August 2011
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As A Young Woman, I Need Healthcare!
By Kendra McCormick
Please join HERvotes, a campaign to encourage women to go to the ballot box to protect their health and economic rights!
Throughout the economic crisis, many successful policies that improve women’s economic security and ensure our access to health care have been put in jeopardy. Even our right to vote is being attacked. However, I feel most threatened by the proposal to...
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Denial Ain't Just a River in Egypt: How Cairo...
By Becky Mezzanotte
It was not until I returned from living abroad in the Middle East that I realized just how much I actually cared about women’s rights. Prior to that point in my life, I lived in blissful ignorance of the fact that slowly, but surely, my rights as a woman in the United States were being attacked.
But, those days of living in ignorance came to an end pretty fast when I returned...
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Women's Groups Join Forces to Protect Health and...
By: Ashley Horne
To celebrate Women’s Equality Day, on August 26th, women’s groups are coming together to protect our Health and Economic Rights and to encourage women to vote in 2012. Out vote has never been more important, and it seems only appropriate to get out the vote on the 91st anniversary of the 19th Amendment and woman’s suffrage.
Many of our most important achievements are under attack...
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Gloria: In Her Own Words, A Documentary →
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“For an entire generation, she has symbolized the very qualities of the feminist movement — strength, courage, tirelessness — and she has never once lost her fire. Not only has she inspired a new wave of feminists, but she stands by their side, leading the charge with them. The fight for women’s equality has never been something that Gloria does. It’s...
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"Urge Congressional leaders to appoint six women... →
“Urge Congressional Leaders to appoint no fewer than six women to the bipartisan, bicameral Congressional committee charged with reviewing the United States’ budget and recommending a path forward, which is currently in formation.”
We are only a few signatures away from 500!
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