On April 28, Adjunct Professor Don Giljum was pressured by the University of Missouri St Louis to resign after his labor studies students and co-teacher were intentionally misrepresented as advocating violence by the infamous and discredited blogger Andrew Breitbart. The university has denounced Breitbart's video but refuses to grant Professor Giljum due process, much less defend him, even though his students have attested to the fact that he does not advocate violence. The university has claimed publicly that Professor Giljum resigned voluntarily. As in the similar case of Shirley Sherrod, Professor Giljum has stated that in fact the university demanded his resignation and he has publicly declared that he had no desire or intention to resign. Don Giljum is an adjunct (non-tenurable) professor. Adjuncts all over the country are as vulnerable as Professor Giljum to this kind of mistreatment by colleges and universities. The university's disturbing treatment of Professor Giljum is yet another example of the immorality inherent in the contingent academic labor system in higher education today. If the University of Missouri truly respects the right of ALL faculty and students to academic freedom, due process, quality education and a safe learning environment and stands against the dishonesty of Andrew Breitbart and his associates, it will apologize to, and reinstate, Professor Giljum immediately.

Ralph Reed, Chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition is the leader of a hate group (which the FBI defines as a group whose "primary purpose is to promote animosity, hostility, and malice against persons belonging to a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin which differs from that of the members of the organization"). As such, he SHOULD NOT BE AFFORDED EQUAL TIME by major media outlets -- ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, NBC News, CBS News, etc.

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd pleaded for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. "I can't breath..." he strained. He was arrested due to passing a counterfeit 20$ at a grocery store. Was he violent during his arrest? No. Did police need to intervene in the way that they did? No. If a social worker had aided in the intervention, to assist in identifying community needs for that individual (food banks, employment assistance, referrals to the community mental health center), could he have been saved? Yes. Police officers are, without a doubt, just not trained to handle many of the calls that are placed to them. Issues such as drug use, homelessness, domestic violence, child abuse, mental health needs cannot be addressed appropriately from those who do not have the education and knowledge to de-escalate crises. In 2019, over 1,000 individuals who shot to death by U.S. police. Thus far, in 2020, as of June 5th, 429 individuals have been shot to death by U.S. police. Per reports, conducted by Statista, overall deaths rise on a yearly basis. Multiple cities in the U.S. have proposed such changes in their police departments. In order to make this a nationwide application, "some" changes from "parts" of the nation will not fully benefit the people. The need for advocacy, for communication and re-education between social work and police professions, along with the help with citizens will be vital for creating such change.

Outgoing Gov. Dan Malloy has decided that after 7 ½ years in office, he wants to put $10 million on the state taxpayers’ credit card to study the issue of tolls in Connecticut. Now is the time to stop this madness!

Access to information is a basic human right. The DC Jail, which holds around 1,400 people at all times, has a law library but does not have a fully operational library with books providing educational, vocational, and entertainment resources. Please join us in signing and circulating this petition to encourage Mayor Vincent C. Gray to establish an accessible, book cart-based library with a paid librarian at Washington, DC’s Central Detention Facility this budget season.

The science says that ANY development in the Ten Mile Creek watershed will pollute Little Seneca Reservoir. We urge the Montgomery County Council to not allow any development in the Ten Mile Creek watershed which will degrade the water quality of Little Seneca Reservoir. Please don’t vote to pollute our drinking water.

Symbols of hate and division have no place in our military. It's time to stand up for what's right and take down the Confederate flag!

El neoyorquino Donald Trump ha utilizado ataques racistas y antiinmigrantes para llegar al primer lugar en las encuestas para las elecciones primarias del Partido Republicano. Pero lo único que hemos escuchado de los republicanos poderosos elegidos en el gobierno estatal de NY hasta ahora es ... silencio. Dile al líder de mayoría del Senado, John Flagan, y el resto de su partido: ¡denuncie el discurso del odio de Trump!

Dear President Obama The new moderate President of Iran will be in New York during the next session of the United Nations General Assembly. From sanctions on Iran to the Syrian crisis there are millions of people who would benefit from you talking to the new moderate President of Iran, and seeing if you can work out differences in a diplomatic way.

Attorney General Barr violently denied a group of Americans their First Amendment right to peacefully protest -- when he ordered police to attack them with tear gas, rubber bullets, and batons to make way for President Trump’s photo-op outside St. John’s Episcopal Church. Barr has repeatedly catered to Trump’s whims at the expense of the rule of law and the rights of the American people -- but this attack is a sickening new low. Congress must impeach Barr and remove him from office before he can do any more harm.