TARGET, END YOUR HYPOCRISY AND STOP HURTING NEW MOMS 12FEB19

I like shopping at Target, or I did until I found out they are just like almost every other company in America, greedy liars and hypocrites. So I am prepared to spend my money somewhere else until Target ends it's policy of cutting employees hours to make them ineligible for paid family leave. Please click the link to sign the Ultraviolet petition to Target to restore paid family leave to their hourly employees and take the time to add a message to Target, here is mine
'I will make my family and friends aware of Target's hypocrisy and will spend my hard earned dollars elsewhere until Target restores paid family leave to it's employees.' 
I also went to Target's facebook page and posted this entire blog post

Target Corporation, one of the biggest employers in the country, is swindling its workers out of paid family leave.

Hourly Target workers across the country--nearly everyone who works at an actual store--are speaking out about a widespread corporate practice of managers slashing hours so employees won't qualify for the company's paid family leave program. This impacts workers like Callie Leamy, a Target employee in Maryland who is 9 months pregnant, will likely get no paid maternity leave after giving birth, and is facing homelessness as a result.¹

Target is aware that it has attracted its customers based on its "progressive" reputation. So if Target customers and the public raise an uproar about its scheme to swindle working parents out of family leave, we could force Target to live up to its reputation and actually guarantee ALL employees paid family leave.

Tell Target Corporation: "Stop cheating your workers. Offer 12 weeks of paid family leave to ALL employees, including hourly employees who need it the most."

Sign the petition

Target amassed $71 billion in revenue last year, in part because of its public image as a one-stop shop for families needs.² And who are the people moving that money into Target executives' and shareholders' pockets? Rank and file Target workers who have families of their own. They deserve the ability to care for a new child.

With all the attention on Target and its reputation for "doing right by America,"³ we can force Target to do right by its hundreds of thousands of workers all over the country--and make a huge splash in the corporate world by demonstrating how "good" companies treat its workers.

And it's important for women that this growing movement for paid parental leave trends in the right direction: in the United States, 60% of women are the primary caregiver responsible for a family member--inadequate access to paid parental leave sets entire families back financially. In fact, over 80% of Black families, 60% of Native families, 50% of Latino families, and 40% of white families depend on the mother as the main breadwinner.⁴ That means access to better parental leave is essential to reaching economic equality across race lines.

Target is the perfect company to uphold as an example of an employer that values its workers fairly--but only once caring customers successfully push it to treat its workers better, and equally, with 12 weeks of paid family leave.

Will you sign the petition to Target Corporation now?

Thanks for speaking out!

-- Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Holly, Kathy, Susan, Anathea, Audine, Emma, Pilar, Natalie, Melody, Pam, Lindsay, Ryan, Sonja, and Noma, the UltraViolet team

Sources:

1. Pregnant and Homeless, Fellow Target Team Member at Store #1265 Needs Our Help!, Target Workers Unite, January 8, 2019

PL+US 2018 Employ Scorecard, Paid Leave in the United States, accessed: February 12, 2019

2. Target, Fortune 500, accessed February 12, 2019

3. Just 100: Companies Doing Right By America, Forbes, December 10, 2018

4. Breadwinner Mothers by Race/Ethnicity and State, Institute for Women's Policy Research, September 2016

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Trump's "Motherhood" ad 4OKT16

donald drumpf is more likely to scream MOTHERF@&KER than sing the praises of mothers and Motherhood. His childcare proposal is just more lies, more deception, more manipulation and more for the rich, the 1%. To counter his propaganda campaign share this ad from UltraViolet and consider making a donation to get this on the air across the country. You can check out the Clinton-Kaine campaign's child care proposal here. 

This is it. The second presidential debate is on 9 OCT 16, and it's our chance to force Donald Trump to own up to some of the bogus claims he's made to women.

That's why we made this ad that we need you to share before Sunday's debate. It reveals the truth about Trump's "plan" to improve access to child care and paid family leave for working women--a plan that gives huge tax breaks to the wealthy, does basically nothing to help low-income women--who are often women of color--and excludes dads, most gay parents, and adoptive parents.³

His plan is a ploy to win over women voters, and it may be working, even after last weeks tweets, rants and raves. We need to spread the truth about his bogus plan before it's too late. Can you watch the ad and share it with your friends and family?

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Donald Trump's new child care plan only helps the rich--and his family leave plan excludes dads, most gay parents, and adoptive parents. We can't let families get fooled. Can you watch and share the video below?

Thanks for sharing!

--Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Adam, Holly, Kathy, Onyi, Susan, Anathea, Audine, Shannon, Megan, Libby, and Emma, the UltraViolet Action team

Sources:

1. Trump Campaign Releases First General Election Ad Featuring Ivanka Trump, ABC News, September 30, 2016

2. Trump's Parental Leave Proposal Sure Leaves Out A Lot Of Parents, Huffington Post, September 15, 2016

Donald Trump's Maternity Leave Plan Is Absurd in 2016, Cosmopolitan, September 14, 2016

Donald Trump's New Childcare Plan Would Only Help The Rich, ThinkProgress, September 14, 2016

Donald Trump's new paid maternity leave plan might exclude single mothers, Washington Post, September 21, 2016

3. Ibid

4. Poll: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton tied across battleground states, CBS News, September 18, 2016

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A clinic’s landlord turns the tables on anti-abortion protesters 29MAR12

THIS is just too cool! Way to go Mr Stave!!!!

By Petula Dvorak

Regardless of how you feel about abortion, the way Todd Stave flipped the script on his bullies is pretty dang clever.
Stave is the landlord of a medical clinic in Germantown that offers abortions. Reproductive Health Services Clinic became a big focus of anti-abortion protesters when it was leased to LeRoy Carhart, one of the few doctors in the nation who acknowledges performing late-term abortions.
There are always protesters outside the office park property quietly praying or holding a vigil, with signs, rosaries, statues of Mary and bloody, gory posters of mangled fetuses.
“Totally appropriate. It’s their right. They are protected by the First Amendment. And outside the clinic is probably the most appropriate place for them to express their views,” he told me this week.
This has been a way of life for Stave. He’s not just a landlord. That office was his father’s clinic. Then his sister ran it.
“I’ve been a member of this fight since Roe v. Wade. Since I was 5 years old,” he said. The office was firebombed when he was kid, and protesters gathered outside his father’s home as he was growing up. So he’s no stranger to the harassment and bullying of doctors and their families.
It’s become routine for protesters to distribute fliers, posters and create Web sites with all of a doctor’s personal information and urge others to target them. Kansas doctor George Tiller was killed in 2009 and his protege, Carhart, had his farm burned to the ground.
The tactical twist — to focus on a clinic’s property owner — was also a clever move. Stave himself could take it. He’s pretty tough after all these years in this debate.
But his harassers crossed the line last fall, when a big group showed up at his daughter’s middle school on the first day of classes and again at back-to-school night. They had signs with his name and contact information as well as those awful images of the fetuses.
“What parent wants to have that conversation with an 11-year-old on the first day of school?” he fumed.
Soon after that, the harassing calls from protesters started coming to his home. By the dozens, at all hours. Friends asked him how they could help. He began to take the names and phone numbers down of anyone who contacted him with an unwanted call. And he gave those lists to his friends and asked them to call these folks back.
“In a very calm, very respectful voice, they said that the Stave family thanks you for your prayers,” he said. “They cannot terminate the lease, and they do not want to. They support women’s rights.”
This started with a dozen or so friends, then grew. Soon, there were more than a thousand volunteers dialing.
If they could find the information, Stave’s callers would even ask the family how their children were doing, and mention their names and the name of their school. “And then we’d tell them that we bless their home on such and such street,” giving them their address.
In some cases, the family of a protester who called Stave’s home could get up to 5,000 calls in return.
Harsh? Nope.
“We gave them back what they gave us,” he said. Do onto others, and so forth.
The supporters came so fast and in such big numbers, Stave founded a group, Voice for Choice . And now there are about 3,000 volunteers ready to make calm, reasoned calls to the homes of people who bombard doctors, landlords and families with their unsolicited protests at homes or schools across the country.
Stave is pretty rakish about explaining the tactic, clearly enjoying turning the tables after decades of not fighting back.
“What? They don’t want unsolicited calls to their homes?” he asked.
Still, there are calls they won’t make.
“Someone might call and say: “They’re protesting in front of my clinic. They’re praying, chanting, with their signs.’ And I say: ‘Are they harassing you? Harassing the patients?’” Stave said.
“And if they say ‘No’, then I say: ‘I can’t help you. There is no more appropriate place for them to do this than here. They are protected by the First Amendment.”
He is being called a hero and even received an award from NARAL at a big gala in California last week. And that’s when the trouble began again.
While he was out in California, his neighborhood was canvassed with fliers depicting Stave in a Nazi uniform, with graphic photos of Holocaust victims and mangled fetuses. And it had all of his contact information as well as phone numbers and addresses for other family members.
“It wasn’t random. They knew I’d be gone and they wanted my daughters and neighbors to find them,” he said.
On Monday, a protester showed up outside of his brother-in-law’s Rockville dental office, protesting abortion where molars were being extracted.
“How was your trip to San Francisco?” the protester asked Stave, when he arrived at the dental office to confront him.
Seriously? Confronting patients getting cavities filled with horrifying posters of a ripped up fetus is a reasonable protest tactic?
And these folks don’t seem to care if children are around for the show. One year, the March for Life protesters leaving the Mall poured into the playground of my child’s pre-K school, slapping stickers on their jackets and putting fliers into the hands of 4-year-olds . The police were called to get them out.
All of this is ridiculous.
People who want to stop abortion can make a difference with education, support, counseling and genuine efforts to prevent unwanted pregnancies and support childrearing.
They need to be working toward affordable and safe childcare for all, solid healthcare for children and generous workplace policies and family leave so that parenthood is not an onerous and difficult prospect in America.
In last year’s report “Failing its Families,” Human Rights Watch wrote that at least 178 countries have national laws guaranteeing paid maternity leave. The exceptions include Swaziland, Papua New Guinea and the good ole United States of America.
Working on real issues like this, that actually support the family values these protesters say they hold so dearly is one way to stop abortions.
But harassing schoolchildren — or even dentists — is not.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-clinics-landlord-turns-the-tables-on-anti-abortion-protesters/2012/03/29/gIQAThgwiS_print.html