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President Biden announced his nominee, Kalpana Kotagal, to fill the term with former EEOC Republican Commissioner Janet Dhillon almost one year ago. She is more than qualified to serve on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)—it’s pastime to make sure she is confirmed.

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Dancers with Strippers Are Workers (SAW) have been fighting for dancers’ rights, and led the development of Senate Bill 5614. They’ve been fighting tirelessly to pass this bill in the legislative session so that they can end harmful industry practices like clubs forcing dancers to pay “house fees” of up to $200 a night.

SB 5614 passed the Senate with strong bipartisan support 40-8. Then it passed the House Labor Committee. But the House Substances and Gaming committee called for the bill to be heard in their committee. And yet, the committee has failed to schedule the bill for a hearing — meaning dancers cannot pass their bill, and the committee isn’t even hearing it out.

This bill is essential for getting dancers protections and rights, and will:

• Stop exorbitant house fees & eliminate back rent (the practice of indebting dancers to clubs when they don’t earn enough to pay their house fees)
• Legalize alcohol in clubs, funding essential industry changes
• Require security staff and safety training in all clubs
• Create discrimination protections for dancers

Dancers are workers. They deserve the same rights all workers do, because sex work is work. The committee needs to schedule SB 5614 for a hearing to support dancers in having safe, secure, and equitable work environments.

To support dancers, email committee members asking that they schedule SB 5614 for a hearing, and advance it to the House floor for a vote.

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U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. Lucid was the first female U.S. astronaut to live in a space station.

Lucid, a biochemist, shared Mir with Russian cosmonauts Yuri Onufriyenko and Yuri Usachev, conducting scientific experiments during her stay. Beginning in August, her scheduled return to Earth was delayed more than six weeks because of last-minute repairs to the booster rockets of Atlantis and then by a hurricane. Finally, on September 26, 1996, she returned to Earth aboard Atlantis, touching down at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Her 188-day sojourn aboard Mir set a new space endurance record for an American and a world endurance record for a woman.

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Astronaut Shannon Lucid enters Mir space station

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HISTORY

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March 24, 2023

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February 9, 2010

Women’s History Month

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, née Joan Ruth Bader, (born March 15, 1933, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died September 18, 2020, Washington, D.C.), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 to 2020. She was the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

Joan Ruth Bader was the younger of the two children of Nathan Bader, a merchant, and Celia Bader. Her elder sister, Marilyn, died of meningitis at the age of six, when Joan was 14 months old. Outside her family, Ginsburg began to go by the name “Ruth” in kindergarten to help her teachers distinguish her from other students named Joan. The Baders were an observant Jewish family, and Ruth attended synagogue and participated in Jewish traditions as a child. She excelled in school, where she was heavily involved in student activities and earned excellent grades.

Russian troops have killed thousands and displaced millions. They are also destroying Ukraine’s environment, toxifying its soil, and burning its forests and fields. 600 species of animals and 880 species of plants are now under threat.

Altogether, the damage to the environment amounts to over 50 billion dollars. But ecocide, the act of severely destroying the environment, is not considered an international crime.

But there is hope: the European Union is about to decide on making the mass destruction of its nature illegal. If they act, it could set an example for the world to follow — and a campaign supported by 1 million of us would show that people everywhere are against the destruction of Mother Earth.

Sign now demanding the criminalisation of ecocide and we’ll deliver our voices straight to key decision makers.

Posted: 7 March 2023

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