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Jean
Vote to Protect Our Court
Many people don't know that state Supreme Court races can actually be decided in the primary election, which makes it critically important that you vote in the September 19th primary election. NARAL Pro-Choice Washington is very concerned about this year's judicial elections because right-wing groups are actively seeking to elect ultra-conservative judges to the state Supreme Court.
Vote to preserve a pro-choice court.
Return your Absentee Ballot before September 19 or go to the polls on Tuesday, September 19
Supreme Court Position 2
Vote SUSAN OWENS
Justice Owens has more than 25 years experience as a judge, with a strong record of protecting Constitutional rights. She is endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, former Governor Gary Locke, WA State Democrats, WA State Labor Council, the Sierra Club and more than 100 judges, and is rated "Exceptionally Well Qualified" by Washington Women Lawyers.
Supreme Court Position 8
Vote GERRY ALEXANDER
Justice Gerry Alexander is the longest serving Chief Justice in our state's history, with more than 30 years experience at all court levels. He has earned a lifetime achievement award from the Ninth Circuit for his character and integrity. The King County Bar Association has rated him "Exceptionally Well Qualified" and he is recommended by NARAL Pro-Choice Washington.
Supreme Court Position 9
Vote TOM CHAMBERS
Justice Tom Chambers has six years of experience as a Supreme Court Justice and practiced law for 30 years. He is endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, rated "Exceptionally Well Qualified" by the King County Bar Association, and received an "Outstanding Judge of the Year" Award from Washington Women Lawyers.
To view NARAL Pro-Choice Washington's complete voter guide, visit our website groundspring.org.
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Another list of endorsements. for your information only
Jean
Washington State NOW/PAC announces endorsements for the 2006 Primary Elections
Here's WA National Organization for Women's announcements of the PAC
endorsements for distribution far and wide.
We are continuing to work on endorsements and will have additional
endorsements for the November elections.
THANKS
Linda Tosti-Lane
Treasurer
Wa State NOW/PAC
dt...@earthlink.net
Washington State NOW/PAC announces endorsements for the 2006 Primary Elections!
Teresa Sykora Lovaas, chair of the Washington State National Organization for Women Political Action Committee (NOW/PAC), announced endorsements for the 2006 Washington State Primary. In order to be endorsed, candidates must be feminist leaders and strong supporters of women's rights issues including, but not limited to:
• Support for reproductive rights without restrictions,
• Economic equality,
• Civil rights for all, with special emphasis on equal rights for people of color and lesbian and gays,
• Constitutional equality for women,
• Affirmative action,
• Elimination of violence against women
Endorsements go to the strongest feminist candidate. Experience has taught us that, between two candidates with equal records on our issues, over time women candidates will generally perform better than their records would indicate, and that we must have large numbers of feminist women, a sort of critical mass, to win when women's rights are at stake. However, while NOW PACs seek to bring more women into public office, it will not support a woman against a "good" man when he is the better candidate on our issues. Our goal is to elect the strongest supporters of women's rights, and NOW PACs are the only women's rights PACs that endorse strong feminist male candidates. When all other criteria are equal, the NOW PACs will support a woman candidate over a man.
Lovaas stated that the following WA State candidates met WA State NOW/PAC’s criteria and were endorsed for the September 19, 2006 primary:
Office District Candidate
Senate 32 Darlene Fairley
44 Lillian Kaufer
House 16 Maureen Walsh
23 Sherry Appleton
43 Lynne Dodson
44 Hans Dunshee
45 Larry Springer
48 Deb Eddy
WA State Supreme Court Susan Owens
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Is the Economy Really Strong If Women Are Losing Ground?
Last week, the latest Census report on poverty, income and health insurance in the United States was released, revealing that millions of women and their families are worse off economically than they were in 2000. Poverty among women and their families has increased, women’s earnings have stagnated, and millions of women have lost health insurance coverage. Tax cuts principally aimed at the wealthiest individuals and corporations, purportedly to grow the economy, have not produced economic gains for most middle- and low-income Americans.
Some of the most significant revelations in the latest Census report include:
*
More women were living in poverty—and extreme poverty—than in 2000. In 2005, 14.6 million women were living in poverty, 2.7 million more than in 2000. Of those, 6.3 million lived in extreme poverty—defined as 50% of the federal poverty line—up by 1.7 million since 2000. The percentage of women in poverty increased from 11.3% in 2000 to 12.9% in 2005.
*
Poverty among women of color, elderly women living alone, and single-mother families was especially high. In 2005, Black women were more than twice as likely to be poor as White women, and Hispanic women were almost twice as likely to be poor as White women. More than one in five elderly women living alone were poor in 2005. More than one in three female-headed families with children were poor in 2005, and fully one-half of these families live in extreme poverty.
*
The income of most families with children has declined since 2000. The real median income of female-headed families with children has dropped by more than $1,700, from $24,800 in 2000 to $23,100 in 2005. The median income of married couples with children fell by $700 over the same period.
*
Women’s earnings since 2000 paint a discouraging picture. In 2005, the earnings of all women in the workforce, including those working part-time and part-year, were just $23,100, statistically unchanged since 2000. The real median earnings of women working full-time, full-year increased slightly over the past six years, from $31,000 in 2000 to $31,900 in 2005. But gains in the early part of the period are threatened by a more recent trend: over the past three years, the median earnings of women working full-time, full-year have been declining.
*
The number and percentage of women without health insurance continues to rise. Since 2000, an additional 2.9 million women have joined the ranks of the uninsured, including 531,000 in the last year alone. The percentage of women without health insurance increased from 13.8% in 2000 to 15.6% in 2005, a faster increase than for the overall population.
In an Associated Press story that appeared on CNN.com and other news outlets, Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security at NWLC, helped clarify why, despite 10 years of “welfare reform,” the number of Americans in poverty has increased in recent years: “Most of the people who leave welfare for work are leaving for jobs that pay $7 or $8 an hour. Under the best of circumstances, they are just getting by."
See our factsheet, Losing Ground: An Overview of Poverty, Income and Health Insurance Trends Among Women, 2000-2005, for more information about the status of women’s economic security. http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/IncomePoverty.pdf
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JOBS
For FULL job information please visit our Job Web Space at http://wroc.org/home/jobs.html
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Organization: National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University (New York, NY)
Position: Project Coordinator (FES)
GRANT-FUNDED: Candidate will work at Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), Mailman School of Public Health. Incumbent will coordinate and support the work of the Family Economic Security team; contribute to the Making Work Supports Work initiative, which involves creating Family Resource Simulators that model the impact of state and federal tax and benefit policies on family resource. S/he will coordinate with state partners; collect detailed information regarding state benefit policies through both primary and secondary source research; test Family Resource Simulators to ensure accuracy; contribute to the development of fact sheets, policy briefs, presentations; conduct background research for
publications and media requests; summarize research findings; track down data sources; update and maintain 50-state databases; assist with outreach and communications activities; additional related duties. Willingness to remain flexible as the projects emerge and evolve a must.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in the social sciences, public policy, or related field or equivalent in education, training and experience, plus two years of related experience. Excellent oral/written communication, editing and research skills required. Must be comfortable with web-based information gathering. Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively. Knowledge of policies affecting low-income families is desirable.
How to apply:
All applicants must apply through the Columbia University website.
Please go to https://jobs.columbia.edu and search for requisition
number 047517. Columbia University is an equal opportunity employer.
========================================================================================
Dear Friends,
We've got two of job openings here at the War Resisters League - a Field Organizer and a Development Coordinator. Please pass the word on to anyone you know who might be interested. The full job descriptions, deadlines, and application info are available at www.warresisters.org
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Development Coordinator
War Resisters League
The War Resisters League seeks an experienced Development Coordinator to develop and implement a fundraising and membership strategy that will build a diversified and sustainable income and increase our national visibility and our membership base.
As one of the leading radical voices in the anti-war movement, our programs challenge military recruitment and war profiteering, organize nonviolent direct action, and offer on-the-ground education. Our current projects include the Not Your Soldier Project, the Stop the Merchants of Death Program, and a number of local and regional anti-war organizing projects.
This full-time staffer will coordinate the work of the volunteer Fundraising Committee. In addition, s/he will facilitate the assessment and advancement of current fundraising strategies and the initiation of new fundraising projects that reflect and support our organizing work. S/he will also help advance our member cultivation and development goals.
For a full job description, please visit www.warresisters.org
This is a full time salaried position. Yearly salary is $35,677, with full benefits, including health insurance, paid vacation and a pension contribution of five percent.
Please send resume and cover letter by September 30th 2006 to:
Hiring Committee, WRL, 339 Lafayette St., NY, NY 10012, or fax to (212) 228-6193, or email a...@warresisters.org with "Development Coordinator" in the subject line.
The War Resisters League is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war.
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Field Organizer
War Resisters League
The War Resisters League seeks a strategic, self-directed, and experienced Field Organizer to help build and develop our work on a national level. As one of the leading radical voices in the anti-war movement, our programs challenge military recruitment and war profiteering, organize nonviolent direct action, and offer on-the-ground education. Our current projects include the Not Your Soldier Project, the Stop the Merchants of Death Program, and a number of local and regional anti-war organizing projects.
The Field Organizer will be based in our New York City national office, but will also spend a significant portion of their time on the road building the League. S/he will initiate, organize, and support WRL local chapters and affiliates, and assist WRL-identified groups network, organize and act for social and political change, with the goal of developing community leaders who will continue to organize with the WRL in the coming years.
Full job description at www.warresisters.org
This is a full time salaried position. Yearly salary is $35,677, with full benefits, including health insurance, paid vacation and a pension contribution of five percent.
Please send a cover letter, resume, and three references to yo...@warresisters.org with Field Organizer in the subject line. The deadline is September 15th 2006. You can also fax your application to 212.228.6193
The War Resisters League is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The office, however, is located on the second floor and not wheelchair- accessible. There is an office cat.
Believing war to be a crime against humanity, the War Resisters League, founded in 1923, advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation. www.warresisters.org
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War Resisters League
339 Lafayette St.
New York, NY 10012
212-228-0450
www.warresisters.org
w...@warresisters.org To unsubscribe, send a blank email to
olympiansforpe...@lists.riseup.net
Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace Email List
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/olympiansforpeace
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Executive Director Posting
An established Puget Sound non-profit focusing on emergency shelter and domestic violence prevention is looking for an experienced executive director to lead the organization and work with governmental agencies and funding sources. Successful candidate will have five plus years experience managing a non-profit agency, experience in budgeting, financial and personnel management.
Contact - Kathy Holert
Houser Martin Morris
425-453-2700 Ext. 225
k...@houser.com
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Seattle Office: 1820 E. Pine Suite 324 | Seattle, WA 98122 | Phone: 206.324.3063 | 1.877.330.3063 | Fax: 206.860.8825 | wro...@wroc.org
Olympia Office: 701 Franklin SE | Olympia, WA 98501 | Phone: 360.352.9716 | 1.866.343.9716 | wro...@wroc.org
Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition 17 September 2006
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ACTION
ALERTS!
- Vote to Protect Our Court
- Washington State NOW/PAC announces endorsements for the 2006 Primary Elections
- Is the Economy Really Strong If Women Are Losing Ground?
JOBS:
- National Center for Children in Poverty, NY
Position: Project Coordinator (FES) - Two of job openings here at the War Resisters League
- Executive Director Posting
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ACTION
===========================================
WROC is forwarding this information for information only. We do not endorse candidates in any race.
Jean
Vote to Protect Our Court
Many people don't know that state Supreme Court races can actually be decided in the primary election, which makes it critically important that you vote in the September 19th primary election. NARAL Pro-Choice Washington is very concerned about this year's judicial elections because right-wing groups are actively seeking to elect ultra-conservative judges to the state Supreme Court.
Vote to preserve a pro-choice court.
Return your Absentee Ballot before September 19 or go to the polls on Tuesday, September 19
Supreme Court Position 2
Vote SUSAN OWENS
Justice Owens has more than 25 years experience as a judge, with a strong record of protecting Constitutional rights. She is endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, former Governor Gary Locke, WA State Democrats, WA State Labor Council, the Sierra Club and more than 100 judges, and is rated "Exceptionally Well Qualified" by Washington Women Lawyers.
Supreme Court Position 8
Vote GERRY ALEXANDER
Justice Gerry Alexander is the longest serving Chief Justice in our state's history, with more than 30 years experience at all court levels. He has earned a lifetime achievement award from the Ninth Circuit for his character and integrity. The King County Bar Association has rated him "Exceptionally Well Qualified" and he is recommended by NARAL Pro-Choice Washington.
Supreme Court Position 9
Vote TOM CHAMBERS
Justice Tom Chambers has six years of experience as a Supreme Court Justice and practiced law for 30 years. He is endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, rated "Exceptionally Well Qualified" by the King County Bar Association, and received an "Outstanding Judge of the Year" Award from Washington Women Lawyers.
To view NARAL Pro-Choice Washington's complete voter guide, visit our website groundspring.org.
===================================================================================
Another list of endorsements. for your information only
Jean
Washington State NOW/PAC announces endorsements for the 2006 Primary Elections
Here's WA National Organization for Women's announcements of the PAC
endorsements for distribution far and wide.
We are continuing to work on endorsements and will have additional
endorsements for the November elections.
THANKS
Linda Tosti-Lane
Treasurer
Wa State NOW/PAC
dt...@earthlink.net
Washington State NOW/PAC announces endorsements for the 2006 Primary Elections!
Teresa Sykora Lovaas, chair of the Washington State National Organization for Women Political Action Committee (NOW/PAC), announced endorsements for the 2006 Washington State Primary. In order to be endorsed, candidates must be feminist leaders and strong supporters of women's rights issues including, but not limited to:
• Support for reproductive rights without restrictions,
• Economic equality,
• Civil rights for all, with special emphasis on equal rights for people of color and lesbian and gays,
• Constitutional equality for women,
• Affirmative action,
• Elimination of violence against women
Endorsements go to the strongest feminist candidate. Experience has taught us that, between two candidates with equal records on our issues, over time women candidates will generally perform better than their records would indicate, and that we must have large numbers of feminist women, a sort of critical mass, to win when women's rights are at stake. However, while NOW PACs seek to bring more women into public office, it will not support a woman against a "good" man when he is the better candidate on our issues. Our goal is to elect the strongest supporters of women's rights, and NOW PACs are the only women's rights PACs that endorse strong feminist male candidates. When all other criteria are equal, the NOW PACs will support a woman candidate over a man.
Lovaas stated that the following WA State candidates met WA State NOW/PAC’s criteria and were endorsed for the September 19, 2006 primary:
Office District Candidate
Senate 32 Darlene Fairley
44 Lillian Kaufer
House 16 Maureen Walsh
23 Sherry Appleton
43 Lynne Dodson
44 Hans Dunshee
45 Larry Springer
48 Deb Eddy
WA State Supreme Court Susan Owens
====================================================================================
Is the Economy Really Strong If Women Are Losing Ground?
Last week, the latest Census report on poverty, income and health insurance in the United States was released, revealing that millions of women and their families are worse off economically than they were in 2000. Poverty among women and their families has increased, women’s earnings have stagnated, and millions of women have lost health insurance coverage. Tax cuts principally aimed at the wealthiest individuals and corporations, purportedly to grow the economy, have not produced economic gains for most middle- and low-income Americans.
Some of the most significant revelations in the latest Census report include:
*
More women were living in poverty—and extreme poverty—than in 2000. In 2005, 14.6 million women were living in poverty, 2.7 million more than in 2000. Of those, 6.3 million lived in extreme poverty—defined as 50% of the federal poverty line—up by 1.7 million since 2000. The percentage of women in poverty increased from 11.3% in 2000 to 12.9% in 2005.
*
Poverty among women of color, elderly women living alone, and single-mother families was especially high. In 2005, Black women were more than twice as likely to be poor as White women, and Hispanic women were almost twice as likely to be poor as White women. More than one in five elderly women living alone were poor in 2005. More than one in three female-headed families with children were poor in 2005, and fully one-half of these families live in extreme poverty.
*
The income of most families with children has declined since 2000. The real median income of female-headed families with children has dropped by more than $1,700, from $24,800 in 2000 to $23,100 in 2005. The median income of married couples with children fell by $700 over the same period.
*
Women’s earnings since 2000 paint a discouraging picture. In 2005, the earnings of all women in the workforce, including those working part-time and part-year, were just $23,100, statistically unchanged since 2000. The real median earnings of women working full-time, full-year increased slightly over the past six years, from $31,000 in 2000 to $31,900 in 2005. But gains in the early part of the period are threatened by a more recent trend: over the past three years, the median earnings of women working full-time, full-year have been declining.
*
The number and percentage of women without health insurance continues to rise. Since 2000, an additional 2.9 million women have joined the ranks of the uninsured, including 531,000 in the last year alone. The percentage of women without health insurance increased from 13.8% in 2000 to 15.6% in 2005, a faster increase than for the overall population.
In an Associated Press story that appeared on CNN.com and other news outlets, Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security at NWLC, helped clarify why, despite 10 years of “welfare reform,” the number of Americans in poverty has increased in recent years: “Most of the people who leave welfare for work are leaving for jobs that pay $7 or $8 an hour. Under the best of circumstances, they are just getting by."
See our factsheet, Losing Ground: An Overview of Poverty, Income and Health Insurance Trends Among Women, 2000-2005, for more information about the status of women’s economic security. http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/IncomePoverty.pdf
===============================================================================
JOBS
For FULL job information please visit our Job Web Space at http://wroc.org/home/jobs.html
===========================================
Organization: National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University (New York, NY)
Position: Project Coordinator (FES)
GRANT-FUNDED: Candidate will work at Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), Mailman School of Public Health. Incumbent will coordinate and support the work of the Family Economic Security team; contribute to the Making Work Supports Work initiative, which involves creating Family Resource Simulators that model the impact of state and federal tax and benefit policies on family resource. S/he will coordinate with state partners; collect detailed information regarding state benefit policies through both primary and secondary source research; test Family Resource Simulators to ensure accuracy; contribute to the development of fact sheets, policy briefs, presentations; conduct background research for
publications and media requests; summarize research findings; track down data sources; update and maintain 50-state databases; assist with outreach and communications activities; additional related duties. Willingness to remain flexible as the projects emerge and evolve a must.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in the social sciences, public policy, or related field or equivalent in education, training and experience, plus two years of related experience. Excellent oral/written communication, editing and research skills required. Must be comfortable with web-based information gathering. Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively. Knowledge of policies affecting low-income families is desirable.
How to apply:
All applicants must apply through the Columbia University website.
Please go to https://jobs.columbia.edu and search for requisition
number 047517. Columbia University is an equal opportunity employer.
========================================================================================
Dear Friends,
We've got two of job openings here at the War Resisters League - a Field Organizer and a Development Coordinator. Please pass the word on to anyone you know who might be interested. The full job descriptions, deadlines, and application info are available at www.warresisters.org
---------------------------------
Development Coordinator
War Resisters League
The War Resisters League seeks an experienced Development Coordinator to develop and implement a fundraising and membership strategy that will build a diversified and sustainable income and increase our national visibility and our membership base.
As one of the leading radical voices in the anti-war movement, our programs challenge military recruitment and war profiteering, organize nonviolent direct action, and offer on-the-ground education. Our current projects include the Not Your Soldier Project, the Stop the Merchants of Death Program, and a number of local and regional anti-war organizing projects.
This full-time staffer will coordinate the work of the volunteer Fundraising Committee. In addition, s/he will facilitate the assessment and advancement of current fundraising strategies and the initiation of new fundraising projects that reflect and support our organizing work. S/he will also help advance our member cultivation and development goals.
For a full job description, please visit www.warresisters.org
This is a full time salaried position. Yearly salary is $35,677, with full benefits, including health insurance, paid vacation and a pension contribution of five percent.
Please send resume and cover letter by September 30th 2006 to:
Hiring Committee, WRL, 339 Lafayette St., NY, NY 10012, or fax to (212) 228-6193, or email a...@warresisters.org with "Development Coordinator" in the subject line.
The War Resisters League is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Field Organizer
War Resisters League
The War Resisters League seeks a strategic, self-directed, and experienced Field Organizer to help build and develop our work on a national level. As one of the leading radical voices in the anti-war movement, our programs challenge military recruitment and war profiteering, organize nonviolent direct action, and offer on-the-ground education. Our current projects include the Not Your Soldier Project, the Stop the Merchants of Death Program, and a number of local and regional anti-war organizing projects.
The Field Organizer will be based in our New York City national office, but will also spend a significant portion of their time on the road building the League. S/he will initiate, organize, and support WRL local chapters and affiliates, and assist WRL-identified groups network, organize and act for social and political change, with the goal of developing community leaders who will continue to organize with the WRL in the coming years.
Full job description at www.warresisters.org
This is a full time salaried position. Yearly salary is $35,677, with full benefits, including health insurance, paid vacation and a pension contribution of five percent.
Please send a cover letter, resume, and three references to yo...@warresisters.org with Field Organizer in the subject line. The deadline is September 15th 2006. You can also fax your application to 212.228.6193
The War Resisters League is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The office, however, is located on the second floor and not wheelchair- accessible. There is an office cat.
Believing war to be a crime against humanity, the War Resisters League, founded in 1923, advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism, and human exploitation. www.warresisters.org
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War Resisters League
339 Lafayette St.
New York, NY 10012
212-228-0450
www.warresisters.org
w...@warresisters.org To unsubscribe, send a blank email to
olympiansforpe...@lists.riseup.net
Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace Email List
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/olympiansforpeace
===========================================================================================
Executive Director Posting
An established Puget Sound non-profit focusing on emergency shelter and domestic violence prevention is looking for an experienced executive director to lead the organization and work with governmental agencies and funding sources. Successful candidate will have five plus years experience managing a non-profit agency, experience in budgeting, financial and personnel management.
Contact - Kathy Holert
Houser Martin Morris
425-453-2700 Ext. 225
k...@houser.com
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