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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to more than four years in prison and given $500,000 fine – as it happened
SUNDAY 11AM: UltraViolet Flies Plane Banners Over AK, ME, AZ Thanking Senators Who Voted Against Skinny ACA Repeal Bill
TODAY 12PM: Activists Hold Emergency Rally Outside Sen. Murkowski’s Anchorage Office Urging Her to Stop Trumpcare
UltraViolet Slams Rep. Buddy Carter for Threatening Sen. Lisa Murkowski on MSNBC
UltraViolet Slams Rep. Blake Farenthold for Attacking Republican Women
These Are the Women Who Spent Months Fighting the GOP’s Health Care Bill
As a result, Gregg has taken a more proactive approach to the bill, organizing rallies in Portland and hosting Women Resist house parties on behalf of the women’s advocacy group UltraViolet—an organization that, according to cofounder Nita Chaudhary, pooled support from its community of 1.3 million women (and men) to host rallies on Capitol Hill, buy anti-BCRA ad space on billboards and in newspapers, and even fly planes with banners urging on-the-fence senators to vote no.
THIS WEEK: Activists Hold In-District Health Care Speak-Outs Calling on Senators Portman, Collins, Heller and Murkowski to “Keep Their Word”, Vote No on Senate Health Care Repeal Bill
A small group protests Trump as he watches U.S. Women’s Open
Four protesters from UltraViolet, a women’s advocacy group, wore purple shirts that read, “USGA: Dump Sexist Trump” and stood as close to Trump’s viewing area as security permitted.
Women’s Group Slams New Senate Health Care Bill, Calls on Senators Capito, Heller and Murkowski to Maintain “No” Votes
Plane Flies Over National Governors Association Meeting in Providence Warning That States Can’t Afford TrumpCare
Some Women’s Golf Fans Are Teed Off To See Major Tourney At Trump Course
“Holding the tournament on this course sends the exact wrong message,” says Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet, a group that advocates for women’s rights. It’s been pushing the USGA for months to move this tournament to another course. UltraViolet even hired a plane to fly above the U.S. Open men’s championship in Wisconsin last month pulling a banner that urged the USGA to “take a mulligan, dump Trump.”
“They’re giving millions in revenue, free advertising and branding, to his platform and policies,” Thomas said, “which repeatedly degrade women, and encourage hate and division.”
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