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CWA members and outraged listeners are fighting to save union jobs and restore a popular morning show at America's first listener-sponsored radio station, KPFA-FM in Berkeley, Calif.

Do you know about the "It Gets Better Project?" It's a national campaign encouraging Americans to speak out against hate and intolerance with the message that everyone deserves to be respected for who they are.

More than 50 workers voted for a CWA voice in separate elections recently in District 7.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the only international human rights treaty to focus exclusively on the rights of women. To date, it has only been ratified 186 of 193 countries worldwide. Sadly missing, like Iran, Somalia and Sudan, is the United States. The treaty protects fundamental rights, addressing violence against women, the right to vote, sex trafficking, and access to education among other important issues to women.

Gayle Crawley, Chair of the National Women?s Committee, is involved in the race to find a cure for breast cancer. Like too many in CWA, her local has been touched by this disease, which kills someone in the world every 69 seconds. The National Women?s Committee invites all of CWA to keep up to date with the latest technological advances for this important cause.