“Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.” ― Philip Carr-Gomm
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Tell your Senators:
Women worldwide deserve the tools they need to empower themselves and reach
their full potential >>
"We can do it!" Those four inspirational words from Rosie the Riveter originated in the United States nearly 75 years ago. Today, the familiar mantra is a rallying cry beyond the U.S. to make dignified work and entrepreneurship for women a reality everywhere and we need YOUR help to push this momentum forward.
CARE Action advocates are leading the charge on the bipartisan Women's Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act (S. 3247), which would change the way the U.S. prioritizes women’s economic advancement globally. We've already passed the bill through the House of Representatives. Now we need the Senate to act.
Call on your Senators to cosponsor and support the Women's Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act and invest in women around the world.
On Labor Day, Americans recognize the social and economic contributions of U.S. workers. But we cannot forget the contributions of all workers everywhere, particularly women. They grow crops, work in factories, start and grow their own businesses, and participate in the workforce worldwide, but they often do so without the tools to advance or the protections to stay safe while on the job. You can change this.
"We can do it!" Those four inspirational words from Rosie the Riveter originated in the United States nearly 75 years ago. Today, the familiar mantra is a rallying cry beyond the U.S. to make dignified work and entrepreneurship for women a reality everywhere and we need YOUR help to push this momentum forward.
CARE Action advocates are leading the charge on the bipartisan Women's Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act (S. 3247), which would change the way the U.S. prioritizes women’s economic advancement globally. We've already passed the bill through the House of Representatives. Now we need the Senate to act.
Call on your Senators to cosponsor and support the Women's Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act and invest in women around the world.
On Labor Day, Americans recognize the social and economic contributions of U.S. workers. But we cannot forget the contributions of all workers everywhere, particularly women. They grow crops, work in factories, start and grow their own businesses, and participate in the workforce worldwide, but they often do so without the tools to advance or the protections to stay safe while on the job. You can change this.
This key piece of legislation will ensure investments in women's economic empowerment focus on approaches that help eliminate barriers to women starting and growing their businesses, accessing financial tools such as loans and credit, or making financial decisions and exercising control over their own resources and profits.
When one woman is denied access to tools and resources to advance, we all suffer. Please, take action today.
Sincerely,
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Gayatri Patel
Senior Policy Advocate, Gender & Empowerment CARE Action! |
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Picking
his target: John Rosenthal has Smith & Wesson in his sights.
The developer could just spend his time focused on hislong-awaited Fenway Center project, which is finally under way. But he’s also cofounder of Stop
Handgun Violence, and there’s some marching to be done. His group has
helped 30 or so teens organize a walk from Worcester to Springfield, a journey that will culminate
on Sunday with a rally in that city and then a protest at the headquarters of
Smith & Wesson parent American Outdoor Brands.
The marchers are driven by the fact a Smith & Wesson rifle known
as the M&P 15 was
used in the deadly Parkland shooting in February. Rosenthal says the
military-style rifle is banned in Massachusetts under “copycat” rules enforced
by Attorney General Maura Healey because of its similarity toan explicitly banned gun, the Colt AR-15.
On Sunday, the marchers plan to ask Smith & Wesson to donate $5 million to
gun-violence prevention research and to demand that it stop making any weapons
that aren’t legal for sale in its home state. It seems unlikely either request
will be granted. With the company’s gun sales on the decline, investors probably wouldn’t appreciate losing a
valuable revenue source.
But it’s hard to know for sure how the company will respond, or even if it
will: American Outdoor Brands hasn’t returned requests for comment. ANational Shooting Sports Foundation spokesman called the demands unreasonable, saying gun control
activists are trying to blame the industry for the crimes of a few troubled
individuals.
It wasn’t always this way between Rosenthal and the state’s most well-known
gunmaker. They worked together amicably toward a goal of making guns safer in
the late 1990s, he says, under former CEO Ed Shultz. Like other gun companies,
Smith & Wesson faced suits or threats of litigation over gun deaths at the
time. But Smith & Wesson did something different: Itagreed to a long list of reforms in early 2000, including a promise to develop “smart
guns” with owner-recognition technology. The company wasinstantly shunned by
the rest of the industry. Sales plunged. And Shultz was out.
Rosenthal says he tried several times to reconnect in recent years, but the
company has gone quiet under current chief James Debney. The marching teens
probably won’t get their demands met this weekend. But maybe the lines of
communication can be opened again. That, to Rosenthal, would be an important step in the right
direction [Boston Globe, Chesto Means Business, August 24, 2018]
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