SB 5171 is youth-inspired legislation that Dhingra, a Northwest Progressive Foundation boardmember, introduced in partnership with civically-oriented students from Lake Washington High School in Kirkland. If passed, it will stop retailers from charging Washingtonians (especially those who identify as female) extra for products merely because they are marketed to a particular gender.
Category: Civil Liberties
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Firearm Industry Responsibility/Gun Violence Victims’ Access to Justice Act clears Senate
“This legislation provides accountability for a gun industry that has too often failed to take necessary precautions to prevent guns from getting into the wrong hands,” Governor Inslee said. “Industry negligence costs lives — this bill lets the industry know we won’t abide this status quo any longer.”
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VICTORY! Washington State Senate votes to remove death penalty and Eyman’s two-thirds nonsense from our state’s body of laws
Senate Bill 5087, prime sponsored by Senator Jamie Pedersen (D‑43rd District: Seattle) and requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson, would formally scrub a long list of statutes no longer in effect from the Revised Code of Washington.
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NPI urges Senate to advance constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom
Read NPI’s founder’s remarks in support of Senate Joint Resolution 8202, a proposed constitutional amendment which declares that “the state shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom decisions.”
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NPI urges Legislature to enact a ban on military style assault weapons with HB 1240
Read NPI founder Andrew Villeneuve’s written testimony in support of House Bill 1240, which would prohibit the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, or offer for sale of any assault weapon, subject to various exceptions for licensed firearm manufacturers and dealers, and for individuals who inherit an assault weapon.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: We will reach the goal of freedom because that is America’s goal
Take a few moments to read this excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter From Birmingham Jail.
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President Joe Biden signs Respect for Marriage Act into law at the White House
With the stroke of a pen, the discriminatory “Defense of Marriage” Act from the 1990s was finally repealed and the right wing Supreme Court put on notice that this country won’t stand for the overturning the landmark Obergefell decision.
Posted inCivil Liberties
Respect for Marriage Act wins final passage in the U.S. Senate; returns to U.S. House
“Nobody should face the gut-wrenching pit in their stomach with the possibility that some politically motivated Supreme Court justices might suddenly tell them that their marriage is no longer recognized,” said Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon.
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LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs attacked; five killed by gunman at nightclub
The horrific attack, which authorities are investigating, reminded many of the slaughter at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in 2016, which remains the deadliest incident in the history of violence against LGBTQ+ people in the United States and one of the worst mass shootings in American history.
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Respect for Marriage Act wins Senate cloture vote: Marriage equality will soon be codified!
On a bipartisan vote of 62–37, the Senate voted to invoke cloture on the Respect for Marriage Act (H.R. 8404), which would send a powerful message to the Roberts/Alito Court that the executive and legislative branches of the United States federal government do not want the Obergefell decision overturned, and finally codify marriage equality into federal law.
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More than three in five Washington voters support Patty Murray and Kim Schrier’s Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act
62% of 782 likely Washington State voters surveyed October 19th-20th, 2022 for NPI by Public Policy Polling said they supported Senator Patty Murray and U.S. Representative Kim Schrier’s Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act (H.R. 8650 in the House and S.4723 in the Senate).
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Most voters in Washington say they would be “much less likely” to support a candidate who favors a federal or state abortion ban
A total of 57% of 782 respondents surveyed said they would be less likely to support a candidate who favors a ban (50% much less likely, 7% somewhat), while 22% said they would be more likely (17% much more likely, 5% somewhat).
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The feds start following Washington State’s lead on marijuana, ten years after I‑502
Where Washington leads, Washington, D.C., follows, as evidenced by President Biden’s big announcement on marijuana policy a full ten years after the approval of Initiative 502.
Posted inCivil Liberties
NPI at Netroots Nation 2022: Talking about the American Dream with Abigail Disney
In the ninth and final installment of NPI@NN (2022), NPI’s Caya Berndt spoke with activist and filmmaker Abigail Disney about her film “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales,” labor organizing, and improving the lives of the workers at the Happiest Place on Earth.