standardPresident Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

President Obama entered office with higher expectations than any president in my lifetime and he continues to amaze everyone by surpassing them.  Today he signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.  Fair pay for women is a cause we have cared about deeply here at WWJV4 and I couldn’t be happier to see this law passed.  For more information I highly recommend checking out the National Womens Law Center’s Fair Pay page.

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This post reminds me that I need to clean up this blog and get back to work.  Even with most of the bums kicked out of Congress and a wonderful president there is so much work to do.

standardMcCain on Roe vs. Wade

Of course feminism and women’s rights are about a lot more than just Roe vs. Wade but its still important to remember why winning this election is important to the fundies.  Its video like this that makes we wonder how any liberal progressive could ever consider switching to McCain.  (h/t Feministing) [youtube width="500" height="394"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXNSa_xCpzk[/youtube] Oh [...]

standardRSS Roundup 5-20-08

Wow, lots to get to today so I won’t waste your time. I did have this dream about a new design and layout for my blog so don’t be surprised if you see something new very soon. Summer would say that I should make the design and use it for one of the many projects [...]

standardRSS Roundup 5-16-08

Good morning everyone. Its finally Friday! Sadly I’m still sick so all that means is that I will have the next two days to sleep. This may sound sad but right now that sounds like the best thing in the world. Even though I haven’t quite shaken this bug I feel a lot better and [...]

standardAction Item: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

I’m passing on to you all the contents of an action email I received from National Women’s Law Center.  Women in America are still paid dramatically less than their male counterparts earning a mere 77 cents on the dollar.  For minorities that difference is much greater.  The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act will go a [...]

standardRSS Roundup 5-8-08

I can’t believe how many news stories I had flagged to follow up on from yesterday. I’ll try to keep it down to the best ones though. The rest I’ll push through Twitter. Which reminds me to remind you that Summer and I are on Twitter now. You ca find our recent posts and links [...]

standardRSS Roundup 5-7-08

Sorry this is so late getting out. I was working on a client project last night and didn’t finish up before bed. Of course as is the nature of this series the longer I put it off the more stories fill my RSS Feed and the more I have to write. So here is my [...]

standardRSS Roundup 5-6-08

Yesterday was a busy day in the blogosphere and as usual I didn’t get a chance to write about most of it. Someday I’ll be independently wealthy and can afford to lie about all day sipping margaritas and blogging. Until then I’ll be posting RSS Roundups of the most important stories of the day before. [...]

standardUpdate on Abortion Art

I wanted to post a quick update on the story of Aliza Schvarts’ Abortion Art Project I wrote about yesterday just to let you all know how the story is playing out. In such a short time there has been a lot going on and a lot of blogs that I really admire have posted [...]

standardEqual Pay Day

Support The Fair Pay Restoration Act Equal pay day is the day of the year in which women catch up to men in earnings from the year before. This year Equal Pay Day is recognized on Tuesday, April 22nd. Currently in America white women working full time jobs make on average make only 77 cents [...]