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Boots on the Ground: How Student Activism Aided the Block of an Abortion Ban in Alabama

Published: November 1, 2019

Earlier this year, Alabama’s State House passed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the nation: The Human Life Protection Act. This ban criminalized abortion providers, giving them 10-99 years in a state prison for performing an abortion. Masked under a “pro-life” agenda, the authors of this bill disregarded the impacts it would have […]

#VoteFeminist: In Alabama and West Virginia, Abortion Access is on the Ballot

Published: November 2, 2018

During the entirety of September, I participated in calls to action, demonstrations, and marches, met with senators, and did anything I could do to try to keep Brett Kavanaugh off of the Supreme Court. One of the first things I learned about Kavanaugh after his nomination was that there was an extremely real possibility that, […]

We Be Burnin’: Marijuana Regulation on the Ballot in 2016

Published: April 20, 2016

Marijuana. Weed. Pot. Mary Jane. Ganja. Reefer. This little plant has had quite the journey through the American imagination and this upcoming election season, there are twenty states with marijuana measures on their ballots. From expunging weed related offenses to legalizing and regulating marijuana, the battle for legalized marijuana use has moved to the ballot and […]

Meet the Team: Tennessee Students Taking on Amendment 1 Tell Us Why They’re Feminists

Published: November 3, 2014

Students in Tennessee are leading the fight against Amendment 1, a dangerous and far-reaching proposed change to Tennessee’s constitution that would open the floodgates for draconian abortion restrictions in the state. We’re right there with them. These are their faces!

Meet the Team: Students Against Measure 1 in North Dakota on What Feminism Means to Them

Published: October 31, 2014

We’re proud to be working with feminist students to defeat Measure 1, a dangerous personhood amendment being decided this election in North Dakota. These are their faces!

Tennessee’s Amendment 1 Is Not What You Think And Not What You Want

Published: October 30, 2014

Many have heard about Amendment 1, the new proposed amendment to the Tennessee State Constitution that will appear on the ballot this election cycle. Distressingly, however, is that many, if not more, have also heard misleading or blatantly untrue things about its intent and possible consequences.

Meet the Team: Student Organizers Working to Defeat Amendment 67 in Colorado Talk Feminism

Published: October 29, 2014

Young feminists are on the ground in Colorado, working to defeat Amendment 67, a dangerous personhood amendment up for a vote this November, and we’re working alongside them until the election is over. Here are their faces!

Meet the Team: Student Organizers in Oregon Support Measure 89 and the ERA!

Published: October 27, 2014

Students in Oregon are organizing in support of Measure 89, which would add the Equal Rights Amendment to their state constitution, and we’re coordinating with them to give Oregonian women the constitutional equality they deserve – equality that’s long overdue. These are their faces!

Mapping A Movement: Taylor And Alyssa Went To North Dakota To Rally Voters Against Measure 1!

Published: October 23, 2014

Alyssa and Taylor just returned from North Dakota, where they hired students to work on grassroots organizing against North Dakota’s upcoming ballot measure. They fell in love with the city of Fargo and the people in it. Here’s the story of their travels!

Get Into It: Rally Against Colorado’s Amendment 67 with Dolores Huerta!

Published: October 17, 2014

You can join our National Campus Organizer Nancy, local and national leaders in politics and women’s rights, and the legendary Dolores Huerta TODAY in Pueblo to rally against Amendment 67, a dangerous personhood measure on the ballot in Colorado. Come out and help us stop it!