Jenna Sherman, a campaign director focused on tech and gender at Ultraviolet Action, said Trump’s order “only has one group of winners: his wealthy donors in the tech sector.”
"The changes come as campaign groups ParentsTogether Action and UltraViolet stage a first-of-its-kind virtual protest inside Roblox."
After an anti-choice group released a series of deceptively edited videos attacking Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue donation program, UltraViolet released this video to prove how easy it is to manipulate footage to fit any agenda.
“People are taking notice that Netflix is expecting praise for extending parental leave to its higher-paid employees, yet it doesn’t extend those benefits to the hourly employees who need it most,” Nita Chaudhary, cofounder of UltraViolet, said in a statement.
Workers in Netflix’s DVD division are not eligible for its new unlimited parental leave policy.
Planned Parenthood has been having a bit of a Moment-with-a-capital-M lately — but in response to all the fear-mongering anti-abortion rhetoric and false accusations, the hilariously-named “What The F*ck Has Planned Parenthood Done?” Tumblr has stepped up to the plate to remind us exactly how important Planned Parenthood is.
UltraViolet, a group advocating an expansion of women’s rights, is among those gathering on the steps of the Justice Department today, and will bring a mobile billboard broadcasting their demands. “If we want to learn what actually happened to Sandra in her jail cell we need Attorney General Lynch and the Department of Justice to get involved,” wrote Nita Chaudhary, the group’s co-founder, in a press release today. “The deaths of black women at the hands of police, with no accountability, needs to stop. We can’t leave the investigation of Sandra Bland’s death in the hands of local officials.”
UltraViolet is joining the hundreds of thousands of people praising TLC for canceling “19 Kids and Counting.” The show has been embroiled in controversy since May when news broke that Josh Duggar, one of the show’s stars, had been accused of molesting several young girls in the early 2000s.
UltraViolet will protest the parade to pressure FIFA to pay women soccer players as much as men. “Our message to FIFA is simple: equal pay for equal play,” said UltraViolet co-founder Nita Chaudhary in a press release. “FIFA’s antiquated pay discrimination isn’t acceptable anymore.”
Ultraviolet, a women’s rights advocacy organization, started a digital campaign on Monday to press FIFA to pay women’s soccer teams fairly for equal work. Roughly 60,000 people signed the campaign in the first 24 hours — more than twice the signatures a typical Ultraviolet campaign receives on its first day.
Despite the exposure, Lloyd and her teammates will likely struggle to gain the salary and endorsement windfalls enjoyed by their male counterparts. Despite on-field success, female players in the United States face an uphill battle to catch up to the financial success of men’s soccer.
Photo: Jonathan Hayward / AP
Oklahoma’s parole board voted Monday to grant Tondalo Hall a full clemency hearing, the first step in her bid to leave prison early. Hall is pleading for mercy on her 30-year sentence for failing to protect her children from a violent abuser. The man who actually harmed her child got just 2 years.
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