We need vindication for the victims.

The USA’s National Women’s team just won their THIRD World Cup, but FIFA is still treating our champions as second-class citizens. The high-profile Women’s World Cup final match shattered television records with over 25 million viewers -- making it the most watched soccer game in U.S. history.(1) Yet, our world champions are being paid FORTY TIMES LESS than their male counterparts did for LOSING the World Cup last year during the first round ($576 million vs. $15 million)!(2) FIFA, which generates billions in revenue, also forced women — but not the men — to play this year’s World Cup on artificial turf. This not only increased the risk of injury, but also increased temperatures on the field by 20-30 degrees. During tournament, field temperatures reached 120 degrees.(3) It is no secret that gender-pay disparity runs rampant in the United States with women making 78 cents per dollar to men.(4) And this blatant pay discrimination by FIFA may be the most extreme case yet. It is time for FIFA’s executives to take a stand for equal pay, stop underscoring our heroic female leaders, and provide them with the same awards and privileges as men. Join me to stand alongside women and men all across the globe to right this injustice and ensure that our champions and all women receive equal pay. 1. http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/womens-world-cup-carli-lloyd-usa-win-soccer-ratings-1201534249/ 2. http://www.politico.eu/article/world-cup-women-pay-gap-gender-equality/ 3. http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2015/07/06/3677105/fifa-will-pay-us-womens-championship-team-4-times-less-mens-teams-lost-first-round/ and http://www.sportingnews.com/soccer/story/2015-06-03/womens-world-cup-turf-war-fifa-canada-artificial-turf-natural-grass 4. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121530/women-color-make-far-less-78-cents-mans-dollar

The U.S. Women's soccer team made history last night after winning the World Cup for the third time. Their prize? $2 million. Not bad until you learn that the men's teams were awarded $8 million--simply for losing in the first round. Why? Because according to FIFA's leadership, equal pay for women is "nonsense." This is outrageous, but with media coverage around the game growing, FIFA's gender pay discrimination is finally getting some attention. If enough of us stand up to FIFA while billions of people and international media are watching, we can force FIFA to start respecting women and end its discriminatory pay practice.

It's about time, she said.

Detroiters and metro-Detroiters, we on in the process of rebirth. We don't want anyone coming to our community with their darkness. Take that back to your hometown.

According to Equal Rights Advocates, a national civil rights organization based in San Francisco, a woman in California working full time made a median of 84 cents for every dollar a man earned. You might be wondering if that statistic is from 1965 or something... it's not. It's from 2013. Most people I've talked to have personally experienced the wage gap. A couple years ago, I was working in a cafe and found out that the inexperienced 19-year-old new guy made $10 an hour while I only made $8.50--even though I had 7 years of server and barista experience under my belt, including 6 months at this place. Even our country's most successful women have encountered this, including talented actors like Patricia Arquette, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress earlier this year and called for wage equality in her acceptance speech. A bill to close the wage gap that women face at work passed the Senate floor on a unanimous, bipartisan vote earlier this week. The measure would give California the toughest law in the nation to ensure that women are paid the same as men for performing jobs that are substantially similar. But the fight isn't over: The bill now goes to the state Assembly before heading to Governor Brown's desk. Show your support! Equal pay for equal work!

Sometimes, you have to decide which side you’re on, and now is the time to make your choice: do you stand with women, or stand in the way? Enough is enough. It’s time to make fairness, opportunity and reproductive freedom for women a reality in our country. Through our Stand with Women or Stand in the Way campaign, we are demanding that our elected representatives guarantee equal rights when it comes to fair treatment on the job, health care and having families. It’s a simple choice: Stand with women by taking action to advance fairness, opportunity and freedom… or stand in the way. Which side do you stand on? Take a stand for women in North Carolina by signing our petition against unnecessary regulation of women's rights in our state.

Mayor Berry says he passed his"equal pay for women in ABQ" ordinance because “it is time we start incentivizing the result we want." But, it rewards companies who agree to "pay women at least within 10 percent of what they pay men in comparable jobs."

These restrictions include humiliating women via forced ultrasounds or insulting their intelligence through laws that require them to wait 24 hours or make them watch a video before getting the procedure. If a woman wants to comply with her religious beliefs regarding abortion, her choice is simple: Do not get one. Men have also successfully prevented birth control from being covered by the ACA often citing "we don't use it so why should we have to pay for it" but then restrict choices for unwanted pregnancies. Religion is the red herring behind the real reason for these laws. The real reason: Men feel they must control women. This must stop. The way to stop it starts with you. I am petitioning you to immediately begin introducing bills that: • Require a man to have to wait 24 hours before getting a vasectomy. • Force men seeking vasectomies to sit through a video detailing the procedure and showing all the babies he isn't allowing to live because he's restricting his sperm cells. • Force men seeking vasectomies to have an ultrasound of his testicles and rectum. • Force men seeking a prescription for Viagra to have an ultrasound of his testicles and rectum every year. • Demand that vasectomies and Viagra not be covered by insurance under the ACA.

Honoring Judge Baugh with a Lifetime Achievement Award is disgraceful. With this award, the Yellowstone Bar Association is sending a dangerous message to sexual assault victims that they will not find justice in a court of law. Victim blaming has no place on a judge’s bench. After being censured by the Montana Supreme Court for his comments and suspended from the bench for 31 days, Judge Baugh stepped down and ended his 30 year career as a state judge. Prosecutors appealed the verdict in the original rape case and the teacher, Stacey Rambold, was re-sentenced. He is now serving 10 years in Montana State Prison. Rambold is appealing the sentence. Victims of sexual assault routinely face harassment and shaming when they come forward about their assault to seek justice. To honor a judge who blamed a child for her own assault is unconscionable. Judge Baugh’s actions on the bench cannot be rewarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

As a former victim of rape myself, I humbly accept the request to stand up as a local progressive, bypassing Washington, D.C., to make the voices of the nation's fathers, mothers, daughters, and sons heard. I am proud to assist the great silver state of Nevada on this journey as a leading, progressive conscious state who won't stand for allowing a statue of limitations on such a gross injustice as rape.

I am insulted that women's rights to privacy are being commandeered. We are not children who need to be protected by the Tennessee Legislature. Women can make choices and have the right to have a choice.