Our next monthly chapter meeting: January 27
Our guest speaker in January will be Jalakoi Solomon, State Director at NextGen AZ. I'm fighting for myself and people who look, sound, act, and love like me. We are fighting every day to have our voices heard against the constant attacks from...
Demetra Presley speaks about Go With the Flow
Demetra Presley, Go With the Flow, a 501(c)3 group dedicated to girls and women’s access to feminine hygiene products, spoke with our group at the December meeting. Along with her handout, she reported that 1 in 5 girls misses school because of not having...
More about refugees
Mary Jo Miller from a women’s refugee assistance group spoke at our December meeting about the problems in the dog-pens, icebox, women who are deported, for-profit detention center, and county jails. Many women are getting only one menstrual pad a day. It...
RTS – Request to Speak sign up thru SOS Arizona
Arizona’s 54th Legislative Session will open in a few short weeks, and we’re hearing there are already many education bills set to move – some good, some awful. Rumor has it there might be some great bills that will need our support. And, there will almost...
Support Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona on Opening Day
This year, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona is working to organize the collective Opening Day press conference activities for our respective progressive communities. We received a lot of interest from others who wanted us to lead the charge and we are honored to do so. Join us…
The Legislature is coming
Be sure to take advantage of this offer from the League of Women Voters on basic advocacy training. The next AZ legislative session begins on Monday, January 14th. Given last year's successful grass-roots advocacy efforts, we hope you'll consider how YOU...
Our next monthly chapter meeting: Dec 30
Our guest speaker for December will be Demetra Presley, Founder and Executive Director of Go With The Flow. Go With The Flow is a non-profit organization that provides menstrual hygiene products to students in Tucson, Phoenix, and neighboring metropolitan...
What You Should Know About the Global Refugee Crisis
by Shari Bombeck Refugees cannot live in their homes due to war, natural disaster or famine. Being a refugee is not a choice. Every year, the President and the State Department identify global regions in which people have an exceptional need for protection...
Meeting with Kazakhstan Delegation for Global Ties
They had questions about quotas, what kind of actions worked best to change the law, the bathroom issue with transgender people, and the hierarchy of laws regarding how marijuana was treated since it is illegal at the federal level but legal in many states, and the six NOW issues. We also talked about the impact of religion on our Arizona politics, local control by our cities, and the prominence of lawyers in every human rights fight.
Our next monthly chapter meeting: Nov 25
Charlotte Shurtz graduated with a master’s degree in Anthropology and Migration from the University of Oxford, one of the few universities in the world that specializes in Refugee Studies…
Five candidates spoke at our Oct meeting
Five candidates spoke during the meeting: Tom Nerini for MCCCD Board who has already won to be appointed to finish Alfredo Guttierez term; Kathy Hoffman for Superintendent of Schools; Raquel Teren…
Centers for Disease Control responds
In response to the open letter sent by our member, Dianne Post, Leandris C. Liburd replied…
