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We Did It!
The Violence Against Women Act Is Reauthorized

Our phone calls, emails, tweets, petitions, Facebook posts, our visits to our Members of Congress, our determination and dedication to the victims and survivors did it!

The Violence Against Women Act reauthorization passed the Senate, in a strong bipartisan effort, 78-22. It passed the House on a vote of 286 to 138, as a unified Democratic caucus joined 87 supportive Republicans.   

President Barack Obama signed the legislation, surrounded by an energized group of women's advocates and victims of violence.

Vice President Joe Biden, one of the authors of the original Violence Against Act, said, "Every time we've reauthorized this law, we've strengthened it." And President Obama noted that the law "not only changed the rules [regarding violence against women], it changed our culture."

Hats off to the NEA Women's Issues Committee for keeping the Violence Against Women Act (WAVA) on NEA's agenda and to the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women, of which NEA is a proud partner.

Activism works. Collective action works.

The services supported by WAVA make a difference to victims every day, including the national hotline for victims, emergency shelters, transitional housing, and counseling. WAVA supports a coordinated justice system response to ensure safety for families and children—and from 1980 to 2010 there has been a steep decline in intimate partner homicides that can be attributed, in part, to WAVA.

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Wisconsin Teacher Fights for Students

In a small town in northern Wisconsin, Spanish teacher Scott Ellingson has two students in his class who traveled a long way to be there. "Jorge and Miguel came to the U.S. last year to avoid joining a gang in El Salvador. They had been approached by a gang member to sell drugs in their school and they refused," said Ellingson. Read more...

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NEA Honors Black History Month

Well-known labor economist, commentator, and former college president, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, is an outspoken champion for progressive issues. Described by Cornell West as the "most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country." Malveaux talks with NEA about the intersection of education, race, and economics. Read more...

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Support our DREAMers!

Kimberly Howard's elementary school kids in Wichita, Kansas have amazing dreams, immigration reform can help them come true. Sensible, fair and comprehensive immigration reform for millions of students and their families appears to be closer to reality than at any time in recent history. Find out more...

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Post-Election America—What’s Next for Social Justice?

In the end, the 2012 campaign came down to one question: Are we in this alone or in this together?

Election Day, America answered. We voted for the social contract that unites us as a people and against an Ayn Rand dystopia modeled on "the virtue of selfishness." We the people voted for public education, immigration reform, full equality for gay citizens, economic justice for poor and working families, and a woman’s right to equal pay for equal work. Read more...