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WORD - Women Organized to Resist and Defend
This Saturday: Public Forum in LA!
What's next in the struggle
to defend women's rights?
THIS SATURDAY
Public Forum
Sat., September 29, 7pm
137 N. Virgil Ave, #201
Los Angeles, CA 90004
This Saturday, September 29, WORD is holding a public forum in LA to discuss the next steps in the struggle to defend women's rights.
All over the country, politicians are asking for our votes. They want our support on election day, but we have one question: will they support women and womens rights, including the right to abortion, and womens access to health care services?
Why should women support any politician who wont pledge to aggressively defend womens rights? WORD and other organizations are planning to challenge every politician in the country during this election cycle with one direct question: Will they or wont they sign the Womens Rights Pledge.
Learn more about the Women's Rights Pledge!
WORD is organizing protests outside of the presidential debates on October 16 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York and October 22 at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. During the week of October 16-22, women in cities across the United States will hold local demonstrations to make their voices heard.
As the candidates debate domestic and foreign policy for an audience of millions, we will demand full abortion rights, end budget cuts, affordable healthcare, childcare and maternity leave, equal pay, and more.
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http://www.defendwomensrights.org/
DBoon
(22,372 posts)looked it up...
niyad
(113,413 posts)a 5-point intersection, so it is hard to say exactly what the cross street is
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)As the candidates debate domestic and foreign policy for an audience of millions, we will demand full abortion rights, end budget cuts, affordable healthcare, childcare and maternity leave, equal pay, and more."
That's it? Reproductive rights? Equality in the employment workplace? Over and over and over and over again? Important, all, but woefully insufficient.
Women make many key daily decisions for children, families, and themselves on issues begging for stakeholders' involvement to back up the people/groups with solutions to widespread problems affecting many (especially women as primary caretakers and economic gatekeepers).
ASAP, HOW ABOUT "WOMEN'S RIGHTS" ACTIVISTS JOINING ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11381873
NJ NOW AND VACCINATION CHOICE
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101642527
RA DICKEY, PROTECT.ORG AND EFFECTIVELY COMBATING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101757509
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014231696
HEALTHY FOOD, PROP 37
Women possess the potential to make these efforts successful. Let's see more multi-tasking and an expansion of what constitutes "supporting women and womens rights."