Media Coverage: Working for a Second Chance
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution covered 9to5 Atlanta Organizer Marilynn Winn’s story of how she started the Ban the Box campaign, as well as our 40th Anniversary Celebration.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution covered 9to5 Atlanta Organizer Marilynn Winn’s story of how she started the Ban the Box campaign, as well as our 40th Anniversary Celebration.
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Listen to National Executive Director Linda Meric on WomensRadio speak about 9to5’s history and our future.
In a recently released report, Transforming Organizations: A Guide to Creating Effective Social Change Organizations, authored by Robert Gass, 9to5 is featured as a model of sustainability. Read more.
When the 40-year-old organization 9to5—subtitled “Winning Justice for Working Women”—celebrates its “ruby” anniversary at several upcoming events, it will recharge itself for the battles ahead. But it’s also a time to pat itself on the back for what it’s achieved since 1973 on behalf of U.S. women workers.
On the eve of our 40th anniversary, a former 9to5 organizer celebrates our milestone by sharing how we helped shape her life and how she holds those experiences and memories close to her heart.
On the eve of our 40th anniversary celebrations held in Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles and Milwaukee, we must recommit ourselves to a renewed effort to fight for good jobs and equal opportunity that all of us need to contribute to overall stability for families, communities and a growing economy. And that time is now — yes we can!
Linda Meric, 9to5’s national executive director, was one of 115 arrested on Independence Avenue, protesting the failure of Congress to act on common sense immigration reform that provides a pathway to citizenship and values women.
In The Huffington Post, 9to5’s National Executive Director shares why she was arrested on Thursday, September 12, 2013, in Washington, D.C. In a symbolic gesture, her act of civil disobedience was meant to support and honor the countless acts of courage that immigrant women engage in every day out of love for their families and communities.