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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:
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.”
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.
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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.
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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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Pandora: Moments of Love on Ice … On ABC Feb.14
Meryl Davis and Charlie White
Feb 14 (4-6 EST) 2pm PST
ABC Airing of Pandora Unforgettable Moments of Love on Ice
(December 20th Event,held in Las Vegas)
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Why would we care about Fashion?
This week, we’ve got a huge opportunity to help end deforestation and human rights abuses for fabric production, and we need your help.
This week is Fashion Week in New York, a time where the biggest luxury designers in the world come together to show off their new collections. It’s a big deal in the fashion world, and that makes it a key moment for our Out of Fashion Campaign. We need to make absolutely sure that part of the discussion and buzz around Fashion Week this year is not just about who’s wearing or showing what, but about how to avoid the devastating impacts that the production of rayon and other fabrics and clothing produced from wood fiber in the form of dissolving pulp is having on forests and communities in places like Indonesia, Canada and Brazil.
The impacts of fabrics made from dissolving pulp, made by companies like Royal Golden Eagle Group’s Sateri Ltd., have gone under the radar for years. It’s time for the world’s most fashionable brands to pay attention and be leaders. Luxury fashion shouldn’t come at the price of land stolen from Indigenous Peoples and the loss of endangered forests. Demand that high fashion not only sets the trends for style, but that it also demonstrates leadership on environmental and social issues in the materials it uses.
Add your voice. Together, we can move the fashion industry forward.
For the forests,
Christy Tennery-Spalding
http://www.ran.org/
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