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Dear Mayor Emanuel: Over the winter, Mr. Maina Kiai, a UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur, provided guidance on protecting the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly. The purpose of this petition is to garner your assurance that his guidance will be incorporated into city procedures and training before protests grow larger this Spring. Interference with peaceful protests in cities across America has been well documented over the past year. Our intent here is not to rehash those incidents, but to focus forward. Chicago has an opportunity to demonstrate to the world that the city is a leader of American democracy and freedom by adopting SR Kiai’s guidance before the world turns its attention to the NATO conference. We encourage you to invite SR Kiai to observe demonstrations during the NATO summit, so your leadership in protecting peaceful protesters can help others in their struggle for freedom.4, 5 We respectfully request information on your plans to ensure the following guidance from SR Kiai is implemented: Government WILL NOT: o Allow minor rules, like curfew, to interfere with the right to peaceful protest o Require permits with time leads that prohibit spontaneous protest o Ban locations from protests (allowed in city center and the streets) o Set unreasonable limits on distance from buildings (allow for safe in/egress) o Set conditions on media coverage of public gatherings o Restrict protester citizenship or age Police force WILL: o PROTECT protesters o Allow reasonable time for protesters to comply with their orders, like dispersal o NOT use excessive force o NOT retaliate against protesters who are arrested Justice system WILL: o Presume protesters are innocent until proven guilty o Ensure protesters have equal access to justice o NOT convict protesters solely on the basis of police testimony o Set consequences proportional to the offense (no excessive fines or confinement) We look forward to learning about your plans, and how we can assist you, to protect people, property, and the right to peaceful protest. Sincerely yours, First Amendment Freedom Chicago

The Ethiopia flight crash was the second time in six months that a Boeing 737 Max plane crashed after takeoff. Protect people. Suspend Boeing 737 Max planes immediately.

As the former Press Secretary for the Trump administration, Spicer is intensely complicit in the undermining of American democracy. His whitewashing "memoir" should not be supported and promoted in any sense, and the store's Union Square outpost should not provide a forum for such a bad actor. The July 25 book launch and reading by Spicer should be cancelled on moral grounds.

Bars and restaurants are last on the list to open in our state. And when they are finally allowed to open, Governor Wolf believes they should only operate at 25% capacity. With th mortality rate in our state of .019% I believe that we should be allowed to open and operate business as usual sooner rather than later.

I am 25 years old working African American female and i am so dishearten by the verdict for George Zimmerman and would like to see justice for once be colorblind. I am solely here to request the Department of Justice and the Obama Administration file a civil rights case against George Zimmerman

Restore your excellent environmental coverage and the team of three who produced it. Don't make us get our climate change information from Fox!

The American people have suffered many times, due to the boomerang effect of misguided US foreign polices in Asia. If it stays in Afghanistan for long-term, this whole region will NEVER see peace, again. Many young Americans will die in the hostile mountainous regions of these Pakistan/Afghanistan for generations to come. Follow President Nixon's precedence in Vietnam cut our losses and leave. We may be trading with a Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the future, like we did with the Viet Cong ruled Vietnam. The Afghan-Pakistan Pashtuns have a history of 3000 years of defeating all invaders or occupiers, US is no different. Soviets learned this after 10 years and thousands of young lives lost. Afghans and Pakistanis consider US as an outside power, trying to muscle in, through gunboat diplomacy. Simultaneously, US is propping up, the most unpopular cast of civilian dictators in regions history i.e. Presidents Asif Zardari and Hamid Karzai. People of the region are daily subjected to the virus of corruption, let loose not only by these dictators, but also their extended families and proxies in all spheres of economic and political life. Its Vietnam, deja vu, as Yogi Berra would say, “all over again.” This situation has led to exponential growth of regional anti-US sentiments. And then we ask the question, why do they hate us? Let us use our critical skills to analyze the Afghan War. How has this war been self-defeating for the United States? A consequence of US presence is the rise of extremist forces and Iran's influence in this region. The longer we stay, the greater will be the rise of extremism. History has shown this in Vietnam. Our presence creates more enemies than friends. Lets take Afghanistan and Pakistan as an examples. The Taliban portray ISAF Armies as the 21st century crusaders.They find it is very easy to convince the poor, illiterate but extremely religious population of this region, with this argument, and thereby generate recruits for mini-"jihads." We are playing right into the hands of religious extremists and Taliban. Who are our friends? Well, they are the most unpopular and incompetent so-called leaders in the region. For example, President Asif Zardari, a high school dropout, is squeezing the economic life of Pakistan through cronyism, bribery, nepotism, and rampant corruption. Over 180 million Pakistanis people are being victimized by his dictatorial maladministration and incompetence.President Zardari's ascendence has resulted in a growth industry for crooks and liars in Pakistan. Malik Riaz, a politically well-connected scoundrel, has stolen billions of dollars from Pakistan's treasury through tax fraud and bribery of politicians and bureaucrats. The opposition led by Nawaz Shariff is as corrupt as the current government. Pakistan's Judiciary, the only honest institution, is being hamstrung by US pressure not to try Zardari and his cronies for money laundering. The White House and the US Congress must show leadership and microscopically review Pakistan and Afghanistan Foreign Policy. There needs to be a paradigm shift, according to the wishes of Pakistanis and Afghans, not based on political expediency or irresponsible projection of power. This is a win-win solution for US security interests and the regional nations. US presence in the region past 2014 as outlined by President Obama, will be detrimental to the United States. The Taliban are going nowhere. They have threatened to continue hostilities, if, the US does not completely withdraw from Afghanistan. The hostilities against US allies and proxies past 2014 will continue, if they are perceived as viceroys of US foreign policy. Pashtuns have fought every invader, US is no different. Lets have no more presence in a region of no strategic or security value to the United States. Lets fix our own house, which is in dire need of economic repairs.

Please make your voice heard now to prevent Florida black bears from being hunted in 2016.

Stop radiation producing Smart Meters from being placed on our schools, homes, and offices. Our health and privacy are at stake. We deserve a choice to opt-out with no fees.