ACTION ALERT: Contact Your Representative NOW to Urge Support for VAWA
NOW urgently needs your help to ensure that a vital piece of legislation, the 2019 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), H.R. 1585, is passed.
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Action Alert: Contact Your Representative NOW to Urge Support for VAWA
NOW urgently needs your help to ensure that a vital piece of legislation, the 2019 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), H.R. 1585, is passed. On March 13th, the Judiciary Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill introduced by Reps. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.) to reauthorize and expand programs designed Read more …
This International Women’s Day NOW Celebrates Activists at Home and Abroad
Activists play the extremely important role of creating and cultivating change in society, sometimes defying strict cultural norms or putting themselves in danger. As the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States, NOW is dedicated to taking initiative in promoting feminist ideals, leading societal change, and eliminating all forms of discrimination. This Read more …
The Trump Administration Is Complicit – We Must Speak Up For Migrant Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused
WASHINGTON – The National Organization for Women (NOW) strongly condemns the Trump administration for their inhumane immigration and detention policies that have allowed thousands of migrant children to suffer from sexual abuse. Detaining children and separating them from their families is already traumatic enough, but the extent of these numerous sexual abuse allegations is terrifying, Read more …
10 BLACK FEMINISTS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
This Black History Month NOW highlights activists and advocates of the civil rights and women’s rights movements, who tirelessly worked to make the world a more equal place. They formed important organizations for people of color and women that are still present today, questioned the dominant white and male order, and spoke on the intersectionality Read more …
ISSUE ADVISORY: Two Years into Trump’s Presidency
Cases Challenging Roe v. Wade Approach Supreme Court – Part One February 13. 2019 Trump’s Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch showed their true colors and antagonism towards abortion rights in the Supreme Court’s February 7th decision of granting a stay on the Louisiana law in June Medical Services v. Gee. The case Read more …
What Martin Luther King Jr. Day Means For Women
WASHINGTON – January 21 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national observance to honor the memory of the civil rights advocate. But we should also remember that Martin Luther King Jr. was an early and dedicated supporter of women’s rights. As a preacher at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama during the 1950s, Read more …
ACTION ALERT: You are needed in Richmond on MONDAY – ERA ALMOST THERE!
Dear D.C. Area NOW Activists, Earlier this week, the Virginia Senate voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. If the Virginia House of Delegates ratifies, Virginia will become the last state needed to secure the ERA’s place in our Constitution. However, it’s not an easy path, because two conservative men are determined to not let Read more …
Meet NOW at the Women’s March and Support the ERA
Join the National Organization for Women in Washington, DC, as we march in the Women’s March to achieve equality. 2018 challenged our movement in myriad ways, but we rise, in 2019, as strong and unified as ever. Our dedication to the Women’s March and the principles of unity that it represents is unwavering. On January Read more …
ERA Watch Party: Tonight at 8PM/7PM Central on PBS
The National Organization for Women’s Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Committee invites you to join them for a virtual watch party of We’ll Meet Again with Ann Curry’s episode on the women’s movement TODAY, January 8, 2019, at 8/7c on PBS. The episode will feature an in-depth exploration of Pacific Shore NOW President Zoe Nicholson’s Read more …