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Petition to make gender-neutral Easy-Bake Ovens
Mckenna Pope of Garfield, NJ has started a petition -- with just over 23,000 signatures at time of writing (including mine) -- to Hasbro, asking them to produce a gender-neutral version of the...
View ArticleAnti-Westboro Baptist Church petition smashes White House records
The Huffington Post claims that this petitions.whitehouse.gov petition, calling for the classification of the Westboro Baptist Church as a "hate group," is now the most popular White House petition of...
View ArticleWhite House promises open access to all federally funded research
Jim Dezazzo sez, John Holdren, Obama's science advisor, issued a directive on Friday to all research funding agencies to develop plans to make the results of federally-funded research publically...
View ArticleWhite House weighs in on right to unlock your phone
Eric sez, "The Library of Congress recently withdrew the cell phone unlocking exception to the DMCA. In response, a 'We the People' petition was created to ask the White House to weigh in and push to...
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Fix the DMCA! Repeal anti-circumvention and truly own your devices
Austin sez, "Last year the Librarian of Congress made it illegal to unlock your cell phone by changing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). This can lead to exorbitant costs to consumers...
View ArticlePetition demands an end to drone surveillance
Marc from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) sez, "The Electronic Privacy Information Center has published a petition to the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, demanding the...
View ArticleSen Chuck Schumer took $100K from private prisons, now gets to help decide...
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is one of the key figures in the political wrangle over whether undocumented immigrants in the USA will be legalized or deported. He's also the recipient of over $100,000...
View ArticleTSA routinely violates own rules and the law to discriminate against people...
Sai has "a neurological disorder that causes episodic muteness and muscle spasms" -- basically, he sometimes becomes mute and gets bad shakes. His doctor has advised him to have juice continuously...
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Petition to get a plaque commemorating Isaac Asimov in Philadelphia
Science fiction author Michael Swanwick sez, "In my adopted hometown of Philadelphia there's a move afoot to put up a plaque where Isaac Asimov lived while he was working (and writing seminal...
View ArticlePetition: Obama, debate Edward Snowden
Holmes from Fight for the Future writes, "We just posted this to "We the People," the Obama administration's petition site. 100,000 signatures gets us a response:" President Obama, you have said that...
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Petition to "Christian" college that won't provide transcripts to student...
Danielle Powell had nearly finished her Bachelor's Degree at Omaha's Grace University when the school administration found out that she was a lesbian. They outed her to her family and fellow students...
View ArticleOctavia Butler Park, Seattle
The Seattle Parks Department wants to know what to name a new park, and one of the choices is science fiction hero Octavia Butler. Take the survey here. (via IO9)
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Petition to kill UK's Great Firewall of Cameron
Update 2: And Here's the Open Rights Group's petition. Update: Here's another, broader petition that hits on issues the other one misses Here's a Change.org petition to UK Prime Minister David...
View ArticleSign the ACLU petition to reform American electronic spying laws
Sandra from the ACLU writes, "As the scope and depth of the NSA's spying continues to grow, we cannot forget about similar privacy violations committed by state and local police. The primary law...
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Writers against mass surveillance
A group of writers from around the world, including Nobel laureates, have signed onto a petition calling on the world's governments to limit online surveillance. I was honored to be asked to be among...
View Article30,000 more signatures needed, then Obama will have to take a position on...
Holmes from Fight for the Future writes, "Think local police in America should be able to read your emails and texts without a warrant? No? Well right now they can. Want to fix that? Then please sign...
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Parents of Buddhist student sue "Bible Belt" Louisiana school over forced...
The ACLU is representing Scott and Sharon Lane, the parents of a child known in the proceedings as "CC," in a case against the Sabine Parish, Louisiana School Board, where their child was ridiculed...
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EU elections: ask candidates to sign digital rights pledge
Kirsten From Edri writes, "European Digital Rights (EDRi) has launched WePromise.EU to put digital civil rights on the agenda of the European election. The platform is based on a two-sided promise: On...
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Tell Congress to legalize unlocking your phone
Sherwin from Public Knowledge writes, "The Copyright Office and the Library of Congress think that copyright law and the DMCA make it illegal to unlock your phone and take it to a new carrier. This is...
View ArticlePetition against UK sell-off of private tax data
Pam writes, "The Open Rights Group has set up a petition in response to last week's news that the British government is planning to sell access to private tax records." (more…)
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