It’s not enough that we must organize, mobilize and motivate the largest feminist voting bloc in our nation’s history this November—and make no mistake, that’s just what NOW is doing—but there’s another big step we need to take together. The right to vote is now our fight to vote—especially during a pandemic. Voter suppression efforts are in full force, so we all have to Read more …
The U.S. Postal Service should be adequately funded and safeguarded against sabotage. An emergency situation is growing with the Trump Administration’s directed attacks on the functions of the U.S. Postal Service. In 2006, a requirement that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) should use its revenues to forward fund employees’ health care costs imposed a heavy Read more …
August 21, 2020 Call your Representative and Senators – urge that they vote to Stop Trump, Fund USPS. It is now abundantly clear that Donald Trump is sabotaging the General Election – he has as much admitted this because he says mail-in ballots are open to fraud. There is no evidence that is the case, Read more …
I watched Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech with a lump in my throat. As the first Black and Asian American woman to be nominated by a major party, she is bringing a conversation about inclusion, diversity and equality into our national politics that we have long demanded. As I wrote in this op-ed, Kamala Harris’s success is also an affirmation of the Read more …
As I read the recent op-ed from Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal in the Los Angeles Times this weekend, I couldn’t help but be struck by how much Mrs. America really did get wrong. With Phyllis Schlafly as the “protagonist,” the show relies on irony and the incongruency between her lobbying and her personal life to show viewers that the Eagle Forum and STOP ERA are not Read more …
We’re excited at the news that Kamala Harris will be the first woman of color to be nominated for Vice President. Here’s my statement about this historic choice. Feminist leaders like Kamala Harris know that the coronavirus crisis has revealed endemic and systemic failures of equity, fairness and opportunity. For example, women have been spending more time Read more …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At Congressman John Lewis’s last appearance in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the historic 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge—where state troopers launched a vicious attack on peaceful demonstrators that left him with a fractured skull,–– he returned to a message that he advocated for throughout his life, the power of the right to vote. Already diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, John Lewis looked back on that day and said, “We were Read more …
The coronavirus is having a disproportionate impact on women, particularly when it comes to the economy. When I wrote to you in May, I cited a New York Times report that women accounted for 55 percent of the 20.5 million jobs lost in April, an article that quoted C. Nicole Mason, president and chief executive of the Read more …
The Voters for Equality Campaign, a joint project of Feminist Majority and National Organization for Women, puts a priority on flipping control of the U.S. Senate. Democrats must gain a net of four seats to win the majority in the Senate (three seats if Democrats win the presidency). We are targeting Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, North Carolina, Read more …
According to NBC News, “After several months of mixed messages on the coronavirus pandemic, the White House is settling on a new one: Learn to live with it.” Donald Trump and the governors who follow his anti-science playbook are telling us to just get back to living our lives. Never mind the terrible ongoing toll to public health—particularly for minority Read more …