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1. Save The Albany Midwifery Practice 
The Albany Midwifery Practice in Peckham, south London, has been providing safe, woman centred care for women from deeply disadvantaged backgrounds for twelve years. Peckham ranks as the fourteenth most deprived district of 354 districts in England.
The Albany has been thoroughly evaluated twice, has a far lower Caesarean section rate than King’s College Hospital (14.4% compared with 24.1%) and a far lower perinatal mortality rate (4.9/1000 compared with 11.4/1000) for Southwark Borough as a whole.
The Albany gives genuine choice to the women whom it serves about place of birth and choice of midwife at birth. National maternity policy states that all women should have such a choice by 2009.
The Albany is providing safe, woman-centred care for vulnerable women who want and depend on this care. Yet Kings is forcing the service to close down its birth service at home and to limit its continuity of care. Why are women and babies being denied safe birth in one of the few pockets of genuine woman-centred midwifery-led care in Britain?
2. At&t/Bellsouth Customer Disatifaction Petition
For a long time now At&t/Bellsouth has been able to control us and basically make us use their phone services. Fact is that they own all of the phone lines that even other service providers use when giving service. If we stand down and do nothing to stop them from treating us like we really don't matter they will continue to do this.
Recently and even in the past more and more customers have had problems with their phone service and At&t/Bellsouth seems to want to take their time to rectify the issues. But yet and still they want the payments made on time or they will shut your services off.
Fact is we have our services for many reasons, weather that be emergency or personal uses, and if you are unable to use them then why should we be liable to have to pay for them.
