In today’s rundown: Women immigrants in Northern Virginia are ready to share their stories. | A call to put poverty on the national agenda. | And a new study finds women are underrepresented in films.
— A newsletter being distributed in Northern Virginia is helping Latina immigrants share their stories with one another and their American neighbors. Amanecer “is being printed in English and Spanish at the headquarters of Tenants and Workers United, a group that represents low-income residents in Northern Virginia” reports The Washington Post.
— “Put poverty on the agenda,” writes Katrina Vanden Heuvel in The Nation. The call to action is backed by startling statistics, including the fact that a “record 47 million people now live below the poverty line — $22,400 for a family of four — and a stunning 1 in 3 Americans are living at less than twice that threshold.”
— A new study commissioned by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media found that “the film industry is still stuck on portraying females as eye candy and that women continue to be depicted in negative images and stereotypes.” Click here for details.