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August 2011

Friends Don’t Let Friends Stay Home on Election Day. Especially Not Girlfriends.

Published: August 26, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Guest post by the WIN Writing Group, originally published on the WIN Writing Group blog. Do you like living in a representative democracy? Do you like social safety nets like social security and medicare? How about the right to full reproductive health care including abortion? Or access to health […]

By Guest Blogger

The Time to Mobilize Young Women Voters Is Now!

Published: August 26, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with Moms Rising. As a young woman who grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas and attended Little Rock Central High School (home of the Little Rock Nine), I was fully aware of the importance of civil rights activists such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and women’s equality advocates […]

By Guest Blogger

“The Help” and the Rights of Domestic Workers

Published: August 26, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Originally posted on Moms Rising. This week, I went to see the movie The Help, based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett. The film focuses on the exploitation, abuse, and indignities endured by African American women who worked as house cleaners, childcare providers, and cooks in the homes […]

By Guest Blogger

How the Youth, Women’s, and Minority Vote are at Stake in 2012

Published: August 26, 2011

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. The Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. Magazine are partnering with other organizations that represent women and people of color in a Health and Economic Right or HERvotes initiative for the election in 2012. FMF’s Campus Team is gearing up together with HERvotes for its Get Out Her Vote (GOHV) […]

By Francesca Witcher

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