties are death or life in prison without the possibility of PAROLE. My concern is my son and all the young people, who don't have the best of judgment to begin with, may find themselves caught up in this law because of their association with the wrong friends—friends who COMMIT a serious crime resulting in someone's death. Young people can be so carefree and irresponsible. If they commit a crime they should be punished, but using the Felony Murder Rule is too much for those that had no weapon and meant no harm to come to anyone. We have an abundance of laws and people should be charged for crimes they actually commit. The Felony Murder Rule can allow a fictitious charge of first-degree murder and the prosecutor doesn't have to prove intent! This is a law that needs to be Revise or Amended. A person has no control of what another does. My son Justin Robson was used as guinea pig in a botched robbery. My son did not plan to rob anyone nor did he plan to murder anyone. My son has now been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. WRONGFULLY CONVICTED of the Felony Murder Rule and sent to a level 4 prison, he has been to a county jail twice and now he fights to save his own life behind bars. He has to look behind his back all the TIME,; he is white and they say the whites are treated the worst. My son is not a murderer. A person can go and actually murder someone and be out of prison in 25 years but my son who did nothing gets LIFE WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE. He doesn't deserve this. Help us REVISE or AMEND this BARBARIC LAW.

Despite over 25 years of Pentagon studies, task force recommendations and congressional hearings, rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment continue to occur at alarming rates year after year. In addition to the devastating effects of sexual violence on survivors and their families, rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment threaten the strength, readiness and morale of the U.S. military, undermining U.S. national security. THE CRISIS * 3,192 military sexual assaults were reported in fiscal year 2011, an increase of 1% from fiscal year 2010 and a 1.1% decrease from 2009.i * While sexual assaults are under-reported, this problem is exacerbated in military settings. In 2010, out of the 19,000 sexual assaults that occurred in the military, the Department of Defense (DOD) estimates that only 13.5% of survivors reported assault.ii It is difficult to determine the number of assaults in 2011 since the Workplace and Gender Relations Survey of Active Duty Member (WGRA) was not conducted in 2011. * In 2010, approximately 55% of women and 38% of men reported that their assailant sexually harassed or stalked them prior to the incident of rape or sexual assault.iii * In 2011, 1518 of the 3192 reported sexual assaults were considered actionableiv by the military, a decrease of 22% from the previous year. Prosecution rates for sexual predators are astoundingly low—in 2011, less than 8% of reported cases went to trial. Of the cases that went to trial, 191 subjects were convicted, resulting in 148 offenders serving jail sentences and 122 being discharged. An estimated 10% of perpetrators resigned in lieu of courts-martial (RILO), which effectively means the military allowed rapists to quit their jobs in order to avoid facing charges.v * The Department of Defense does not maintain a military sex offender registry that can alert service members, unit commanders, and military families to the presence and movement of sexual predators within the military population. CONSEQUENCES OF MILITARY RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT * While experiences of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment are strongly associated with a wide range of mental health conditions for both men and women veterans, MSTvi is the leading cause of PTSD among women veterans, w

“Oppose S. 720/H.R. 1697 and any other bill that would criminalize free speech.”

This petition asks Loretta E. Lynch, Attorney General of the United States and James B. Comey, Director of the FBI to, as quickly as is humanly possible because of the upcoming election: Investigate any potential TRUMP bribes in TEXAS and FLORIDA.

Americans demand fair elections. Pass this bill in time to eliminate outdated, hackable, paperless voting machines in swing states before the November Elections, fund spot audits, and require states to report signs of election tampering.