THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the First Lady ___________________________________________________________________ REMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY AND MRS. LILLY LEDBETTER AT RECEPTION AFTER BILL SIGNING State Dining Room 1/29/09 11:00 A.M. EST MRS. OBAMA: So thank you for joining us today for this important event, and welcome to the White House. (Applause.) As I told guests, feel [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Remarks by the First Lady and Mrs. Lilly Ledbetter at Reception After Bill Signing
Posted in Economic Justice on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND ACCESS TO FAMILY PLANNING
Posted in Health on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Diana Madoshi Economic expansion of the kind that is needed at this time is crucially dependent on this administration making a full and firm commitment to closing the last remaining gaps that exist in true racial equality AS WELL AS gender parity. This is not to mention that we witnessed a vast and growing [...]
A New Earth
Posted in Environment on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Redwood Mary, Co-Chair CAWA Environment Task Force Some thoughts: ” Your goal has to be to get the greenest solutions to the poorest people”.- Van Jones (The New Yorker interview with Elizabeth Kolbert 1-12-09) “You must not deal only with the symptoms. You have to get to the root causes by promoting environmental rehabilitation [...]
Statement of President Barack Obama on Rescinding the Mexico City Policy
Posted in Health, Human Rights on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release January 23, 2009 Statement of President Barack Obama on Rescinding the Mexico City Policy “It is clear that the provisions of the Mexico City Policy are unnecessarily broad and unwarranted under current law, and for the past eight years, they have undermined efforts [...]
Legal Action Targets New HHS Regulation
Posted in Health on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HARTFORD, CT, Jan. 15 — Family planning supporters today took legal action here to overturn a new regulation that gives hospitals, health aides and even clinic receptionists veto power over women’s health care needs. The National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, represented by the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned [...]
On the topic of Violence Against Women from Secretary of State designee Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s confirmation hearings 1/13/09
Posted in Violence on January 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Doug Mills/The New York Times Senator BOXER: “…..I don’t think we can look away from the plight in women in the world….Nicholas Kristof confronts these issues in a series of compelling articles. In one, he tells us about the recent acid attack against young girls in Afghanistan, where they’re going to school with their teachers…..He [...]
Welcome to WIN’s Weblog
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Israeli & Palestinian Women Call for End to Military Action & for Peace
Posted in Human Rights, Peace on January 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dear friends– Beacuse women expreience the pain of conflict, The International Women’s Commission (IWC) which is an entity dedicated to bring together Palestinian, Israeli and international women to an end of the Israeli occupation and a just peace based on international law [including relevant UN resolutions], human rights and equality issued the following statement. “The [...]
Californians Shape Up as Force on Environmental Policy
Posted in Environment on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by: Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post, TRUTHOUT, December 31, 2008 (Check out our WIN Weblog (http://winwomenspeak.wordpress.com/) for this article and comment – how will you be involved in this environmental policy making effort in California? ) California Democrats will assume pivotal roles in the new Congress and White House, giving the state an outsize influence [...]
