George Will has described government as a "geyser of entitlements." We the People demand that Senators and Representatives act on at least one of the following before any cuts to or changes of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, or SNAP can occur: 1. Corporate Entitlements: Companies like Abbott Laboratories, Boeing Co., Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility, GE and Boeing don't pay federal taxes: Congress must establish a corporate tax rate commensurate with individual tax rates and must enforce the collection of those taxes from all corporations. Corporations that do not pay, must be fined in the amount that would be their tax burden. 2. Corporate Entitlements, part 2: Corporations seem to support the single payer health care system as evidenced by their continued outsourcing of jobs to countries that have a single payer system. Similar to the provision in the Affordable Care Act, for every outsourced job, the corporation will be fined $3000. 3. Congressional Entitlements: Roughly 62% of bankruptcies occur because of medical bills and the vast majority of people who eventually declare bankruptcy had healthcare coverage. Congress, which enjoys the gold standard of healthcare benefits, can neither understand nor act on concerns appropriately. No Senator or Representative will enjoy health care benefits better than the average American. This should be easy to establish by simply ending their current coverage and allowing them to participate in programs just like ours for which they pay the same rates we do. 4. Congressional Entitlements, part 2: Retired Senators and Representatives should receive social security -- rather than pensions -- equal to the average American's benefit. It may seem unfair to change their retirement benefits after they have been promised those pensions for so much of their careers, but as they have been so clearly stating, these are dire times and everyone must accept the changes that are necessary. 5. Congressional entitlements, part 3. Senators and Representatives should be paid salaries equal to the average Americans but no more. They will understand how best to govern when they are actually governing for themselves, too. 6. Speculation Entitlements: Speculators don't need lower tax rates as encouragement to speculate with other people's money. They must be taxed at the rate they are earning no matter how that money is earned.

Much has been done in the state houses of some very critical states to affect their voting outcomes in our November presidential election. I see very little making the news about these new voting laws from state to state on the part of national media, nor remedial review by the U. S. Justice Department to slap down the obvious impediments to registered voters in these states having access to their polls to cast their vote for President of the United States this year. Florida has purged their rolls, much like what happened during the George Bush election, to ensure the desired outcome. And we all know what happened in the 2002 election in Florida. Despite being ordered to cease and desist this activity by U. S. Attorney Eric Holder, the governor of Florida continued his activity in purging the voter rolls with impunity! Florida and Pennsylvania are very important states! Likewise, Ohio has decided that the three days prior to the election, when black churchgoers usually conduct what they refer to as "Souls to the Polls" and vote early after church on the Sunday before the Tuesday elections, in heavily black demographics early voting will not be permitted. However, in dominantly white Republican voting blocks, early voting will go on as usual. There are many other states that are prohibiting the photo ID of college students who live out of state are being forbidden to vote this fall. Many elderly people who cannot even obtain their birth certificates (required to obtain a photo ID from their Division of Motor Vehicles) are just simply out of luck ~~ they cannot vote this fall, even though many have voted in every election in their adult lives! I hope that if you agree that our United States Attorney, Eric Holder, should verify that these states' voting changes are in compliance with the 1995 Voting Rights laws, and are indeed discriminatory in the extreme on the face of it, will ask the High Court of the United States to review these states activities on a state-by-state basis to ensure that willing registered voters are permitted to exercise their RIGHT TO VOTE in November. If you agree, please add your signature to this petition and forward it to your friends so that it can be timely presented to Attorney Holder to express our hope that these states not be permitted to bar voters from the polls!

With the recent traumatic events of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, America has been forced to take a good look at the racial and social injustice BIPOC face in this country. These horrific murders of Black Americans have not just pushed for police brutality to come to an end, but now people around the world are pushing for racial and social reform in all areas and industries. The time is now, to demand equality and equity in all places including, the workplace. State Farm is a good company, and employs a diverse workforce, both internally and on the agency side. However, diversity does not equal equality and equity. State Farm, like most corporations, don’t have enough minority representation in management/leadership positions. State Farm, like most corporations, believe they are doing enough, by making public statements and donations. State Farm, like most corporations, believe if they put ONE POC in a high leadership position, they are doing enough. It is not enough! Racial inequality and inequity has been apart of the corporate landscape for generations. The time is now to not just talk about change, but demand change! We need you! We need your support! We need your signature! Please sign this petition to show State Farm you’re tired of talk, and you demand more actions. Sign this petition if you’ve experienced or witnessed one or more of the following at State Farm: • Have you or someone you know been let go unfairly? • Have you or someone you know been passed over for promotions by less qualified people? • Have you or someone you know had to go scratch or was given a smaller book of business? • Have you or someone you know experienced or seen racism at work? • Have you or someone you know received less resources to help you succeed, compared to others? • Have you or someone you know experienced microaggresions in the workplace? • Have you felt afraid to speak up for yourself in fear you will face corporate backlash (i.e. not being promoted or getting fired)? • Would you like to see more People of Color in leadership positions? • Would you like to have a clearly defined path to achieve a leadership role, that is transparent to all? #thetimeisnow

President Obama and Congress, don't take new military action in Iraq. The solution to the chaos is not another American military intervention, including bombing strikes. President Obama was right to end the Iraq War in 2011, and it would be a tremendous mistake to restart it now.

The undersigned Oregonians demand that those Oregon legislators who are currently associates of ALEC resign from this organization. Resignation from ALEC will entail notice of resignation to ALEC, refusal of any ALEC scholarship funds or gifts, no attendance at ALEC conferences or meetings, and refusal to cosponsor ALEC model bills. Make Oregon proud and join the twenty-eight state legislators nationwide who have renounced their association with ALEC. Furthermore, the undersigned Oregonians demand that those who are not current ALEC associates also refuse any ALEC scholarship funds or gifts, not attend any ALEC conferences or meetings, and refuse to cosponsor ALEC model bills.

Sign on to the Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2020, historic legislation that provides full debt cancellation of both USDA direct and guaranteed loans, federal tax relief, and a foreclosure moratorium for Black legacy farmers who filed claims under the Pigford v. Glickman Consent Decree. For decades, our legacy farmers have unjustly borne the weight of unconscionable debt to the United States Department of Agriculture. The Black Farmers’ Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign is a grassroots organizing, popular education, and legal advocacy campaign to rectify the injustices of the Pigford v. Glickman class action racial discrimination lawsuit. Inspired by David Walker’s impassioned entreaty against the chattel enslavement of Africans in the United States, the Black Farmers’ Appeal: Cancel Pigford Debt Campaign is a polemic against yet another form of racialized capitalism–usurious debt. Our coalition is comprised of a multigenerational tribe of farmers, attorneys, writers, artists, and musicians using our diverse magic to bring restorative land justice to our Black legacy farmers. We use diverse strategies to preserve the Black agricultural land base, exploring innovative collaborations that deepen the linkages of music, culture, ecocultural traditions, and cooperative economy to protect Black landownership and stewardship, while raising community awareness, collectivism, and action. We also merge the aims of our campaign with our cooperative economy works with fiber artists, heritage quilters, and keepers of material culture. View the full text of the bill here: https://www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Justice%20for%20Black%20Farmers%20Act%20of%202020%20Bill.pdf View the Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund Community Primer on the Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2020 here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyJAqhgjmS/ View Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund and other endorsers here: https://www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/JUSTICE%20FOR%20BLACK%20FARMERS%20ACT%20endorsements%20-%20new%20order.pdf To find out more about our work visit our website https://www.acresofancestry.org and keep up with our most up-to-date activities on our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acresofancestry.

Donald Trump's decision to seat right-wing white nationalist Steve Bannon on the National Security Council, while downgrading the standing of our military and intelligence leaders, is dangerous for America and the world. Congress must be a check on this dangerous politicization of our nation's security and immediately act to keep Steve Bannon off the National Security Council.

END THE FILIBUSTER NOW. We need our Senators to aspire to the dreams we all have, and to the dreams we should have and the dreams we elected them to make a reality!

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