SisterSong Collective Continues Fight for Women's Health Care Rights
On Wednesday, January 20, 2010, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective brought an expansive Southern delegation of advocates from North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), Tennessee (TN), and Texas (TX) to Washington, DC for what could be our last lobbying effort on health care reform. Southern women of color want a comprehensive health care reform bill that represents the best provisions of the House and Senate versions of the bill and meets the needs of their families and communities, where affordability and accessibility are rarely available. (more)
Make Sure That Health Reform Works for Women, Our Families and Our Communities!
Why we need to keep working: (more)
January 20, 2010 Lobby Day - Washington, DC
What you can do from home this week: (more)
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Raise Your Voice on Health Care Reform: Get on the Bus and Join SisterSong on National Advocacy
Join SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Health Collective and our allies for a rally/press conference and lobby day on Capitol Hill countering the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962) from being repeated in the Senate version. (more)
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SisterSong Collective Organizes a Southern Activists' Bus to Capitol Hill
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective is quickly organizing more than 50 Reproductive Health and Justice activists from Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Arkansas to rally Wednesday, December 2 on Capitol Hill countering the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962) from being repeated in the Senate version. (more)
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SisterSong Says No on Stupak and Anti-immigrant Amendments -From National Membership Meeting
More than 400 women representing over 20 states and 60 social and reproductive justice organizations are ascending on Capitol Hill today in support of abortion access and immigrant rights in healthcare reform. SisterSong, a Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, used its National Membership Meeting in Washington, DC to call on Congress to protect women’s access to abortion and to stop the assault on immigrant healthcare access in the final healthcare bill. (more)
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SisterSong's Reproductive Justice Funders' Briefing Report
Read this important report from first national meeting for funders to discuss reproductive health and sexual rights issues from the perspectives of women of color.
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Reproductive Justice Briefing Book
Read articles from SisterSong, the Pro-Choice Public Education Project, Causes in Common, and more!
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Mapping Our Rights Website
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