The National Organization for Women Political Action Committee (NOW PAC) is proud to endorse Senator Elizabeth Warren as the 46th President of the United States. NOW PAC is the political arm of NOW, the largest grassroots feminist organization in the country. The PAC evaluates federal candidates on their record and uncompromising dedication to the core Read more …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Organization for Women Political Action Committee (NOW PAC) has analyzed the more than 400 questions asked of the Democratic presidential candidates during the four primary debates held since June. The fifth debate on November 20 will for the first moderated entirely by women—Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell and Kristen Welker of Read more …
WASHINGTON– Last night proved that voters were more determined than ever to elect feminists to positions of leadership, but women’s rights are still being threatened and we have more work to do. Though voters in Oregon had the good sense to defeat a ballot initiative which would have prohibited the use of public funds to Read more …
PDF Downloadable Version Biographical information for Workshop Panel Members Appears on an Insert to the Program Booklet. BREAKOUTS A – Friday, July 19, 10:45 a.m. – 12 Noon ROOM: Wood Duck Pond ERA 2020: The Minnesota Model What can a ratified state do to take the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) over the Finish Line? And Read more …
passed July 2, 2017 Advance Voting Rights: 2017-2018 National Action Program Resolution End the Criminalization of Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Other Trauma: 2017-2018 National Action Program Resolution Mobilize for Reproductive Justice: 2017-2018 National Action Program Resolution Protect Immigrant Rights: 2017-2018 National Action Resolution Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment: 2017-2018 National Action Program Resist Resilience Read more …
Printable PDF Finding Pauli Murray: The Black Queer Feminist Civil Rights Lawyer Priest who co-founded NOW, but that History Nearly Forgot October 24, 2016 Photo courtesy Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University “If one could characterize in a single phrase the contribution of Black women to America, I think it would be ‘survival with Read more …
TIMELINE OF MAJOR ACTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
National Organization for Women, 2006 – 2016
Printable PDF TIMELINE OF MAJOR ACTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS National Organization for Women, 2006 – 2016 2006 2006, January 18 – NOW Foundation joins in a friend-of-the-court brief opposing a parental notification law and advocating for the health exception in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. On this date, the U.S. Supreme 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 …
Love Your Body, a campaign of the NOW Foundation, “challenges the message that a woman’s value is best measured through her willingness and ability to embody current beauty standards.” Women and girls are told, every day and in so many ways,that being admired, envied and desired based on their looks is a primary function of true womanhood. The beauty standards enforced by our society are rigid, narrow, unrealistic, and very, very white.