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Announcement: A generous donor has agreed to match 100% of your donations if we reach our $125k goal!
There are only 2 weeks left to meet our goal and we are more than half way there, but we need your help to fully fund the documentary The Real NRA: Making A Killing.
We are taking on the NRA and gun companies in full force to expose the public health crisis the gun lobby has caused in the name of profit and furthering their extreme ideology.
They may have billions, but we have you, the hundreds of donors who believe in this film and have already committed over $69,000 to finishing this documentary, and the power of a growing movement!
Contribute to this project today. Any amount, large or small will be matched. That is double the impact to make this critical film a reality.
Together we are fighting for a country where Americans’ lives are not destroyed by companies and politicians putting profits over people’s lives. Just two weeks ago we stood in solidarity with the California Federation of Teachers who put principles before profits when demanding their $500 million pension investment be taken out of gun companies. No financial benefit is worth a child, teacher, or anyone’s life.
Contribute today, let’s make this critical film!
Jim Miller, Executive Director
Brave New Films
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Is the policing of black men a new sport for wealthy donors?
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Indiegogo removed ALL the fundraisers
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After 54,000 ColorOfChange members raised their voices, Indiegogo met our demand and took down all Officer Slager pages from their crowdfunding platform. In short: we won.
Quick wins like this are rare, but they happen when a community is able to come together at a moment’s notice and put strategic pressure on a company or politician. Collectively, we tweeted @Indiegogo thousands of times and flooded their Facebook wall. Everywhere Indiegogo employees and executives looked, they saw our message: that they shouldn’t enable Michael Slager to profit in the aftermath of murdering Walter Scott. And that they shouldn’t perpetuate a toxic culture that roots for and supports illegal police conduct while criminalizing Black victims, and justifying their killings.
We’re currently in talks with Indiegogo and will be meeting CEO Slava Rubin soon to discuss the company’s policies. We want to ensure that the next time a hurtful and hateful fundraiser like this is started on their platform, that it’s taken down immediately without any hesitation or delay. That’s why we need you to speak up.
We’ll take your signatures and comments into the meeting with the CEO. We’ll bring the voices and power of the ColorOfChange community into the room with us. Add your name.
Thanks and peace,
—Arisha, Rashad, Matt, and Bhavik for the ColorOfChange team
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Explaining The Gender Pay Gap
Today is Equal Pay Day, the symbolic day marking the point at which women’s earnings have finally caught up to what to men earned in 2014. According to the latest data, full-time year-round working women earn 78 cents for every dollar a full-time year-round working man earns. The pay gap is even worse for Latina and African American women: African American women earn just 64 cents for every dollar a white man makes, and Latina women earn just 54 cents.
There’s a lot of confusion about these numbers. What do they mean? Where do they come from? To answer these questions, the Center for American Progress has an excellent 3-minute explainer video on the pay gap: click here to watch!
In addition, CAP has put together social media graphics that share some key facts and drive home the importance of why we need to demand equal pay for equal work. Take a minute to share them with your networks!
Unfortunately, the slate of current Republican presidential hopefuls has a terrible record on equal pay. All of the current or prospective GOP candidates have taken steps to undermine laws requiring equal pay for equal work.
Be sure to check out these other important resources on equal pay:
- How the Gender Wage Gap Differs by Occupation
- Women of Color and the Gender Wage Gap
- What Occupational Data Show About the Causes of the Gender Wage Gap
BOTTOM LINE: Women earn 78 cents to the dollar, and it’s even less for Latina and African American women. Systemic issues lead to this gap, and policies we support, including paid maternal leave and other measures that support women and families, can help close it. It’s long past time for equal pay for equal work.
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