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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to more than four years in prison and given $500,000 fine – as it happened
Women’s Group, Following Serena Williams, Demands Apology For Sexist Double Standard
TONIGHT 7:30 PM ET: Women’s Group to Project ‘Roe v. Wade Is More Popular Than Brett Kavanaugh’ On Portland Public Library Building
TODAY: Activists Deliver Giant Poster of Kavanaugh’s Leaked Anti-Roe v. Wade Email to Sen. Susan Collins’ Biddeford, Portland, Bangor and Lewiston Offices
Time’s Up Asks CBS to Drop Leslie Moonves Without Golden Parachute
Ultraviolet, a women’s advocacy group, had also called on the network not to settle with the network chief. “If the CBS board gives Moonves any amount of severance in the event of his termination or resignation, you will compound the damage you’ve already inflicted on the progress towards stopping sexual violence with your decision to allow Moonves to continue working,” stated UltraViolet co-founder and executive director Shaunna Thomas in a letter to the CBS board dated Aug. 23.
BREAKING: Leaked Email Shows Kavanaugh Misled Senate & American Public, Will Be Deciding Vote to End Roe v. Wade
Why A Kavanaugh Protester Risked Arrest & Put Her Body On The Line, In Her Own Words
Along with fears about the future of the country, Shaunna Thomas protested Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing for young girls like her daughter — and was ultimately detained by U.S. Capitol Police for four hours.
“I believe it’s possible to be successful, but only if we are willing to put our own bodies on the line, and that’s what I had to do yesterday — not just for myself, not just for UltraViolet members, but frankly for my daughter,” Thomas, executive director and co-founder of the women’s advocacy group UltraViolet, tells Bustle of protesters’ efforts to block Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ protesters target Kavanaugh
Shaunna Thomas, 37, was arrested for disorderly conduct around 30 minutes into the hearing, she said. “Senators, on behalf of millions of women whose rights would be stripped by a Kavanaugh court, I demand you reject this nomination,” she stood up and shouted over the committee chairman, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa.
Thomas is the co-founder and executive director of UltraViolet, a left-leaning organization that works to fight sexism. Her main concern, she said, is that Roe vs. Wade is at stake. She missed her three-year-old daughter’s first day of school to be in the hearing.
Kavanaugh’s Kozinski Test
In July, the women’s rights group UltraViolet issued a call for an inquiry into what Kavanaugh might have seen as a law clerk to Kozinski from 1990–91. This was an entirely reasonable request, given that for many of us, it was hard to sit on a panel or go to a dinner with Judge Kozinski and his law clerks without seeing or hearing some form of hypersexualized grotty dinner theater. In response to this request, the White House issued a statement.
Women’s Group Adds Arizona’s Martha McSally to 2018 ‘Worst for Women’ Candidates List
Women’s Group: DeVos’ New Rules on Campus Sexual Assault Will Make Students Less Safe by Protecting Rapists over Sexual Assault Survivors
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