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MWL Public Policy Advocacy Committee
 

The MWL Public Policy Advocacy Committee facilitates public policy advocacy activities by making recommendations to the Board on issues that MWL should advocate and provides the implementation steps for those activities.  

The Committee's goals include:

bulletTo obtain visibility and create awareness about key issues
bulletTo educate specific publics about key issues
bulletTo affect a desired policy on key issues

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Committee Activities:
Activities may include facilitating legislative tracking on selected issues and providing testimony at hearings, identifying cases for which MWL should submit amicus briefs and issues on which MWL should submit letters to the editor and otherwise take a public position. 

The Committee's activities have been focused around the following issues (click on a link for more information on current and past activities specific to each issue):

Domestic Violence                Girl Empowerment                Pay Equity


A More Perfect Union
The PPA Committee's quarterly column in MWL's publication "With Equal Right" is designed to highlight social and legal developments in the areas of pay equity, domestic violence, access to justice and the empowerment of girls.

Click below to view past and present articles
October 2008
January 2009

April 2009
October 2009

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Legislative Tracking:
Click below for the latest federal and state legislative updates on specific issues that the MWL Public Policy Advocacy Committee is tracking.   

Legislative Tracking                 

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Upcoming Events

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Resources, Links and Articles

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Committee Leadership:
Stacy Bettison, Rotenberg Associates  612/336-7703
Kelly Francis, Hennepin County Attorney's Office 612/ 596-9001
Kate Westad, Lommen Abdo 612/ 336-9322



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