Advocacy and Issues
In her capacity as a State House advocate, legislative staffer, non-profit executive director, and now as a consultant, Joanne D'Arcangelo has worked on a wide range of social and economic justice issues and legislation. A partial list of those issues includes:
- 2006 No on One Campaign, to defeat TABOR
- Consumer protections against predatory mortgage lending
- Open Ballot or "Fusion" Voting
- Guaranteed insurance coverage for mammography/breast cancer screening
- Training standards & requirements for sexual harassment prevention in Maine workplaces
- Maine's Reproductive Privacy Act
- Funding for rape crisis response and prevention
- Funding for Maine's domestic violence shelter system
- Occupational safety and health standards for video display terminal workers
- Health care access for low-income women and families
- Public & private funding for access to civil legal services for low income citizens
- Guaranteed insurance coverage for contraceptives
- Funding for maternal and child health care
- Maine's Family and Medical Leave Act
- Minimum wage legislation
- Campaign Finance reform and public financing
- 1989 University of Maine System Bond Campaign
- 1999 No on One Campaign, to defeat a proposed ban on all abortions in Maine
