#petitions

[eziojensenthe3rd]

Well fucks? Get to it!

[blackpearlblast]

death row prisoners in the US scheduled to be executed this year: and petitions for clemency

Ruben Gutierrez - Texas - July 16th

Keith Gavin - Alabama - July 18th

Arthur Burton - Texas - August 7th

Marcellus Williams - Missouri - September 24th

Travis Mullis - Texas - September 24th

Alan Miller - Alabama - September 26th

click each person's name to sign their petition. full list that includes petitions against unscheduled and on-hold executions here. as far as i know you can sign even if you are not located in the US.

[stil-lindigo]

FOR AUSTRALIANS - PETITIONS FOR PALESTINE

Take just five minutes out of your day to sign these petitions!

Petition EN5847 - Provide Consular Support to Palestinian Australian Families

Petition EN5783 - Investigate Australian Citizens in the IDF for war crimes

Petition EN5771 - Prevent Australian citizens from serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

[our-queer-experience]

after watching a police interview with nex benedict it is !!my opinion!! that they were dismissive and negligent, as well as the school.

this petition calls for an independent investigation into their death, especially since the police have take the liberties to claim that it was not the result of head trauma(interpretation, not fact.). and i think you all should sign it 👍 they’re only 50ish votes from their goal but we should still go over that.

[bread-making-vikings]

Hello, friends. It is once again time to try and bully the UK government into doing science properly.

The Cass Review, written by known transphobe Hilary Cass, was a report on UK trans healthcare, which is ultimately being used to deny services to trans people through the NHS. This includes the withdrawal of prescriptions from people who've been on them for years, have gender recognition certificates, and/or have fully medically transitioned (making it very dangerous to stop HRT), and also prevents people from starting hormones to begin with.

Maybe the most well known thing recently is the ban of puberty-blocking drugs from trans children and teens, under "safety concerns", despite them being allowed for non-trans children with precocious puberty or other conditions. This is even though the Cass Review itself actually kind of states that they work and applied suitably, but then draws a weirdly different conclusions from it.

The whole methodology of the Review is hugely suspect, with sources excluded due to a lack of double blinding, something hugely inappropriate for any studies of this kinda, and ultimately just ignoring the research it's referring to to reach a foregone conclusion. Classic UK government tbh.

Tl;dr: plz sign this and get some actual science applied to trans healthcare in the UK.

If you're not eligible to sign the petition (e.g. not a UK resident/UK citizen) then plz share but don't try to sign it - they've previously rejected petitions for too many international "suspect" votes.

[ghostboyravenight]

The UK is still complicit in Israel’s genocide. Despite claiming a dedication to delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza, the UK government has yet to implement an arms embargo onto Israel and has not been transparent over how it plans to allow its aid to reach Gaza at all when Israel is still blocking it.

I’ve started a petition to ensure all aid reaches Gaza and to ban all future arms exports to Israel. At 10,000 signatures, the petition will be discussed in parliament.

If you’re a British citizen, please think about signing. If you’re not, then you can share this around or sign my Change.org petition instead.

[zinnie-zoloft]

Guys we are SO CLOSE to 15,000 signatures

The number of people signing went from 200 a day up to over 900 a day

So many more people are watching the show because of fans recommending it and campaigning to save it

Keep watching and sharing, we’re making progress

[haemey]

Bitte unterschreiben, wenn ihr könnt! WICHTIG!

A petition to the German government to change the law from "No means No" to "Only yes means yes" when it comes to sexualised violence, after a man has been aquitted of a rape accusation because the 21 year old victim was too scared to say no.

Please sign if you can, share if you can't.

[sixseasonsofodestawithatardis]

Explaining PIP, the reforms and how YOU can help!

Recently, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Mel Stride announced measures to reform PIP (Personal Independence Payment). It's a benefit given to disabled people, whether they are employed or not, to help provide support for the extra costs incurred due to being disabled. PIP can be paid on anything you need, such as a carer, adaptions, your bills or a night out (yes, disabled people are entitled to a social life I'm NOT arguing with anyone about this!) On top of the changes to sick notes, the announced reforms are an assault on disabled people to desperately cling to power!

Below is an explanation of PIP and the reforms so people can answer the open consultations, call for evidence, and sign a petition. We need as many people in the UK as possible to answer both to try to stop these reforms from happening.

What is PIP?

The Tories are saying PIP is a one-size-fits-all benefit, which again is a lie as PIP is designed to look at how your disability affects your daily life and how difficult it makes it for you to participate in society, not whether you have this specific disability so it only affects you in these ways! It doesn't matter whether you're diagnosed or not, either. There are two categories they look at throughout, known as the 'Daily Living Component' and the 'Mobility component' The process involves 50 pages you have to fill out (link to Turn2US for proof https://www.turn2us.org.uk/get-support/information-for-your-situation/claiming-personal-independence-payment-pip/fill-in-the-personal-independence-payment-pip-form#:~:text=You%20usually%20get%20the%20paper,it%20is%2050%20pages%20long.)

With hundreds of letters from Doctors as proof of your condition! And then an assessment in which you will answer all sorts of demeaning questions, give in-depth answers that you don't feel comfortable sharing, and hope the assessor has understood how it affects your life and written it down properly and that you'll get the right amount of money at the end of this assessment or re-assessment.

To get the standard rate in both components, you need 8 points; to get the enhanced rate, you need 12 points.

They'll then give you two, three, five, or ten years (10 years is known as a fixed-term award and a light-touch review) to undergo the terror of the PIP assessment again.

The reforms proposed and why they're terrifying!

The reforms they've suggested so far are

One-off grants for aids and appliances

receipts to then be claimed back at a later date

the changing of eligibility for PIP or the category 'Long Term sickness'

Vouchers instead of cash payments

If you've read those four options and thought they were cruel, infantilising and impossible to make work, then you'd be right.

As a disabled person, bills don't magically disappear. You still have council tax and rent to pay or a carer. Will landlords and councils accept these vouchers? A one-off grant won't work here either. The vouchers also signal that we can't be trusted to pay for our own needs and aren't responsible—which is far from the truth!

Aids and treatments are already covered by the NHS, so this is redundant and will be futile, especially when you consider the long waiting lists for mental health treatment (and just generally) on the NHS—and even if they aren't, we do know that and will use PIP to save up for it, etc. It's easier and more economical to give us cash payments.

To have the receipts to claim back expenses, we need to have the money to spend on said expenses.

Changing the eligibility will (much like these other suggestions) put more disabled people at risk. If you want mental health to improve: Fix the NHS, wages, sort out the cost of living crisis and fund the research/support for Long Covid sufferers.

How you can help! - UK-based people, plz sign everyone else. Please reblog & signal boost!

If you live in the UK, there are currently two consultations open ( the sick note one closes on 8 July 2024, and the PIP one closes on 22 July 2024). Ideally, the responses will be used to decide whether these reforms go ahead.

Here are links to the two reforms for PIP and changes to the sick note process.

Please note that the PIP consultation ( the first link) is 6 pages long and must be completed in one go. It's also filled with typos, repeated questions, and very difficult wording in many places, so be on the lookout for that! People are rightfully complaining about its accessibility, so the link and end date may change. I will update this post if this happens. I also know answering stuff like this is overwhelming, so here is a thread by PeachyInWales on Twitter about how they approached the consultation. If I see any samples by any disability activists or organisations, I will post them here, too!

This second link is the second consultation or call to evidence. Which GPs are being stripped of the ability to sign sicknotes for people on benefits, which is again ridiculous!

And the last link is a petition from SCOPE to stop the government from demonising disabled people further.

Ultimately, we're trying to stop a benefit that is difficult to get and barely covers costs for many applicants from getting worse.

If I've missed anything then let me know! I'm sorry the post was so long, but it's a lot to go through! Again, UK-based people, please share your thoughts if you can and sign the petition! If you are not currently living in the UK, please share these links or the post so other UK-based users can see this and try to help.

Thank you!

[usnatarchives]

Quit buttering us up! 🧈

If aliens had landed in the United States any time between 1880 and 1940 they would quickly be convinced that we were a nation at war with butter substitute. Oleomargarine is everywhere in the records of Congress during this period. The Committees on Agriculture, Manufacture, and Ways and Means were all involved. Dairymen were sending their representatives petitions defending butter and decrying the fate of the nation if this interloper called “oleo” were to become a permanent fixture in American households.

C.C. Buell, a dairy farmer from Rock Falls, Ill., convinced some fellas of “at least average intelligence” at the Grange picnic to sign this petition saying there ought to be a law against oleo because “its continued use may be the cause of pestilential diseases in our large cities.” Nothing says hot button issue like fake butter!

Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to the Committee on Agriculture during the 46th Congress (HR46A-H2.4); Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, RG 233; Washington, DC.

[flaming-thing]

Stop transgender patients from being refused care in mainstream hospital wards in the UK

The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England would not be treated in female- and male-only wards.

This segregation is discriminatory, dangerous, and violates the Equality Act 2010, particularly part 3 - services and public functions - and it must not go ahead. Transgender people require healthcare like anyone else, and many live with limited access to that healthcare as it is.

Your information isn't published anywhere, and is only used for this petition

If you live in the UK or are a british citizen, please sign and share this to make sure transgender people continue to receive the care they deserve

If you don't live in the UK, please share this anyway so it can reach as many people as possible

[zee-rambles]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

@nickelodeon

We reached 15K people! Make sure to sign all the rest of the petitions HERE.

The more petitions signed, the more art, the more videos, the more phone calls, letters, dms, pms, the more hashtags IRL, tweets, TikTok’s, instas, videos, anything you can do and to do as much as you can to save Rise of the TMNT! Good shows deserves to keep going!

[blackpearlblast]

(U.S.) tool for emailing your senators and house representative to ask to restore funding to the UNRWA

"If the funding remains suspended, we will most likely be forced to shut down our operations by end of February not only in Gaza but also across the region." -UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini (source)

[carpe-mamilia]

We, the undersigned, are calling on you to immediately withdraw your support for the ban on puberty blockers for trans young people. International evidence shows that puberty suppressing hormones are a safe and effective way to temporarily pause a young person’s puberty, giving them time to consider their options for transition. Much of the concern around their use stems from the idea that those who take puberty blockers go on to use cross sex hormones as part of their transition. We do not think that trans young people growing up to be happy and healthy trans adults is a bad outcome while rates of de/retransition are exceptionally low. Rather than honouring Labour’s manifesto commitment to “remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition & acceptance,” you have decided to strip trans young people of their bodily autonomy, undermining important medical principles, such as Gillick Competence, in favour of upholding the Conservative approach of politicising the lives of trans people. Even the widely discredited Cass Review does not go so far as to recommend the criminalisation of puberty blockers for trans young people. Court documents show the former Health Secretary’s decision was motivated by her personal view, rather than on the basis of best available evidence.

[rubinaitoart]

Hey so KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) is trying to come back.

It’s a direct threat to things like fanfiction and social media, and continues to perpetuate the idea that censorship is the only way to make things safe. This doesn’t help anyone, not even children. In reality it just opens up more invasion of our privacy (and more importantly the privacy of children!) and allows the government to control the internet in a very dangerous way. This is the kind of thing that paves the way for situations like China’s censorship.

This is not just about fanfiction. This is not just about social media. This creates an opportunity for people to control our freedom of speech on the internet, and gives them the ability to censor anything they deem offensive. LGBTQIA+ content, abortion and sexual healthcare information, and literally anything else.

Here’s a petition you can sign and share (that should be applicable even if you’re not located in the US) and a Google Docs with more information.