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Sign my petition to overturn the Indiana Cellphone Ban bill
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Sign my petition to overturn the Indiana Cellphone Ban bill

https://www.change.org/overturnindianacellphoneban

Indiana's governer, Mike Braun, has signed a bill that would ban cellphones from being in school, but also require students to put them in an inaccesable location for the entire school day.

This poses a danger due to the increased amount of school shootings, and would make it harder to call authorities or student's guardians in case of an emergency.

To add onto it, the bill protects teachers from any sort of legal liability if they physically grab your phone from you, allows administrators to search you if they have suspicion that you have a phone on you (which is unconstitutional, violating our Fourth Amendment right to search and seizure), and allow for students to be expelled if they get caught with their phone on them five times.

This is far too extreme, poses a safety risk, supresses our rights, and allows for educators to basically ruin a students record via expulsion over a phone.

If we reach enough signatures, we have the potential to overturn this. Students, think about your future if this law is enacted, and parents need to think about the consequences this could have on their children.

u/LiteratureFar4721 — 5 days ago
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Bobcat hunting & trapping (using cruel wire snare traps and jaw-toothed leg traps) w/ new quota of 400 individuals can lead to complete eradication of bobcats, please mail your comments if you oppose hunting/trapping our beloved bobcats!

Most people do not want them hunted or trapped. 71% of Hoosiers opposed trapping and hunting bobcats.

Lack of evidence. DNR has shown NO official population survey has been conducted. ZERO research done. This means there is no way to know what the actual bobcat population is. They admitted this in 2019.

Bobcats are integral to the health of Indiana’s ecosystems. Along with other predators like foxes and coyotes, they control populations of prey species. Without bobcats, other predators are at risk of overpopulating, further disrupting the food chain and ecosystem health.

A bobcat's main diet is rodents, rabbits, and hares. By keeping rodent populations in check, zoonotic diseases rodents cause like Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, and Alpha-gal Syndrome, and Lyme disease, are reduced. The economic burden of diagnosed Lyme disease is close to $1 billion per year in the US, according to NIH. Diagnosed Lyme disease costs the state of Indiana $1,200 per patient. Fewer predators mean more rodents and more zoonotic diseases.

Wire neck snare traps and jaw-toothed leg traps are cruel and painful. Other untargeted species including people's pets have been caught in them. Bobcats and other animals can remain in these painful traps for days before hunters check them.

Bobcats were endangered in Indiana from 1969 until 2005. Conservation efforts led to their population increase. When the initial LSA Document #24-383 to trap bobcats was proposed, over 3,000 opposing comments were sent in and DNR still passed the killing quota of 250. THEIR OWN POPULATION MODELS show that a quota of 400 and over will lead to bobcat eradication...yet NOW they want to bump that quota up to 400. LOL WHAT.

Hoosiers who want to weigh in on the proposed expansion of bobcat hunting in Indiana can do so until May 19. Please make your voices heard! We cannot give up. The quota needs to be 0. There is just not enough evidence trapping/hunting of any bobcat! DNR has failed to provide any statistical or scientific analysis of bobcat populations.

Further research is needed to determine if there even is an unhealthy population size that requires control!!!!!

Emailed comments must be sent to lianderson@dnr.in.gov. Only comments sent to that address will be officially considered.

Comments can also be mailed to the following address:

LSA Document #26-98 Bobcat Hunting

Lisa L. Anderson

Natural Resources Commission

C/O Department of Natural Resources, Legal Division

Indiana Government Center South

402 West Washington Street, Room W255-A

Indianapolis, IN 46204-2273

Another method to submit comments online for Indiana locals is through this portal: https://www.in.gov/nrc/rules/rulemaking-docket/

A public hearing will also be held on May 19 at 12:30 p.m. at the Fort Harrison State Park, Garrison Conference Center, Blue Heron Ballroom, 6002 North Post Road in Indianapolis. 

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u/kittenparty4444 — 9 days ago
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We Will Do This Together

I am honored to be the nominee for the 9th District in Indiana. For the first time in decades, we have a real chance to flip this seat, but I cannot do it without your support. Together, we have an opportunity to change the course of our nation for the better. To learn more about volunteering or donating, please visit www.bradmeyer.org.

#brad4in9

u/BradMeyer4Congress — 9 days ago

HOOSIERS RISE ACTIVIST ALMANAC: ISSUE 11

Every single week people ask us the same thing:

“Where are the protests?”

“How do I get involved?”

“Is anything even happening in Indiana?”

Yes. A fuck ton actually.

This issue is packed with protests, mutual aid, organizing meetings, ICE detention actions, rapid response groups, art builds, town halls, community events, and ways to plug in no matter where you live in Indiana.

People across this state are putting in real work right now. Quietly, consistently, and often without recognition. And the truth is, movements survive because ordinary people decide to show up anyway.

Not because they have free time. Not because they aren’t scared. Not because somebody else will handle it. But because they understand what’s at stake.

Inside this issue:

❁ Statewide repeating protests & rallies

✿ May 16th End ICE Detention Day of Action events

❀ Mutual aid & rapid response resources

❁ Activist meetings, DSA events, Democratic clubs & organizing spaces

✿ Town halls, utilities fights & data center resistance

❀ Art builds, book clubs, craftivism & community care events

You do not have to do everything. But you should do something. Show up. Share resources. Bring water. Attend the meeting. Make the phone call. Help build the world YOU keep wishing existed.

❁ Website: https://www.hoosiersrise.org

✿ Database: https://www.data.hoosiersrise.org

❀ Sheet: https://www.hoosiersrise.org/sheet

❁ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/HoosiersRise

u/lanananner — 12 days ago