Weekly Advocacy Wrap-Up: March 26

May the Circle of Friendship and Family,
Whether Virtual or In Person,Surround You at Passover!
Chag Pesach Sameach!
If you were unable to join NCJW last week for #RuthsRevolution Continues: An Exploration of Reproductive Freedom in Honor of Justice Ginsburg. We thank our superb panelists, Kristine A. Kippins of the Constitutional Accountibility Center, Steffani Bangel of the New Orleans Abortion Fund, Glenn Northern of Catholics for Choice, and Jasmin Yunis, an If/When/How policy fellow at Advocates for Youth, watch the full recording of the event or share it with your network here.

We invite you to continue #RuthsRevolution by taking action to protect and expand abortion access and to advance gender equity in honor of Justice Ginsburg.
  • Urge your lawmakers to pass WHPA and EACH
  • Sign our interfaith petitions for WHPA and EACH
  • Send a postcard to President Biden
  • Call your Senators and encourage them to confirm Vanita Gupta as Associate Attorney General and Kristen Clarke as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice:

Lastly, please consider making a donation to NCJW to protect abortion access and help us keep #RuthsRevolution going.
Just this past week we found out that a detained person at Adelanto was released, after having a stroke and then he died in the hospital. ICE was aware that he was dying, or at least that he was in critical condition. He had contracted severe COVID-19 in December, was hospitalized for three weeks, and never fully recovered. This is not an isolated incident.

At the same time last week a report was release by the EPA condeming Adelanto GEO officials for the ilegal use of HDQ chemicals at Adelanto and it's harmful affects on former and current immigrants detained at that horrific prison. 

How can you help? Please sign-on to letter address to Adelanto City Officials (anyone is welcome so sign) The letter is here. Please sign the letter here.
Thank you for voting and, if you participated, for sending letters to encourage so many––nearly 18 million–– fellow voters to participate in our democracy in 2020. We saw record voter turnout in November.

We’re writing “thank you for voting” letters to voters in Georgia and Virginia who cast 2020 general election ballots either for the first time or for the first time in a while. THESE LETTERS NEED TO BE MAILED BY APRIL 1ST. These letters will be different in a few ways:

  • We’re going to thank first-time and infrequent voters who cast ballots in 2020, and encourage them to vote again.
  • Our personal messages will be about why we voted in 2020.

To get started, please click here and then click the “View all active campaigns” link to adopt voters from another campaign. As a non-profit, we need to select campaigns marked “social”.
Tell Congress to protect the rights of asylum seekers and end Title 42 at the border 

Asylum seekers are entitled to due process and dignity. Congress must call on the Biden administration to end the misuse of public health laws and restore the right to asylum by ending Title 42. Click here
EACH Act: NCJW celebrated the reintroduction of the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act in the House and Senate on March 25. Led by women of color, this bill would mandate coverage of all pregnancy-related care, including abortion, in federal health plans and programs and prohibit political interference with the decisions of private health insurance companies to offer coverage for abortion care. NCJW is proud to support this legislation as a member of the All* Above All coalition to permanently end the racist and discriminatory Hyde Amendment. 

Take Action! Urge your lawmakers to pass the EACH Act to ensure that abortion care is affordable and available for each of us no matter how much we earn, where we live, or who we are. 

Equal Pay Day: March 24 marked equal payday; the time stamp that represents how many more days into 2021 the average woman will have worked to earn the same income that the average man earned as of December 31, 2020. Overall women earn only 82 cents for every dollar earned by men, and the gap is much wider for women of color (Black women earn 63 cents, Indigenous women earn 60 cents, Latinas earn 55 cents, and some Asian American and Pacific Islander women earn only 52 cents). 

NCJW was thrilled to join a roundtable addressing pay equity with Vice President Kamala Harris this week. See her remarks here.