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Pro-Choice Lobby Day is back and we need you to join us on Thursday, March 1, 2018 to stand up for reproductive rights in Minnesota and push back against any and all anti-choice attacks on the basic human right to control ones reproductive health!
With the Minnesota Legislature's completely anti-choice majority in both Houses we cannot sit back and hope for the best. We need Minnesota's Pro-Choice majority to join is at the Capitol to make our voices heard!
Shame on Congress for failing to include a solution for #Dreamers in the latest funding bill. Call your US House of Representatives and US Senate reps and tell them to pass a #CleanDreamAct now!
Discussions are set to start next week because they have until Mar 5th to find a legal pathway to citizenship for 800,000 undocumented immigrants brought into this country illegally as children (7,000 in MN alone). Let’s hold them to it!
March 3, 7:30-4:30 RISE 2018 Women's Leadership Conference: Muslim Women Strong
Keynote: Ibtijah Muhammad, Bronze Medalist American Olympian Sabre Fencer. Entertainment by Pearls of Islam, from London, UK. Tickets on sale today. Early bird special of $50.00/person until Jan. 30, 2018. After Feb 1, tickets will be $75.00.
Read MoreFeb 22, 8:00-9:00am Press Conference for Eliminating the Statute of Limitations for Reporting Incidents of Sexual Violence
Join us and Rep. Ilhan Omar as we introduce a bill to eliminate the statute of limitations for reporting incidents of sexual violence. The press conference will include a statement from Rep. Ilhan Omar and members of both Break the Silence MN and Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood for Empowerment. We stand with survivors, and we need our legislators to stand with them, too.
Read MoreFeb 14, 9:00am 4th Annual Women's Memorial March: Protect Our Life Givers
We know that issues of environmental justice and justice for indigenous peoples are not separate, but deeply interconnected. Be a part of the movement calling for awareness for MMIW. #WaterIsLife #ProtectOurLifeGivers #ProtectOurSacredWaters #MMIW
Join the MMIW March - All in Solidarity of MMIW. We'll be alongside many communities across Turtle Island to honor missing and murdered indigenous women.
Did You Know?
11: American women are 11 times more likely to be murdered with a firearm than women in any other developed nation.
16: A woman in the U.S. is fatally shot by her current or former intimate partner every 16 hours.
80: 80 percent of people killed by firearms annually in the U.S. by intimate partners are women.
53: The percentage of intimate partner murders that involve a fatal gunshot.
1 in 3: The number of women living in domestic violence shelters in California who were threatened or harmed with a firearm by their domestic partners.
Help us send the message - loud and clear - that we stand against 'Stand Your Ground' and won't permit permitless carry
Read MoreTUESDAY, FEB 6 - 7:00PM
There’s a lot at stake for Minnesota this election year and it starts with precinct caucuses. Make sure they #HearYourVoice regarding who gets elected to represent you! Please arrange to go with your neighbors tomorrow night and share this post to help folks plan for caucusing.
A bill that needs to get a hearing this session and be voted in - a Sex Trafficking Prevention Bill aimed at bringing sex trafficking awareness into the school curriculum. Proposed by an enterprising group of Hopkins High School students (Girls United MN), this bill has bipartisan support.
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