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International Women’s Day: Keep Progress Alive(Comments Off)
This past year we’ve seen a lot of progress for the rights of women. We should take today, March 8th, International Women’s Day, as a time to make sure that we don’t lose our stride. While International Women’s Day has been informally celebrated since the early 1900s, the United Nations officially recognized it in 1975, [...]
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Pull the Pork!
February 27th, a day of action to “Pull the Pork from the Pentagon”, emphasized a need for the Defense Department to realign its budget priorities. Across the nation supporters participated in this campaign by signing petitions, attending events, and creating posters to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the so – called “pork” of the Pentagon, its [...]
VAWA: A Win for American Women
One of the things that makes our nation great is the notion of “liberty and justice for all.” Yet we haven’t quite achieved that goal. Women are disproportionately victimized in our own backyards, and measures must be put in place to ensure their liberties while seeking justice to hold perpetrators responsible for their actions. Today, [...]
Highlights: 2013 State of the Union
We hope you enjoyed the President’s State of the Union speech and that you joined our conversation on twitter and Facebook. If you missed the speech (maybe watching the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show – what an adorable winner) or want to review it again, please see the transcript here. Overall the agenda that the [...]
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