Dear Governor Cuomo: The “Farm to Food Bank” bill (Senate Bill 7833/Assembly Bill 10584) allows New York farmers to receive a refundable tax credit for donations made to food banks and other emergency food programs serving low-income New Yorkers. If enacted, it would benefit New York farmers by making it more economically feasible for them to donate food to those in need; the bill would also benefit the environment by decreasing food waste and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from landfills; and, most importantly, it would benefit impoverished, food-insecure individuals by increasing their access to fresh, healthy produce. For those who don’t always know where their next meal is coming from, such donations have the potential to positively impact their health outcomes in the long-term and meet their immediate food needs in the short-term. Fresh, locally grown food that might otherwise go to waste can now be distributed to New York’s neediest populations via the emergency food programs that serve them. For these reasons, I strongly support this bill and respectfully request that you sign it into law. Sincerely,

Hello. My name is Dr. Jennifer Wood and I am a social work educator. While Piers Morgan loves to stir up controversy and get people talking about him, that doesn't mean we should give him a platform to do so. Morgan is a ring-wing English journalist known for his long-running CNN show, Piers Morgan Live, which ended in 2014 due to low ratings and criticisms of Morgan's discourse on gun control, women's rights, fatphobia, transphobia, etc. Since then, he has taken to Twitter to promote these views using expletives and scare tactics that are typically reserved for Fox News audiences. HarperCollins Publishing announced a month ago that they would publish a book by Morgan in September 2022. Many wonder why HarperCollins would be associated with someone whose violent attacks on marginalized communities have increasingly dominated the headlines - HarperCollins Publishing is a division of News Corp, which also owns Fox News. Due to Morgan's history of bias against women of color, fatphobia and body shaming, sexual harassment, misogyny, and transphobia, his return to News Corp is on-brand.

Facebook is trying to team up with The Weekly Standard, a right-wing publication with a history of pushing partisan lies, to fact-check news shared on its platform. We can't let it happen.

President Obama must clearly explain to the American people why his decision to order airstrikes in Iraq without Congressional authorization was Constitutional, say what he believes is the legal limit of his authority, and seek explicit Congressional authorization for further military action. Members of Congress must say whether they support President Obama’s decision to conduct airstrikes in Iraq, whether they believe he should have sought Congressional authorization, and whether they believe he should seek authorization now. Media institutions must prominently explore whether the President had legal authority to order airstrikes in Iraq, what the limit of his legal authority to order airstrikes is, and what Members of Congress believe is the limit of his legal authority to order airstrikes without Congressional authorization.

Enact policies that reduce the number of imprisoned individuals in the United States. Focus policies on actions that rehabilitate criminals instead of punishing them.

Susie Johnson spent her entire life working towards achieving her dream of home ownership. When she was approached to purchase the home she was renting in Orange, NJ, she was ecstatic. Those days of excitement and joy were dashed away when JPMorgan Chase/Wells Fargo/HUD stole her American dream via a fraudulent foreclosure and illegal eviction. Her life went from happy gardening days to family barbecues to a horror story and JP Morgan Chase/Wells Fargo/HUD are to blame. Susie paid her mortgage payments on time each month when suddenly, the servicer started indicating that she was behind in her payments. She was an inexperienced homeowner and once she started receiving the threatening letters from their attorneys threatening to take her home away, she entered into a forbearance agreement paying legal fees and whatever other fees they tagged on. She hadn’t missed a payment. At this time, they were unable to take her home away. Well, the next move came the following year when this time, the servicer stated that she was four payments behind and once more threw her into default and this time they went for the juggler. Susie became distraught trying to get the servicer to listen and review the receipts and the certified documents that they signed accepting the payments. They immediately stopped accepting her payments and proceeded to file for foreclosure. At that point her daughter began to intervene. Copies of everything was sent into the servicer and then everything went silent until the payments were sent again and were returned. Stage 1 of foreclosure proceedings had begun and they were rapidly moving towards stage 2. Susie went to Legal Services in Newark for assistance and contact was made with the attorneys for the servicer. Next Susie was advised to file a Chapter13 Bankruptcy. She reluctantly did so as this would ruin the credit she had worked so hard to establish. The attorney for the servicer continued the onslaught. Within the next few months a letter was received indicating that they had found the four missing payments in one paragraph and in the next paragraph down, the letter stated and now those payments are due. Susie, being a low income homeowner could not afford to pay additional legal and whatever other fees the servicer tacked on so the torture continued. Even after the letter, the attorneys sought final foreclosure and it was granted by the chancery division judges even though copies of the receipts were shown several times. Then things went really silent and there was no activity for at least a year. Then came further torture from the servicer’s attorneys. During the period before the final onslaught, Susie lost her eldest daughter, her husband, and her life was in a turmoil. Her bankruptcy payments were extremely high because of the fraud and payments on monies not due the servicer and her struggles seemed extra hard because she was fighting for her life, her memories, her happiness that was all sealed up in this house of her dreams. The attorneys were now seeking eviction. They sold the house at a sheriff’s sale and then moved forward with eviction. In 2012, there was a protest held at the home of Susie Johnson with the assistance of many organizations and unions and the eviction was called off by JPMorgan Chase. One thing that was abundantly clear was that JPMorgan Chase was not looking to correct their mistake but instead wanted to throw this elderly woman out on the street. Bennet Zurofsky, an attorney in Newark, immediately jumped into action and notified the AG’s office who did absolutely nothing with the information they received and still have not done anything to this day. In October of 2013, a caption change was granted by a chancery division judge allowing Wells Fargo to be the servicer and MassMutual the lender after a 14 year absence. They were indeed the unknown lender. On 5/30/2014, Susie Johnson was brutally evicted from her home! She has not walked since that time. She now sleeps in a hospital bed and after a brief period in a nursing home, she now has a feeding tube and stage 3 sacral ulcer on her tailbone. She is in pain all of the time and most times does not know where she will sleep each night. JPMorgan Chase has stolen her dignity along with her belongings and needs to be made whole again while she can still recognize that she has been made whole.Instead of wondering what vegetables she will be planting in her garden, she now worries about where she will sleep and when she will die. She is calling on JPMorgan Chase/Wells Fargo/HUD to do what is right. They got their money. It is now time for them to give me back the home that they fraudulently stole from Susie or make her whole. When asked about this, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo has only produced excuses and roadblocks. They say it wasn’t me and that it was the bankruptcy filing that caused this problem and not their faulty recordkeeping. It took them 14 years to completely follow through with this egr...

As working artmakers and arts organizations in NYC, we pledge not to take any crumbs from Amazon. We reject any outreach from Amazon including residencies, studio or performance space or exhibitions. We don't want to help art-wash or culture-wash a dirty deal by Amazon with any "Sub-Prime" offers to artists. And we won’t give the city and state any cover by participating in any of their blatantly undemocratic, closed-door deals. What's bad for the community of LIC, the working poor and the working class is also bad for artists.

This gun range by Reloaders proposed opening of a gun range in Wayne poses a seriius threat to our families and children. It would be opened in a very populated area at the former site of Fuddruckers. Please sign and contact the township to oppose this gun range. Dont we have enough to worry about in this gun happy clinate?!! School shootings are an epidemic and this will only invite more access.

NO CUTS IN PENSION (PRIVATE & PUBLIC SECTOR RETIREES), SSA, MEDICARE, etc. TO SENIORS ALREADY RETIRED, EFFECTIVE 1/1/2011! ALL RETIREES MUST BE GRANDFATHERED IN WHENEVER CUTBACKS ARE APPROVED!

It is time for the US Senate to step up to the plate and follow through on important legislation tailored to protect LGB T & People Of Color's citizens.