Support Worker Relief & Credit Reform Act: mothers, other caregivers & students need it!

Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI) has reintroduced the Worker Relief and Credit Reform (WRCR) Act (HR 1468) and we are encouraging that as many as possible support this important bill. The WRCR Act would redefine who is a worker to include those of us who are unpaid mothers/other unpaid family caregivers as well as low-income students in higher education – making both eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit for the first time. This is monumental – and urgently needed at this time when public benefits are under attack in Congress, including imposing further work requirements. 

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US: Ask your Representative to cosponsor Worker Relief & Credit Reform Act

Exciting news – Rep Gwen Moore will be reintroducing the Worker Relief and Credit Reform (WRCR) Act this Thursday, March 9. Please ask your Representative to sign-on to the WRCR Act right away as an original co-sponsor. You can send a model letter directly to your reps at this link. The WRCR Act modernizes the…

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End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing online event

The California Poor People’s Campaign and women’s organizations who are national partners of the Poor People’s Campaign including the Global Women’s Strike are hosting a nationwide online event for International Women’s Day, End Women’s Poverty – Invest in Caring Not Killing, to recognize the struggles and contributions of women to the economy, communities and movements for justice – and to demand cash and resources go to end women’s poverty, not war.

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Alabama: Power to prisoners & supporters on both sides of the wall

Dear friends,  We wanted you to see our letter of support (below) sent by Payday and other organizations in the Global Women’s Strike network to the prisoners’ movement against slavery and cruel and unusual punishment in the US state of Alabama.  The Alabama prisoners’ strike lasted almost a month last fall despite constant harassment and retaliation…

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Child Tax Credit Popular Across Parties, Reinstate Now!

URGENT ACTION ALERT: The Child Tax Credit is Popular! Voters: Independent, Republican, Democrats Call for Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

Or in this holiday season will Members of Congress gift poverty to millions of children?

The clock is ticking! Congress must reinstate the refundable Child Tax Credit before the end of 2022.  The 2021 expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) was an overwhelming success! By making it fully refundable (which made it available to the most impoverished families), raising the amount, and paying it out monthly, the expanded CTC resulted in the largest-ever decline in child poverty in a single year. Child poverty fell to 5.2%, the lowest rate on record.

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Event : Black Women’s Lives Count: Reclaiming Our Sisters Everywhere.

Support a permanent memorial for South Los Angeles victims of serial murders. ONLINE Thursday, December 8, 2022 3:30pm PST / 5:30pm CST / 6:30pm ESTRegister at https://bit.ly/rosesladec8 Event organized by Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial MurdersDonate: http://rosesouthla.org/donate  For more info: http://rosesouthla.org/contact-us.

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Haiti Action Committee Condemns Calls for Expanded Foreign Military Intervention in Haiti

From Haiti Action <action.haiti@gmail.com> SF/Bay Area! Come Out To Protest Expanded Foreign Military Intervention in Haiti October 26th, 4pm  San Francisco Federal Building 90 – 7th Street, San Francisco Turning to the UN Security Council, the OAS, and the US government to “stabilize” the crisis in Haiti is like pleading with arsonists to quell the fire they…

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Free Assange Human Chain: Surround Parliament on Saturday 8 October.

A number of us will participate in this action in defense of Julian Assange organised by the Don’t Extradite Assange Campaign on Saturday 8 October. See their mailing below. Hope you can join us there. Will you be the next link in our Human Chain to Free Assange? We have 3549 links out of an…

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