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    Petition to Tom McNamara, Maurice West, Sr., Sam Schmitz, Jessica Jones

    Rockford Supports Dan OShea

    It is an unfortunate time that we are in, that we must come together to protect those that have come together to protect us. Recently Dan O'Shea has been brought to public attention for a 3 second sound bite from a month or so ago. We are all residents of Rockford and understand the grave situation we face regarding violent crime. And it is unfortunate that we will not save everyone. It is unfortunate that we have to focus on saving younger teenagers from violence on the streets of Rockford, but we all watch the news and understand these to be facts. When someone commits a violent crime, we simply as a society cannot tolerate it regardless of age. In no way has Dan O'Shea ever been tasked with acting as a father figure for these young children. And unfortunately by the time a child makes it to the police chief's organization it is already arguable too late, regardless of how young they are. I think everyone can agree the violent crime rate in Rockford Illinois is extremely and dangerously high. I think we can all agree that unfortunately anyone, regardless of age should in fact go off to prison, and that is all we have for them. In my neighborhood a family was just sitting in their living room when it was shot up from the outside by unknown shooters exchanging gun fire. I think if you were in this family, you would agree, prison is where people that shoot at other people belong at. PURPOSE: The purpose of this petition is to show support for Rockford Police Chief Dan O'Shea.  That you want to keep him as police chief and you vote. "Local Democratic Caucus members and City of Rockford Aldermen have expressed that Chief O’Shea must be held accountable for his words." This means that local Democrat alderman have expressed a desire to see Dan O'Shea fired. By signing this petition, if the police chief is replaced that your dissatisfaction will be expressed through your vote in the upcoming elections.

    Travis Stockwell
    United States
    2,926
    Supporters
    • Travis Stockwell United States
    • 2,926 supporters
    • Created Jun 24, 2020
    Petition to Louisiana Senators & Representatives

    Louisiana Supports VAWA!

    The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was first passed with bipartisan support in 1994. This legislation is designed to prevent sexual violence, protect the rights of survivors, and hold perpetrators accountable. It sets baseline laws to protect survivors' rights and fund programs for primary prevention, victim services, and public safety. In the last year, through VAWA funding, the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault (LaFASA) & our member centers have: Served 2,431 survivors Answered 10,800 hotline calls  Trained over 26,000 people in sexual violence prevention & response. We, the undersigned, strongly encourage you to support a robust, inclusive, and well-funded VAWA. Under VAWA, state organizations like LaFASA and the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement allocate funds to communities for prevention and victim service programs. VAWA saves lives in Louisiana!  

    LaFASA
    1,976
    Supporters
    • LaFASA
    • 1,976 supporters
    • Created Mar 2, 2017
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    Petition to Office of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra

    Nagpur Supports Mr. Tukaram Mundhe

    … support him for our great future. this petition will send to CMO to take note of this -Nagpur People wants and supports him.…

    Anonymous Support
    India
    2,880
    Supporters
    • Anonymous Support India
    • 2,880 supporters
    • Created Jun 12, 2020
    Petition to Industry Leaders & Vendors

    The Photography Industry Supports the Fair & Equitable Treatment of Photographers of Color

    … proud founder and host of The Photo Cookout that celebrates and supports Black photographers and…

    Tomayia Colvin
    Houston, TX, United States
    51,290
    Supporters
    • Tomayia Colvin Houston, TX, United States
    • 51,290 supporters
    • Created May 29, 2020
    Petition to Alabama State House, Alabama State Senate, Alabama Governor, Kay Ivey, Mike Rogers, Terri A. Sewell, Mo Brooks, Martha Roby, Adline Clarke, Mike Millican, Allen Treadaway, Randall Shedd, Tom Whatley

    ALABAMA SB196 SUPPORTS ANIMAL ABUSERS

    The Alabama Legislature is considering an Animal Bill that PROVIDES PROTECTION AND SUPPORT for people involved in ABUSING ANIMALS.   ALABAMA SB196 - Presented and supported by Mobile and Baldwin County State Representatives. The bill states: 1. If you report animal abuse YOU can be arrested 2. If animal abuse IS found the investigator can give the abuser "10 business days to CORRECT the alleged abuse." 3. Animals found in dangerous, abusive situations can ONLY be removed after an impound hearing held within 10 DAYS  of the discovery. 4. NO PHOTOS of the crime scene, animals or abuse can be shared with the public. 5. If a charitable organization (animal rescue) helps the abused animal they can be liable for up to 3 times the "projected revenue of the animal" if the animal is sterilized (spay or neutered). A copy of the entire bill can be viewed at:  http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2020RS/PrintFiles/SB196-int.pdf Contact your state reps and tell them to vote NO. ...TO CONTACT: http://www.ccofal.org/alabama/alabamalegislature.htm

    Baldwin County Citizen
    SUMMERDALE, AL, United States
    2,140
    Supporters
    • Baldwin County Citizen SUMMERDALE, AL, United States
    • 2,140 supporters
    • Created Feb 19, 2020
    Petition to Tullahoma School Board

    Tullahoma Supports Its Teachers

    “You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.” Please share! On June 17, two of Tullahoma City School System’s teachers’ jobs will be presented to the school board to determine whether or not they will have the opportunity to continue their career in Tullahoma. Because of one lapse in judgement, their entire career may be nullified. A punishment that does not fit their crime. No one is denying their judgement was right, but majority would agree that they would deserve a chance to right their wrong. Majority may even have done the same if they were placed in their shoes under the same circumstances. A chance to benefit a special needs child. Tullahoma City Schools are blessed to have such amazing educators in our area who would do JUST. ABOUT. ANYTHING. to have their students and/or children of their own, succeed to the highest of expectations! It is clear that a review of policy is needed, however, terminating great teachers is not the answer. Please sign to make it clear to the Tullahoma School Board we as Tullahoma citizens do not believe in firing great teachers! 

    Jaclyn Parks
    Tullahoma, TN, United States
    693
    Supporters
    • Jaclyn Parks Tullahoma, TN, United States
    • 693 supporters
    • Created May 30, 2019
    Petition to John Hickenlooper

    Demand that Colorado Parks and Wildlife actually supports wildlife

    As citizens of Colorado who love this state for its natural beauty, climate, wildlife, and much more, we urge you, Governor Hickenlooper, to investigate Colorado Parks and Wildlife for their recent reprehensible actions against wildlife. We encourage you to demand that they approach wildlife with a more humane outlook and come up with better alternatives than just killing them. Here are a few examples, just from the Front Range, of why we're upset: CPW killed a mother bear and her 2 babies in Apex Park in Golden in September 2017. The mother bear was trying to protect her cubs from the dogs that were brought by the hikers into the wilderness. The hikers reported that the bear was 'aggressive', but no one was injured and the hikers and dogs walked away without incident, which suggests that the bear was not truly being aggressive. Even if the mother was being aggressive, there was absolutely no reason to kill those 2 cubs. CPW states they are investigating the incident, but Jennifer Churchill has stated that nothing has come of it.  As historically seems to happen in this organization, where they protect each other, we are doubtful that there will be any positive outcome or true change from the "investigation" and the officer will still keep his job despite his horrendous actions. CPW then killed a bear in September less than 2 weeks later in North Boulder because it was 'attacking a goat'.  Rather than offer viable options, such as telling the owners of the goats to secure their animals in a proper shelter with electric fencing such that the bear couldn't get to the goats, they killed the bear. Jennifer Churchill stated that the bear would just want to go after more livestock after this, which has not been shown to be true. Bears are opportunists, so they will go after livestock if readily available, but if access to that livestock is blocked, they will move on. They will not then only go seek out livestock.  The current directive by CPW that requires the killing of wildlife after a single depredatory event on livestock is clearly an economic one. It puts a dollar sign on the heads of animals. CPW killed another bear in Colorado Springs in August while attempting to sedate it as it climbed higher and higher in a tree. CPW made no attempt to protect the bear from falling and the bear, therefore, fell to its death. This was a decision that shows clear incompetence by that CPW officer. CPW consistently discourages or refuses to relocate prairie dog colonies.  They did everything they could to encourage extermination of the recent colonies on the landfill in Longmont and the Great Western Flex colony. They have made the permitting process for relocating prairie dogs in the state close to impossible and very hard for advocates to get approved. The application to kill prairie dogs by donating them to the ferrets takes a mere few minutes to fill out, while a relocation permit takes up to 3 days. After submitting a permit for relocation, CPW can take up to a month to approve or deny them, and so much red tape has been created for these permits, that most are denied and the prairie dogs are killed. With the recent colonies, they gave the incorrect information to the people who needed to apply for permits for relocation simply because they did not want to deal with the work of the permitting process necessary to relocate. CPW also kills thousands of prairie dogs each year on our state parks, where visitors actually enjoy seeing this wildlife.  CPW is hoping to kill a large number of mountain lions and bears to increase mule deer populations, whose numbers are still in the hundreds of thousands, as part of a 'study'. Many studies have already shown that killing predators is not successful at increasing number of prey. There has been a large public outcry against this, but again, there has been no response from CPW. There is suspicion that CPW wants to increase mule deer populations simply so they can sell more hunting licenses.  CPW killed many animals that were being properly cared for at Squirrel Creek Animal Rescue in Lakewood in 2016. These rehabilitators were doing amazing work and saving a lot of lives, but CPW got upset that some paperwork wasn't filled out to their liking, so they went in, shut the place down, and killed most of the animals that were being successfully rehabilitated. There have been reports of CPW doing this to other rehabbers as well, rehabbers who have good hearts and are actually saving wildlife. CPW rarely responds to any phone calls, email messages, or social media messages for any public concern. Frankly, they seem to be on a trigger-happy, 'nobody can touch us' type of tirade with their haphazard decisions that result in so many unnecessary deaths. As you will see in reading the comments below, citizens have seen the downhill change in this organization over the years.  Jennifer Churchill gives the same reasoning for every bear that is killed--that they're getting too accustomed to humans and that they're potentially dangerous. Humans have decimated most of our bears' habitat, so yes, bears do have to live around and become accustomed to seeing people, like it or not.  We, however, have to learn to peacefully coexist with bears, and accept that, yes, we will see them in towns and they can look scary, they might dump over some garbage cans, they might go after a pet if they're incredibly hungry, but it is up to the humans to protect their valuables as much as they can, to respect the bears' property as much as we expect them to respect ours, and if humans make a mistake, to not punish the bears. The current officers and commissioners at CPW don't seem to have any true care or concern for our state's wildlife. They were founded by a group of hunters/ranchers who have a conflict of interest because they only value livestock and hunting.  They, therefore, want to take the easy road out whenever an incident arises--that is to kill the animal. We would like to see new faces on the board of CPW, faces that represent the current mindset of Colorado--those who love nature and its wildlife.  We want to see CPW managed by people who can show humanity and understanding toward these creatures who are just trying to eat and survive, people who can think outside of the box to come up with alternatives to killing. We would like to see a change in the directive that requires wildlife be automatically killed after a single depredatory event. We would like to see more mandates that small farms have electric fencing around their property, or other such protective measures, such that depredatory events are less likely. We would like to see less destruction of their habitat. We want to know that our state is at the forefront of handling wildlife with compassion.  We want to become proud of CPW such that they no longer have the reputation of "Colorado Parks and Death".  We value our wildlife and we want to see them thrive.  Thank you, Governor, for taking these lost lives seriously. 

    Shari DePauw
    Boulder, CO, United States
    10,135
    Supporters
    • Shari DePauw Boulder, CO, United States
    • 10,135 supporters
    • Created Sep 12, 2017
    Petition to ASPCA

    Facebook Supports Animal Abuse

    … act of horror was cheered by hordes of Facebook spectators. Facebook supports acts like this EVERY…

    Facebook Against Animal Abuse
    550
    Supporters
    • Facebook Against Animal Abuse
    • 550 supporters
    • Created Feb 6, 2018
    Petition to Hopkinton Residents

    Hopkinton Supports Social Equity

    (This petition is for residents of Hopkinton Massachusetts only) Recent national events have increased our awareness of the subtle and overt racism that exists in this country -- and the need to take action! We are rightfully proud of our wonderful community and our town's public servants for their social equity efforts already undertaken.  We acknowledge this while seeking additional positive movement to help ensure equity for all. At the behest of several regional mayors and town managers, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council developed a set of guiding principles (below) to provide a common social justice framework amongst the towns.  To date, 21 regional towns have pledged approval and other towns are actively considering them.   As signers of this petition, we agree to these principles and request the Hopkinton Select Board affirm and sign the pledge on behalf of Hopkinton demonstrating the town's commitment to social equity. The 5 principles are:   1) We agree that systemic racism is a public health emergency, which must be addressed by strong and decisive actions over the coming weeks and months, and by patient and determined efforts years into the future. We are in this now; we are in it for the long haul. 2) We acknowledge that racial biases and inequities exist, and we are committed to achieving racial equity and identifying disparities in local municipal services, education, health, housing, transportation, jobs, law enforcement, and youth programming, among others. We are committed to providing safe spaces for community input and dialogue around these issues and we will continue to work together to share best practices and to make progress at the local, state, and federal levels. 3) We are committed to instituting an anti-violence approach to policing that prioritizes the safety, health, and well being of all community members, including police officers, as its primary goal. Policing practices that seek to de-escalate conflict, minimize the use of force, avoid false arrest, and establish trust with all residents, especially communities of color, will inform decisions on recruitment, training, promotion, equipment, and tactics.   4) We will work to address racism within law enforcement in a proactive, intentional, and consistent manner.   5) We will make it a priority to take action now as local governments, and we will also advocate for state and federal policies and funding to enable cities and towns to accomplish the goals of this pledge.

    Brad Fenn
    Hopkinton, MA, United States
    529
    Supporters
    • Brad Fenn Hopkinton, MA, United States
    • 529 supporters
    • Created Dec 4, 2020
    Petition to City Of Joliet

    Joliet Supports our Mayor Bob O'Dekirk

    We, the citizens of Joliet Illinois stand beside our Mayor, Bob O'Dekirk.  On 5-31-2020, our great city was under siege by looters, rioters and arsonists who were attempting to interfere with peaceful protesters and our first responders that were working to protect our city from being destroyed. It is the Mayor and City Officials responsibility to do whatever they can in times of crisis and disruption.  We are in a state of emergency and crisis as we continue to be under a curfew due to the lawlessness and behavior of these people. Mayor O'Dekirk has been falsely accused of wrong doing.  When in fact, our good Mayor was physically attacked by a rioter and as the Mayor tried to diffuse the situation, a second rioter jumped on him, knocking him to the ground, punching him in the face and smashing the Mayors face into the pavement. Bob was the first and only Mayor to create diversity and community relations in our City Council to support the minority community. Our Mayor has always respected and worked with minorities and he expanded the number of minority members on the Police & Fire Commission. Bob is a highly decorated police officer, nominated 4 times for Officer of the Year and in 1995 was the recipient of the Martin S. Murrin Labor Award. Bob was an elected officer on our local Fraternal Order of Police Executive Board. We are appalled that a handful of people are unjustly calling for our Mayor to resign due to their own political ambitions. PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION IN SUPPORT OF MAYOR O'DEKIRK...THANK YOU http://chng.it/sS4KnYJV      

    sandy gerrettie
    joliet, IL, United States
    3,322
    Supporters
    • sandy gerrettie joliet, IL, United States
    • 3,322 supporters
    • Created Jun 4, 2020
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