<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Courtesy of <i>Nation of Change</i> at:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nationofchange.org/2018/10/02/progressive-briefing-for-tuesday-october-2/">https://www.nationofchange.org/2018/10/02/progressive-briefing-for-tuesday-october-2/</a><br><div><br></div><div>———————————————</div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(140, 198, 63); text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/10/01/653318005/california-becomes-1st-state-to-require-women-on-corporate-boards" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="California becomes 1st state to require women on corporate boards" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(140, 198, 63); text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">California becomes 1st state to require women on corporate boards</a></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">California will be the first state to require publicly traded companies to have at least one woman on their board of directors.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word;"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB826" title="The law" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">The law</a>, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday, requires public companies whose principal executive offices are located in California to comply by the end of 2019. The minimum is two female directors if the company has five directors on its board, or three women if it has seven directors by the close of 2021.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bill was sponsored by state Sens. Hannah-Beth Jackson and Toni Atkins. “We are not going to ask any more,” Jackson said in August in a floor speech on the bill, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Los Angeles Times</em> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-may-2018-california-lawmakers-approve-bill-to-1535656445-htmlstory.html" title="reported" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">reported</a>. “We are tired of being nice. We’re tired of being polite. We are going to require this because it’s going to benefit the economy. It’s going to benefit each of these companies.”</span></p></div><div>———————————————</div><div><br></div><div>To commemorate California Senate Bill 826 (<a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB826">http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB826</a>)</div><div><br></div><div><b><i><u>SING IT, HELEN !</u></i></b></div><div><br></div><div><b>“I am Woman”</b> by Helen Reddy</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Helen_Reddy/I_Am_Woman.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Helen_Reddy/I_Am_Woman.mp3</a><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>