Archive for June, 2009
It's warm and sunny somewhere
In: Uncategorized
29 Jun 2009Greetings from Washington, D.C. where the sun is actually out. It’s the annual Peer to Peer training offered by the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation, and the Maine Women’s Lobby is thrilled to be a part of it. We’re talking best practices in civic participation, issue advocacy, evaluation, new media organizing…and more. Tomorrow’s agenda – [...]
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The women of the Maine Women's Lobby reflect on the 124th
In: Charlotte Warren|Civil Rights|Discrimination|Equal Pay|Events|Fair Pay|Family Caregiver Protection|Family Responsibilities Discrimination|Gay Marriage|Girls' Day|Governor Baldacci|Hannah Pingree|Laura Harper|Maine State House|Maine Women's Lobby|Maine Women's Policy Center|Marriage Equality|Obama|Paid sick days|Press Link|Sarah Standiford|Speaker of the House
24 Jun 2009Last week, the Village Soup posted an article featuring reflections on the 124th session from capital-area legislators. Their reflections are really interesting – and got me wondering what others thought. So, I started asking around … and here are some reflections from the women of the Maine Women’s Lobby: Here’s what Laura had to say: [...]
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- Tags: Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Pay, Fair Pay, Gay Marriage, Girls' Day, Girls' Day at the State House, House of Representatives, Laura Harper, LD 1020, Leadership, Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center, marriage, Marriage Equality, Paid sick days, public hearing, State House, Welfare, women's issues, YouTube
girls rock…
21 Jun 2009I mean, these girls REALLY rock. Today, I spent my afternoon at the offices of Hardy Girls Healthy Women in Waterville. We were invited to share the nuts and bolts of creating change. (and when I say nuts and bolts, I really do mean problem, solution, message, and target). These girls are the experts! The [...]
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- Tags: Leadership, Maine Women's Lobby
Go Sarah, Go Sarah!
In: Maine Women's Policy Center|Sarah Standiford|Uncategorized
20 Jun 2009In a recent publication of the Maine Women’s Fund, our fearless leader, Sarah – and the work she directs at the Maine Women’s Policy Center – was highlighted. Check out what they had to say: “Sarah Standiford is changing Maine. As executive director of the Maine Women’s Policy Center and its sister organization, the Maine [...]
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- Tags: Girls' Day, Girls' Day at the State House, Maine Women's Policy Center, Women, women's issues
Get BPA Out of Our Bodies!
In: Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine|BPA|Events|Maine Women's Lobby|Maine Women's Policy Center|Press Link|Reproductive Health|Uncategorized
19 Jun 2009That’s the message that the Maine Women’s Lobby and the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine is trying to send to all people and policy-makers in Maine. Throughout the past 2 weeks this giant baby bottle has been traveling across the state. In the photos below, a group of children from a local daycare [...]
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- Tags: Add new tag, Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, BPA, Brunswick Times Record
dollars to donuts
In: Uncategorized
19 Jun 2009(Yeah, I can’t explain the donuts reference except that I’m hungry, and I mentioned bagels last week – figure I better give donuts their proper due.) Anyway, I’m pretty psyched about a recent editorial by the Bangor Daily News called “Equal Pay Helps All.” “The fact that women in the same job make only 78 [...]
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- Tags: Bangor Daily News, Equal Pay, Fair Pay, Pay Gap
Sarah says, "the Commission got it right"
In: Civil Rights|Discrimination|Press Link|Uncategorized|transgender
18 Jun 2009The Maine Human Rights Commission decided that a transgender woman was discriminated against at a Denny’s restaurant in Auburn when management would not let her use the ladies room until she had sex reassignment surgery. The Sun Journal editorialized against the decision. And here’s what Sarah said, “The Sun Journal editorial stating that a transgender [...]
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- Tags: Add new tag, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Sun Journal, transgender
And Longitudinal data passes t…
In: Tweets
12 Jun 2009And Longitudinal data passes to be engrossed in the senate! Great session everybody! It’s a wrap!
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L.D. 1356 Longitudinal data ju…
In: Tweets
12 Jun 2009L.D. 1356 Longitudinal data just came off the sp. Aprops table and passed to be engrossed! Now back to House for concurrence. Almost there!
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They are frying donuts in the …
In: Tweets
12 Jun 2009They are frying donuts in the senate majority office. I’m not kidding. Oh, and aprops is voting on bonds.
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- Linda Mitchell: Make Lilly Right is a campaign, started by two women in Seattle, to get one million women to each se [...]
- Lynne: Thank you for a terrific, inspiring event that showed us once again that one strong woman can make a [...]
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- Kathleen Skillings: I would like to take this opportunity to address the editorial I read in yesterdays news. As a smal [...]
- Donna Maria Coles Johnson: Interesting comment from Emily Caswell. I am not a resident of Maine, but I do buy natural personal [...]
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