The APA’s Department Advocacy Toolkit is now available.

Dear DAVID, The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that our Department Advocacy Toolkit is now available. The toolkit was prepared by the committee on the status and future of the profession, under the leadership of chair Sally Scholz, in response to increasing cuts to humanities programs nationwide—philosophy programs in particular. Motivated by our belief in the value of philosophy, the Department Advocacy Toolkit is intended to provide strategies that may be useful to programs that are at risk, programs hoping to insulate themselves against future risk, and programs aiming to strengthen and/or expand. The ideas contained in the toolkit have been selected from across different types of institutions and departments. It is up to the faculty members within a department to decide which ideas will be most effective at their institution and in their department. Download the Department Advocacy Toolkit We've also created fliers to go along with the toolkit to help departments with outreach to prospective students and other members of their campus communities. These fliers can also be found at the above link. We hope you will find the Department Advocacy Toolkit to be a helpful resource and encourage you to share it with your colleagues. All the best, Amy E. Ferrer Executive Director

WOMENS EQUALITY DAY. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE MAURA SULLIVAN.

Happy Women’s Equality Day! Today marks the 98th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote. We've made so much progress since then -- but there are still many obstacles between our nation and true equality. One big step we can take in the fight for women's equality? Making sure Congress actually reflects the population it represents. Currently, 81% of Congress is men -- only 19% are women. It's time to change that. Help get women elected this cycle so we can see true progress. Maura will fight for a woman’s right to choose, equal pay for equal work, and - just as she did in the Pentagon - paid family leave.  With record numbers of women running, 2018 is the year of the woman, just as 1920 was nearly a century ago. Let’s make our own history this year. Thank you, Team Maura

Celebrating Women’s Equality Day. Jennifer Boysko, Finance Chair, Virginia Democratic House Caucus

David,

Yesterday we celebrated Women’s Equality Day by honoring all women and their fight for equality. Women need equality in the workforce and in all areas of their lives. We know that when women suffer, children suffer. 

 

In this country, women earn only about 80% of the average man’s pay. Black women get 65% less and Hispanic women, on average, only make 59 cents to each dollar white males make. The Trump administration is doing everything in its power to expand the wage gap by rolling back Obama’s equal pay rule and making it easier for companies to hide how much they pay women and people of color.

 

It’s crazy that women are still fighting for the same pay as their male counterparts. That’s why we have to keep challenging the status quo.

 

In solidarity,

 

Jennifer Boysko,

Finance Chair, Virginia Democratic House Caucus

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MCCAIN. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE KEN HARBAUGH.

Yesterday, we lost John McCain.

He was a US Senator and a former presidential candidate.

But I will always remember him as Captain McCain, fellow naval aviator. I still recall the photos of him on the wall of my favorite bar in flight school. I imagine the gold wings he wore then on his chest, bearing him now on his final journey.

I recall, too, the example he set for us younger pilots as we underwent POW interrogation training. We learned how John McCain, though badly injured, refused an early release until his fellow prisoners could come home. We all memorized the Code of Conduct, but John McCain’s example made the words real.

If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners . . .I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free.

Over the coming days, we will read the eulogies, the remembrances, the tributes to a life of heroism and service.

But let us also consider Captain John McCain’s final plea to his fellow Americans:

Before I leave, I’d like to see our politics begin to return to the purposes and practices that distinguish our history from the history of other nations. I would like to see us recover our sense that we are more alike than different. We are citizens of a republic made of shared ideals forged in a new world to replace the tribal enmities that tormented the old one. Even in times of political turmoil such as these, we share that awesome heritage and the responsibility to embrace it.

Rest easy, Shipmate.

We have the watch.

In service,

Ken

 (info@kenharbaughforcongress.com)