We need YOUR HELP in sending an urgent message to your Senator to block the confirmation of Shannon Lee Goessling to head the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) in the U.S. Department of Justice. OVW administers grant programs that are established under VAWA, which are used to provide effective responses to violence against women. Read more …
I have been amazed by the record-breaking participation by women in races at all levels across the country this midterm season. Now more than ever, women are poised to disrupt local, state, and federal elections and reach an all-time high of representation in elected office. As we celebrate these incredible achievements, it is important to Read more …
If you weren’t there in San Jose with us, you missed what many attendees described as the “best NOW conference ever!” We gathered just after the Fourth of July in the sunny Silicon Valley city for the ‘Speak Truth to Power NOW’ event which showcased 18 energizing speakers, six distinguished awardees and a wide array Read more …
The National Organization for Women welcomes the students from Parkland, Florida–and around the country–who are coming to Washington, DC for the March For Our Lives. NOW applauds your focus on grassroots activism, voter registration and getting out the vote to elect lawmakers who will support common-sense policies to end gun violence. We know that mass Read more …
This summer, our interns will be writing weekly and sharing their young feminist voices. Meet our 2016 summer interns! Name: Emily Kilheeney School: Hofstra University, class of 2018 Particular advocacy issue you’re concerned with: public policy, voter mobilization, intersectionality, reproductive justice, sex education, Planned Parenthood advocacy What feminism means to you: Read more …
By Maxine Todd, NOW PAC Intern Even with a strong feminist history, it is still hard to fully deconstruct implicit biases we’ve all been socialized to have. Since elementary school girls who talk too much are looked down upon as social butterflies or chatty cathys who gossip too much, while boys can talk just as Read more …
Whether you like it or not, social media is here to stay. If you don’t really get it, I feel for you — I’m not a social media expert by any means. However, it seems that these days most people have at least a basic knowledge of how social media works, but not everyone understands its potential.
Printable PDF passed July 4, 2010 Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Now Transparency and Accountability in the Gulf Coast Disaster NOW Must Make Welfare Reform a Priority A Call for the United States Senate to Expel David Vitter Stop Gun Violence against Women Restrict U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Lobbying on Capitol Hill Protect the Read more …
Daniel Denvir writes for Philadelphia Citypaper: “In recent months suburban and typically white victims of mass shootings in Colorado, Connecticut and Arizona have galvanized the United States to think critically about gun violence, mental health, and gu…
NOW thanks Candy Crowley for moderating a substantive debate that finally got around to tackling women’s rights issues. Both candidates’ answers were telling.