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.

In light of the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court dated July 1,2024, entitled Trump v. United States, granting immunity to the current and past Presidents of the United States for acts that are in their official capacity, it is essential to the survival of the American Democracy that we amend the Constitution, Article II Section I as follows: after the words “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. However, no President or past president shall be immune from prosecution for any illegal acts which if committed by an ordinary citizen would be a crime under federal or state law. If a President or past President has committed such an act that would be a violation of either state or federal law, he or she shall immediately be prosecuted by the appropriate authority and shall stand trial so long as the statute of limitations has not expired.

Republicans and the far-right have continued their crusade to ban books and restrict what Michigan children and families can access.  Michigan children continue to experience some of the worst declines in literacy compared to other states. And yet, extremists want to further limit the freedom to read. These blatant attempts at censorship are hurting our children the most.  We trust Michigan families and youth to decide what to read. If you agree, add your name to the petition to demonstrate that Michiganders oppose banning books!

This summer, Sunday Home, a furniture store, commissioned artist Seth Carnes to create a mural on the side of their building. They had permission from the building’s owner and a signed contract. The words “time to unperson” were to be painted in large white letters on a black wall, part of the artist’s ongoing project.  After four days of painting, a local man approached Carnes and ordered him off the scaffold. He called the mural “vulgar” without explanation, and threatened to paint over the mural immediately. This man is not a town official and has no financial interest in the building.  A report was filed with the NY State Police against the man. To protect the mural from vandalism, surveillance cameras were installed and signs have been posted.  Since then, the mural remains unfinished, with continuing threats and efforts to censor and remove the mural by those who find it objectionable. Carnes has been issued a citation from the town claiming the mural is commercial signage which requires a permit. The citation includes a threat of fines and imprisonment. This mural is artwork. It is not a commercial sign. It is simply paint on a wall.  The phrase “time to unperson” does not discriminate against any protected class. Misinterpreting an artwork as objectionable should not lead to censorship . Questions of meaning, or perceived offense should be a matter of discussion and tolerance, not brazen aggression. We believe this censorship is a violation of the artist’s First Amendment rights. If you believe in freedom of speech, tolerance, and 1st amendment rights for artists under the US Constitution, please sign this petition! BACKGROUND ON THE ARTWORK AND ARTIST This mural is part of the Miniluv project, created by Seth Indigo Carnes and originally co-curated as an intervention in 2023 with Rodney Harder at the Deep Water Literary Festival in Narrowsburg, New York, with the work of George Orwell as a theme. Similar versions of the same artwork, with the same wording have been displayed over the last two years in nearby public places like Narrowsburg, NY without complaints. The word “unperson” comes from the George Orwell novel 1984, a fictional depiction of an oppressive government using language to control citizens. Carnes takes an interpretive approach to the invented poetic phrase “time to unperson,” which combines the language of Orwell, advertising, self-help, escapism, and social media, with an intention that meaning will form in the eye of the beholder, where art acts as a mirror. Here’s what Seth Carnes writes in his artist statement: One of the concepts in 1984 was called doublethink, where words and phrases contain contradictory meanings and people may hold both to be true… Some invented words in the novel, such as ‘unperson’, suggest a meaning, but it is never clear, only implied. In this imaginary world, without free speech and open public discourse, there is no established meaning, only constant edits, censorship, and control by those in power… Art and poetry often feature a related but less severe effect, where symbolism, metaphor, irony, and play with language leave the work open to multiple interpretations. MORE INFORMATION: “Un-muraled: Community backlash leaves mural half-finished in Roscoe”, River Reporter https://riverreporter.com/stories/un-muraled-community-backlash-leaves-mural-half-finished-in-roscoe,210127 Artist Website: www.sic.studio