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Hello everyone, I am posting this on many group websites,

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really everywhere. I would like you to also repost this for me.

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What this is is a petition to the White house,

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it is called " We the People". This petition is to go directly to the White house.

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This petition is to formally recognize American Sign Language

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as a Community Language as well as a Language of Instruction in schools.

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This began November 12th 2012 and needs to be done with in a month.

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we are already in the December and them by December 12/2012

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We are hoping to get 25 000 signatures to this petition.

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If we do get 25 000 signatures then the White house is required to respond.

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This shows the power people have.

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So if you are confused and aren't sure how this works,

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I'm happy to explain the process.

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We need 25 000 signatures, we have already collected 14 215.

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Which is great but we need more, we need another 10 785 by midnight EST.

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So we really want to get to 25 000 signatures, it would be great if we can

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So we can work with the government and the White house

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We have been fighting for our American Sign Language to be recognized

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On the site there are 2 numbers,

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people sometimes get confused. The first number is how many signatures we need.

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The second number is how many we already have.

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If you were to total them , they would add to 25 000. Does that make sense?

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Please sign our petition and thanks for watching.