Sentences with phrase «petition urging»

Take 30 seconds to sign a petition urging the Legislature to make significant investments early learning!

Staff and interns will be on SUNY Farmingdale and Adelphi University campuses, asking students to sign a petition urging their members of Congress to pass the bill.

University students, alumni, faculty, and community members: please sign our petition urging your institution not to sell patents to trolls.

Back in July I talked about a petition urging to improve PACER, the online access service to U.S. court records and documents.

Today's proposed action is: Sign a petition urging congress to reconsider offshore drilling legislation, and to instead focus on cleaner energy solutions and clean oceans.

Sign the NRDC petition urging the USDA to act now to save the bees.

Called, aptly, ClimateSilence.org, the site charts Romney and Obama's history of climate quietude, and allows visitors to sign a petition urging them to speak up.

Timed to coincide with the jewerly - buying rush in conjunction with Valentine's Day, the ad also calls out retailers who are lagging behind these retailers; these «laggards» include Rolex, Wal - Mart, Fred Meyer Jewelers, JCPenney, Sears / KMart, Jostens, QVC and Whitehall Jewellers Inc.The No Dirty Gold campaign was launched two years ago; since then, more than 30,000 consumers have signed a petition urging mining corporations to clean up their act and produce gold more responsibly.

In May 2012, American Commitment launched a petition urging corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to continue their membership with the controversial organization.

KEEP IT IN THE GROUND - The Guardian launched a petition urging the world's two biggest charitable funds to move their money out of fossil fuels.

On the heels of an announcement that the plant may be replaced with new natural gas facilities, today the My Generation campaign released a new video and online petition urging the Public Utilities Commission and Governor Brown to reject a plan that would add new air pollution to Southern California and move California backwards on its climate goals.

As I noted here, the Food and Drug Administration had initially decided to grant a petition urging a removal of the age restrictions but was overruled by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Please sign and share the petition urging your representative to take a stand for animal welfare and public safety by supporting the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act.

You can also add your name to the petition urging the municipal corporation of Delhi to give Friendicoes the money it is due.

Nearly 10,000 people have signed a petition urging Amazon to remove an unlicensed «Assassination Classroom» T - shirt with the slogan, «Keep Calm and Kill Your Teacher.»

Weingarten's email also included links to a petition urging educators to ask Time to apologize for the misleading and inflammatory cover.

SALT LAKE CITY — More than 1,400 people have signed an online petition urging a reprieve for Kairos Academy, a public charter school that serves teen moms and pregnant teens.

UTAH — On March 9, 2015, physician John Hanrahan initiated an online petition urging the Park City School District to «start school... for teens after 8:30 AM.»

And Hollywood may be preparing to go into its own battle with the ACLU's recent petition urging Tinseltown to demand a government investigation into why female directors are underrepresented in film and television.

China's detention of internationally acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei has provoked a petition urging his release, exposing growing alarm among the country's liberal intellectuals who see him as a test of how far a wave of detentions to stifle dissent could go.

And now the AARP's Fraud Watch Network has launched an online petition urging the online dating industry to institute new safeguards to better protect their users.

KIND Snacks, with support from nutrition and public health experts, has filed a Citizen Petition urging the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to update its regulations around using the term «healthy» in food labeling.

Nearly 1.4 million Americans have joined a petition urging the FDA to require labeling of GE food — the most on any petition pending before the agency — and more than 200 food companies recently signed a letter to President Obama urging him to honor his 2007 pledge to require GE labeling.

A petition urging the White House to expand federal policies requiring free access to taxpayer - funded research papers has gotten the 25,000 signatures needed to trigger a response.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Upper East Side Councilman Daniel Garodnick — both Democrats and backers of Hillary Clinton's presidential bid — have already attracted nearly 1,500 endorsements to a Change.org petition urging the incoming commander - in - chief to arrange federal reimbursements for the additional security around his relatives and eponymous properties.

The direct appeal to the chancellor follows the CBI's launch last week with other groups such as the Federation of Small Businesses of a petition urging the government to freeze national insurance.

Republicans also unveiled an online petition urging the Assembly to take up the measure.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito cited the widely reported cost estimate of $ 1 million dollars a day in a recent petition urging the incoming commander - in - chief to commit to reimbursing his hometown.

Read the full article View the poll results Sign the petition urging city officials and teachers union leaders to come to an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system.

The Working Families Party launched an on - line petition urging supporters to call on New York Congressional candidates to say where they stand on Ryan's budget plan.

TV host and cookbook author Rachel Ray announced the official launch of a petition urging de Blasio to make good on his 2013 campaign promise and expand universal free lunch to the city's 1.1 million public school students.

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Pastor Osagie Ize - Iyamu, had filed a petition urging the tribunal to declare him as the rightful winner of the September 28 governorship election.

An online petition urging Cuomo to provide state funding for the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center this year had more than 700 signatures as of midday today.

A coalition of Republican Senators and police unions has launched an online petition urging the state parole board not to release a former Black Panther who was convicted of killing two New York City police officers — Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones — in 1971.

I would encourage local residents to sign up to the petition urging Parliament to take action to secure a fair deal for taxpayers and NHS staff alike.

Members of a new advocacy group, Brooklyn Voters Alliance Action, gathered outside Governor Andrew Cuomo's New York City office Tuesday afternoon to deliver a petition urging the governor to take action on voting reforms.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon has started an online petition urging the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to improve its plan for remediating portions of the Bethlehem Steel site to ensure contaminated soil is removed from the city.

Over a quarter - million people have already signed a petition urging Warren to run, and already some state legislators and county chairs are joining as supporters, a key element of any successful primary effort.

He then urges WFP supporters to sign an on - line petition urging the governor and legislative leaders to pass a public financing bill this year.

Sign our online petition urging State Legislators to reform our current partisan redistricting process:

In light of this, the USBC has created a petition urging President - elect Obama to make breastfeeding a high priority.

Please draft the Petition urging congress to mandate all midwives to report adverse outcomes, and at the same time, passing legislation to protect hospitals from being sued from adverse outcomes due to negligent midwives.

Around the same time, it launched a consumer petition urging Abbott, Mead Johnson and Nestlé «to stop co-opting healthcare facilities for marketing purposes.»

Earlier this week, a resident group started an online petition urging the park board to rescind the three - year contract naming Plainfield Trustee Garrett Peck as executive director as of July 1.

Last week, the parents of two young men who died earlier this year after ingesting caffeine powder met with Food and Drug Administration officials to deliver a citizen petition urging the agency to ban the sale of powdered caffeine.

The organization has been critical of carrageenan's approved use in organics and recently launched a nationwide petition urging the FDA to ban the ingredient from the food supply.

Starbucks isn't saying why, but... speculation points to an online petition urging Schultz to denounce the church's views on homosexuality before he spoke.

Six hundred people signed a petition urging the cinema chain to cancel the private showing of «Voices of the Silenced», which 125 guests had been due to attend.

She's now started a petition urging the government to change the law so a judge can outline that rape can happen to anyone and be committed by anyone.

More than 600 people signed a petition urging the cinema chain to cancel the private showing of the film which tells the stories of 15 people «emerging out of homosexual lifestyles».