Sexual assault is a deadly serious issue. One in 6 American women is a survivor of attempted or completed rape. One in 5 women is assaulted in college. On Friday, October 7, video surfaced of Republican nominee Donald Trump bragging to Billy Bush about serial sexual assault he committed over his career. Trump's comments include the lines: "And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” “Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.” For years, NBC elevated Trump and turned a blind eye to his predatory and illegal behavior. It is time for NBC to hold Trump accountable. Sexual assault is not a laughing matter. I urge Saturday Night Live to make tonight's cold-open a serious and meaningful discussion of the toll sexual assault takes on survivors--and of course on those who do not survive. While NBC owes substantially more accountability, it can start with Saturday Night Live. Please do right by every survivor of abuse by Trump and men like him.

"Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p****. You can do anything."—Donald Trump, 2005 In the wake of this audio, most prominent Republican leaders have expressed their shock at Trump's words, a small handful of them going so far as to call for him to step aside. And yet, the majority of these same prominent Republican leaders—from Kelly Ayotte to John McCain to Paul Ryan—continue to endorse Donald Trump for president. Time after time, when Trump has said or done something offensive, Republicans have gone on the record as denouncing his words or actions but have refused to take the necessary next step and un-endorse him. These Republican leaders can't have it both ways: it's time to either back up their words with actions, and un-endorse Trump once and for all, or continue to stand with a racist, xenophobic misogynist unfit for political office.

We had a big win in June. The Supreme Court ruled against a law that was aiming to shut down abortion clinics in Texas. This landmark decision affirms that imposing undue burdens on women seeking abortions is wrong. It confirms that women have a right to access a safe and legal abortion. What does that mean for Arizona? It calls into question practices like forcing women to travel hundreds of miles to access reproductive health care, enduring 24-hour waiting periods, and preventing Medicaid from covering abortions. It’s time we follow the Supreme Court’s lead and take action.

We are a group of outraged parents whose daughters were subjected to second-class treatment by their colleges. Forced to endure woefully inadequate investigative and disciplinary proceedings that did not comply with civil rights laws, we watched in horror as campus officials cavalierly exonerated offenders whose brutal acts of violent discrimination against our daughters deserved punishment. Only after the fact did we learn that school officials had subjected our daughters to second class treatment during the investigation and hearing process. We were then shocked to learn that the American Bar Association had recently recommended that schools subject victimized women to second class treatment, even though women suffer far more violence on campus because they are female than does any other class of student suffer violence because of their race, religion, etc. Violence against any woman is a civil rights offense against all women. That an organization like the ABA, which purports to be dedicated to ensuring equal justice for all, would mock the very idea of gender equality in education, especially on the virtual eve of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, is profoundly disturbing. Please join us in this important initiative to repeal the ABA's discriminatory policy, and voice your support for full gender equality in all schools. For additional information, you may also go to www.pushforequaljustice.org. Feel free to share our message and website with others. Thanks for your support!

I’ve seen first-hand the impact of workplace sexism and sexual harassment. No one deserves to work in a place where he or she is objectified, belittled, and harassed with no recourse and no support. This case is so visible—and the alleged harassment is so extensive and alarming—it’s imperative that the investigation and its results don’t get swept under the rug. 21st Century Fox is already giving Ailes a massive payout just to walk away—reportedly in excess of $40 million! If 21st Century Fox is truly taking these allegations seriously, they’ll release the findings of their investigation to the public. Since former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment suit against the network’s chief executive Roger Ailes, dozens of other women have come forward with stories of Ailes’ sexism, harassment, and worse. Disturbingly, many of the allegations include details of how other Fox executives knew about and enabled his harassment of women at the network over his decades-long career. Getting rid of Ailes was a long overdue start. But we've long passed the point where Fox News can be trusted to run their own internal review, considering the toxic message of misogyny and sexism the network has cultivated over the years.

Three days ago, on June 25th 2016, Shelby County Sheriff's office arrested Samuel Woods III on Rape 2 charges. This is the rapist that impregnated a 14 year old, that resulted in the birth of Baby Braelon. Research and public information is exposing a trend: rapists that target under aged girls to create children that can the be taken from the under aged mothers. This information is not private and should be exposed. The audacity to start a law suit using the child as plaintiff against News Media Outlets that are reporting on this blatant case of mismanagement and incompentence on the part of Shelby Counties DHR is against our First Amendment right to freedom of speech! DHS broke their own law and disregarded their own report that was signed by their own social workers, and they will be held accountable for their negligence. The system that lets rapists go free and continue to rape other minors seems to have a systematic pattern, and this pattern should be exposed and stopped. Instead of admitting guilt on the part of the incompetence displayed by the DHR, they want to try to censor journalist and media attention brought to them. We will be exposing this situation world wide now as Child Protective Services all over the world are under investigation and many are resigning in lieu of the exposure of the crimes being committed against the innocent children and those children that are caught up and become victims of rapist that are set free to visit the the children they created through the crime they committed. Something very wrong is going on in Shelby County Alabama DHR, and we will make an example of what happens when you go against the Constitution of the United States and try to shut out the voice of the people, and try to censor the media who's responsibility is to tell us the truth as has been done here with this kidnapping and leniency given to repeat rapists. We will not stand for this anymore, the abuse of children, the rights given to criminals, and we will never agree to censorship! Hear now the voice of the people from all over the world who know what injustices are going on with Alabama's Shelby County DHR!

Until equality is constitutionally guaranteed for women, it is outrageous to require women to register for the draft. Fix that, then proceed.

Urge the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and President Obama to pass H.J.RES.15/S.J. RES. 15 which is the Three-State Strategy to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution. H.J.RES.43/S.J. RES. 15? H.J.RES.51/S.J. RES. 15, sponsored by U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA 14) and U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), is the bill resolution for the Three-State Strategy to verify the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution. H.J.RES.51/S.J. RES. 15, would eliminate the time limit for ratification of the equal rights amendment (prohibits discrimination on account of sex) proposed to the states in House Joint Resolution 208 of the 92nd Congress, second session. It declares that such amendment shall be part of the Constitution whenever ratified by the necessary number of additional states. What is the Equal Rights Amendment? The Equal Rights Amendment is an amendment that promotes gender equality in the United States constitution. It states, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." (http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/">www.equalrightsamendment.org) Since the United States has been a country, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has not become a part of the United States Constitution. What is the Equal Right Amendment Three-State Strategy? The Equal Rights Amendment, passed by Congress in 1972, would have become the 27th Amendment to the Constitution if three-fourths of the states had ratified it by June 30, 1982. However, that date passed with only 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. Instead, the 27th Amendment is the "Madison Amendment," concerning Congressional pay raises, which went to the states for ratification in 1789 and reached the three-fourths goal in 1992. The fact that a 203-year ratification period was accepted as valid has led ERA supporters to propose that Congress has the power to maintain the legal viability of the ERA and the existing 35 state ratifications. If so, only three more state ratifications would be needed to make the ERA part of the Constitution. Legal analysis supporting this strategy was developed in 1995 by Allison Held, Sheryl Herndon and Danielle Stager, then third-year law students at the T. C. Williams School of Law in Richmond, VA. Their article, "http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/misc/W&M%20law%20article.pdf">Why the ERA Remains Legally Viable and Properly Before the States," was published in the Spring 1997 issue of William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law. Article V of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to propose an amendment and to determine the mode of ratification, but it is silent as to the power of Congress to impose time limits or its role after ratification by three-fourths of the states. It is important to note that Congressional promulgation is not a necessary feature of Article V. In the history of the amendment process Congress has promulgated only two amendments, the 14th and the 27th, following the final state ratification. In addition, the requirement for ratification within a "sufficiently contemporaneous" time frame and the chronological definition of "contemporaneous" are now open to question in light of the Madison Amendment experience. Despite arguments by proponents that the Equal Rights Amendment should go to the states without a time limit in the tradition of the 19th Amendment, the ERA passed Congress in 1972 with a seven-year time limit in its proposing clause. If the time limit had been placed in the text of the amendment itself, that restriction would not be subject to alteration by Congress after any state legislature had ratified. However, the ERA language ratified by 35 states between 1972 and 1982 (see above) did not contain a time limit for ratification. By transferring time limits from the text of an amendment to the proposing clause, Congress retained for itself the authority to review the limit and to amend its own previous legislative action regarding that time limit. In 1978, Congress clearly demonstrated its belief that it may alter a time limit in the proposing clause when it passed an extension of the original seven-year limit for ERA ratification and moved the deadline from March 22, 1979, to June 30, 1982. A challenge to the constitutionality of the extension was dismissed by the Supreme Court as moot after the deadline expired, and no lower-court precedent stands regarding that point. The Coleman decision asserted that Congress may determine whether the states have ratified in a "reasonable" time or whether the amendment is "no longer responsive to the conception which inspired it." Congress therefore could determine that the time period since the ERA went to the states for ratification in 1972 is "reasonable" and "contemporaneous" (particularly in light of the fact that it deemed the Madison Amendment's 203 years to be so), and it could decide that the ERA remains "responsive to the conception which inspired it" (indisputably so, since the fact that women's equal rights are not constitutionally affirmed will remain unchanged until the Constitution is amended or interpreted to establish unequivocally that women and men have equal rights). Therefore, under the principles of Dillon and Coleman, and based on the fact that Congress voted to extend the ERA time limit and to accept the 203-year-long ratification period of the Madison Amendment as sufficiently "contemporaneous," it is likely that Congress has the power to legislatively adjust or remove the time limit constraint on the ERA if it chooses, to determine whether or not state ratifications which occur after the expiration of a time limit in a proposing clause are valid, and to promulgate the ERA after the 38th state ratifies. Why do women need the Equal Rights Amendment? The fourteenth amendment of the United States Constitution grants c...

The Hillsboro School Board recently voted 4 to 3 to prevent the school-based health center at Century High School from providing students with access to contraceptives. There are 4 men and 3 women on the board—can you guess who voted for access to contraception? That's right: all 3 women stood up for women's reproductive health care. This is one of the many reasons why having women leaders in public office matters. It's unacceptable for men to make this health care decision for young women—when they've never known what it's like to be in their position. Tell the Hillsboro School Board: Provide birth control in the school-based health center! In Congress and in Hillsboro, I'll always stand up against attacks on women's health. Despite the national attacks on Planned Parenthood, Oregon has been a leader– we've reduced teen pregnancy rates by 55% between 1988 and 2014 through the expansion of comprehensive age-appropriate and science-based sexual education and access to contraception. This decision from the Hillsboro School Board sets us back and can hurt the future of young women. I'm proud to stand with the three women on the Hillsboro School Board who fought for the young women they serve. It's not the 1950's—we know that refusing to provide contraception to high school students does not stop them from having sex. Sign the petition: Provide access to contraceptives in Hillsboro's school-based health center!

We, the undersigned, are appalled by the partnership that has developed between Uber and the government of Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive. Uber is profiting from this ban, generating tremendous revenue by providing male drivers to Saudi women who are not allowed to drive themselves. On top of that, Uber has now accepted $3.5 billion in investments from this repressive, misogynist Saudi government through its Public Investment Fund. To seal this sordid deal, Uber has granted a seat of its Board of Directors to Yasir Al Rumayyan, managing director of the Saudi government fund. Saudi women have been fighting for decades for this basic right that women have all over the world. They have gathered petitions, solicited the King, conducted acts of civil disobedience, and gone to prison. Uber should not be on the side of their oppressors but should be supporting the brave Saudi women.

Brock Allen Turner, a Stanford University student, was convicted of raping an unconscious woman on the Stanford campus after two graduate students found him on top of the woman, behind a dumpster, outside of a fraternity party. But California Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner to just six months in a county jail. As a Stanford graduate, I am disgusted that this rape occurred, and I am outraged by Judge Persky's sentence. Instead of justice, Judge Persky handed convicted rapist Brock Allen Turner the lightest possible sentence for raping an unconscious woman, saying that prison would have “a severe impact on [Turner].” It's worth noting that Turner’s father had called on the judge to give him only probation, saying he had already “paid a steep price" for “20 minutes of action." This rape culture cannot continue. Rapists must be held accountable for their actions, and judges who refuse to do so must resign. There is precedent for calling for a judge's resignation: Back in 2013, when Judge G. Todd Baugh sentenced a former high school teacher to just 30 days in prison for repeatedly raping a 14-year-old student, MoveOn member Kate Olp started a petition calling on the judge to resign. After thousands of MoveOn members and allies joined Kate's call, the Montana Judicial Standards Commission filed a formal complaint against the judge, and he ultimately did not seek re-election. Will you stand with me, just as MoveOn members stood with Kate Olp, and speak out against rape culture by calling for Judge Persky to resign?

Judge Aaron Persky sentenced convicted rapist Brock Allen Turner to just six months in county jail and probation after he was found guilty of raping an unconscious woman outside of a fraternity party on the Stanford campus. In his remarks at sentencing, Judge Persky justified this light sentence out of concern for Turner's future and the impact the verdict will have on his life. As a Stanford graduate, I'm disgusted that this rape occurred and I am outraged by Judge Persky's lenient sentence. Rapists must be held accountable for their actions, and judges who refuse to hold them accountable must be removed from the bench. The Committee on Judicial Performance has the authority to remove a judge. If enough of us speak out and demand justice, we can ensure judges like Judge Persky must value the life of the woman who was raped over the consequences of a just sentence for the rapist.