UltraViolet, as well as other gender justice, tech accountability, and pro-democracy organizations, have launched a joint campaign in response. In a petition with over 29,000 signatures at the time of this writing, they call on Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri to stop censoring posts about the Cornell case.
“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.”
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.
Photo: Fight for 15
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.
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.
“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.
“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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