Posted on 02/22/2010 5:27:12 AM PST by palmer
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The ideas continue to flood in, from creating new jobs that add social value, to addressing the crisis in food access and obesity, to reinvigorating our civic life. This broad, grassroots participation and constructive debate demonstrates that whatever happens in Washington, people across the country haven't given up their hope for a better future or a willingness to fight for the change they believe in.
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(Excerpt) Read more at change.org ...
5,139 Votes Create 1.5 Million American Jobs by fixing our crumbling schools.
2,853 Votes Save $2.5 Billion by honoring the Sec. Of Defense's request NOT to build more C-17s
1,606 Votes Establish a U.S. Department of Peacebuilding
1,425 Votes Don't Sell Elections to the Highest Bidder - Enact strong standards of political conduct for corporations
1,151 Votes Freeze Pentagon spending and fund human needs, like health care, education, and jobs.
1,133 Votes Improved Medicare for All
1,074 Votes Provide Legal Protections for Animals Through the Animal Bill of Rights
1,002 Votes GI and Veteran Bill of Rights [note: misleading title, just an antiwar screed]
876 Votes STOP cruel BLM round ups of WILD HORSES
803 Votes Legalize the Medicinal and Recreational Use of Marijuana
800 Votes End the War in Afghanistan
741 Votes Abolish the Death Penalty
723 Votes Increase Federal Good Time Allowances
668 Votes Obama, introduce Esperanto as a Second Language subject in schools.
663 Votes Facing Up to Senior Hunger in America
594 Votes End Chimpanzee Experiments, Pass the Great Ape Protection Act
585 Votes Support the California OneCare Campaign for Single Payer Health Care
584 Votes Return Adult Adoptees the right to their Original Birth Certificates
561 Votes No Farms No Food: Save the Land that Sustains Us
540 Votes Constitutional amendment to explicitly DENY corporations "personhood" status
526 Votes Rehabilitation, not Incarceration - Our kids deserve better. Support the Youth PROMISE Act. Stop the cradle to prison pipeline!
516 Votes Pass LGBT-Inclusive Immigration Reform
497 Votes Support Public Financing of Congressional Elections
494 Votes 21 Doesn't Work. Change the Drinking Age.
483 Votes Peace of the Pie: Fund Human Needs Not War
450 Votes Eliminate All Student Debt
434 Votes Legalize and tax marijuana.
425 Votes Look "Upstream" to Protect Water and Health: Prevent Pollution and Health Harm Before Toxics Enter Our Water
419 Votes Create a nuclear weapon-free world, and eliminate all nuclear weapons by 2045!
416 Votes We Must Change Energy Behavior - An MPG Rating for Your Home [wow, finally a global warming initiative]
414 Votes Remove Marijuana From Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act
405 Votes Good Food For All Kids: A Garden at Every School
404 Votes Rebuild America's Rail System
402 Votes Amend the FedEd Unemployment Program
392 Votes Legalize Marijuana [haven't I seen this before?] 392 Votes Promote Consciousness-Based Education [blah blah rain forests blah blah blah]
376 Votes END MARIJUANA PROHIBITION and tax, regulate, and control it just like alcohol [I'm pretty sure I've seen this before]
374 Votes Five Ways to Solve Global Warming Without Wall Street [finally! Leftist ideas to promote global cooling: kill off fossil fuel industry, send money to African dictators, build useless railroads, ban import of grape from Chile and last but not least McCain style incumbent protection]
366 Votes Weatherize Every Home in America to Create 2-4 Million Jobs
365 Votes 25 Million+, It is time to care about rare disease.
362 Votes Build Career Onramps for People Who Want to Work: Fund Transitional Jobs Opportunities
348 Votes Solar Panels & Wind Turbines on EVERY federal building [i.e., don't put the windmill where there might actually be some wind]
340 Votes Focus job creation on spurring millions of green jobs [endorsed by the National Organization for Employment of Leprechauns]
331 Votes Legalize and Regulate All Drugs
326 Votes Make Marijuana Legal [must not be a drug]
324 Votes Reduce criminal recidivism by providing immediate, paid transitional work for newly released prisoners
322 Votes End the war on drugs
311 Votes Launch a National "Read To Kids" Campaign[blah blah low income blah]
308 Votes Replace NAFTA and the So-Called `Free Trade' Model with a Fair Way Forward (The TRADE Act)
308 Votes Televise the Supreme Court of the United States
305 Votes Give women access: 215 million women want but can't get contraception. Empower these women!
304 Votes Replace the board of the FDA with independent scientists
302 Votes Street Soccer USA: Sport For Social Change [blah homeless blah blah]
296 Votes ban routine use of antibiotics with livestock [feed them marijuana instead]
292 Votes Cut carbon emissions at least 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 [292 votes to destroy the economy, not too shabby]
284 Votes Allow American Farmers to Grow Industrial Hemp [otherwise known as marijuana]
280 Votes Get off coal so we can invest in renewable energy [let's analyze that a bit, get rid of the most economical source of electric power so that we will have less money to spend on, wait, no, that can't be it]
276 Votes Make Broadband a Universal Service [free porn for everyone]
275 Votes The DREAM Act for America in 2010 [illegals]
273 Votes Legalize marijuana [short and sweet]
273 Votes Move to Amend: Constitutional Rights for People, Not for Corporations [I vote for reading the list before entering new ideas]
272 Votes Count Everyone - Queer The Census! [tell your census worker about your private perversions]
265 Votes legalize medical marijuana
259 Votes Improve aid for safe drinking water and sanitation to help the world's most vulnerable people escape poverty and disease
250 Votes Ban the Bag to Reduce Marine Pollution
245 Votes Legalization of Marijuana to Save America [ban the bag but legalize the nickel bag]
240 Votes Job Creation for Poor Americans Through Microloans [here's $20, go start a marijuana business]
240 Votes Ban Breed Specific Legislation
240 Votes Insist on National Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage
231 Votes Stop Stigma of Mental Health Conditions: End White House Policy of Not Sending Condolence Letters to Families of Soldiers Who Commit Suicide
228 Votes Seeds That Grow Hope Pilot Regional Distribution Center
228 Votes Invest in a More Stable World, Invest in Women
221 Votes Hemp for Victory! [and green jobs]
215 Votes Ban Import of Consumer Goods Made By Child Slaves Overseas [except for marijuana]
214 Votes A National Rape Prevention Education Campaign-`There Is No Excuse and Never An Invitation To Rape'.
211 Votes Removing Roadblocks to Voter Registration
208 Votes Fight the Leading Killers of Children - Urge US to Invest in Child Health
207 Votes Holigent REvolution for Economic security, Peace and Sustainability [blah blah mixed-use, live/work, low-carbon, mass-transit blah blah blah blah]
207 Votes The Wilderness Experience And Eco-Literacy: Let's Give A Wild Upgrade To American Education! [actually kind of reasonable]
206 Votes Making the Water Connection: Together, we can re-value and re-invest in America's Clean & Safe Water
206 Votes Recognize Cannabis for the Agricultural Resource it is! [more green jobs]
204 Votes Maximize Recess to Improve Learning and Get Children Moving!
202 Votes FOOD STAMPS FOR HORSES - STOP SLAUGHTER
202 Votes Re-legalize marijuana [marjuana: the drug that causes you to forget to search the list before posting your idea]
197 Votes Send the Tobacco Treaty to the Senate for Ratification [tobacco bad, marijuana good]
190 Votes Pencil And Paper Can Be A Child's (And A Community's) Best Defense Against Self-Perpetuating Poverty
187 Votes Legalize Marijuana [only 187 votes]
179 Votes Soccer leagues with a purpose [Soccer should be played with flair and freedom.]
178 Votes Ending Poverty in America [Our idea is based on a simple geometrical premise - that a Circle encompasses everything in it, forming a bond that strengthens its very existence.]
176 Votes Peace Care: Connect Peace Corps Communities with Health Experts/ Educators to Train Health Workers
173 Votes Repeal the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)
173 Votes Legalize Marijuana and See if the Roof Falls In, It Won't. [but it will still be in this list]
162 Votes Legalize the Recreational Use of Marijuana [and see if the roof falls in]
161 Votes A campaign to put Life ahead of profits
155 Votes Urge the US to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Bush Admin did NOT but Yes, You Still Can! [Bush's fault]
155 Votes Actually let the American people vote on the legalization of marijuana ["I don't know anyone that feels marijuana should be a crime..."]
153 Votes Enlist Creative Communities in the Fight to Improve Maternal Health
149 Votes ACCESSIBLE TRAVEL FOR ALL
148 Votes Increase awareness, education and involvement of young Americans in the fight against global poverty
148 Votes Immigration Equality - Uniting American Families Act - Binational Gay Couples [this affects at least 74 people]
148 Votes Increase consumption of organic foods in low-income communities
147 Votes Provide Healthful School Lunch Options
143 Votes Categorize Crimes Against the Homeless As Hate Crimes at the Federal Level
142 Votes Unite to pass immigration reform this year that "Restores Fairness" to our broken immigration system
140 Votes Promote Pets and Women's Shelters (PAWS) Program to save people and their pets from domestic violence
139 Votes End drug prohibition
137 Votes Fund Challenge Days for every school in the nation.
136 Votes Stop Puppy Mills!
133 Votes Reform Health Care
132 Votes Renew and Rebuild America's Infrastructure for the 21st Century
132 Votes Legalize, tax and regulate marijuana [only one less vote than Reform Health Care]
132 Votes Best Practices for Sustainable Inclusion [essentially, by putting rocks in your recycle bin the city will pay you cash]
131 Votes mplement transparent and secure voting systems
129 Votes Increase Investment in AIDS Vaccine Research
124 Votes stop the drug war at home and abroad
123 Votes Reward the Service of College Graduates with Student Loan Pay.
123 Votes Renewable Energy Grid on Highways and Railroads
121 Votes Change the Sex offender laws, so people can have their life back
120 Votes Practice Transcendental Meditation Everyday
120 Votes End drug prohibition
118 Votes Close dirty coal plants and replace them with renewable energy [get rid of our cheapest source of electrical power so that, never mind]
117 Votes Give All Children Fresh, Healthy, Sustainable School Food
114 Votes Shelter Pets for Victims of Domestic Violence
114 Votes Teach Geographic Information Science (GIS) to Elementary School Students
114 Votes Create Sustainable Communities While Giving Away Green Homes, Training Volunteers 2B Green Professionals& Creating High Paying Green Careers
112 Votes Stabilize US Population at a Sustainable Level [so there's enough marijuana to go around]
112 Votes Make cultivation of hemp legal in USA
111 Votes Legalize, tax and regulate marijuana
108 Votes TLC+: End America's HIV epidemic by better integrating and expanding testing, care and treatment, and prevention
108 Votes Eliminate corporate personhood [eliminate reading the list before entering new ideas]
108 Votes Prevent and Heal the Wounds of Female Survivors of Sexual Abuse
106 Votes Decriminalize sex workers and marijuana
100 Votes Introduce Laws and Regulations for Animal Shelters
100 Votes Build stronger, healthier inner-city neighborhoods by empowering low-income residents to become grassroots changemakers
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And people wonder why the Arabs seek nuclear weapons...
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