Senator Cory Booker and New Jersey’s First Lady Tammy Murphy congratulate
Women for Progress on their one year anniversary in 2018.
(CNN) Marsha P. Johnson stood at the center of New York City’s gay liberation movement for nearly 25 years. But LGBTQ rights weren’t her only cause. She was on the front lines of protests against oppressive policing. She helped found one of the country’s first safe spaces for trans...
11 June, 2020 Notable Women in History
The world is on fire and I know we all want to DO something, but the question is what? WFP is going to continue to do what we have always done since the beginning of the Trump administration. We are going to build community, educate, and find meaningful ways to be active with our mission partners. W...
08 June, 2020 News Newsletter
#GeorgeFloyd #WeCantBreathe #BlackLivesMatter I am sure you have seen these hashtags a lot this week. At Women for Progress, we support the Black Lives Matter movement, and we take a stand against all racial injustices. George Floyd was murdered this week and became another victim of police brutalit...
01 June, 2020 News Newsletter
After Wyckoff Mayor Tom Madigan refused to fly the Pride Flag last year in June, which is Pride month, Mayor Tim Shanley raised the Pride Flag in front of the Wyckoff Public Library on June 1. Read the full story...
01 June, 2020 News Newsletter
This week, Women for Progress and 23 other organizations sent a letter to the New Jersey state party leaders demanding diversity in selecting members of the NJ Apportionment Commission. The letter calls for more women and more people of color on the commission which will be tasked with re-drawing th...
29 May, 2020 Press
Sat Jan 23rd, 2021
There’s a lot of great stuff coming up about the reproductive freedom act. Mark your calendar‘s for this one and it will be in our newsletter tomorrow!! ... See MoreSee Less
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Fri Jan 22nd, 2021
Posted @withregram • @aclu_nationwide We have to fight harder than ever to defend the future of abortion rights, and ensure everyone can access the care they need.![]()
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Here’s why — and more importantly, how. #womenforprogress #roevwade ... See MoreSee Less
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Fri Jan 22nd, 2021
Posted @withregram • @ppnorthcentralstates 🎨: @dollywhitleyart![]()
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Thank you, @amandascgorman, for your beautiful, honest words highlighting our shared responsibility to fight for a better future together. It’s time to reimagine what is possible.![]()
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Thu Jan 21st, 2021
Posted @withregram • @nytimes The front page of The New York Times for Jan. 21, 2021. #wfphighlight #womenforprogress #blacklivesmatter ... See MoreSee Less
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Thu Jan 21st, 2021
This looks like an interesting and timely conversation!MARK YOUR CALENDARS (1/27): Join Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC), Ipas' Anu Kumar and Sistersong's Monica Simpson for a conversation about the Helms Amendment, an ideologically driven U.S. foreign policy that denies people—disproportionately Black and brown women—around the world access to reproductive health care. Learn more via FacebookLive streaming HERE at 4pm ET on January 27th. Help us get rid of this harmful policy! ... See MoreSee Less
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Thu Jan 21st, 2021
This. ... See MoreSee Less
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To be fair... they were stupid enough to elect him.
He is gaining plenty of attention by tweeting out utter lies that others will refute. Ugh!
He is an evil man.
He’s always been an unctuous elitist
Wed Jan 20th, 2021
Posted @withregram • @scarymommy A true hero. (Via @cjjohnsonjr)![]()
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#inauguration #scarymommy #Hero #womenforprogress #EugeneGoodmanIsAHero ❤️🙏 ... See MoreSee Less
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Love him!
Talk about thinking on your feet in a crisis...he really was instrumental in saving them!
He should get the Medal of Freedom.
Love this courageous man. A true patriot. ❤️🇺🇸
Love 💕
A true hero
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Tue Jan 19th, 2021
Tomorrow is a new day. #bidenharris2020 #wfphighlight #inauguration ... See MoreSee Less
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Tue Jan 19th, 2021
Heartbreaking news. www.cnn.com/2021/01/18/us/dante-barksdale-baltimore-safer-streets-trnd/index.html ... See MoreSee Less
Dante Barksdale, who worked for more than a decade to keep Baltimore's streets safe from gun violence, is shot and killed
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Barksdale, 46, was discovered with a gunshot wound to his head on Sunday morning near Douglass Homes, a public housing development in southeast Baltimore, according to Baltimore police. The circumstan...Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email
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Mon Jan 18th, 2021
Today is a perfect day to talk about #reparations #mlkweekend Posted @withregram • @aclu_nationwide When the emancipation proclamation was signed, Black people were promised land that would have given them access to the wealth they themselves had created — but were ultimately denied it.![]()
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At the same time, as Martin Luther King, Jr. pointed out in some of his last work, the government gave away millions of acres in the west and midwest to white people. King said, “not only did they give the land, they built land grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm; not only that, they provided county agents to further their expertise in farming; not only that, they provided low interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms.”![]()
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Reparations are a way to begin closing the roots of the economic, social, and political inequality that was deliberately imposed on our communities. #womenforprogress #wfphighlight ... See MoreSee Less
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Sun Jan 17th, 2021
Inauguration Celebration - mailchi.mp/womenforprogress/inauguration-celebration ... See MoreSee Less
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Sat Jan 16th, 2021
Posted @withregram • @impact100essex Happy MLK Weekend to all![]()
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Fri Jan 15th, 2021
An American Hero. #EugeneGoodman art by @tlduryea ... See MoreSee Less
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Fri Jan 15th, 2021
Thank you Senator Weinberg. ❤️ ... See MoreSee Less
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