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THIS WEEK: Women’s Group Targets Senators With Large Projections Demanding They Vote No on Health Care Repeal
Women’s Group Targets Sen. Flake With Visual Projection Demanding He Vote No on Health Care Repeal
Women’s Group Targets Sen. Heller With Visual Projection Demanding He Vote No on Health Care Repeal
UltraViolet Responds to USGA CEO Mike Davis on Holding the US Women’s Open at a Trump-Owned Golf Course
Amazon hit by protests over ads on Breitbart
A collection of advocacy groups gathered outside Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting Tuesday to protest the company’s advertising relationship with Breitbart, the far-right website.
The groups, including MoveOn, Sleeping Giants and UltraViolet, delivered petitions to Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) with more than one million total signatures, calling on the company to sever ties with Breitbart. Amazon indirectly advertises on Breitbart through third-party ad exchanges.
TUES 8AM: Plane, Protest at Amazon Shareholder Meeting Urges Retail Giant to Stop Funding Right-Wing Hate, Drop Breitbart
Progressive Organizations Pledge Not to Work With Sexual Abuser Trevor FitzGibbon in New Sign-On Letter
Lawmaker Who Founded Misogynistic Reddit Page Resigns
Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, members of the women’s advocacy group UltraViolet, Action Together New Hampshire, Granite State Progress and Rep. Debra Altschiller held a news conference arguing that Fisher should be expelled. Some dressed as characters from the book and television series, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which imagines a dystopian republic in which women have lost their rights and even their identities.
N.H. lawmaker who created incendiary ‘Red Pill’ forum resigns
On Wednesday morning before the vote, members of UltraViolet, a national women’s advocacy organization, joined local activists for a rally outside the State House, urging lawmakers to expel Fisher.
“Robert Fisher is a rape promoter who has no place serving in government,” said Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet, in a statement.
TODAY 12PM: Rally Outside of Sen. Flake’s Phoenix Office Urges Him to Oppose the Repeal of the Affordable Care Act
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