Petition Coalition, 1/6/15 - Congressional Issues Edition

Join the "Petition Coalition" by following these links and signing those that you agree with! 

Suicide is a huge problem among both our active service members and our military veterans, with nearly two dozen taking their own lives every day. In December of 2000, when I was on a USO tour with Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen in Eastern Europe, he and his wife told me how distressed they were at the problem then...and it's only escalated with the huge deployments of troops for our incursions in Afghanistan and Iraq. We need to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with the funding the tools they need to effectively counsel our returning troops afflicted with PTSD or depression, so please tell your member of Congress to pass the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention Act without delay: https://www.change.org/p/pass-the-clay-hunt-suicide-prevention-for-america-s-veterans-sav-act 

Congress recently passed a law written by Citigroup which repeals many regulations that were protecting citizens from some of the biggest abuses practiced by the banking industry in the past, which have fleeced American citizens and had profound negative effects on the economy numerous times in the past. Demand a breakup of the “too big to fail” banks and passage of a 21^st century version of the “Glass-Steagall Act” to protect all of us little guys: http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/survey_endtoobigtofail/?sp_ref=91950171.219.11029.o.1.2&source=c2c-sp 

Professional sports bring a lot of pleasure to fans and spectators, but there's absolutely no way to argue that they deserve the same tax-free designation as actual charities...especially when they rake in hundreds of millions of dollars every single year. Stand against the NFL's tax exemption and tell them to pay the fair share of taxes that every massively profitable corporation should pay: https://vk.rootstrikers.org/petitions/28?n=2653236.MsMH_h 

The right wing frothed at the mouth for months because of their relationship with the firebrand pastor whose church the Obamas frequented in Chicago. Now, however, the same people are unperturbed by the fact that one of the highest ranking Republicans in Congress spoke to a white supremacist group associated with former KKK grand wizard David Duke. Tell Speaker of the House John Boehner that it's an embarrassment to his party to allow Majority Whip Steve Scalise to continue in his leadership role in Congress: http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=scalise 

Thanks for fighting the good fight, and for all the little ways you change the world!