Gender Rights | RAD Movement

Stop the Flip Flop: Kelly Ayotte Must Answer for Her Record on Reproductive Rights

November 1, 2024 by Rights and Democracy

Rights and Democracy New Hampshire is calling on Kelly Ayotte to come clean about her … Read more

RAD Denounces Threats to Organizing for Safe and Inclusive Schools

January 31, 2023January 19, 2023 by Rights and Democracy

Contacts: Mia Schultz: mia@radvt.org | 520.221.0836Maggie Cawley: maggie@radvt.org | 802.683.8324 Attacks on efforts to advance … Read more

Looking to get involved this week? We’ve got you covered!

June 20, 2022 by Maggie Cawley

With Juneteenth this past weekend and Pride activities all month, we’ve been busy – and there’s more coming, as we turn out in solidarity, celebrate movement wins that have gotten us this far, and keep agitating for a just, liberatory future.

What a year it has been; this is what people power looks like!

May 27, 2022 by Maggie Cawley

Can you believe that the legislative year is over? What a year it has been! We thank you for your testimonies, for the numerous opinion letters written to local newspapers, and for signing up to support and oppose so many priority bills. That is true people power!

NH Legislative Update: What a week we had in Concord!

May 23, 2022 by Maggie Cawley

This week alone, 14 Senate bills and 34 House bills were negotiated in Committees of Conference. If these committees do not reach an agreement before next Thursday’s session, then the bills will die.

RAD Staff, Leaders Speak Truth to Power in NH Court Hearing

June 7, 2022May 13, 2022 by Maggie Cawley

The five courageous activists – including RAD staff and leaders – who were arrested at the New Hampshire State House in summer 2021 protesting Governor Sununu’s deeply harmful budget, spoke truth to power as they entered their pleas in court on May 13th.

2022 Legislative Update, Week of April 18th

April 18, 2022 by Maggie Cawley

Thanks to everyone who has been testifying and reaching out to legislators, we saw a number of positive outcomes last week in the NH Senate.

2022 Legislative Update, Week of April 11th

April 11, 2022 by Maggie Cawley

Last week, a RAD-supported healthcare bill PASSED in the House! In the coming week, THREE priority healthcare bills will be heard, in the House Health and Senate Health Committees.

2022 Legislative Update, Week of March 14th

March 12, 2022 by Rights and Democracy

Last Tuesday’s local elections were a major victory for strong public education as candidates from ... Read more

2022 Legislative Update, Week of January 10

January 10, 2022 by Maggie Cawley

Following the start of the New Hampshire legislative session, this is our first weekly legislative update of 2022. With last year’s assaults on public education, reproductive rights, racial justice and more, we are preparing for some challenging fights ahead, and we can’t do it without you!

Sununu: Protect Our Healthcare, Stop the SCOTUS Confirmation!

October 5, 2020 by Maggie Cawley

President Trump recently nominated Amy Coney Barrett to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the US Supreme Court. We must not let this happen.

Barrett has a conservative voting record and has openly criticized the Affordable Care Act and Roe v. Wade. If appointed, she poses a serious threat to the healthcare and reproductive rights that Justice Ginsburg did so much to advance, and that generations of organizers and activists have fought so hard for.