Delores Huerta speaking to crowd |
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Angela Davis speaking at a street rally in 1974 |
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“Fight for the things that you care about,
but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The Supreme Court will hear a case on the domestic Title X gag rule — a Trump rule that forced Planned Parenthood and other providers out of the program and slashed the Title X network’s patient capacity in half.
The result of the gag rule? Millions are unable to get birth control, cancer screenings, and essential care through Title X at their provider of choice. This impacts Black and Latino patients who are more likely to face the worst health and economic impacts from COVID-19.
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The Equality Act is a bill in the United States Congress, that, if passed, would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, public education, federal funding, credit, and the jury system.
The Equality Act just passed in the House of Representatives! This long-overdue legislation would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Now it is time to ensure it passes in the Senate!
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Early learning and care is an issue of gender, racial, and economic justice. It is far more than a personal problem for parents of young children. It raises fundamental questions about unequal investment in early childhood development, the devaluation of the people who care for our children — the majority of whom are women of color — and the growing economic stress on the care workforce and our families the longer we fail to address the crisis.
Ultimately, the issue of early learning and care calls for a reexamination of the relationship between private and public goods. Our aim to ensure quality jobs, as well as quality care, will require significant public investments at the local, state and federal levels. The movement will need to reshape the understanding and collective responsibility of early learning and care as a public good.
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We need paid sick days, and paid family and medical leave, for all of us to get through this crisis, and we need them for good. Both are essential during times of pandemics, but we also need these benefits permanently in place to support working families.
→ Tell your members of Congress in the House and Senate to BOOST AND MAKE PERMANENT paid sick days and paid family and medical leave in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee, offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color. From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common root problem: racism. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all.
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Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can, by Alix Kates Shulman, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists.
The anthology reveals the crucial role of Black feminists and other women of color in a decades long mass movement that not only brought about fundamental changes in American life—changes too often taken for granted today—but envisioned a thoroughgoing revolution in society and consciousness still to be achieved.
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- March 1, 1987 – Congress passes a resolution designating March as Women’s History Month
- March 2, 1903 – the Martha Washington Hotel opens in New York City, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women
- March 3, 1913 – Women’s Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC, where over 8000 women gathered to demand a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote
- March 4, 1917 – Jeannette Rankin (R-MT) took her seat as the first female member of Congress
- March 4, 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet
- March 8 – International Women’s Day, whose origins trace back to protests in the U.S. and Europe to honor and fight for the political rights for working women
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March 8, 2014 – National Catholic Sisters Week www.nationalcatholicsistersweek.org established to raise awareness of the contributions of Catholic sisters
- March 12, 1912 – Juliette Gordon Low assembled 18 girls together in Savannah, Georgia, for the first-ever Girl Scout meeting
- March 12, 1993 – Janet Reno is sworn in as the first woman U.S. Attorney General
- March 13, 1986 – Susan Butcher won the first of 3 straight and 4 total Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races in Alaska
- March 17, 1910 – Camp Fire Girls is established as the first interracial, non-sectarian American organization for girls
- March 17, 1917 – Loretta Perfectus Walsh became the first woman to join the navy and the first woman to officially join the military in a role other than a nurse
- March 20, 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published and becomes the best-selling book of the 19th century
- March 21, 1986 – Debi Thomas becomes first African American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championship
- March 23, 1917 – Virginia Woolf establishes the Hogarth Press with her husband, Leonard Woolf
- March 31, 1888 – The National Council of Women of the U.S. is organized by Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sojourner Truth, among others, the oldest non-sectarian women’s organization in the U.S.
- March 31, 1776 – Abigail Adams writes to her husband John who is helping to frame the Declaration of Independence and cautions, “Remember the ladies…”
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If you were a Second Wave feminist, we want your story too!
Click here to find out how to participate. And please consider supporting VFA so we can continue to write the true history of the Second Wave.
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9to5: The Story of a Movement is the latest labor documentary from Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar (the duo behind American Factory). The film chronicles the 9to5 movement, in which America’s secretaries took to the streets, fed up with on-the-job abuse. They created a movement called 9to5, which later inspired Jane Fonda to make a movie and Dolly Parton to write a song. This film is the untold story of their fight. The Story of a Movement is available online at pbs.org/9to5 until March 31. If your organization is interested in hosting a free virtual engagement screening, please contact the 9to5 office at evory.benjamin@gmail.com. Screenings are not limited to March. |
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A’shanti F. Gholar serves as the president of Emerge, the only organization dedicated to recruiting and training Democratic women to run for office. In this role, she leads the organization and steers its overall strategy and direction, overseeing a national staff as well as affiliates across the country.
A’shanti is a nationally recognized political strategist, who most recently served as Emerge’s Political Director, responsible for strengthening national partnerships and working closely with state affiliates to strategically recruit for key seats, as well as directing the organization’s overall political strategy. For over 15 years, A’shanti has been a grassroots organizer and activist for women, communities of color and progressive causes. She has experience in building coalitions, program development and community and political engagement. Prior to coming to Emerge, A’shanti served as the National Deputy Director of Community Engagement and Director of African American Engagement for the Democratic National Committee. A’shanti has also served as the Manager of National Partnerships for United Way Worldwide, as a political appointee in the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor and as the Director of Public Engagement for the 2012 Democratic National Convention Committee in Charlotte, NC.
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When we organize, we can change the world. |
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We are so glad to be your partner in this movement for democracy and justice for all.
– Heather Booth, Lilly Rivlin, and the Film Team
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