AAUW Members:
On Tuesday, June 4, thousands of New Yorkers from across the state will come to Albany to rally and lobby for the Women’s Equality Agenda – 10 critical legislative measures aimed at removing barriers to women’s full and equal participation in society. AAUW needs to be there in force!
The Women’s Equality Agenda recognizes that protecting reproductive freedom is essential to ensuring equal opportunities for women. A cornerstone of the agenda is to protect a woman’s ability to make her own private health care decisions.
The package of reforms does much more – it includes measures to help achieve pay equity; expand sexual harassment protections; and increase protections against discrimination in employment, housing, credit and lending – to level the playing field for our state’s 10 million mothers, daughters, wives and sisters.
We’ll rally outside the capitol on June 4 and visit our legislators to let them know that an overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support these reforms. On June 20th the New York legislative session comes to an end. We must tell our legislators to stand with women.
Buses will leave early from Long Island, New York City, Westchester, Syracuse, Binghamton, Rochester, Buffalo the North Country and places in between. To get your seat on a bus, please RSVP by May 31.
Contact your local WEA Regional Chair for more information on the bus from your area!
Capital Region: Blue Carreker, blue@uhpp.org
Central New York: Betty DeFazio, bdefazio@pprsr.org
Finger Lakes: KaeLyn Rich, krich@nyclu.org; Jennifer Cook, jcook@pprsr.org
Hudson Valley: Daniel Berger, dberger@nyclu.org
Long Island: Ellen Redmond, ellen_redmond@ibew.org
New York City: Stephanie Demmons, stephanie.demmons@ppnyc.org
North Country: Donna Seymour, seymour6985@verizon.net; Martha Stahl, Martha.stahl@ppncny.org
Southern Tier: Lea Webb, lwebb1014@gmail.com; Carole Coppens ccoppens@ywcaofbinghamton.org
Western New York: John Curr, jcurr@nyclu.org
