By Aurea Bolaños Perea, President’s Assistant Intern On Saturday, November 28th, 2015 at around 12pm local time, Colorado Spring’s Planned Parenthood clinic was victim of an act of domestic terrorism (let’s call it by what it is), by Robert Lewis Dear who killed three people and wounded nine others. The first thing I thought Read more …
Campaign For A $15 Minimum Wage Support Decarceration/End Mass Incarceration Campaign Endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton For President CAMPAIGN FOR A $15 MINIMUM WAGE WHEREAS, closing the wage gap and achieving the economic empowerment of women is one of the priority issues of the National Organization for Woman, and WHEREAS, NOW’s activism, has moved pay Read more …
From the Grassroots Up: Action at the Intersections Conference Agenda Thursday, June 18 Time Activity 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm Registration and Credentialing 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Break 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Registration and Credentialing Friday, June 19 Time Activity 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration and Credentialing Exhibitors and Vendors 9:30 am Read more …
Thursday, June 23 Time Activity 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Registration and Credentialing 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Registration and Credentialing 7:00 PM 50th Anniversary Gala Friday, June 24 Time Activity 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM Registration and Credentialing Exhibitors and Vendors 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM Welcome Plenary Moderator: Patricia Ireland Speakers: Patricia Hill Collins, Read more …
Here’s what I care about regarding emails and Hillary Clinton — it’s what’s in my inbox. I’ve been hearing from a lot of women who are proud of Hillary Clinton’s lifelong commitment to preventing violence against women. Lately, they’ve been telling me they like what they’ve seen and heard about her vision for preventing the alarming Read more …
NOW calls on the Department of Justice to conduct a thorough investigation into how five Black women can die while in custody in just a two-week span. NOW also calls on the Obama administration and on Congress to make a top priority of identifying and eliminating the systemic racism that pervades criminal justice in the U.S. What we are facing is nothing short of an emergency – we need answers, we need action, and we need sustainable change.
Too often low-income women, and disproportionately women of color, as well as immigrant women and young women do not have access to safe and legal abortions because of their reduced ability to pay. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has had a harmful impact on women by prohibiting the use of federal funds under Medicaid to pay for abortion care, except in cases of rape, incest or a severe life or health endangerment. Some states do permit use of state Medicaid matching funds to pay for abortion care, but at least 32 states do not
The abusive arrest and subsequent suspicious death of Sandra Bland is far — tragically far — from an isolated incident. In fact, on the same day that the facts started to emerge about Sandra Bland, Kindra Chapman, an 18-year-old African American girl reportedly took her own life in an Alabama prison cell, after being arrested for Read more …
We call on the U.S. Justice Department to conduct a full investigation into what happened to Sandra Bland, and what systemic change is needed in Waller County.
The U.S. House of Representatives delivered a stunning blow against the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pact, a massive “free” trade agreement that has been negotiated in secret by large multinational corporations over recent years and which promises to be every bit as damaging as past agreements.