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Currently DVA proposes to reduce the memorial requirements in the lease and the entire collection of Pershing Hall artifacts now risks being taken out of the country, raising concern that veterans in France will lose valuable parts of their history and culture.
Resolution in support of Establishment of Democrats Abroad Gender-Based Violence Task Force
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EXAMPLES DESCRIBING THE RANGE/NATURE OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
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“Gender-based violence is violence that is directed at an individual based on their biological sex or gender identity or gender expression. It includes physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse, threats, coercion, and economic or educational deprivation, whether occurring in public or private life. This includes harassment and abuse – including female genital mutilation, violations of intersex bodily integrity, and child marriage. Sexual violence and harassment and other sexual, physical, emotional, or psychological (including verbal)abuse, threats, or coercion, and even economic or educational deprivation based on an individual’s sex or gender identity or expression is deeply rooted in harmful gender norms and inequality and exists in epidemic proportions in the United States. This has an impact on mental and reproductive health and violates rights including, in some cases, the right to choose if, when, how, and with whom to engage in sexual activity. Specific communities face disproportionate rates of gender-based violence, including Native American women, who are much more likely to be raped or murdered by a partner than other women in the United States. Transgender people, specifically trans women of color, are also at grave risk and need to be protected through legislation. Through legislation such as the Violence Against Women Act, we are committed to ending gender-based violence, harassment, or abuse wherever it occurs, whether in our homes, streets, schools, communities, in the military, or anywhere else.”
Resolution to Catalogue Our “Standing Resolutions”
* If this resolution passes, I recognize that creating work for other volunteers (when everyone is a volunteer) can be a crummy thing to do and I would of course volunteer myself to also be on this Standing Resolutions review team; but I also expect that others with past Resolutions experience and Wiki experience may naturally wish to weigh in on or lead this effort.
Resolution in Support of Statehood for Washington, D.C.
1 https://guides.loc.gov/residence-act
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13 https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SAP-H.R.-51.pdf
Resolution on the Climate Emergency
Link for the text “National Climate Emergency Petition” in the clause “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That the DPCA supports the National Climate Emergency Petition [link available on the DA wiki] 2022, drafted by Democrats Abroad Environment & Climate Crisis Council, disseminating it in DPCA communications, and submitting it to the Biden-Harris Administration (offices of the President, Vice President, and Congress) by June 30th, 2022.”: