Pelosi: Celebrate Today, Vote in Every Election

By Nancy Pelosi

WeNews commentator

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, marks today's 90th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote by detailing several of the gains made and sketching out the distance yet to go.

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Fighting for Fairness and Equality

Nancy Pelosi We continue to fight for fairness and equality for America's working women, which is even more critical now as many families find themselves relying solely on the mother's paycheck. The Lilly Ledbetter law, the first bill President Obama signed when he took office, gives women the tools to fight pay discrimination in the workplace.

But we still have not achieved equal pay. Women earn 77 cents to every dollar earned by a man. The House passed Rep. Rosa DeLauro's, D-Conn., Paycheck Fairness Act to right this injustice and we must urge the Senate to do the same.

Social Security which matters most to women, will always be protected. We will fight against continued efforts to privatize this bedrock promise to America's seniors.

It has long been clear that the missing link for women at all income levels to succeed in their jobs is the availability of quality, affordable child care. We must guarantee an economy and a society that supports the motto: "families earning, children learning."

We stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us. Let us remember the fierce determination of the women who won for us the right to vote, the right to engage in the political process. Let us honor their sacrifice by engaging in the political process and embracing your right to vote.

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Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. For more information, please visit www.speaker.gov.

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Thanks to WomenE-News for this report.
Met Speaker Pelosi at the Realizing the Dream Report to the Congressional Out of Poverty Congressional Caucus in 2007 with Martin Luther King III. Pelosi spoke movingly about the inspiration Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was to her as a young woman and posed for me to take photos of her with Martin III. But she refused my gift of a handknit shawl claiming it was against House Rules for her to accepts gifts. I told her I was ndn and it was against my culture and nature to go anywhere without making and giving gifts.
When I researched how House Speaker Pelosi takes big bucks from corporations and lobbyists, and saw little or no action in fulfilling the promises to alleviate poverty she promised Martin, RTD and the Out of Poverty Caucus, and how the numbers of people living below the poverty line and just above it have increased during Pelosi's tenure with over 40 million families living in poverty in summer 2010 with the numbers growing daily under the Obama administration. I saw Pelosi is a consummate politician and her words and promises are just like the U.S. Goverments' always were in treaties with American Indians,treatment of African Americans, farmers, small business owners, families, youth and the poor (the largest number of whom are white)-empty and false.
Women of the World and Men too-Stop voting in elections controlled by lobbyists, politicos and multinational corporations with no loyalty to anything but power and greed and take control of your own destiny by regaining sovereignty over your food, energy production and lives and build a sustainable future for your children and all the children of the world to the 7th Generation and beyond. Peace, Freedom and Justice Everwhere for Everyone-Women,Men and Children, Earth, Air and Water and all our relations.