The 117th Congress passed the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) and the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act in the late hours before adjournment on Dec. 29th. PWFA and PUMP were part of a $1.7 trillion package of bills and spending measures in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 which President Read more …
It is a tragic fact that the global climate crisis and war have largely shaped the current global food shortage, leaving millions starving. To think there is enough food to feed all seven billion of us in the world, but dozens of countries suffer major food insecurity. It is truly jarring. The global imbalance is Read more …
June 27, 2022 “Right now, we are at a point where our nation will never be redeemed from this violence until our love of our children is greater than our love of guns and power and money,” Sen. Cory Booker Tulsa, Uvalde, Buffalo, El Paso, Parkland, Las Vegas, Orlando, Sandy Hook—the list goes on and Read more …
The NOW Feminist Public Square book club was honored to host Saru Jayaraman, author of the eye-opening book, “One Fair Wage.” In her publication, Jayaraman discusses the nuances of wage rates in the United States workforce, highlighting the systemic inequalities that millions of marginalized Americans face. To address the deficits in pay practices, Jayaraman launched Read more …
April 4 was the 53rd anniversary of the day that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. On that day, Dr. King’s daughter Bernice King tweeted an important message that we must all take to heart: “As you tweet about my father today, know that he organized Read more …
Register for April 15th: NOW Town Hall: Building Generations of Intersectional Feminists Heather Booth Heather Booth is one of the country’s leading strategists about progressive issue campaigns and driving issues in elections. She started organizing in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, and women’s movements of the 1960s. She started JANE, an underground abortion service in Read more …
February 3, 2021 Call your Senators – Urge that they vote to fund President Biden’s Stimulus and COVID Relief Package – The American Rescue Plan. As he promised before the inauguration, PresidentBiden has proposed a significant pandemic relief package that will help the American people and the economy after the third and seemingly deadliest wave Read more …
Yesterday’s runoff elections in Georgia saw a mobilization of grassroots “people power” unlike anything we’ve seen before. Led by civil and voting rights organizations like Black Votes Matter, New Georgia Project, Fair Fight and many more, voting rights activists including these five women profiled by The Hill (which included the disclaimer: “This list isn’t exhaustive”), helped turn out 3 million early votes and register Read more …
When NOW launched the Unlock the Future campaign last year, we were responding to the crisis Donald Trump manufactured at the border. Instead of following the law regarding immigration cases, he locked up thousands of women and girls seeking refuge from sexual violence, assault and poverty in prisons, where they were again denied their most basic human rights. Trump’s racism and xenophobia was on display again this Read more …
Send Us Your Suggestions November 9, 2020 This activity takes place every four years: a list of recommendation for the incoming administration of the most urgent and important policy and program initiatives the new team should immediately consider. President-elect Joe Biden has spoken about his number one priority: getting the coronavirus under control. Nine months Read more …
