Our Sister Per-Sisters at the Cape Women’s Coalition keep a great resource for women who are interested in leadership positions in their towns. This page includes links in each town where you can find lists of boards and committees, and applications to serve on those committees. If you have a talent or background that would match talents and backgrounds needed
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If you have information about upcoming marches, rallies, buses etc please email us: CapeCodWomenforChange@gmail.com. You can sign up to receive an email whenever a new post goes up on this site, use the link on the right. This is the last event on our list of March events and caught our eye. It is relevant for so many issues
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED – sort of. It worked … AGAIN. for whatever reason they give, anyone who tried to call knows phones were jammed. Now the hearing scheduled for Tuesday has been CANCELLED. Reuters broke the news Monday: http://www.reuters.com/…/us-usa-trump-russia-hearing-idUSKB… The following Call to Action has been posted on social media – please read, make as many calls as you can. For
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To all of you who made calls, clicked through and read our posts, read other groups calls to action, made calls, shared with friends, and remained persistent, it worked. Advocacy, speaking out, speaking up, communicating with legislators, works. And, if you have yet to make a call, you can see now that it makes a difference. There is more to
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This vote on the Trump – GOP “repeal and replace” healthcare bill is not just about cutting coverage, increasing premiums, giving tax cuts to the wealthy etc. One aspect that we, as women, must not allow to get lost in the noise is the plan to “defund” Planned Parenthood. Please make a separate call or send a separate email to
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Please make your calls today. We must tell our congressmen/women to vote against this legislation! Democrat or Republican, as shared here, Democrats report they are not hearing from us; they ALL need to hear from us! This post includes the latest updates. Please use your voice. Today.
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CONFIRMATION HEARINGS WERE A LOVE-FEST – FOR GOP! Please Act. Please contact your Senators! Everything you need is here. Update: After two hearings for this nominee, it is clear the GOP is enamered with this man. He is well-spoken, self-deprecating and uses words like, gosh, and golly. But when the Democratic members of the committee grilled him on specifics, he
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Taking Care while you Take Action Reflect and Resist About half-way through a recent conference call with one of the national organizations working on resistance, a guest speaker was introduced, he invited all 40 thousand + people to practice breathing exercises. “Who has time for this!?” I thought to myself. But his voice was soothing and I began doing the
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This is an opportunity to join others from around the state to learn, lobby and become leaders on this issue. We’ve had several people respond to our newsletter and survey who are interested in working on this issue at the state, local and national level and will be organizing a working group. (Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed
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Someone sent us this article from Common Dreams. It seems a group has decided we should flood the White House mail room. What a great idea! Let’s send Donald Trump some mail! If you send a piece of mail or two or three …. share your pictures with us, here in comments (you need to give your name and email
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Please make your calls today. We must tell our congressmen/women to vote against this legislation! Democrat or Republican, as shared here, Democrats report they aren’t hearing from us; they ALL need to hear from us! 3/21 – House Republicans who are faltering in support of this bill met with Trump today when he visited Capital Hill to twist arms. Some
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Be sure to visit our: CALL TO ACTION: Save healthcare or yes, people will die, unnecessarily So far, different aspects of this bill have passed through two committees in the house, with little fanfare and without the numbers that revealed the true costs that were released by the GOP-lead Congressional Budget Office. If there is more information we will create
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Be sure to visit our: CALL TO ACTION: Save healthcare or yes, people will die, unnecessarily This is an excellent summary of what is actually being proposed and what it would mean/do. Ezra Klein. Best line, “The more health you would need, the less you would get.” A new Kennedy carries on the fight and speaks out against the GOP
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updated 3/14/2017 If you care about our water – please read and attend: The Barnstable County Commissioners are trying to desolve our county-wide water protection collaborative: Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative ** Timely** The Barnstable Assembly of Delegates, the legislative wing of county government, will take up the fate of the Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative budget at a hearing
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We encourage our members and followers to attend this event! ACLU People Power Action Event – March 11 Unitarian Church of Barnstable 3330 Main Street Barnstable, MA 02630 Get Map Date and time: March 11 at 4:30pm ET Attendee count: 34 attendees Join us on March 11 for a livestream viewing of the ACLU’s launch of People Power. We’ll watch
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Are you striking? Wearing Red? Shopping only at businesses owned by women? How will you celebrate International Women’s Day, without women?
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