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Ulta Beauty urged to remove Flock Safety cameras from stores
UltraViolet, a women-led gender justice organization, launched its “Drop Flock” campaign this month, calling on Ulta Beauty to terminate contracts with Flock Safety and other mass surveillance companies. The organization said its petition had surpassed 15,000 signatures as of Sept. 8.
“Ulta Beauty has built a multibillion-dollar business on women’s trust,” UltraViolet Campaign Director Jenna Sherman said in a statement accompanying the campaign’s launch. “Putting Flock, an invasive mass surveillance system, right outside its stores without customer knowledge or consent is a direct violation of that trust.”
LA City Council Unanimously Votes for Reevaluation of Casey Wasserman’s LA28 Leadership
"Ahead of the Friday vote, Elisa Batista, the Campaign Director of UltraViolet Action, a national women-led gender-justice organization, made it clear it was the group’s belief that Wasserman did not “deserve” to stay on as LA28 Organizing Chairman.
“This vote is just the latest example of Angelenos speaking out, loud and clear, against sexual violence and rape culture,” Batista said Friday. “We do not want someone affiliated with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell representing the city of Los Angeles, let alone the entire country, on one of the world’s largest stages.”
The Heat on Wasserman Isn’t Dying Down: LA City Council Approves Resolution to Reconsider Wasserman’s Position on LA28 Olympic Committee
"“This vote is just the latest example of Angelenos speaking out, loud and clear, against sexual violence and rape culture,” said Elisa Batista, Campaign Director at UltraViolet Action, a leading national women-led gender-justice organization. “We do not want someone affiliated with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell representing the City of Los Angeles, let alone the entire country, on one of the world’s largest stages.”
“The leadership of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics should be free from any association with individuals connected to a child sexual abuse and trafficking operation—both morally and practically, given how critical these games are to Los Angeles and the entire country,” said Batista.
“Holding a position like Olympic Chairman is a privilege, not a right, and Wasserman does not deserve that right,” Batista continued. “Any excuses for keeping Casey Wasserman on the board are empty and a slap in the face to survivors everywhere.”"
DOJ Under Fire for Withholding Epstein Files Related to Alleged Trump Child Sex Assault
Elisa Batista, campaign director at the advocacy group UltraViolet Action, said in a statement Tuesday that we are in solidarity with the courageous survivors showing up in defiance of Trump’s attempts to change the conversation at the State of the Union tonight.“
Peter Attia’s CBS Exit Is a Wake-Up Call for ‘Formerly Untouchable Men,’ Advocacy Leaders Say
“It reminds us that we, too, have the power to fight back,” UltraViolet campaign director Elisa Batista.
Thousands of Activists Sign Petition to Remove Casey Wasserman as Chairman of LA28
National gender-justice organization UltraViolet echoes calls from L.A. Mayor Karen Bass to remove the chairman over Epstein ties.
What Women Said “Melania” Director Brett Ratner Did to Them
“As millions of Americans and thousands of Epstein survivors continue to demand the full release of the Epstein files, Trump and his abuser buddies have instead chosen to release a vanity project wanted by no one,” said Elisa Batista of survivor advocacy group UltraViolet Action
What It’s Like to Get Undressed By Grok
This content is not just horrific and humiliating and abusive, but it’s also in violation of Apple and Google’s stated policy guidelines,” says Jenna Sherman, UltraViolet’s campaign director
‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores
The letters, part of a push to “Get Grok Gone,” coincide with the launch of UltraViolet’s Reclaim the Domain campaign, a broader fight against the nonconsensual creation and sharing of intimate images.
Women’s, advocacy groups call on Apple, Google to drop X and Grok from app stores
"We are really imploring Apple and Google to take this extremely seriously," Jenna Sherman, UltraViolet's campaign director, told Reuters ahead of the letter's release. "They are enabling a system in which thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people, particularly women and children, are being sexually abused through the help of their own app stores."
GoFundMe For ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good Is Soaring Amid Calls To Take It Down
“Until each and every campaign supporting Jonathan Ross is taken down, GoFundMe will remain complicit in legitimizing ICE's campaign of terror and violence on our communities,” UltraViolet said in a statement.
Survivors deserve accountability — not silence
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