coronavirus

Organizing Spotlight: NC “Queens for Change” Won’t Be Stopped

September 30, 2020: With so much going on in our country today, it can be easy to forget that the most crucial election of our lifetime is only a little over a month away. Civil uprisings are continuing to happen [...]

2020-10-01T00:32:36-04:00September 30th, 2020|coronavirus, covid-19, election, electoral organizing|Comments Off on Organizing Spotlight: NC “Queens for Change” Won’t Be Stopped

Organizing Spotlight: PWNers in Atlanta Ensure Voter Access for Georgians, Despite Voter Suppression

July 1, 2020: You stand in the rain. You stand in the heat. The line is long. You are hungry and thirsty. You are frustrated. You are standing too close for comfort to someone in the midst of the COVID-19 [...]

2020-07-01T19:24:39-04:00July 1st, 2020|coronavirus, electoral organizing, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Organizing Spotlight: PWNers in Atlanta Ensure Voter Access for Georgians, Despite Voter Suppression

Announcing the Health Not Prisons Collective

For Immediate ReleaseContact: Naina Khanna, Positive Women’s Network - USA, naina(at)pwn-usa.org As Calls for Justice Echo Around the United States, National Groups Led by Most-Policed Communities Affected by HIV and COVID-19 Join in Partnership The Health Not Prisons Collective Vows to [...]

2020-06-18T19:31:00-04:00June 18th, 2020|coronavirus, covid-19, Criminalization, HIV Is Not a Crime|Comments Off on Announcing the Health Not Prisons Collective

Addressing a Crisis Within a Crisis: Navigating Intimate Partner Violence During a Pandemic

April 17, 2020: Even in the best of times, cisgender and transgender women living with HIV are disproportionately vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV): 55% report having experienced IPV in their lives, twice the rate of women more generally. In [...]

2021-11-15T13:51:33-05:00April 17th, 2020|coronavirus, covid-19, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, IPV, Trauma, Violence|Comments Off on Addressing a Crisis Within a Crisis: Navigating Intimate Partner Violence During a Pandemic

COVID-19, the CARES Act, and YOU

On Monday, April 13, 2020, PWN's policy team and guest panelist Jessica Pinckney from In Our Own Voice answered questions submitted by PWN members and allies about everything related to COVID-19--the disease caused by the novel coronavirus--and the [...]

2020-04-13T23:10:05-04:00April 13th, 2020|coronavirus, covid-19, Economic Justice|Comments Off on COVID-19, the CARES Act, and YOU

Organizational Letter Urging Congress to Stop the Criminalization of COVID-19

April 10, 2020 The Honorable Jerrold NadlerChairmanHouse Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20515The Honorable Lindsey GrahamChairmanSenate Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. SenateWashington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Jim JordanRanking MemberHouse Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House [...]

2020-04-15T18:46:53-04:00April 13th, 2020|coronavirus, covid-19, Criminalization, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Organizational Letter Urging Congress to Stop the Criminalization of COVID-19

Organizing Spotlight: JD Davids Organizes People with Chronic Conditions to Beat the Coronavirus Pandemic

March 23, 2020: It is almost impossible to have a conversation these days without COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, creeping in. Before so many people around the world really understood the seriousness of the new disease, JD [...]

2020-03-27T17:38:34-04:00March 27th, 2020|coronavirus, covid-19, health care|Comments Off on Organizing Spotlight: JD Davids Organizes People with Chronic Conditions to Beat the Coronavirus Pandemic

The ACA Turns Ten Years Old Today, and We Are So Grateful.

March 23, 2020 Dear PWN Family, Ten years ago today, something monumental happened. When President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law on March 23, 2010, it meant--for the first time in this nation's history--that insurance companies could [...]

2021-11-15T14:19:10-05:00March 23rd, 2020|Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, coronavirus|Comments Off on The ACA Turns Ten Years Old Today, and We Are So Grateful.

#WeGotThis: To Our PWN Family Regarding the Coronavirus Epidemic

March 13, 2020Dear PWN Family,Recent weeks have been full of news—some of it confusing and contradictory—about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization this past Wednesday.We have heard that PWN members are [...]

2020-03-13T18:19:03-04:00March 13th, 2020|coronavirus, healing justice, health care, human rights|Comments Off on #WeGotThis: To Our PWN Family Regarding the Coronavirus Epidemic
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