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Tallahassee Democrat: Plane flies over federal courthouse with banner, ‘Trump and Bondi are protecting predators’
The Women’s Advocacy Group That Won’t Give Up Until Roger Goodell Resigns
“Roger Goodell may have taken a crisis communications 101 class over the weekend, but his actions are simply too little too late,” said Nita Chaudhary, co-founder of UltraViolet. “Goodell must resign, and the NFL needs to seriously step up its commitment to ending violence against women within the league.”
TBS Cancels Cee Lo Greeen’s Show
TBS’ decision comes after women’s rights group UltraViolet petitioned the network to cancel The Good Life.
Activists Target The Princeton Review In Campus Rape Ad Campaign
Activist group UltraViolet is ramping up pressure on The Princeton Review, a company that publishes an influential ranking of colleges, to survey students about how schools handle sexual violence on campus.
Puppets Weigh In on Supreme Court Contraception Case
[UltraViolet] is pulling the strings in a new ad campaign aimed at raising awareness and support for a provision in the Affordable Care Act that requires employers to provide insurance coverage for contraception.
The Hobby Lobby’s Supreme Court Case, Explained by Puppets!
I’m obsessed with this video from the equality website UltraViolet. They teamed up with The Daily Show co-creator and activist Lizz Winstead to illustrate the absurdity of this case, break down the issue, and remind us why we don’t want our bosses in our bedrooms.
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.”
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