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Support Universal Pre-K Education in Missouri

HB1486, a bill that would fund pre-kindergarten education for low-income students attending public or charter schools, recently passed the MO House with bipartisan support. It is currently awaiting action in the MO Senate. Contact your state senator to support the passage of HB1486. Find your state senator here.

Women's Voices has consistently advocated for universal pre-K education throughout the state as an essential investment in our future. Read our position paper here.

Support the Effort to End the Abortion Ban by Hosting a House Party!

Do you want to help end Missouri’s abortion ban? Can you commit to hosting a house party and inviting your friends and family to sign the initiative petition? Women’s Voices will connect you with a trained volunteer to provide petitions and collect signatures at your home. All you need to do is host and provide refreshments.
Read more here.

Encourage Voter Registration & Help Combat Disinformation

To respond to the growing dangers of deceptive information, Women’s Voices is calling on you to educate your community about countering disinformation and we have created the tools to help you do that: greeting cards to distribute to family, friends, and neighbors.
Read more and request cards here.

Volunteers Needed for CourtWatch

The Women’s Voices Criminal Legal System Reform Task Force is working to improve pretrial detention. Part of this effort involves observing bail hearings. Observers are needed to assist with this effort and can volunteer with CourtWatch, a collaborative extension of ongoing court monitoring efforts in St. Louis City's 22nd Judicial Court.
Read more here.

Stop the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media

There’s a flood of real, misleading and fake breaking news and information on social media. Proceed with caution.

Acting on Our Mission

WV Endorses Initiative Petition to End Abortion Ban

In accordance with the previously approved position paper on reproductive justice, the Women's Voices Board of Directors formally endorsed Missouri's Constitutional Amendment to Article 1, Relating to Reproductive Health Care, version 10 2024-086 (Version 086), at the January 25 board meeting.
Read more here.

Origins of the Racial Wealth Gap: Follow the Money

Gwen Moore, curator of Urban Landscape and Community Identity at the Missouri Historical Society joined us at the February Women's Voices program to examine the historic origins of the racial wealth gap, looking more closely at how these policies and practices have played out locally, impeding the building of Black generational wealth.
Read program summary here.

Women's Voices Partners with North City Photo ID Project

Women’s Voices partnered with the Ashrei Foundation to offer volunteer training for Photo ID clinics. Volunteers who attended are now ready to assist Missouri residents in applying for a photo ID through the North City Photo ID Project.

Read more here.

Racial Justice Film Series: Transforming 911

Women’s Voices partnered with Eliot Unitarian Chapel and Metropolitan Congregations United to host a screening of Transforming 911: Reimagining Public Safety in St. Louis.
Read more here.

Women’s Voices Signs on to State Wide Right to Read Coalition

Women’s Voices has joined the statewide “Right to Read” coalition, which supports Missouri’s libraries to remain an open, accessible resource for books and other materials available free of charge to the public. Read more and link to sign on here.

Read our Emails

Read our March 2024 Women's Voices newsletter, Loud & Clear
Read our January 22 advocacy focused email, Keeping Connected

Up Next

The Right to Read

Fri., March 29, 7 p.m.
Racial Justice Film Series

Eliot Unitarian Chapel (100 S. Taylor, 63122)
Read more and register here.

Lunch & Learn: The Power of the People-Understanding the Initiative Petition Process in Missouri's Democracy

Fri., April 5, noon
Webster Hills United Methodist Church
Christian Life Center (1333 W. Lockwood Ave., 63122)
Read more and register here.

Looking for an Angel: We Can't Find Those We Can't See

Thurs., April 11, 7 p.m.
Center of Clayton (50 Gay Ave., 63105)
Read more and register here.

Lunch & Learn: Challenges for American Higher Education

Wed., April 17, noon
Virtual event
Read more and register here.

Community Programs

Women's History Month

Thurs., March 21, noon- 1 p.m.
NCJWSTL Advocacy in Action: Lunch & Learn (virtual)
Read more and register here.

Backpack Full of Cash Film Showing

March 15-22 (multiple dates)
Online showings of documentary that explores the growing privatization of public schools and the resulting impact on America’s most vulnerable children.
Hosted by SaveSLPS
Read more here.

The Real Truth About Charter Schools

Weds., March 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Town Hall hosted by SaveSLPS
Vashon High School (3035 Cass Ave., 63106)

Read more here.

Poverty and Aging

Fri., April, 12, noon-1 p.m.
Empower MO Free Friday Forum (virtual)
Read more and register here.