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Council on Women and Girls


White House Council on Women and Girls Update:

The White House

Dear friends,

Happy Women’s History Month! We hope this message finds you well. It has been an exciting and busy time here at the White House Council on Women and Girls.

Earlier this week, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama announced a new whole-of-government initiative called Let Girls Learn, which expands the Administration’s efforts to help adolescent girls around the world attend and complete school. And just over a week ago, the First Lady hosted an event to honor the women of the Civil Rights Movement. If you haven’t had a chance yet, please be sure to visit the new White House Women in STEM website, highlighting some wonderful #WomenInSTEM.

All month long, the Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, Valerie Jarrett, will be tweeting about inspiring women in history. Share the women who inspire you by tweeting about them using the hashtag #WomensHistoryMonth, and we’ll feature some of our favorite submissions throughout the month.

Thank you for all that you do!

Best regards,

The White House Council on Women and Girls

Latest News and Administration Highlights

Let Girls Learn
On Tuesday, the President and First Lady announced that the White House is ramping up its efforts to Let Girls Learn, with a new initiative focused on supporting girls’ education around the world.

Watch the President and First Lady’s remarks here:

Learn more about the Let Girls Learn initiative.

Women of the Civil Rights Movement
On February 20, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered remarks at “Celebrating Women of the Movement” — an event honoring some of the women of the Civil Rights Movement.

In her remarks, Mrs. Obama explained that “education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.”

Watch her full remarks here:

Watch the First Lady's remarks here.

Women in STEM
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently launched a page dedicated to highlighting some incredible #WomenInSTEM. Check out their stories, and get Women in STEM fact sheets, latest news updates, speeches, and other useful resources here.

Learn more about women in STEM.

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Two months of damage — ✓


The first two months of Boehner’s Republican Congress reads like a how-to manual on how NOT to govern.

Democrats were proud to keep the Department of Homeland Security running. But mark my words — our compromise didn’t make the far right very happy. They’re going to launch attack after attack in order to get their way.

We’ll keep fighting them, but we need your help. Can you give $5 or more to fight their radical agenda?

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In two months, Republicans have attacked middle class issues again and again. But we will do everything we can to fight back. I need your help to be prepared for whatever they’ll do next — donate $5, $10 or whatever makes sense to you.

Thank you for standing with me.

Nancy

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Cathi Geeslin, Everytown for Gun Safety


The GunShine State ?

The NRA is pushing bills in 24 states that would allow guns in K-12 schools and force colleges and universities to allow guns on campus.

As a parent, I am genuinely frightened for my children.

The epicenter of this fight is in Florida — the gun lobby’s favorite state to test out extreme legislation.

The NRA has already introduced six guns-in-schools bills in the Florida legislature covering everything from kindergarten to college. There’s no other way to put it: this is Crazytown.

That’s why Everytown is launching a TV ad featuring some shocking quotes from the NRA’s own CEO, Wayne LaPierre. We’re telling lawmakers: Keep guns out of our schools!

Watch our new TV ad now — then donate $10 or more to help us make and keep ads like this on the air. Your donation will help fuel the fight to keep guns out of schools in Florida and across the country.

KEEP GUNS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS

We are already terrifying an entire generation of school children with lockdown drills. Instead of introducing more guns in schools, we should be busy keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people.

Parents and educators overwhelmingly agree that no one but trained law enforcement and security guards should be armed in schools. And in 1999, the NRA’s own CEO Wayne LaPierre agreed, too.

That’s the simple, common-sense point our new TV ad makes.

We must speak up, as parents and concerned citizens, and stop the NRA’s dangerous guns-in-schools agenda before it gets any further.

Watch the ad and make a gift now:

https://donate.everytown.org/donate/Stop-Crazytown-FL-Ad-2

Thanks for fueling the fight to keep our schools and children safe.

Cathi Geeslin
Program Manager
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America

P.S. Thanks to generous donations from supporters like you, we are printing more than 12,000 gun-free schools postcards for volunteers to deliver to Florida’s state capitol on Monday. Let’s keep this fight going. Help Stop Crazytown by making a contribution now.

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