Many thanks to everyone who contributed money, time, ideas, and energy to the launch of our Campaign for Common-Sense Gun Solutions.  Committee members are now planning for the second phase of the campaign, which will be an effort to get mayors in the 90+ communities in St. Louis to sign on to and support Mayors Against Illegal Guns.  A strategic campaign is being mapped out under the direction of Lise Bernstein and Ruth Ehresman, who have agreed to chair this portion of our effort. 

  

If you are sick and tired of gun violence and you would like to make a difference in St. Louis, please join with us.  Barbara Finch is chairing this committee; contact her at: [email protected].

    

and add to your contact list in your phone!)
 

EUREKA!  

Read about their meeting with House Speaker Tim Jones at his Eureka office concerning the refusal of the Missouri legislature to fund Medicaid expansion.  
 

  

Welcome to Izzy Bascom-Anderson, who took advantage of Women's Voices $10 student membership and joined us in June!  Izzy is a ninth-grader at John Burroughs and is interested in raising awareness of feminism; she is also looking for someone who might be willing to sponsor a teen group.  We look forward to having Izzy, plus some of her friends, join us at meetings in the fall! 

  

Kudos to... Women Who Write! 

  

Here's what you missed on the WV Facebook page this last month:

   

  

Column by Tom Friedman on how Obamacare is spurring innovation in health care
 
Column showing that the poor will be excluded from receiving insurance in states not expanding Medicaid
 
Article shows health insurance premiums NOT going up due to health insurance exchanges
  
Column by Paul Krugman on how Obamacare will help people
  
USA Today article about youth access to guns and suicide
  
Huffington Post article about Rand Study showing the cost of not expanding Medicaid
  
Article about the 40th victim of homicide in St. Louis this year
  
Wall Street Journal article showing lower health care costs due to Affordable Care Act
  
Physician in family health center explains the need for Medicaid expansion
 
Article in Beacon showing how compromise can be reached on Medicaid expansion in Missouri
  
Article on minimum wage with interviews of workers
 

  

  

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