The White Center Community declares our state of emergency. After five fire events within the last four months, the entire community is devastated. The fires have affected 11 beloved businesses and their employees, all losing everything in the rash of fires over the last four months. The lack of timely and effective action from our elected officials, County staff, and the Sheriff’s Department have and will continue to impact our community negatively for many years to come. We are alone in rebuilding our businesses and community. Business owners and neighbors have raised over $290K for fire victims ($165K to the Lumber Yard) and continue to raise funds. Elected and County staff have not offered any additional emergency funds or additional support. The business district as a whole continues to experience crime, theft, violence, and a sharp decrease in monthly revenues. The following businesses have been impacted and devastated: Huong Xua Deli, John’s Hair and Nails Salon, The Boxing Gym Westside, La Tipica Oaxaquena, Nuggi Boba, The Locker Room, Ben Schreck workshop, Dottie’s Doublewide, Rat City Tat2, Bizzarro Italian Café, Full Tilt, and The Lumber Yard. This petition encompasses the needs surfaced from hundreds of hours of conversations over the past four months and over the past 25 years. We need an emergency fire response plan by our elected officials and County staff NOW. INVEST IN WHITE CENTER SO WE CAN REBUILD, THRIVE AND GROW: - Hire private security for 8 hours overnight, 7 days a week, to be funded by King County. Invest $175,000 per year into the community, targeting damaged areas immediately. - $2M emergency relief funding outside of DLS grants to assist fire victims and stabilize the White Center Business District’s rebuilding efforts in collaboration with community (comprehensive business district plan, re-establishing/affirming zoning, etc.) immediately. - Businesses who do not hold or have minimal insurance coverage should automatically be qualified for a minimum of $25,000 in emergency assistance immediately. - Create a task force of professionals, available daily, on a drop-in basis, to help fire victims navigate systems and relationships. Provide 1:1 assistance (salvage assistance, navigating insurance, and permitting processes, assessing rebuilding options, funding, re-entry etc.) until the business is able to re-enter and resume regular business hours at full capacity immediately. Provide delivery of assistance in Vietnamese and Spanish. - Build transparency and accountability between community members and the Sheriff’s Department. Provide basic details of all Sheriff’s deputies, duties, and assignments in White Center (names and badge numbers of officers working in White Center during the 2017 – 2021 Sheriff Department budget for White Center, and patrol routes). - Fund a position to help retain existing businesses and recruit new businesses in White Center. The position will support existing businesses going through lease renewals or re-location, and assists property owners and developers that are rehabilitating or developing buildings with retail space design, pricing and tenanting.

Petitioning Judge Kathleen W Foster & Debra Blasius Waukesha County Deputy District Attorney Understand Autism and Asperger's Syndrome in all cases before them.

Keep San Antonio theatres safe, financed, and free from censorship so that issues that are hurting our community may be openly explored and discussed.

Mainstream media must refrain from falsely announcing Clinton has "won the nomination" at 8 ET on June 7. It's a bald lie and it will suppress voting in CA from 5 p.m. on.

Illinois General Assembly and Governor Rauner: The cuts to higher education and essential services that are a result of Illinois’ budget crisis are unacceptable and impose unnecessary, severe harm on the people of Illinois. Illinois needs to fix its revenue shortfall problem in order to meet its most basic obligations to the people. Those you are tasked to serve hereby instruct you to act immediately to support the will of the people by fast-track passage of House Bill 106, the Financial Transactions Tax Act, also known as the LaSalle Street Tax.

During a press conference in Florida on July 27th, 2016, Donald J. Trump answered questions regarding the possibility that the Russian Government was behind hacking the Democratic National Conventions email server and leaking over 15,000 emails. After a question was asked by Katy Tur of MSNBC, Mr. Trump instead spoke about "Crooked Hillary Clinton" and her having "..deleted 30,000 emails." It was then that he held up his hand to reporters, and looked directly into the cameras. He stated clearly and concisely the following: "Russia if your listening...I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded, viably by our press." By encouraging believed foreign Government and Country to attack the United States cyber and put a bounty on communications of a former U.S. Secretary of State, he has committed Treason under the U.S Code of Law 2318 (full text of the law is found below).

>> Climate Change has become such a serious threat to our entire civilization that We the People need to heed our Founding Fathers when they warned us clearly that it is more than our Right; it is our “Duty to provide new Guards for (our) future security” and begin immediately to transform our Consumer Culture to one of creative ADAPTATION AND REUSE that conserves the “embodied energy” in things we already have, and a transformation for which our existing Defense Department already has the best resources. >> Therefore, We the People hereby call upon our Congress and our President to REDEFINE the Mission of our Department of Defense so that one half of our Defense Industrial Base will continue defending our Nation and the other half will immediately begin the ADAPTATION and repurposing of half of all existing Defense resources to defend our Planet and not just the Nation, as follows: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - - - Mission: Oversee the creation of two Sub-Departments: -------- A. SUB-DEPARTMENT FOR DEFENDING THE PLANET >>>> Mission: Address Climate Change issues by adapting one half of all Defense Industry resources: Our planes can fight forest fires, Our ships can clean the oceans, Our heavy equipment can shape shorelines against rising oceans, and Our strategic planners and designers can intelligently design and coordinate the ADAPTATIONS needed. -------- B. SUB-DEPARTMENT FOR DEFENDING THE NATION >>>> Mission: continue maintaining military readiness. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> Our huge Defense Budget is a major “engine” for our entire economy and exceeds those of the next seven or eight nations combined. It feeds trillions of our precious tax dollars to millions of dedicated, talented, and capable workers, their families, and their communities throughout our wide Defense Industrial Base – people who are already uniquely prepared to refocus their experience and knowledge for defending our PLANET against Climate Change through ADAPTATION. None of them must fear an loss of income security as a result of this transformation – even those whose jobs have a heavy “fossil footprint” and may experience less demand as we learn to reduce our use of fossil fuel. It should be inspiring for our Children and Students see us Adults admit our mistakes and ask they to study hard so they can help us in our efforts before it is too late.

Let the Santa Barbara City Council know we want no changes to the Historic Mission Creek Bridge or roadway over Mission Creek. Built in 1891, It is an important City of Santa Barbara Historic Landmark. We don't agree with any of the changes the Bridge Studies Team are proposing. All would compromise the Historic Bridge and charm of the Mission Canyon Corridor and are unwarranted. We must protect the sensitive natural environment of Mission Creek, the Oak and Sycamore trees and historic walls that provide special character to the Mission Canyon Corridor and Cultural Landscape.

A petition requesting action by the state of Georgia to make changes to issues surrounding Education, Economic Opportunities, Criminal Justice and Voter Suppression within African American and underserved communities.

Cosponsor HR900 and cancel the Sequester cuts immediately and retroactively. They hurt the most vulnerable Americans and needlessly hamper economic recovery.