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Henry Crown fellow Anand Giridharadas delivers his keynote address, "The Thriving World, The Wilting World, & You," at the 2015 Aspen Action Forum. Recorded Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at the Aspen Action Forum in Aspen, Colorado. http://www.aspenactionforum.org

The Equal Rights Amendment, which would codify gender equality in the U.S. Constitution, has been introduced in every session of Congress since 1923. It was finally passed in 1972, and yet never ratified. This week, the ERA will get its first hearing in 40 years when, on Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee meets to discuss a joint resolution to finally affirm the ERA. We speak to Zakiya Thomas and Linda Coberly of the ERA Coalition for more on the historic significance of this hearing and the century-long fight for constitutional protections against sex discrimination.

President Biden is hosting an event today at the White House with victims of gun violence to mark the signing of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and one of the participating high-profile shooting survivors who will attend is former Arizona Congressmember Gabby Giffords, who survived a 2011 assassination attempt. As mass shootings continue to plague the United States, we speak to the directors of “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down,” a new documentary premiering this week that follows Giffords as she fights to recover from the 2011 attack, and her subsequent advocacy for gun safety legislation. Giffords was just honored last week with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her activism. The film follows “the fight that this woman has had to come back herself and then to come back as a public figure fighting to try to do something about the epidemic of gun violence in our country,” says Julie Cohen, co-director of “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down.” Former President Barack Obama, who attempted to pass gun safety legislation with Giffords’s help but failed, is featured in the documentary during a moment that qualified as “the most disappointed and the angriest he had ever been as president,” adds fellow co-director Betsy West. Cohen and West also directed “My Name Is Pauli Murray” and the Academy Award-nominated ”RBG.”

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The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling allowing a transgender student to use a bathroom corresponding to his gender identity.

Democracy Now! coverage of the historic Women's March on Washington.

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GUEST: Kali Nicole Gross, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her books include the award-winning, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence…

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2020 marked the 100th anniversary of women winning the vote and a record-breaking election with more than 93 million voters casting ballots. Kamala Harris set several records as the first woman, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect, and candidates from diverse backgrounds were elected in many state and local elections. As part of the Special Collections online exhibit, Founding Mothers: From the Ballot Box to the University, the University of Arizona Libraries, in partnership with Dr. Patricia MacCorquodale, professor emerita in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, presents this panel discussion to address equal rights in our current historical and community context. In addition to celebrating this moment in history as one that reflects democracy and advances equal rights, the panel discussion includes strategies, issues, practices, and policies that foster or perpetuate inequalities. Our panelists will also talk about ways community members, individually or collectively, can take actions to promote equal rights, ensure participation in democracy, or create safe and inclusive communities. Panelists include: Gabriella Cázares-Kelly, Pima County Recorder Heidi Osselaer, Author, "Winning Their Place: Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950" Lisa M. Sanchez, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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At the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC on July 25, 2012 sex workers activists loudly disrupted a special session on the United States Congress and the global AIDS epidemic. Activists rose up from the audience several minutes into the panel, as Senator Bill First praised panelists Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) for their bipartisan support of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Although PEPFAR is the world's largest government-generated fund for HIV/AIDS, it contains a policy, known as the "anti-prostitution pledge" that requires recipients of funds to oppose prostitution. Activists raised red umbrellas, unfurled a banner reading "Stop Criminalization, Change PEPFAR" and chanted "repeal the pledge, reform PEPFAR," "sex workers' rights are human rights," and "nothing about us without us." The activists made their way to the front of the packed room, to cheers from the audience, while Senator Frist tried to silence them. The group refused to step down, and remained seated at the front of the room for the duration of the session. After the group sat down, Senator Frist introduced Representative Barbara Lee, who announced planned legislation, bill HR 6138, which was introduced last week but for which the text is not yet available, which will eliminate the anti-prostitution pledge. As Rep. Lee exited the stage, the activists chanted "We love Barbara Lee!" This video includes documentation of the disruption, Barbara Lee's announcement about the new legislation, and commentary on the action by Kelli Dorsey (Different Avenues), Daisy McCloud (Red Umbrella Project), and Sharmus Outlaw (Desiree Alliance).

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