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Don’t Wait: Activate! Also, Election Day Info for NYC

June 24, 2019 by WendyB

I spend a lot of time on Twitter — I’m a masochist, I guess — and I keep seeing people reacting to stories like this one about the warehousing of immigrant children in overcrowded and disease-ridden detention camps on our southern border. People tweet plaintively: Why aren’t we in the streets en masse? Why aren’t…

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Filed Under: In the News, news, newspapers, politics Tagged With: activism, chuck schumer, election day, indivisible, kirsten gillibrand, protests, tiffany caban, voting

It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over! Be Inspired by Survivors.

October 5, 2018 by WendyB

No Saturday plans? Looking for a way to channel your energy? If you’re in New York, get on the 6:30 a.m. bus organized by Planned Parenthood and go to Washington, D.C. Even if we can’t stop the lying, threatening, conspiracy-theory-spreading Brett Kavanaugh from being confirmed to the Supreme Court, make sure your voice is heard…

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Filed Under: Celebrities, feminism, In the News, pictures of me, politics Tagged With: brett kavanaugh, chuck schumer, kirsten gillibrand, scotus, stop kavanaugh, supreme court

Protestors Turned Up, Chuck Schumer Did Not

July 2, 2018 by WendyB

On Saturday, I shepherded a group of Indivisible Upper East Side members downtown to the Families Belong Together march to protest the separation of refugee children from their parents. Signs of the times #familiesbelongtogether #familiesbelongtogethermarch #indivisible #indivisibleues #resist #bethechangeyouwanttosee … signs in photo 1 designed by @rowlandpictures A post shared by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes) on…

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Filed Under: In the News, politics Tagged With: chuck schumer, judge jack weil

Today’s #ResistTrumpTuesdays Action

January 31, 2017 by WendyB

Your new passion for activism is rattling the regime. Keep it up with #ResistTrumpTuesdays and spend your lunch hour at a rally to “Stop Trump’s #SwampCabinet.” FIND A LOCAL RALLY THROUGH MOVEON’S WEBSITE. Last week, hundreds of people — including me — went to New York’s senators’ offices despite driving rain. People out in the…

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Filed Under: In the News, politics Tagged With: #resisttrumptuesdays, chuck schumer, never trump, resistance, swamp cabinet

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Award-winning designer of fine jewelry inspired by women's history and pop culture. A former journalist who writes about jewelry, fashion, medieval history, news, feminism, dogs, cats and whatever else is on her mind. Blogging since 2007.
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