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Local groups press economic justice, warn of punitive welfare reform and push back on efforts to ban affirmative action
Summary
Speakers from the Montana Women's Lobby and the Montana Association for Civil Rights urged community organizing against punitive welfare reforms and circulated a petition opposing a proposed constitutional amendment to ban affirmative action.
A representative of the Montana Women's Lobby and Courtney Bush of the Montana Association for Civil Rights addressed a Missoula forum on economic justice, welfare reform and the future of affirmative action in Montana.
"There is a fallacy brewing in Helena ... that you can shortchange welfare programs, and shrink welfare roles, and somehow or other this is not going to be punitive," said the Montana Women's Lobby speaker, urging attendees to discuss and…
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