March is Women's History Month - Healing, Hope, Progress

LEARN FROM THE PAST…

Mother Jones - Orator, organizer - she agitated and lead strikes to fight for social equity.
Nellie Stone Johnson - Civil rights activist, union organizer - pushed for fair employment practices.
Dorothy Day - Journalist, social activist - campaigned to feed, clothe, and shelter the “homeless & forsaken”.

LEARN FROM THE PRESENT…

Data speaking to homelessness as a women’s rights issue - 10/4/21, THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

Indigenous Women and the UN system - UN Dept. of Economic & Social Affairs
Making recent gains in ensuring that Indigenous women are at the decision making table.

On Being a Founder of a Movement - Patrisse Cullors, Cofounder of Black Lives Matter - 02/28/22, The G2 Interview/Nesrine Malik

ACTION NOW…

Secretary Deb Haaland
Single mother, small business owner, environmental activist, earned a J.D. from University of new Mexico Law School. Now the U.S Secretary of the Interior, where her bio includes “…member of the Pueblo of Laguna & 35th generation New Mexican.”

FOR MORE background…

Women’sHistoryMonth.gov
National Women’s History Alliance
White House Proclamation on Women’s History Month