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08/26/11

By Eve Weinbaum and Rachel Roth Today we celebrate the anniversary of female suffrage, a victory that took more than 70 years of political struggle to achieve. After women won the right to vote in 1920, socialist feminist Crystal Eastman observed that suffrage was an important first step but that...

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Rachel Roth

Environmental Health Health Care

08/26/11

After a massive roof tarring project in her community made her family sick, Shelby organized her community to demand safer practices and put an end to the pollution. Penelope lost her child due to a very rare condition linked to estrogenic chemicals, but still persevered and created one of the most...

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Janelle Sorensen

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08/25/11

At a time when work, workers and the workplace are “job one” for the struggling U.S. economy, it’s discouraging to find out that the nation just can’t get serious about taking half of its workforce seriously. The female half. I’m referring to Wednesday’s court decision in which U.S. District Judge...

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Nanette Fondas

08/25/11

Hispanic families are faring the worst during the current economic meltdown. According to a recent study released by the Pew Research Center , Latinos experienced the single largest decline in wealth of any other group. This development could severely alter the economic future of our nation as...

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Janis Bowdler

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08/25/11

This past year, I had the wonderful opportunity to intern with 9to5 Atlanta as a Chapter and Helpline Organizer. I helped chapter staff reach out to members and organize events, and I also answered 9to5’s Job Survival Helpline. Hundreds of women called to ask about their rights in the workplace,...

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Beth Miller

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08/25/11

Save lives or save money for the rich? Feed hungry children or subsidize the oil and gas industry? Stop buying ineffective military equipment or stop paying for education and job training? These questions are at the heart of the debate over reducing the federal deficit. It’s time for Congress to...

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Linda Meric

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08/25/11

Linda Meric, Director, 9to5, National Association of Working Women This past year women were paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men in the U.S. For women of color, the gap is even wider, with African American women earning 67 cents and Latinas 58 cents on the dollar. 9to5 member LaTerrell...

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Linda Meric

08/25/11

Last week Compassion & Choices and our friend, Neil Rudolph, held a press conference in Denver to launch a national public education campaign, “ Peace at Life’s End — Anywhere. ” We hope to inform people in every state of safe, legal and peaceful means to end life when physical decline and...

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Barbara Coombs Lee

08/25/11

Today is Women's Equality Day. At the center of my mind today is: What the heck do I tell my daughter? - How do I tell my daughter about the fact that despite many gains made for women's (and mothers') equality, women still don't earn equal pay for equal work? Women now make, on average, only 77...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

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08/25/11

On the anniversaries of the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment and the 1963 March on Washington, which are this week, MomsRising joins our colleagues in working to mobilize women voters around preserving women’s Health and Economic Rights (HERrights) in order to build an even stronger nation that...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner