The National Partnership for Women & Families “was built precisely for moments like this … The measure of our success is not just about wins and losses; it’s about the fact that we are still here. We are still fighting. We are still pushing, and we’ll continue to do so as long as there’s work that remains to be done … It is our resilience, our fortitude, our determination, our ability to play the long game. That’s what sets us apart organizationally and collectively.

…We need to be loud, clear, and bold about an affirmative agenda for change that is unafraid of inclusion, values the diversity we bring, believes we all deserve to be healthy and to have actual health care. We need to counter the fear with hope, to defeat the politics of division with the power of our solidarity.”

– Jocelyn Frye, President, National Partnership for Women & Families

“… We understand this [repressive] response not as a rebuke but as an affirmation to what happens when you build power. We started preparing for the defense campaign and raising resources for it before we even knew we were going to win these [minimum wage, paid sick days, and abortion rights] measures. While we still have lots and lots of work to do, that orientation toward power building is why I stand before you tonight not dejected. I am proud and I am energized because we are ready to build more power.”

– M’Evie Mead, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Missouri Jobs with Justice

“There’s so much work ahead. The challenges are towering. The days are difficult. As Dr. King said, we’ve had difficult days, but we have had them before. We answered with the women’s movement, with the Women’s March, with Stonewall, with the farm workers movement, the civil rights movement. We’ve answered and met the moment at every turn, because we know that our responsibility is not just for ourselves, but for those who come behind us.

We look forward to continuing to stand with the Partnership as we work together every day to remember our calling, to remember our work, to fight for all the women and all the families. To serve the least, the last, and the lost, the left out, the locked out, and the left behind. To be their voice, to be their hope, to be their strength, to be their light. To fight with them with courage, conviction, and compassion – until the promise of America is the practice of America.”

– Bishop Leah Daughtry, organizer-activist, political strategist, author and theologian

“If making sure that women get good jobs, jobs that we’ve not been able to have before, is radical, then let’s be radical. If it’s radical to ensure a just day’s pay for a hard day’s work and equal pay, then let’s be radical. If it’s radical to make caregiving available, caregivers valued, and to protect Black mothers before, during, and after childbirth, then give me radical. If it’s radical to teach our children our full history, then we should definitely be radical. If it’s radical to say that working people should not have to demand but should be able to expect a job with security and dignity, to be able to go to the doctor when they’re sick without breaking the bank, to be able to retire with dignity and a pension at the end of work, and that families can enjoy time together because it doesn’t take multiple jobs to build a life, then let’s be as radical as we can be. Let’s join the National Partnership for all of their work in breathing life into ideas like diversity, inclusion, equity, by using radical organizing and radical solidarity.”

– Julie Su, former U.S. Secretary of Labor

“[Attacks on DEI by the current administration] is not a reason to stand back. It’s a reason to lean forward. They think that by erasing our names from websites that the government controls that they erase our history. They do not. We still have our oral history. We can still speak, and while we can still speak, we can still tell our stories. They cannot deplatform us out of our rights. They cannot silence our rights away unless we let them, so what I would call upon us to do is … Fight like hell for the things that you deserve, and you deserve diversity, equity, and inclusion. If they don’t like it, some folks just gonna have to be mad.”

– Joy-Ann Reid, award-winning journalist, author, documentary film producer and social and political commentator

The National Partnership for Women & Families “was built precisely for moments like this … The measure of our success is not just about wins and losses; it’s about the fact that we are still here. We are still fighting. We are still pushing, and we’ll continue to do so as long as there’s work that remains to be done … It is our resilience, our fortitude, our determination, our ability to play the long game. That’s what sets us apart organizationally and collectively.

…We need to be loud, clear, and bold about an affirmative agenda for change that is unafraid of inclusion, values the diversity we bring, believes we all deserve to be healthy and to have actual health care. We need to counter the fear with hope, to defeat the politics of division with the power of our solidarity.”

– Jocelyn Frye, President, National Partnership for Women & Families

“… We understand this [repressive] response not as a rebuke but as an affirmation to what happens when you build power. We started preparing for the defense campaign and raising resources for it before we even knew we were going to win these [minimum wage, paid sick days, and abortion rights] measures. While we still have lots and lots of work to do, that orientation toward power building is why I stand before you tonight not dejected. I am proud and I am energized because we are ready to build more power.”

– M’Evie Mead, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Missouri Jobs with Justice

“There’s so much work ahead. The challenges are towering. The days are difficult. As Dr. King said, we’ve had difficult days, but we have had them before. We answered with the women’s movement, with the Women’s March, with Stonewall, with the farm workers movement, the civil rights movement. We’ve answered and met the moment at every turn, because we know that our responsibility is not just for ourselves, but for those who come behind us.

We look forward to continuing to stand with the Partnership as we work together every day to remember our calling, to remember our work, to fight for all the women and all the families. To serve the least, the last, and the lost, the left out, the locked out, and the left behind. To be their voice, to be their hope, to be their strength, to be their light. To fight with them with courage, conviction, and compassion – until the promise of America is the practice of America.”

– Bishop Leah Daughtry, organizer-activist, political strategist, author and theologian

“If making sure that women get good jobs, jobs that we’ve not been able to have before, is radical, then let’s be radical. If it’s radical to ensure a just day’s pay for a hard day’s work and equal pay, then let’s be radical. If it’s radical to make caregiving available, caregivers valued, and to protect Black mothers before, during, and after childbirth, then give me radical. If it’s radical to teach our children our full history, then we should definitely be radical. If it’s radical to say that working people should not have to demand but should be able to expect a job with security and dignity, to be able to go to the doctor when they’re sick without breaking the bank, to be able to retire with dignity and a pension at the end of work, and that families can enjoy time together because it doesn’t take multiple jobs to build a life, then let’s be as radical as we can be. Let’s join the National Partnership for all of their work in breathing life into ideas like diversity, inclusion, equity, by using radical organizing and radical solidarity.”

– Julie Su, former U.S. Secretary of Labor

“[Attacks on DEI by the current administration] is not a reason to stand back. It’s a reason to lean forward. They think that by erasing our names from websites that the government controls that they erase our history. They do not. We still have our oral history. We can still speak, and while we can still speak, we can still tell our stories. They cannot deplatform us out of our rights. They cannot silence our rights away unless we let them, so what I would call upon us to do is … Fight like hell for the things that you deserve, and you deserve diversity, equity, and inclusion. If they don’t like it, some folks just gonna have to be mad.”

– Joy-Ann Reid, award-winning journalist, author, documentary film producer and social and political commentator

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