Fat Tuesday done, get ready to RISE & DANCE with 1 BILLION women and men around the world to demand an end to violence against women! Use love on Valentine’s Day to show respect for women and children and join the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls:
http://onebillionrising.org/
U.S. SENATE
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization, which expired in 2011 after being in place for 20 years. All TWENTY Women in the U.S. Senate VOTE FOR the bill. (Note to my Main Street Sisters in NE, Deb Fischer was the only female Senator expected to potentially vote Nay, but did vote Yea in the end.)
Below are the photos of 22 Senators who voted AGAINST the VAWA. (In case you don’t recognize your guy, I’ve included the Roll Call Vote list at the bottom of this post http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00019 .)
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The U.S. Center for Disease Control’s 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey reminds us that violence against women is a public health crisis in our nation:
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One in 4 women has been the victim of severe physical domestic violence
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One in 5 women have been raped in their lifetime.
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State and local responses to violence against women are seriously underfunded, leaving too many victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking unable to access services when they need them.
Would you like to influence the House of Representatives?
Here are some great resources for getting your voice heard in the House!
Contact your House representative directly with the American Association of University Women’s TWO MINUTE ACTIVIST : http://capwiz.com/aauw/home/
Want to write your own letter to your House Rep? Contact Congress makes it easy: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Sign a petition at CHANGE.ORG: http://www.change.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=VAWA
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Alexander (R-TN),
Yea
Ayotte (R-NH), Yea Baldwin (D-WI), Yea Barrasso (R-WY), Nay Baucus (D-MT), Yea Begich (D-AK), Yea Bennet (D-CO), Yea Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea Blunt (R-MO), Nay Boozman (R-AR), Nay Boxer (D-CA), Yea Brown (D-OH), Yea Burr (R-NC), Yea Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Cardin (D-MD), Yea Carper (D-DE), Yea Casey (D-PA), Yea Chambliss (R-GA), Yea Coats (R-IN), Yea Coburn (R-OK), Nay Cochran (R-MS), Yea Collins (R-ME), Yea Coons (D-DE), Yea Corker (R-TN), Yea Cornyn (R-TX), Nay Cowan (D-MA), Yea Crapo (R-ID), Yea Cruz (R-TX), Nay Donnelly (D-IN), Yea Durbin (D-IL), Yea Enzi (R-WY), Nay Feinstein (D-CA), Yea Fischer (R-NE), Yea Flake (R-AZ), Yea |
Franken (D-MN),
Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea Graham (R-SC), Nay Grassley (R-IA), Nay Hagan (D-NC), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Yea Hatch (R-UT), Nay Heinrich (D-NM), Yea Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea Heller (R-NV), Yea Hirono (D-HI), Yea Hoeven (R-ND), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Nay Isakson (R-GA), Yea Johanns (R-NE), Nay Johnson (D-SD), Yea Johnson (R-WI), Nay Kaine (D-VA), Yea King (I-ME), Yea Kirk (R-IL), Yea Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea Landrieu (D-LA), Yea Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Yea Lee (R-UT), Nay Levin (D-MI), Yea Manchin (D-WV), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea McCaskill (D-MO), Yea McConnell (R-KY), Nay Menendez (D-NJ), Yea Merkley (D-OR), Yea Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Moran (R-KS), Yea |
Murkowski (R-AK),
Yea
Murphy (D-CT), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea Paul (R-KY), Nay Portman (R-OH), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Yea Reed (D-RI), Yea Reid (D-NV), Yea Risch (R-ID), Nay Roberts (R-KS), Nay Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea Rubio (R-FL), Nay Sanders (I-VT), Yea Schatz (D-HI), Yea Schumer (D-NY), Yea Scott (R-SC), Nay Sessions (R-AL), Nay Shaheen (D-NH), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Yea Tester (D-MT), Yea Thune (R-SD), Nay Toomey (R-PA), Yea Udall (D-CO), Yea Udall (D-NM), Yea Vitter (R-LA), Yea Warner (D-VA), Yea Warren (D-MA), Yea Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea Wicker (R-MS), Yea Wyden (D-OR), Yea |
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