• SUPPORT THE COALITION FOR PAROLE JUSTICE, END LIFETIME AND LONGTERM PAROLE
    It is past time to make more efficient use of Pennsylvania’s supervision resources by setting up low-risk parolees for continued success, not failure. Please support common-sense parole reform by signing on to this proposal. Only organizations may sign on... 
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  • STOP THE TERROR AGAINST BLACK FARMERS IN COLORADO — INVESTIGATE EL PASO COUNTY SHERIFF NOW
    Why This Matters — to Colorado and the NationCW and Nicole Mallery of Freedom Acres Ranch are not just farmers.  They are not just landowners.  They are not just another rural family trying to survive against the odds. CW and Nicole are United States Marine Corps veterans, community advocates, youth mentors, agricultural educators, food-access leaders, and land stewards who have dedicated their lives to feeding families across Colorado — from Yoder to Denver to Colorado Springs. They rebuilt their lives after losing everything in a hurricane, moved across the country, and planted roots in Colorado with nothing but hard work, resilience, and a belief that Farmers Save Lives. They stepped onto their land with a mission:  To grow food.  To teach youth.  To heal soil.  To create opportunity.  To serve their community. And instead of honor or protection, they have faced years of reported harassment, intimidation, racial targeting, and violence. When farmers like the Mallerys — veterans, community builders, and providers — are targeted, the foundation of our food system is threatened. When their animals are harmed and their reports go unanswered, justice is not just delayed — it is denied. When restraining orders go unenforced and dangers go unchecked, public safety collapses. When those sworn to protect the community instead become the focus of civil rights concerns and allegations of misconduct, every resident becomes vulnerable. What CW and Nicole are enduring is happening on American soil — on land they legally own, land they farm, land they steward, land they sacrificed to build. And the nation has now seen it. Their story has been documented in national press, including the major exposé “Get Out: Black Colorado Ranchers Face Domestic Terrorism” by award-winning journalist Kaia Shivers. And their fight is now being broadcast to millions through Jordan Peele’s docuseries High Horse: The Black Cowboy, exposing to the world what has been happening behind closed doors in El Paso County. If this can happen to Black farmers in Colorado —  Farmers who are veterans, who are documented, who have national visibility, who feed the state and teach its children —  then it can happen to any Black farmer, anywhere in America. If this can happen in broad daylight —  with evidence, witnesses, media coverage, and now a major docuseries —  it raises the alarming truth:  What happens to Black landowners when no cameras are rolling? This is why we must act.  Because this is not just a Colorado issue.  This is an agricultural issue.  A land issue.  A racial justice issue.  A civil rights issue.  A national issue. Protecting CW and Nicole Mallery is not just about safeguarding two farmers — it is about defending the future of Black land ownership, Black food sovereignty, and Black agricultural legacy in America. Silence is not an option.  Inaction is not neutrality.  This is our moment to stand up. What We Are DemandingWe call for immediate, sweeping action: 1. State and Federal Oversight: A full, independent investigation into the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. 2. Thorough Investigation Into All Harmed or Stolen Animals: Dogs. Cows. Livestock. Working animals.  Every case deserves justice. 3. Protection for CW & Nicole Mallery and All Farmers Facing Threats: Farmers should not fear violence, retaliation, or the sheriff’s department. 4. Enforcement of Restraining Orders: Violators must be held accountable — not protected. 5. Review of Racial Bias and Discriminatory Policing Practices: Black farmers deserve equal protection under the law. 6. Independent Civilian Oversight: The sheriff’s office cannot investigate itself. Farmers Deserve Safety. Farmers Deserve Peace. Farmers Deserve Justice.CW and Nicole’s animals — their dogs, cows, and livestock who protect their ranch — deserve to live safely, without being poisoned, stolen, or run over with impunity. This is not just about agriculture.  This is about civil rights, land rights, and basic human rights. We Need Your VoiceYour signature is not just a name.  It is a stand against abuse.  A stand against racism.  A stand for justice.  A stand for CW & Nicole Mallery, Freedom Acres Ranch, their animals, and their right to farm and live in peace. Silence empowers oppression.  Community action stops it. Sign today.  Share widely.  Help bring national attention and federal accountability to a crisis that has gone unchecked for far too long. Protect CW & Nicole Mallery. Protect Freedom Acres Ranch. Protect Black farmers. Protect the animals who protect them. Protect the land that sustains us all.
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  • Revoke the Permit for the ICE Detention Facility in Portland
    Please sign this petition to state your opposition to the ICE Detention Center in Portland, Oregon. By signing, you let the City Council and mayor know that you do not approve of the permission they granted for ICE to operate within city limits. Your signature will add your support to our collective demand to revoke the permit for ICE to operate within city limits, and require the closure of the ICE Detention Center in Portland, Oregon. This is important because the operation of this center violates the targeted people's human rights. People who are picked up by ICE are taken to this transport facility, and then trafficked across state lines without information regarding where they are going or how long. Meanwhile, profits are made by private individuals at every step. Together, we can take a stand against these human rights violations and end the operation of ICE in Portland, Oregon.
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    Created by Susan Anglada Bartley
  • Black Mental Health Has ALWAYS BEEN Incarcerated. Even When It's A Child.
    Mental health for Black people can't continue to be policed, criminalized and/or incarcerated. Especially not when they are allowing white men to freely surrender from spaces after they have knowingly just murdered citizens who happened to be Black and are taken on a joy ride to get food just to add insult to injury or able to freely walk across state lines with assault weapons and murder citizens who happen to be Black and we can go on. So what about people like Reginald Johnson who didn't commit the crime at all? Who didn't take a plea because he wasn't guilty? Where is his reprieve? Today he is still on parole. He is on his 3rd marriage. Stability is a thing he fights for every single day because at any given moment he believes that it can be taken away from him because all of his life it has. Doesn't he deserve his FREEDOM? Let's help him secure that. Reginald can't get 27 years and 8 months of his life back. He can't get Kenya back. He can't get back the time he had to watch his mama be raped or tie his aunt's arm to aid in her getting high, but we can help him get his name back, his freedom back and move forward with a clean slate with his daughter, stepchildren, wife, grandchildren, his positive mental health and wealth and the work he continues to do serving youth through his organization YORRA--Youth Offenders to Reformed and Responsible Adults. Who Better...
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  • DISBARMENT OF JUDGE DEBRA BLACKWELL IMMORAL UNETHICAL RULINGS...JUSTICE FOR CHRISTOPHER RANDALL
    Too many black men are being railroaded in the Judicial System because of corrupt law enforcement and certain racist judges. DISBARMENT OF JUDGE DEBRA BLACKWELL IMMORAL UNETHICAL RULINGS...JUSTICE FOR CHRIS RANDALL Started April 5, 2023 On February 23rd, 2023, I along with my family witnessed Judge Debra Blackwell handout a Life sentence plus 20 plus 5 years to my son, Christopher Isaac Randall. My son was charged with Murder despite it being justifiable Self-defense. My son's ex girlfriend LaRhonda Ware called my son to meet her at her mother's home but already had a gentleman waiting in the dark for my son. The victim reached for his gun that was fully loaded with a bullet in the chamber and my son defended himself by shooting the victim before he had a chance to shoot and kill him. The gun was put back in the deceased's waistband before law enforcement and paramedics arrived. The Judge Debra Blackwell did not allow my son's paid Attorney to argue Self-defense at all. During the trial, it was discovered that the Judge Debra Blackwell, the Prosecutor Shameca Collins and State Attorney, Busby ALL were responsible for jury selection...that were ALL picked just 3-4 hours on the actual day of the trial. Juror#15 was closely related to the deceased and the Defendant. Judge Debra Blackwell verbally stated that it did not matter, in regards to the kinship between the juror and the deceased. My son stayed incarcerated for nearly 4 years at Adams County Sheriff office where the Sheriff Travis Patten, former Detective Stanley Searcy---now the Jail Administrator along with DA Shameca Collins collaborated a plot to railroad my son thru the Judicial System. The State used a Medical Examiner by the name of Mark LeVaughn whose under investigation and had been placed on Administrative leave from Jackson crime lab to testify from an unknown location via video screen in the courtroom. There is speculation that the DA mailed/faxed evidence they gathered to the Medical examiner to align and collaborate the little so called evidence they claim to have had so LeVaughn could know what to say during Q & A during the trial. On March 29th, my son appeared for a hearing for a motion to have a new trial based on the fact that one of the Jurors was related to the deceased. Judge Debra Blackwell stated it did not matter and the sentencing was and still is being upheld. This particular judge has railroaded so many young black men while allowing rapists of underage kids to go free; all because of certain families dumping money into her PRE-ELECTION campaign. I am asking that anyone who has been railroaded by Judge Debra Blackwell, Sheriff Travis Patten, DA Shameca Collins to please sign this petition while I continue to make efforts to exonerate my son of all charges; as he only acted in self-defense. This was a retaliatory act on behalf of the Judicial system for my son NOT taking a PLEA BARGAIN; as well as his mother, Shaunta Randall writing higher-ups about all the wrong and malfeasance of judicial practices being exercised on all levels towards my son before his trial even began. I, Shaunta Randall faced the same scrutiny and injustice when his 16 year old brother, Jessie Elbert Taylor Jr. was murdered in 2014. My son, Christopher Isaac Randall, had several court appearances with an appointed attorney before his new attorney was hired. The old attorney which was the State's Public Defender did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to gather evidence supporting my son's justifiable confession of self defense. My son has never been a trouble maker nor has any kind of criminal history. The Sheriff even setup a plot by using a jailer : also the mule for bringing Contraband into the County jail__ to add another charge to my son in November of 2022; 3 months before his actual trial in February of 2023. The Jurors were selected the exact SAME day the trial began on 02/21/23; might I add. I will not stop until all involved in this Judicial Performance of Misconduct and Malice be removed from their positions.
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  • Stop State Sanctioned Kidnapping!
    People should join in this effort across the nation because state sanctioned kidnapping in NOT exclusive to Tennessee! It's happening across the nation and families are being destroyed because of it not to mention how costly it is to fight back when you are faced with a false charge.of abuse and or neglect. It is also important because families aren't afforded the same protections that are guaranteed to those accused of criminal violations. This means it is easier and you are more likely to loose your child tha to go to jail for stealing a .35 cent pack of gum!!! Another gross compent of this cash for kids scheme is the money that is attached to removing children from their homes. There is a 15 month clock given to parents to get their children back before termination of parental rights proceeding begin to adopt a families child out. The cumbersome things asked of DCS and the many continuance they create can and do easily exhaust this time and you can be in jeopardy of loosing your child just because DCS hasn't prepared themselves and keeps stalling parents out on unnecessary programs and other requirements that they provide ZERO support for. The states bill over $2.8 million dollars a year in fist care cost, none of that goes to support families! If we are to continue to pay these cost we should have a say in how that money is spent and based on the data the money should be spent on providing support of families to reunify other than tear apart family bonds. https://www.npr.org/2021/12/27/1049811327/states-send-kids-to-foster-care-and-their-parents-the-bill-often-one-too-big-to-
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  • What Is It About Black Children That You Choose Force Over Love?
    Our youth are up next. There is no if, ands, or buts about it. And if they are to be the future, we have to ensure their present which means society's views of them have to change and the only way that happens is if we 1) traumatizing them, 2) stop automatically criminalizing them, 3) traumatizing them, again 4) getting them so call help for the trauma that we've caused 5) getting them so-called help from people who don't look like them and have no sense of their culture at all  They need to know that they are not seen as criminals or someone that we deem will do wrong. We all have bad days, but law enforcement shouldn't be the ones stepping in with weapons when we have teachers who can step in with love. As of now, 99% of the children incarcerated at the Youth Study Center are Black, and historically, since 2022, it has been 100%.  Police in our schools started during the Civil Rights era as a disguise to protect black children as a guise really to instill fear in them. Making schools, property safe is not the priority, or it shouldn't be. Making children feel safe should be. Schools have always been a place of refuge for young people. Teaching them how to keep each other safe and why is how community is maintained, not protecting the building and vilifying children. Especially Black children and making their consequences be as severe as prison.  Terminology like "informed trauma" is used often and very loosely to describe "urban" or Black children/students by so-called professionals surveying and/or observing them in order to claim the "understand" what they are experiencing and are prepared to "fix" them. Them being US. Us being WE. We being ME.  I am a Black mama proudly born in the 7th ward and raised in the upper 9th ward of New Orleans to a 2-parent household on most days. Educated at the historic William Frantz Elementary School, St. Mary of the Angels, McDonogh #35, Francis T. Nicholls, Dillard University, and Southern University At New Orleans. I AM NEW ORLEANS! NOT NOLA!  I have had to physically fight the police on my front lawn at the age of 15 for coming to my home which was a traumatizing experience while having police in my family. I have spoken out in protest against the police for years and celebrated and honored good police--those who did go against the grain and call out bad police. I lived in the city during a time when we had 2 police unions-- a Black one and a white one. What does that tell you??? REFORM DOES NOT WORK! You are killing us and you are using us to do it. Law enforcement in the schools has never been placed for our protection. The impact of criminalization on black youth causes a psychological effect. It causes higher rates of stress, depression, substance abuse, becoming hyper-vigilant, distrust of police, hyper-arousal, and even numbness. Children who live in heavy police areas, start to affect how much sleep they receive causing sleep deprivation and low sleep quality, this may cause them to come to school, not at their highest potential. We have to treat our children like children. Creating relationships to rebuild their sense of self. Why not give love a try? Why not allow them to know who they are and whose they are first? What's the harm in that? Why are white people so threatened by Black people knowing who they are? Why is it that they feel a need to be prepared to always contain a beast but not to open their arms to show love first?
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  • The Rise of San Diego Police Department's Unethical Tactics
    It would at least slow the unconstitutional and unethical methods used by San Diego's law enforcement to secure desired outcomes as well as the constant malicious prosecutions by the District Attorneys who rely on the tactics of these officers.
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    Created by Azlan Prescott
  • SHINING LIGHT ON THE INJUSTICES DONE TO LEONARD GRAVESANDE
    By the constitution we as Americans have certain rights and when they're violated we have to come together and right the injustices.
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    Created by Leonard Gravesande
  • Innocent Orlando Brown Found Guilty
    As a minority so called blacks deal with injustice everyday. Being that so called blacks are in poverty leads to them not being financially able to afford an attorney. Therefore, several so called black men are thrown away in the prison system while being innocent. There's power in numbers and if we stand up and fight through the injustice done to the minority groups change will be made. Mr Brown has children and if he isn't exonerated his children will grow up without a father. Please help bring Mr Brown home to his children.
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    Created by Nadia Winston
  • End Slavery in Virginia Now!
    It is 2025, yet slavery is still legal in the state of Virginia. With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, a loophole legalized slavery “as punishment for a crime.” This loophole, also known as the ‘exception clause,’ has been exploited ever since, and is still in effect today, allowing for the forced labor of Virginia’s incarcerated population for merely 27 to 80 cents an hour. Slavery is a reprehensible practice that has no place in our modern world. It is a fundamental violation of human rights, and we must take a stand to tell legislators that it has no place in Virginia.  By signing this petition, you can help send a powerful message to our lawmakers that the people of Virginia demand an end to all forms of slavery, including as punishment for a crime. Together, we can make a difference and ensure that our state is a place where freedom and justice are truly upheld. Please take a moment to sign this petition and share it with your friends and family. We must act now to end slavery and involuntary servitude in Virginia and create a better future for all. Together, we can make history.
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  • FIRE WSSU Associate Professor, Cynthia Jan Villagomez
    HBCUs across the United States are known to have a warm and welcoming culture. The campus environment is supportive and provides a voice and platform to allow students to grow into leaders in their fields. Cynthia chose to weaponize the campus police in an environment that would otherwise be insulated from the traumas that Black Americans experience routinely. This space needs to be protected and her actions cannot go unchecked.
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    Created by Vick Allen