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ISSUE ADVISORY – Change Demanded for Widespread Sexual Harassment in National Park Service

Posted on August 11, 2016 By Bonnie Grabenhoffer

The 100th anniversary of the National Park Service (NPS) will be celebrated on August 25. President Obama observed the coming anniversary in late June by touring Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico and Yosemite in California, the oldest national park. Obama has added 22 sites to the National Park system, set aside over 265 million acres – more public lands and water systems than any other president and says that he is not finished setting aside land for conservation.

NOW Statement on the Tragic Events on Minnesota, Baton Rouge, and Dallas

Posted on July 9, 2016 By Kim

The tragic and senseless deaths of Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and five police officers in Dallas, Texas have left so many people heartbroken and grieving.

We Can No Longer Be Silent: How Intimate Partner Violence Affects Women of Color

Posted on July 7, 2016 By Amari O'Bannon

By Amari O’Bannon, President’s Office Intern Recently, one of my fellow interns wrote a fabulous information piece about the rarely acknowledged sexual abuse to prison pipeline. One of NOW’s current missions is to not only spread awareness about our 6 core issues, but also to help people realize the undeniable extent to which these issues Read more …

What You Need to Know About the Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline

Posted on June 22, 2016 By Angela Myers

By Angela Myers, Communications Intern The juvenile justice system is criminalizing sexual assault victims. In our juvenile justice system, many, if not most, of the young women placed in the juvenile justice system are victims of sexual abuse. Although in the last 20 years the amount of youths placed in the juvenile system has gone Read more …

Leaders of the National Organization for Women Endorse Effort to Recall Judge Aaron Persky

Posted on June 9, 2016 By Kim

Dear Judge Aaron Persky, We write to you as the largest grassroots women’s rights advocacy organization in the country, to express our outrage in the sentencing of convicted felon Brock Turner to only six months in state prison. Turner was found guilty on three counts of sexual assault: assault with the intent to commit rape; Read more …

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