Beyond the Triangle advocacy Campaign! May 30th W/ SEATTLE NOW/ALLYSHIP AND FRIENDS Queerly Classed presents: Limited Access: Who has and doesn’t have access to health care in the LGBTQ community?’ May 30th – 6:30pm at Southside Commons, 3518 S. Edmunds street (Columbia City) on bus route 7 and 9. Come out on May 30th and [...]
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Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker (The Color Purple, The Chicken Chronicles) and bestselling author Frances Moore Lappé (Diet for a Small Planet, EcoMind), speak to our power as change makers, interwoven with inspiring music from Makana, the acclaimed Hawaiian songwriter and slack-key guitarist who made national news last fall [...]
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West Coast Women’s Blues Revue – Voter Rally Event – May 31 – 88 KEYS/Seattle – 315 2nd Ave S. Besides amazing music there will be voter registration there by the Sea-King NAACP and PC Recycle of Bellevue is donating the use of two computers that will be set up so the audience can donate [...]
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Join UFCW 21 and Seattle NOW on Wednesday, May 30th, 12noon, Rally Against Walmart Kelsey Shopping Center (Corner of 148th Ave SE & Main Street, Bellevue). We will protest entry of Walmart into this development and the impact that it has already had on small locally owned businesses within the center and in the surrounding [...]
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some shocking Obamacares facts. 1. There will be non-profit insurers offering health care plans in the exchanges on top of traditional private insurers (regulated STRONGLY by the health care law). The public option never really disappeared. It was just replaced with non-profit language that will turn into non-profit options just as strong as the proposed [...]
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On Wednesday, May 16th, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed their version of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4970). While on the surface the passage of this bill may seem a success, it is the opposite. This bill actually decreases protection of victims of sexual assault and denies necessary support to immigrant [...]
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Sadly, these bills, important to all women, only have an 8-9% chance of passage.Bills below have 8-9% chance of passing. The Violence Against Women Act, passed by the Senate, has been passed in the House but the amendments protecting immigrant and Native American women were removed in the House version. CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS S. 1925 Violence [...]
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Below is a list of candidates endorsed by the WA State NOW PAC. We hope you will support the candidates in your area. Please do learn more about these candidates — visit their websites and facebook pages and then get involved in their campaigns as they could use your support. Ms Laurie Jinkins, 27 WA [...]
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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE by Keena Bean, Legislative Coordinator short link: http://wp.me/pjR3X-gG Hey, Seattle NOW Activists and Supporters, my name is Keena Bean and I am your new Legislative Coordinator for Seattle NOW. I am currently a junior at the University of Washington, and I recently took on this position as part of my internship requirement for [...]
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