The End Racial Profiling Act seeks to make racial profiling illegal and train law enforcement officers to act based on behavior instead of race or religion in their jobs. Now is the time for us to move closer to a society without blatant prejudice. No one should be mistreated, wrongly arrested, harassed, or killed based on their racial identity. Pass this legislation right away #forTrayvon.

-Denounce systemic racism, discrimination, and oppression impacting students, professionals, and patients -Plan of action for increasing and supporting Black AAA/SAA membership and community

Adopt the Measure LL cleanup that would allow effective resident oversight of the Oakland Police Department. We need to strengthen the Police Commission so we can ensure that the Oakland Police Department is firmly and permanently dedicated to constitutional policing.

Urge California Lawmakers to Pass AB 988 (Bauer-Kahan), also known the Miles Hall Lifeline and Suicide Prevention Act, to designate “988” as the new three-digit alternative to “911” for mental health emergencies, ensuring that trained mental health professionals – not law enforcement – respond to those in crisis.

So you really want to help in the fight to stop racial, economic and cultural injustice? Sign this petition to make Juneteenth and The Presidental Election Day National Federal Holidays. If 10 MILLION Americans from all walks of life can sign this, we WILL be the change we wish to see in this world. You want to gain equality and respect for our 400 years of slavery, 100 years of Jim Crow and now? Probably 40 acres and a mule will never be a reality for black folks, but making these holidays will truly mean progress for every American, including the most marginalized, Black women. If you do not support a national voting holiday, you are supporting supremacy’s agenda. You are prescribing yourself, family and friends to a life of second class citizenship. So you marched? Okay, what’s next..? This is how you finish! These Holiday designations are the first steps to getting justice for Sandra, Travon, Freddy, George, Michael, Philando and possibly you next. Do you want to see the cycle of poverty and injustice start over again? This is in our neighborhoods due to suppression and systematic bias. Let’s memorialize their lives and our freedom with this effort! SIMPLE: If The Election Day is a National Federal Holiday more working folks of all races, who could not afford to lose money, can perform their civic duty. If more likely to vote and hold leaders more accountable. We will also see a more inclusive society. In time you will see resources for your community, more equity and leaders who represent the overall face of America. Juneteenth would also be a holiday that will provide a true economic boost to all Americans and will allow for cultural and capital exchanges for the communities who need them most. It’s not just black history it’s American history. It affects the rest of the world.

Anne Hoskins, a utility executive, should not be serving on a PUBLIC Commission that regulates utility companies! We need a Commissioner who will advocate for consumers and serve Maryland ratepayers, NOT the utility industry.

We demand to know why the Home Owners Association of the Sanford residential community, where an unarmed youth was recently gunned down, are not following protocol for implementing a "neighborhood watch" representative on their property. And what law enforcement agency was monitoring their private "neighborhood watch" program?

Ensure the safety of the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2021. Hold the ceremony indoors in the capitol rotunda and require that there is adequate security. Don't allow a replay of the violence we saw at the Capitol during the certification of the electoral vote.

Petition summary: We need to support the nuclear deal with Iran. The alternative is a regional war which could prove disastrous for our allies. Sanctions have only escalated Iran’s nuclear program. To provide security the deal must lead to generalized, permanent arms control. As General of the Army Omar Bradley said, “We had better soon get ourselves under control and begin making the world safe for living.” —————————————————— The petition in full: The United States, as part of the P5+1 (USA and our allies the UK, France, plus Germany and the EU; also Russia and China), has taken a major step toward preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. We need to support the deal with Iran. The alternative is war. Not just an attack but a boots-on-the-ground war. Meir Dagan, head of the Mossad (Israel’s CIA), from 2002 to 2011, warned that an attack on Iran “would mean regional war, and in that case you would have given Iran the best possible reason to continue the nuclear program.” He further warned that, “The regional challenge that Israel would face would be impossible.” Meir Dagan and other retired Israeli intelligence and military have warned against Netanyahu and other “hotheads.” The hotheads’ alarmist views require analysis and challenge.  They should not be allowed to frame the debate. Robert Gates, head of the CIA under George H.W. Bush, defense secretary under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has said bombing Iran could prove a “catastrophe,” and that Iran’s “capacity to wage a series of terror attacks across the Middle East aimed at us and our friends, and dramatically worsen the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere is hard to overestimate.” A military strike would delay a bomb by 3-5 years while the deal could delay it 10-20 years or more. Would more sanctions against Iran work? Look at the evidence: After imposition of sanctions in 2006 Iran went from a few hundred centrifuges to 22,000 centrifuges. From enriching below 5 percent to enriching to 20 percent. From one model of centrifuge to eight models of centrifuges, including highly developed centrifuges. All while sanctions were in place. [Note: The deal requires Iran to get rid of 98% of it’s low-enriched uranium stockpile. It limits Iran to 3.7% enrichment. Bomb grade is at least 90%] There is no chance that our allies would continue sanctions as long as Iran continues to abide by the agreement. Congress needs to work with the administration for strong implementation of the accord and action against Iran’s bad actions in the region and toward its own people (Iran’s dissidents overwhelmingly support the deal).  As Iran supports Hezbollah and Hamas, we need to support Israel.    We can co-operate with Iran on its good actions such as its fight against ISIL. Is this deal enough? Certainly not. It should serve as the start of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East. Voices in Saudi Arabia once advocated a weapons-of-mass-destruction free zone in the Middle East, even if Israel did not participate. We were wrong in not pursuing it then but we don’t have to be wrong now. We need to take the lead. Would a weapons-of-mass-destruction free zone in the Middle East be enough? No, as conventional weapons today can be extraordinarily destructive. Nor is it enough for one region only to demilitarize. “Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative,” said President Eisenhower in his Farewell Address to the Nation. General Omar Bradley said "Our plight is critical, and with each effort we have made to relieve it by further scientific advance, we have succeeded only in aggravating our peril…If we are going to save ourselves from the instruments of our own intellect, we had better soon get ourselves under control and begin making the world safe for living."

We, the community and commuters along Kenilworth Avenue and Riverdale Road oppose the revised concept for the Riverdale Park Purple Line Station. The State has approved the construction of the Purple Line from New Carrollton to Bethesda. This $5.6 billion project will not only improve transportation for our Riverdale residents but with appropriate design, it can bring economic revitalization to our community and our county. The Central Kenilworth Avenue Revitalization Community Development Corporation (CKAR CDC) fully supports The Purple Line but we are also mindful that the community will have to live with design decisions made by the State and the County for decades. CKAR’s concern is the decision to redesign the elevated Riverdale Park Station using a solid concrete wall support at this major intersection. The wall will be over 500 feet long (more than two football fields) and 26 feet high. This imposing structure would visually and physically divide our community in half. We already have to contend with the six-lane East-West Highway and Kenilworth Avenue at this location. Adding a wall of this magnitude would stifle economic growth that could happen with a positive transit solution that is open, well-lighted, generates quality increased economic development, provides safe crossings, increases overhead weather coverage for its patrons, provides elevators and stairs with uninterrupted visibility from grade to discourage crime and that incorporates public art. To revitalize Riverdale, we as residents, must be sensitive to design issues that will compromise our ability to make this an attractive community that we are all proud to live and work in. No less is being done for the stations in Bethesda or at the University of Maryland. Riverdale Park is the only elevated station on The Purple Line in Prince George’s County. Its design should not be sacrificed in the state’s effort to save money. MTA estimates the savings would be less than one percent of the total project. Will we be proud of the Riverdale Park Station or will it be an ever-present eyesore?