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Jane Fonda Comes to Capitol Hill to Press for Rights for Women in the Working Class

Fonda was joined by other activists, including Ai-jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Monica Ramirez of the National Farmworker Women’s Alliance and Fatima Goss Graves of the National Women’s Law Center, as they...

Here’s why Jane Fonda was on the Hill this week

Others lobbying include Ai-jen Poo of National Domestic Workers Alliance, Mónica Ramirez of National Farmworker Women's Alliance and Fatima Goss Graves of National Women's Law Center. [… Fonda:] “With the rise of the TIME'S UP...

Jane Fonda lobbies for female workers: Celebs must ‘stand with our sisters across sectors’

Celebrities are “like repeaters — you know, those towers on the top of mountains that can pick up signals in the valley and spread them out wider?” she said at a Thursday press briefing amid...

White House spreads ludicrous spin on Brett Kavanaugh: He’s an abortion moderate!

Fatima Goss Graves, head of the National Women's Law Center, reminded reporters on a press call Monday night that two of Kavanaugh's most recent opinions for the D.C. circuit court expressed a belief that a...

Conservatives, liberals both agree: Nominee a pivotal vote on abortion

If the Supreme Court decides to take a case on a total abortion ban, that would give it the opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade, said Heather Shumaker, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law...

Federal Workers Recount Life Under Trump: ‘They Were Doing A Purge’

Sunu Chandy says she knew right away there’d be changes. […] “We now had leaders who had been activists against the very mission that we stood for,” says Chandy. Chandy admits it wasn’t easy. “I...