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Stand Up Against Child Trafficking


Worldwide, 5.5 million children are innocent victims of forced labor and child trafficking. And in the US, human trafficking has been reported in ALL 50 states.
            Please sign the petition today! Congress: Stand Up Against Child Trafficking
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Stand with Women and Girls … Mercy Corps


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Dropping out of school to walk miles for clean water. Being forced into marriages as young as eight. Going hungry so a child might have something to eat. Right now, around the world, women and girls are facing impossible choices.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. I’ve seen firsthand what happens when women and girls have someone standing behind them: Girls can go to school. Mothers can feed their children. Women can help their whole communities thrive. This International Women’s Day, show women and girls you’re standing with them – add your name to our pledge today.

At Mercy Corps, we’re working around the world to ensure that women and girls have the tools they need to go to school, be protected from violence, and lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

Help us celebrate International Women’s Day by signing our pledge and standing with women and girls around the world – together we can ensure every woman and girl has the bright future she deserves.

Sincerely,

Dan O'Neill, Mercy Corps Founder

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This Week’s Top 3 On ThinkProgr​ess


Dear Friend,

We know the impending budget cuts have almost completely dominated the news cycle this week, but here are three other important stories from ThinkProgress that you may have missed:

1. Scalia: Voting Rights Act Is ‘Perpetuation Of Racial Entitlement’

2. Congress Finally Reauthorizes Violence Against Women Act

3. 8 Inspiring Things That Happened Since Trayvon Martin Was Tragically Killed One Year Ago

Best,

Igor Volsky Deputy Editor, ThinkProgress

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Nancy Pelosi – House Dems and the Headlines : March 2013


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Pelosi Statement on Cesar Chavez Day

“Today, the spirit of Cesar Chavez lives on in our ongoing fight for progress for the Hispanic community and for the American people.  It continues in the fight to make the minimum wage a living wage and to ensure equal pay for equal work.  It goes on in the struggle to protect the rights of voters and citizens no matter what their race or background.  It inspires our drive to respect our borders, advance our values, respect our history as a nation of immigrants, and enact comprehensive immigration reform.”
Saturday, March 30, 2013
“Congressman Young’s comments were deeply hurtful, offensive and inappropriate for anyone to utter, let alone a Member of the United States Congress.  Congressman Young should fully apologize for deeply offensive comments that were not appropriate in his youth or now.”
Friday, March 29, 2013
“There is no question that we face a continuing need to remove the obstacles that block too many Americans from the polls.  Under the leadership of Congressmen John Lewis, Jim Clyburn, George Miller and John Larson, we’ve proposed election reforms to strengthen enforcement of voting laws, provide for same day and modernization of voting registration, require early voting and other resources to prevent long voting lines and reduce the problems that voters everywhere are facing.”
Thursday, March 28, 2013
“The complete cleanup of Hunters Point is long past due.  Bayview residents have waited nearly 40 years for the Navy to fulfill its commitments while experiencing the highest rates of asthma and breast and cervical cancer in San Francisco.”
Thursday, March 28, 2013
“The – I – on the basis of what I heard, the questions of the justices, the response of the participants, I’m very optimistic that DOMA will be struck down.  It doesn’t seem to have a rational basis, which is one of the criteria, a rational basis, a justification for being and secondly, probably, I should say first, full protection of all people in our country.  So equal protection has been a principle that our country was founded on, that our Constitution was written on, and I think on the basis of those two – the debate was going back and forth – ‘is it about equal protection?’  ‘Is it about rational basis?’  I think on either score, it – the arguments, the debates seem to favor striking down DOMA, which is very important.”
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
“The DOMA challenge involves the heartbreaking case of Edie Windsor, who was required by the federal government to pay hundreds of thousands in taxes after her wife, Thea, passed way.  Regardless of the fact that Edie and Thea were married and together for over 40 years, the federal government discriminated against Edie.  House Republicans intervened in this case in their efforts to preserve injustice and defend discrimination, and impose an unjust tax liability on an American family.”
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Pelosi Statement on the Third Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act

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