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61. Justice for Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith in Montgomery, Alabama 
May 8, 2005
Petition for Pardon
We are circulating a petition to have criminal records permanently removed on three women that were illegaly arrested, jailed, charged, and fined for refusing to give up there seats on a city bus and stand so white riders could sit. Those women were Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith-Ware, and Rosa Parks. Ms. Colvin and Mrs. Smith- were also involved in the civil rights case, Browder vs. Gayle, the case that desegregated buses in Montgomery, Al. in 1956. Mrs. Parks arrest helped cement black riders to begin the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
In 1900, a Montgomery city ordinance (overturned) December 21, 1956 was passed to segregate passengers by race. Conductors were given the power to assign seats to accomplish that purpose, however, no passengers would be required to move or give up their seat and stand if the bus was crowded and no other seats were available.
Ms.Colvin, Ms. Smith and Mrs. Parks were seating in the section reserved for colored passengers when they were told by white bus drivers to give up their seats for white passengers. They refused and were arrested. They were clearly within their rights and their actions sparked a 381-day boycott of Montgomery's City Line buses. Research from my documentary about the legal protest: Rivers of Change: The Story of Five Unheralded Women and Their Struggle for Justice and Dignity in Montgomery© revealed that white bus drivers broke the law by having those women arrested.
After their arrest, Ms. Colvin, and Ms. Smith joined Mrs. Aurelia Browder and Mrs. Sue McDonald as plaintiffs in federal court to challenge the constitutionality of segregated seating on city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, and America. They were represented by Montgomery Improvement Association lawyers, Charles Langford and Fred Gray, Sr. The case was a direct attack on Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling of 1896, which empowered states to enact racial segregation ordinances. A 3 judge federal panel ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, citing that Montgomery and Alabama's segregation laws violated their 14th amendment rights of "due process and equal justice under the law". The Supreme Court upheld the ruling of the federal court in December 1956 and totally reversed the Plessy ruling of 1896. It was the victory of the plaintiffs (legal protest) aided by the boycott (social protest) that brought an end to the boycott and segregated seating. Because of a legal technicality, Mrs. Parks was not a plaintiff in the federal civil rights lawsuit.
The world knows of Dr. Martin Luther King and Mrs. Parks, but few know about the people that propelled them to such fame and recognition.
We are not asking the Mayor to forgive them for their actions-we honor them for taking a stand, what we are asking for is that he recognize that the
drivers who committed the criminal acts against the women.
62. Send Michael Moore to France
November 09, 2004
Michael Moore is poisoning the US with his propaganda and needs to leave.
He has no respect for our president or our troops.
Invader Zim may be loved by many people, but I absoulty despise this reatarded show, a friend of mine named Easterling44 and I have both pointed out influence of drugs and terrorism on this show, it is quiet obvious that the show put's bad ideas into kids heads and needs to go!
I understand that Zim is already cancelled, but I WOULD LIKE TO SHUT UP ALL PRO-ZIM PETITIONS! Thats final!
64. Vinessa's Law, Stop the Employment of Undocumented Immigrants
Vinessa Hoera was a 23 year old single mother, who was kidnapped on her way to pick up her 5 year old son Xaviah at daycare. Her new Toyota was found in flames 12 hours later but there was no sign of Vinessa.
Hundreds of volunteers, family, friends, police and trained dogs searched for weeks but came up empty. After 6 weeks, police arrested a co-worker, an undocumented immigrant, who worked with her for almost 2 years and charged him with arson.
It is confirmed that after 2 weeks in jail Vinessa's murderer called her father and confessed to killing Vinessa and dumping her body in the woods not far from where she worked.
After a weeks search police found Vinessa's body, she had been raped, beated and murdered. The co-worker has confessed to murder in the 1st degree, murder in the 2nd degree and 3rd degree arson.
CURRENT UPDATE:
The confessed murderer accepted a plea bargin set up with the families consent offering chavez 22 years to life for a full confession to all charges which took place on feb 15th, the details of chavez's actions were revealed for the first time to the horror of family and friends who attended. chavez was emotionless, monotone in voice and spoke very matter of factly of actions as if they meant nothing. Chavez was sentenced to 22 years to life on march 15th 2005 for the rape and murder of Vinessa Hoera, after about 40 years he will be sent to a holding prison awaiting deportation we are assured.
There are laws in our country stating that hiring an illegal immigrant is a federal offense, yet millions upon millions of them enter our country each year and find gainful employment everyday, taking jobs away from hard working, tax paying americans.
Currently our financial resources are being depleted because we have so many undocumented immigrants drawing from the programs designed to help the needy, but not enough workers replenishing those financial resourses thru their tax dollars. Our schools, medical facilities, neighborhoods and prisons are overwhelmed with the influx of undocumented immigrants, who are very active in the work force but send their tax free money home to their countries, leaving the legally employed taxpayers to foot the bill.
Homeland security is not equipped to handle the 125 million a year who sneak into America illegally every year, Vinessa's Law would give local law enforcment the authority to act on the behalf of homeland security and enforce the undocumented immigrantion employment laws by fining the employer. How will this help our tax dollars? Fines for the first offense can be up to $3000 for each employed undocumented immigrant. A 2nd offense is up to $10,000 per emplyed undocumented immigrant and a third offense the government would seize the business.
Any immigrants who were caught up in the law would be granted easier access to getting the proper credentials to become an active part of our society.
Those who refuse to be come legally employed and pay our tax dollars would be deported.
65. Gays in America!
Feb 17, 2004
Many places in this country don't allow gay marriages. It's not a big deal. People are living the way they wanna live! Isnt that freedom!?!?! I thought we lived in the United States?? So why is the government banning gay marriages ? That isnt freedom!! Thats Descrimination! Thats like saying people of opposite races cannot wed.
Its all the same! We are all our own person! Why should the government be able to descriminate against homosexuals? It goes against what the United States really stands for. They havent given us the same rights as everyone else. They are singling us out. And destroying our legal rights as Americans. We have freedom of religion. There is no freedom of sexuality.
If someone decides to choose the the path of being a homosexual it makes them No different then anyother person walking the streets today. A persons choice of sexuallity is NO ONES business but their own.
They should be the ones to choose whom they spend the rest of thier life with.
We the undersigned believe petitions to be gay and stupid. We also are fully aware of the fact that we are signing a petition to show petitions are gay. BUT WE DONT CARE.
67. Petition to get Date listed included on Petitions at Gopetition.com
Petitions here do not include the date they were listed. It's hard to tell if a petition is still worth signing. Example. I saw a petition asking for X-Men: Evolution to return to WB. WB is currently airing a new seasion on Saterday Mornings. Either this person did not know this, or posted it when the pervious season quit airing reruns to show some new stuff for ratings untill the new fall season came around.
Without a date the petition was created you cant always tell these things.
this is a petition to ban petitions...... this is outta control
No More Petitions! No More Petitions!
I think this speaks for itself.
71. Abolish Stupid Forum Members and Their Stupid Petitions.
This petition is in the hopes of ending all stupid petitions. Spamming a petition that will never be looked at by anyone important on a forum is pathetic. Equally so, is petitioning against such petitions and idiocy, but if I don't stand up against acts like this, when will it end? It needs to end now. Take a stand, where there is a will, there is a way.
72. The Anti Dispose of Rocket Power Petition
People have been flaming RP saving petitions because of stupid reasons, we can identify them as Unknow, Donny Jones, William and others which SHALL NOT BE MENTIONED because they are such sorry idiots. LONG LIVE ROCKET POWER!!!
Are you tired of people making petitions for soap opera stars? Knowing that nothing will become of it?
74. SAVE INVADER ZIM AND HIS FANS!
Invader ZIM must not be cancelled.
It's come to the attention of many that a much loved show is being cancelled. Invader ZIM. This funny, twisted, and popular cartoon will be cancelled UNLESS the good people of the world stops Nickolodeon from doing doing it.
If we all sign Petitions and write complaint letters to Nickolodeon I'm sure we can convience them to save ZIM. While saving Invader ZIM you'd also be saving his fans. Who knows what some people would do with out the smart and halarious cartoon, Invader ZIM. So please sign this and SAVE ZIM!!!
75. Talat Butt
Appeal for International petitions and solidarity.
We, Kashmiri and Pakistani workers at Baltic star are experiencing racism and discrimination at the Boat which has been plying the rout between Stockholm and Mariehamn for the last 30 years. We are being super-exploited by the Boat management which has put us on a work scheme that is practically destroying our health irreversably. We are treated differently from Swedish workers at the Boat who have off duty between their schedules and who are also allowed pauses during working hours.
We are on a work scheme designed to make us work seven days a week, thirty days a month for three consecutive months without a pause. During this period, we are subjected to backbreaking menial jobs for 10.6 hours, working 5.3 hours without any pause. This is in violation of Swedish labour laws that stipulate that we are entitled to 15 minutes rest after every two hours of work (see attached press release).
We are appealing for urgent International help and solidarity. We are asking workers around the world, Trade Unions, political parties, anti-racist organisations, student and youth groups, activists, Internationalists and sympathisers to help us put pressure on the Baltic Boat management to follow Swedish and International labour laws and stop destroying our health through an impossible work routine. Our main demands are as follows:
A two week break after every two weeks of work like other Swedish workers.
A 15 minute break after every two hours of work in accordance with Swedish labour laws.
An immediate end to racism and discrimination at the boat by being treated like other Swedish workers doing similar jobs like us.
A Swedish Work Permit once the Boat acquires a Swedish flag.
Petitions can be sent directly to:
Baltic Star
Fax :- +46-8-100741
Tele : +46-8-4562200
Stockholm SEKO Seamen Union
Fax: +46-8-4116940
Email: dennis.sirvio.sk8@seko.se
Tele :- +46-8-58034351
Mobil:- +46-70-5777190
HQ SEKO Seamen union
Fax:- +46-31-429501
Email : sjofolk.goteborg@seko.se
Tele : +46-31-429420
76. A Call for the development of StarSiege 2
This is the 3rd petition calling for the development and release of Sierra/Dynamix's StarSiege 2, the sequel to the highly popular StarSiege game. The first petition, started in February of 2000, generated over 570 votes, the second petition has so far generated over 270. As the original game becomes older and is threatened by more advanced graphics and coding from its competitors, it continues to hold a loyal audience as well as maintain its position as one of the greatest multiplayer combat sims ever created.
Sierra, Inc., the parent company of the game's developer, Dynamix, has chosen not to create a sequel to this game. Instead it has chosen to embark in other game areas such as Champion Bull Riders, Trophy Bass Fishing and Tribes 2.
Tribes 2's predecessor, Tribes was released in conjunction with StarSiege. Each game sold approximately the same number of units, yet Tribes was chosen for sequel development, due to the fact that it was perceived as being so much more popular. Unfortunately, the Tribes code was so easy to copy, that there were literally thousands of copies distributed and never paid for - leading to the increased popularity of the game.
StarSiege is not capable of being copied in this manner and as such was limited to a customer base that actually was required to buy the game to enjoy it to it's fullest extent. Something that has lead to its perceived demise by corporate.