Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Cheers to 90 years!
In: Equal Pay|Events|Fair Pay|Labor|Laura Harper|Maine Women's Agenda|Maine Women's Lobby|Paid sick days|Women's Leadership
26 Aug 2010After nearly a century of struggle, on August 26th, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. In 90 years women voters have made a lot of progress – we’ve seen pioneering women like Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton, and Margaret Chase Smith make bids for the presidency, and we have passed landmark legislation [...]
The Only Lady in the Room
In: Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine|Events|Governor Baldacci|LD 621|Labor|Laura Harper|Maine State House|Maine Women's Lobby|Maine's Firefighter Cancer Bill|Uncategorized
24 Jul 2009Since I was the only lady in the room, I hoped that they would let me stand in front with all the big guys. But, in all seriousness, this was a great event. Yesterday morning, I had the pleasure to attend the signing ceremony for LD 621, “An Act Allowing Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Firefighters [...]
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- Tags: Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, Firefighter Cancer Bill, Labor, Laura Harper, State House
TAX REFORM? EXCISE TAX? TABOR II? HELP!
23 Jul 2009If you’re like me – you often feel lost when anything tax related hits home. Terms like tax reform and Tabor II make my skin crawl – causing me to have random outbursts as I run to Google for comfort. Fortunately for us, the Penobscot County Democratic Committee has come to our rescue. On Tuesday, July 28th, from [...]
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- Tags: Husson University, Tax Forum, Tax Reform
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
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
Equal Pay Day Number TWO
In: Equal Pay|Events|Olympia Snowe|Susan Collins|Uncategorized
24 Apr 2009Maine stands out cause we have our OWN Equal Pay Day. By statute – yes the Lobby had a little something to do with this - celebrated each year on the first Tuesday in April. Now, we get to celebrate again (ok, celebrate is the wrong word, since we’re essentially talking about how long into the [...]
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- Tags: AAUW, economic security, Equal Pay, equal pay day, pay equity, Pay Gap, Tuesday April 28
Join the Maine Women's Fund Celebration
19 Apr 2009The Maine Women’s Fund is celebrating 20 years of investing in the power of women and the dreams of girls with a weekend of events May 1-3, 2009!Check out their site for the details. 20th Anniversary Celebration Join us for an inspiring weekend to honor Maine women and girls who are making change happen in [...]
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- Tags: Events, Maine Women's Lobby, Philanthropy, Portland Maine, women's issues
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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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