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National group collects 60,000 signatures to urge Ohio lawmakers to pass bill restricting parental rights for rapists

Students from the Ohio State University chapter of abortion rights group Choice USA delivered signatures collected on the Ultraviolet website to Sen. John Eklund… Wednesday morning. Eklund chairs the Senate Criminal Justice Committee where three bills to restrict rapists’ parental rights are pending.

Dartmouth under fire for response to incidents of rape on campus

A national women’s group has started an online petition calling out Dartmouth College as a “chronic offender” of failing to protect female students from sexual assault. The petition, by the group UltraViolet, has nearly 50,000 signatures so far and demands Dartmouth take action.

50,000 Activists Demand Sexual Assault Reform At Dartmouth After Student Publishes A ‘Rape Guide’

Karin Roland, the campaign director for UltraViolet, told ThinkProgress that the situation at Dartmouth has reached a boiling point — and it’s now possible to harness that frustration to push for real policy reform.

The Dartmouth Rape Guide: Get Angry, Take Action

Along with impassioned students, faculty, and alumni, UltraViolet is standing its ground to finally demand meaningful change. “We’ve only seen lip service from Dartmouth in response to our campaign, but that just isn’t enough. We need actual concrete actions.”

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SRQ Airport rejects ad from women’s rights group

“These are the facts of the lives of women in Florida,” says Karin Roland, Ultraviolet’s campaign director, “and the fact that women are earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earns in Florida, and that Florida’s representatives oppose the bill that would help close that gap, isn’t a political issue.”

Workers’ rights rally at Tampa Whole Foods store

A smattering of activists, protesters and concerned customers voiced their support for a Chicago woman who was fired from Whole Foods… According to the Ultra Violet website, more than 50,000 Whole Foods customers have signed a petition demanding Rhiannon Broschat be reinstated.

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Protests planned for Whole Foods in Berkeley, Oakland

A coalition of women and labor groups will protest on Saturday at Whole Foods stores in Berkeley and Oakland. They are organized by national women’s activist group UltraViolet and Fight For 15, a Chicago-based labor union for retail and fast-food workers, who are demanding better treatment of women employees.

23 Awesome Feminist Digital Campaigns That Changed the World

After Rick Ross brazenly promoted rape in the lyrics of his new single back in March, Ultraviolet responded by creating a pressure campaign that encouraged advertisers like Reebok to drop the artist as their brand ambassador. Their petition got thousands of signatures in a matter of hours.

A toxic situation: Walmart and Target take on chemical safety

“Women shouldn’t have to worry about cancer when they apply their makeup,” said Shaunna Thomas of UltraViolet, a women’s group that joined forces with the Breast Cancer Fund and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics to go after Revlon.

Lady Wants To Talk About Shoes, Not Bus Reliability, Implies Sexist Metro Ad

“These new ads by Metro Forward are not edgy, they are sexist, stupid and offensive. The PR failure shows just how little Metro Forward thinks of its everyday passenger, and highlights how out of touch the system is with the DC-area residents that they serve,” Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet, said in a statement.

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