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Cecile Richards
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Speaking today at #BSR17 about the #Fight4BirthControl - and I’ll share a few thoughts with you here as well.
In a leaked memo, it came to light that the administration wanted to move to “natural family planning” — like the rhythm method.
You know what we call people who practice the rhythm method?

Parents.
A decade ago America ranked first in the world for women's health. Today, we've fallen all the way to 62nd. #BSR17
We need a new compact with business for women’s full equality - for the women who work for you, who would like to work for you. #BSR17
That’s why today we’re launching a national #Fight4BirthControl - fightforbirthcontrol.org - and we want folks to join us.
80% of all women believe brands should be standing up for women's rights w/the same intensity they have stood up for LGBTQ rights.
If you’re for women’s rights, you have to be for the full range of women’s rights - & you have to be in it with us for the long haul. #BSR17
The progress we need can only happen when it’s no longer just women fighting for ourselves - when the whole world joins in. #BSR17
Birth control is good for business! Commit to providing birth control coverage. Join us: Be a #BusinessForBC
ppaction.org/BusinessforBC
And men: it’s time to be a badass advocate for women in your company. Birth control, equal pay: these are issues we need you to own with us.
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I find it interesting that there are four leaders in Congress, only one is a woman, and she is the only person who folks are going after.
And that the House Democrats just picked up at least 34 seats – the most in a generation – and she just helped make them committee chairs. npr.org/2018/11/14/667…
I also find it interesting – though not surprising – that the effort to go after her is being led by four men in Congress.
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As an organizer, today I'm sending my profound gratitude to all the women who did the work in this election - not only as candidates, but as volunteers, donors, and voters who fueled progressive victories.
As a white woman, I'm reflecting on the role we played. In a lot of places, white women failed to support progressive candidates. We have important work to do to be in solidarity with women of color & help others see that racism, sexism, & bigotry are intertwined & hurt us all.
Last night's results are a familiar story for too many, especially Black women, who remain the most reliably progressive voting bloc in the country. Their issues are all our issues, and must be front and center in the progressive agenda - not brushed aside or marginalized.
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Cecile Richards
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When I was working during college, I was sexually harassed by my employer. He was a lawyer, very prominent.
I never told anyone. I was totally ashamed, and what would have been the purpose? I never even told my husband, who I’ve been married to for more than 30 years. I didn’t tell a therapist.
I have never forgotten it, though until I wrote a book last year, I never imagined saying anything publicly.
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I’m sure it will surprise none of you (or at least none of you who have been following me for a while) that I wrote a lot about antisemitism this year.

As 2018 winds to a close, I want to share a few thoughts on that subject, as well as links to some things I’ve written (thread)
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I can only laugh somewhat helplessly at that. Do you know how much I HATE having to write about antisemitism? How I’d like to focus on so many other things instead? Positive things?
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Sound studies folk will be unsurprised to know that I have some thoughts (and feelings) abt Christoph Cox's 'response' to myself and @annie_goh, the caveat being that I haven’t had chance to read it as closely as I’d like. However, I thought I’d share some initial responses.
Cox’s response seems to be predicated on ‘reading through’ both the realist/correlationist and enlightenment/postmodernism binary. This feels pertinent given that I sought to raise how unacknowledged perceptual schema shape what we see and don’t see, what we hear and don’t hear.
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Hello everyone, this is @ChrisMegerian in the @latimes Washington bureau. I've been writing about the controversy over the Republicans' classified memo, and I wanted to share a few thoughts.
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Second, you can read the memo here. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4365…
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It says that the FBI sought a surveillance warrant against Carter Page one month before the 2016 election.

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So there’s a Daily Mail hatchet job on a number of my colleagues today. I don’t know everyone in it, but I know a few of them, and here’s some of the things they didn’t mention.
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Very nearly done with Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". I recommend it to anyone interested in revolutionary social change. For teachers it ought to be required reading, but it's easy to tell why it goes unmentioned in many education programs: much too anti status quo.
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