The 2011 session of the Virginia General Assembly started January 12th. It’s a 46-day session that will be dominated by the budget, transportation, and redistricting. As for NOW members’ priority issues, legislators can pass helpful and empowering legislation – or disastrous restrictions such as those aimed at further restricting reproductive health care. Virginia NOW will be working [...]
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Heads Up! The General Assembly Has Convened. Do You Know Who Your Legislators Are?
Posted in State Issues, Uncategorized, tagged AAUW, abortion, budget, clinics, era, human trafficking, League of Women Voters of Virginia, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia, Pro-Choice Lobby Day, protective orders, redistricting, transportation, TRAP, Virginia General Assembly, Women's Lobby Day on 01/12/2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Election is Over, Time to Get to Work
Posted in Activism, State Issues, tagged election, equal rights amendement, era on 11/09/2010 | Leave a Comment »
By Diana Egozcue, Virginia NOW President The election is over, and we have a lot of work to do. There will be fewer women of both parties in the United States Congress–the first time in 32 years that female representation has fallen. Before this election, we were tied with Turkmenistan and ranked behind 88 other [...]
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