Find Important Petitions to Sign at Petition Spot


Online petitions are started everyday for many different reasons. There are many online petition sites out there that allow people to start their own petitions. One such site, Petition Spot, has well over 100,000 petitions with nearly 9,000,000 signatures! All of these online petitions can be found in categories such as: Civil Rights, Humanities, Economy and Business, Education, Entertainment and Media, Environment, Government and Politics, Health, and more. No matter what type of online petitions you like to sign, you will be able to find them at Petition Spot. There are, after all, hundreds of thousands of them for you to choose from!

If that number seems overwhelming to you, you can easily narrow them all down. Petition Spot does have a function that will allow you to browse through them depending on your interests. There is a "Most Popular Petitions" list within each category; you can find out which online petitions are the most popular for each topic.

• For Civil Rights and Humanities issues, the most popular petitions include: a petition for the release of innocent Americans being held in Iraq; a petition to free Schapella Corby from Bali, a petition to bring pit bull awareness, calls for intervention in Ethiopia, and more.

• In the Economy and Business category, you can find a popular petition demanding that Stormpay release people's money; petitions for Paypal to become available in Croatia, the Phillippines, Indonesia, and Egypt; a petition asking to keep Afflecks Palace in Britain open; a petition for Walmart to keep their lay away open; and more.

• The Education petitions include: Asking Oprah to expose the horrors and dangers of puppy mills; convincing eBay to change their policy concerning the sales of Teacher Edition materials; a petition to save Bishop O'Reilly High School; a petition for homework to be banned (yes, really!); a petition hoping to help stop racism once and for all; a petition to ban school uniforms, and thousands of more.

• The Entertainment and Media categories have a variety of online petitions encouraging fans to sign so that: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince will be released at its original date in November; The Gilmore Girls can come back for one more season; Stargate Atlantis won't be taken off the air; the popular soap Days of Our Lives won't get the axe after forty some years; for Vince McMahon to return to wrestling; and a large number of other entertainment causes. The entertainment petitions really are a great way for fans to get their voices heard.

• Environment issues are very important to many people. There are those of us who wish to do everything we can to better protect the trees, forests, water, and animals. Some popular environment petitions include: Encouraging J. Lo to stop wearing fur; to stop the dumping in Whitsand Bay; Stopping chinchilla cruelty; stopping the slaughter of wolves in Alaska; stopping KFC cruelty; getting the Bush administration to do more to help global warming; and more.

• The most popular petitions for government and politics include: The right for 12 year olds to get a job; an open letter to Jimmy Carter; petition against pit bull ban in Georgia (the state) and other places across the United States; to help stop pit ball bans in Mexico; petition for Joe Biden to run for President (this movement was someone successful; he's currently Obama's choice for Vice President); petitions to stop popular teachers from getting fired; and many more.

• The Health category contains many popular petitions as well, including: a petition from Aaron Carter's fans to keep him off drugs; a petition calling for the protection of children from sex offenders; a petition to make cigarettes illegal in the United States; a petition fighting against abortion; a petition fighting for pro choice, as well as encouraging stem cell research; a petition for Colgate to stop testing on animals; etc.

• There are also many popular petitions that are uncategorized. There is a petition trying to get the Duffey family, who has suffered a lot of losses and tragedy, to get on Extreme Makeover for their home. There are over 30,000 signatures so far, proving that there really are a lot of caring people out there.

Petition Spot is not only home to over 100,000 online petitions, but it makes it easy to start petitions well The site offers many tips and examples of petition writing for anyone to understand. There are thousands of visitors to the site each day, and a large number of users on at any given minute. Online petitions at Petition Spot are exposed to many, many people, which helps bring awareness to important causes.

What causes are you passionate about? Animal rights? Civil rights? Global warming and world peace? The types of petitions I mentioned above are just a few popular ones; there are literally thousands of more to choose from. I just wanted to give you an idea of the different types of petitions that anyone, including you, can start.

Starting online petitions is just the beginning of fighting for a certain cause. You'll have to promote your petition in order to get signatures, as well. Petition Spot makes it easy for petitions to become promoted. Not only there are thousands of potential signers visiting the site each day, but you can promote your petition through forums and share it through email as well.

Users also have the option of browsing through the quizzes alphabetically, by date, most popular, and last signed. Make sure your petition stands out and is worded in a way that everyone can understand. Use all the options available to you through the site to bring exposure to your petition, and you will get the signatures. No matter what cause you are fighting for, if it is truly meaningful to you, then others will find it meaningful as well.