please support this petition. thank you. >> to us, this is the opportunity to get the best education. them will enjoy a safe place, and have teachers committed to teaching all the students with enthusiasm. mccaul has turned into a great student with the desire to put her best efforts forward, and the best of all is she really enjoys her school, her teachers, and classmates. she has received attention, understanding, and respect. all her teachers care about her as a person. they encouraged her to continue to learn. she has warned us of the importance of getting ready for college. before she came here, nicole was never enthusiastic about doing her homework. we used to have to sit next to her to get it done she does it herself -- to get it done. on june 14, she has finished her a summer reading. she loves to read now. she is surrounded by classmates who are doing the same thing to a encourage each other. the school has created a community where they encourage each other to love learning. before we knew about the poss

their petition in any form. congress needs to appoint an independent board of approximately 10 to 20 individuals within an evenly distributed mix of predominantly federal and historic nonfederal tribal members with expertise in various academic and research areas. after review -- after review of petitioning tribes, the ones who meet one or more of the following criteria should be moved to the front of the line for consideration. all tribes who are firmly denied recognition but can show an association with any of the nine criteria should be evaluated. and these nine criteria all attending indian boarding school, having a state recognized or a mission, reservation or mission lands, language retention. bia or oia funded schooling community during the era. pre-1970 state recognition. prohibition from area black and white schools. like most tribes we attended a third school session for native americans. we were not allowed to attend the black or the white school. long standing petitions for federal recognition, which

we got over 150 democrats to sign the petition. that's growing. we would like to have republicans come on board. we thought that they supported the idea that voters have a right to know, that they want to end the secret money. it turns out not to be the case. they like a system where the money remains secret. it's not good for our democracy and i hope they'll change their mind. i know we'll win this in the long run. the question is when. >> eliot: i hope you're right about winning in the long run. the secrecy is a terrible consequence. switching gears all this would change if the democrats take back the house come november. you knowhow do you assess the land skype right now? what is the likelihood that the democrats and your party will take back the house of representatives? >> well, here is the situation. we will pick up seats. we will win seats. right now we believe that the projections are going to pick up somewhere between 10 and 15 seats and growing. the magic number we need to get to is 25. and if the president not only wins, but does win wi

sometimes the petitions work.ince a basketball team to match a $25 million contract as much as one anchor on this network would like to try and convince them to. the latest tool for activists is the internet and it's allowing them to organize and spread their message like never before. joining the panel now is the man who is making those things possible, all of them, ben radtray, founder of change.org, one of "time" magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. it's like i can feel the influential vibes. >> my mom would love that one. >> we'll put it on the dvd and send it to you. ben, tell us a little bit about -- e we talk about activist movements in the living human world and the digital space. >> machines. >> machines. i wonder from your perspective, getting folks to sign a petition online is one thing. translating that into real action with real consequences is another. tell us how you make that jump. i mean, you guys have been behind a few of some really successful movements including the boy scouts t

the board of vacation showed grant the petition, subject to the requirements set forth by law. president yee: some public speakers have signed up for this. is there anybody against this that signed up for this? there are about 20 of you that it seems like have signed up. i know we had extensive discussion at the committee meeting level. i would like to give this group about -- not about. no more than 15 minutes. you can do it anyway you want. self monitor. if you finish before 15 minutes, we would appreciate that. >> good evening. my name is caroline gifford, and i and the principle of the potential -- principal of the potential kipp high school in san francisco. i would like to thank the many students, parents, and teachers who are here to show their support, and the impact kipp has had a on their lives. i began teaching in washington, d.c., and ninth grade, at a school that taught disadvantaged students. i recently taught in east san jose. this past year, i served on the administrative team, where the focus has been working specifically with our struggling ninth graders to im

we did not petition congress to circumvent the administrative process. people that only support tribal recognition through the singular process are people who support a process your general accounting office determined to be broken 11 years ago. there have been many hearings, but today i find my people are in the same process with the same issues, in the same offices. the only difference is this time the broken process will be used to determine this tribe's sovereign future. even if we receive a positive finding from the ofa, that does not mean we'll be federally recognized. the last tribe with a positive finding was turned down by interior. after generations who lived through andrew jackson's removal policies, racial eradication, litigation for reidentification,

i am happy to support the petition. commissioner wynns: i will not be supporting this chart to this evening. i have to say that i am disappointed in the recommendation from the staff, because it does not have any analysis of the high school enrollment projections. a few years ago, in another high school charger -- san francisco has a disproportionate number of high-school charters, compared to any other district in the country. we have had, i think, predatory high school development. our high schools have been doing quite well, particularly on a completely un-level playing field. a couple of times ago, when a high-school charterer came in front of us, i propose an amendment, saying that if the board voted to approve this charter, they would vote to close a comprehensive high school. as the school was built up, we knew the in a moment would go down. we ought to say that if you are for this, you are for closing commission or thurgood marshall, because that is the effect. the playing field is not level, particularly in wha

it's petition.whitehouse.gov the idea is anyone can petition anything.se will respond to your petition. in september of last year, this petition popped up on this white house website. it says quote, we petition the obama administration to protect coal ash recycling by promptly enacting disposal -- this was the devastating result of a coal ash spill that took place in eastern tennessee in 2008. more than a billion gallons of sludge buried neighborhoods after a retaining pond gave way. it was the largest environmental disaster of its kind in u.s. history. to classify it as hazardous waste. now this petition has popped up saying don't classify coal ash as hazardous waste. 5,000 signatures in 30 days. by meeting that, it earned a response from the white house. gotten a response from somebody in the epa office of solid waste and emergency response. if you're sitting in the white house or at the epa maybe you're thinking look at all that grassroots regular folks man on the street support for coal ash out there. maybe we ought to rethink this policy. in the unl

so far, the online petition has been signed by 34 hundred people.t calls for the governor to start over, and replace everyone in the state agency with people who will work for the consumer: "the regulators are responsible and we who sign this petition know it's their job to protect us" we contacted the maryland public service commision...and this was their response:"the governor may only removeea commissioner during his or her term for incompetence or miscon" misconduct"you can check out the petition yourself just go to our web site fox baltimore.com/ newslinks. janice park...fox45 news late edition. shops... near... the water main break... downtown ... are ...suffering significantly. some nearby restaurants ... are offeeing ...'water main specials'... to entice customers..../but... with only ...foot traffic... allowed on two blocks of light street.../ business... has been reduced. (ann pascale-victor pascale custom tailors)"it's effected by the fact people just cannot get down here." here." (kirby)"once the businesses are open we will be back on tr

they started an online petition at www.change.org .over 100,000 signatures. tomorrow they'll present those signatures to the commission on presidential debates. tonight we're excited to have emma sammi and elena in in "the war room." they're coming from washington. welcome to you all. >> thank you. >> sammi, where did you get the idea to do this? >> we all go to the same school, and in this school there is a small community called the civics and government group or cgi for short. the teachers teach us about the women's right movement and other movements for reform. through that it was brought to our attention that there had not been a woman debate moderator for 20 years. we were shocked and we decided to write a petition to change that. >> jennifer: that is so great. elena, what do you think that a woman moderator brings to the table that a male moderator doesn't? >> i think she'll bring a whole new perspective to the debates and ask questions about like carole was saying before, reproductive rights, contraception and stuff like that,

far, the online petition has been signed by 34 hundred people.rself by going to our web site fox baltimore dot com slash newslinks. we did talk with the public service commission about this petition to have them all fired.coming up next half hour... they're response.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. a firefighter is recovering this morning, after falling through a floor... while responding to a fire in annapol. annapolis.lightning from dangerous storms... sparked the flames.it happened on coventry place near coachway road.the owner of the home called emergency officials... saying his house was filled with smoke.the firefighter fell through thh floor, while trying to put it out.we're told the firefighter is now okay. lightning is also to blame for a house fire on clifton avenue in arnold.it started just after 5:30 last night.after the strike... smoke was billowing from the roof by the time firefighters arrived.no one was hurt. a man charged with killing his estranged wife and her 11-year-old son is due in a montgomery county courtroom tod.

"the regulators are responsible and we who sign this petition know it's their job to protect us" us"so far, the online &ppetition has been signed by 3 hundred people. you can check it out yourself by going to our web site fox baltimore dot com slash newslinks. we did talk with the public servicc commission about this petition to have them all fired.coming up next half hour... they're response.i'm pegan gilliland, fox45 morning news. last night's storms caused some scary moments for drivers. driverssthis is a look at route 50 near the bay bridge. you can see it's backed up... after being shut down to let the storms pass. for the second time ... this montt... a montgomery county "ride-on" bus catthes fire. this is the aftermath in silver spring. the driver saw flickering lights on the dashboard then smelled smoke.no passengers hurt.it's believed to be an eleetrical fire, buu it's still under investigation. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake announces new funding for thh "citi-watch" program. a grant from "the abell foundation" will create a database for security allowing police to quickly id

the initial petition was returned in a cardboard box with i guess some of the data. most of the data, and a letter that we would start again, so now we have roughly 144 banker boxes, and we're -- after sitting in ready for active consideration for a number of years, we finally got moved in december at christmas. >> so what did they do for you december in christmas? >> they moved us to active consideration. >> active consideration. >> at that point in time we had probably in house written four petitions. any time a finding comes out on a tribe, or any time a court case is initiated by a petitioner, it changes something, and we are required to respond to the change because our petition will not be judged on their current regulation. >> did you file any legal action during 1976 to 2011? >> no. we -- we haven't filed any court cases. it's very expensive to go to court, and we are a very poor tribe. >> well, isn't this also very expensive? >> this was very expensive. in the case of moving us to active consideration we had been very fortunate that administration for native

in 1915, 15 women petitioned and were denied. in a letter to harvard graduate walter lippmann, then of the new republic, president lowell said, quote, harvard is one of the very few institutions for men alone, and our -- and in our opinion had better remain so. the law school was successful but, quote, the admission of women might affect it injuriously. it should be noted in 1915 women were still a small minority in the legal profession, but the number of female lawyers was growing exponentially. major law schools were opened to women by 1930. the harvard law school admitted its first women in 1950. in 1893 the harvard divinity school denied the petition of its alumni to admit women. it was only open to women for graduate study in 1955. parenthetically 1955 was the first year that women were granted access to morning services at appleton chapel. the business school worked out an arrangement with radcliffe in the late 1930s to build a program in business administration. again, with a radcliffe degree. beginning in 1959 graduates o

a petition with 60 signatures of support. 20 letters of opposition. the project sponsor will provide response to the neighborhood concerns in their presentation. the planning department staff is recommending that the proposed project be approved with conditions. this concludes my presentation. vice president wu: thank you. project sponsor? >> good afternoon, commissioners. we have been working on this conditional use. they are in escrow to buy this property. if this is approved, they plan to conclude the purchase and open their own restaurant. i would like to recap the little bit about the restaurant. the support from the neighborhood has been considerable. we have read every letter of concerns. they mostly deal with parking, malaise. we will address all of those. the support has been very strong. the petition is 60 merchants in the district. there are about 80 in the district. it was universal support from the merchants. we got a letter from the person who was the last president of the merchants association. and one from the pacific heights residents

especially considering the many americans with the two petitions combind, over 177,000 signatures.o many americans agree that it's important to have a woman out there. the fact that they not only rejected us but all of those americans, that surprises and disappoints me. >> and does leave a bad taste in your mouth? >> definitely. >> we tried hard to get our voices heard and a lot of people are backing us up and that is to help and inform the american people. >> and what now? where do you go from here? >> is any we're trying to contact the democratic and republican commissions, we havena section petition for and getting people to sign up for that. and it's all about raising awareness to make people, just raising attention for this issue. and knowing that it's becoming a prominent issue in the political realm right now and that women need to have their voices heard. >> and there are confident journalists out. there that is for sure. >> absolutely. >> and thank you, appreciate it and best of uck. >> thank you. >> sue. >> and a great job, ladies. we want to keep you up to date on the st

>> reporter: she started a video blog and online petition asking "17" magazine to include at least one unaltered photo spread each month, writing, i want to see regular girls that look like me. >> it shows girls that there are more than one types of beauty. >> reporter: critics say when it comes to being bombarded with glamorous photos in magazines and ads teenagers are especially vulnerable. >> they compare themselves to the images they see when they're forming their self-esteem and sense of who they'll be in the world, and it gives them an unrealistic image to live up to. >> reporter: julia's crusade struck a nerve with supporters posting their own videos online. >> it's harmful on so many levels. >> reporter: and flocking to the petition. 84,000 signatures in all. this month the magazine announced a body image peace treaty. reaffirming its commitment to never change girls' body or face shapes but saying the magazine will continue to retouch minor imperfections like stray hairs and pimples. >> started as just a petition and i feel like we've grown into a whole movement. >> reporter:

we are the second longest petition drive in the nation. only the lumbee in north carolina have petitioned longer. our initial attempt at federal recognition begin in the early 1900s with her mask immediate temp to be admitted to the miller role. with the numerous appeals through bar, transit scott huff congressional bills and a federal lawsuit thrown out on a statute of limitations are to become weekly understand that the current process is only open to those with millions of dollars. we have children throughout our loan journey, not to ally ourselves with numerous gaming suitors. some may call this ignorant to the realities of the process. we choose to call it what it is, integrity. they need to align with the gaming backers compromises every aspect of the process and makes it completely illegitimate. the only avenue for defining the federal to federal relationship is be the united states congress. ofa has no place in this process and integrity of the leadership in this organization is not something that can be fixed. lawsuits like ofa pr

. >> reporter: a big box of petitions was delivered to elections headquarters just after noon monday, a four-month effort carried out by hundreds of volunteers in every ward of the district all to put an end to corporate influence in city government. >> we've been out there sweating every saturday, sunday, tuesday night for a couple months now and really the numbers started pouring in because people just want to grab this petition right out of your hands. they're so eager to be able to speak as the voters. >> reporter: initiative 70 is a broad brush approach to halting corporate contributions. >> council members who received that benefit haven't really been eager to close that loophole. >> reporter: organizers of this effort say taking an all out ban to the voters came after little action by the city council to step in and reform campaign donation rules. >> let's be very clear. the people of the district of columbia are becoming increasingly more dissatisfied and disillusioned with the status of local politics and to put it quite bluntly, people want to see an end to public elected of

and republicans alike, should have that same opportunity, which is why we just filed a discharge petition in the house of representatives and we're encouraging all members, democrats and republicans, who believe that voters have a right to know who is financing these elections to sign that very simple measure and let us have a vote on it in the house. again, we had 33 votes on repealing important patient protections. let's have one vote on allowing voters the right to know who is financing these campaigns through secret donations and trying to rig the rules. there was a time when republicans favored disclosure and i do think it's worth just pointing out what mitch mcconnell said not that long ago when he was asked by tim russert on "meet the press" and here's what he said. "republicans are in favor of disclosure. if you're going to do that and senate voted to do that and i'm prepared to go down that road, then it needs to be meaningful disclosure." we need to have real disclosure and so what we thought to do was broaden disclosure so you can include the major political players in america.

the next day, a friend and myself launched a petition called "boycott rush." by the end of that day, and this was one of many efforts going on across the country but by the end of the next day, sponsors were already starting to drop from his program. [ applause ] and by the end of 24 hours, we had over 100,000 signatures on that petition. and the pace of advertisers dropping didn't slow, it quickened, until, as terry said, he literally was on his flagship station in new york he was having to play dead air time. even the public service announcements that are free wouldn't play on his air waves. [ cheers and applause ] now, rush tries to play this off like it's no big deal, but you will notice that he still talks about it a lot. he still, one of the radio stations that carries his program on only a few networks and is publicly traded had to come out and give their financial results. they said they have lost millions because of carrying rush limbaugh. the main carrier of the limbaugh program, which carries him on many other stations is not publicly traded so we d

there are 24 states that have provisions in their constitution for initiative petitions where the voters can just take control. they come up with changes in the law in this case what they did was redistricting and the primaries. they get the signatures. they run a campaign and they change the laws. the other part of it, i'm not going to ask how many of you have been to a meeting where your member of congress or house and senate member was present, but it's important at the state legislative level a lot of states don't have an initiative they have ref ren da where the state legislature can be pressured to submit the issue to a voters. in addition when your member of congress, house and senate comes to meet with constituents you ought to be there. one of the things i've said that senator so and so i'm not going to name any name ors a house member, if you vote 95% of the time with your party as a great many do, then you don't belong in congress. you're obviously not representing us. we aren't all in agreement 95% of the time. you say to house members we within the to support a provision tha

today there are about 8,000 petitions for tertiary, have cases hear. they hear about 1 out of 100, 70, 80 cases a year. what was the work load then? >> there wasn't that many more cases they were hearing then, but the petitions for tert were much lower. i think when roosevelt proposed the packing scheme, there were 890 petitions in the prior year and only 100 and something had been granted. that was one of his grounds for complaint against the court, that they didn't have enough energy to hear more cases. we have a much greater

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anon dot org has launched a petition garnering more than two thousand signatures calling on running to speak out and put an end to outsourcing i'm joined now by one of the workers as in saddam's freeport factor factory cheryl render aranda who's joined the campaign calling on mitt romney's stand up for american jobs sure a welcome thank you great talking with the first of all i mentioned the. the what he called petition but you also have a very active facebook page how people find that they have some kinder save our jobs save our jobs on facebook right now so what's it like to be a worker to play by the rules to do what you're told and then be informed that an outside company is taking your job away from you it really doesn't do a whole lot for your morale and i can make it's like a slap in the faced because we've dedicated our lives to be switches and to be company and to have it just kind of taken out from underneath us and people's lives just uploaded in an economy that is you know we are today it's really hard i understand that you're not just it's not just that they're shutting do

so far, the online petition has been signed by 34 hundred people.t calls for the agency with people who will 3 work for the consumer: "it'ssnot acceptable anymore, to hope the next storm won't be bd or peeco will do their job, fix it, the only person can change the psc is the governor and the governor is the only one thht can change pepco" we connacted the maryland public service commision...and this as their response:"the governor may only remove a commissioner during his or her term for incompetence or misson" misconducc"you can check out the petition yourself just go to our web site fox &pbaltimore.com/ newslinks. newslinks..anice park...fox45 news at ten. we asked: do... you think... the... maryland public service commission... is... working innáyourá best in? interest? here's... our facebook page.../.a ... lot... of you... have something to say... whenn.. power problems ...come up.../most ... of... you... say no.../ join... the discussion... by going to... facebook dot com.../ slash fox-baltimore new... tonight.../the... supreme court... overtu

sign a petition. hand deliver it to the governors. shame we have to do this but there is no other way. we hope you will take the time to signed petition. we hope dr. a below will sign it. >> no i'm not signing it. >> bill: more mad ms. in san francisco. cigarettes no, pot? yes? we will details. rape of a teenage girl where the victim is now in trouble. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. >> bill: san francisco, the secular city on the hill. if you want to know what the committed left is trying to do that's the place to look. two recent controversies, cigarettes no, pot okay. second proposal to tax drivers on how many miles they travel by installing a mandatory g.p.s. in all san francisco cars. >> do you really need to do g.p.s.? >> well, you know, the g.p.s. thing i think is made up to give people a sense. if you want people to pay a tax on it, it has to be completely understandingable, it has to be accurate so people think it's fair. one way to do that which we know works, people jog with g.p.s. watches. clearly you could do it

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