Did you see the new 2020 Pro-choice Signature Ad? We show support for keeping abortion safe and legal by running a pro-choice signature ad in Indy Week every year. Our 2020 ad was published on the actual Roe anniversary this year – Jan 22, 2020 is the 47th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision that gave women control over their own bodies. We’ve run a pro-choice signature ad in the Indy/Independent for decades – and we love this new look!
NC NOW members delivered the pro-choice signature ad packets to all of our representatives in the NC House and NC Senate on Monday, 6/4/18. The packets included a copy of the pro-choice signature ad that we ran in Indy Week in January (as we do every year), and a letter from NC NOW.
NC NOW Members Deliver Pro-Choice Signature Ad Packets on Jun 4, 2018. Photo Credit: Gailya Paliga
This year the letter was somewhat focused on the terrible budget process which blocked input from all Democratic lawmakers and maybe some Republican ones as well. The letter also talked about inappropriate uses of taxpayer money in the budget. See the letter below.
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Tagged abortion, crisis pregnancy centers, NC budget, ncga interference, pro-choice, rape kits, signature ad
NC is in the midst of a primary election. NOW has Political Action Committees, PACs, at two levels—state and federal. Read about them here. We also cover some recent events and show upcoming events around NC, like the Community Conversations in Fayetteville. Exciting speaker on May 15 there. Pro-choice signature ad delivery is Monday, June 4, at Legislative Building in Raleigh.
Be sure to check chapter’s facebook pages for more timely and up-to-date upcoming events and event reports.
This post is in addition to the many events posted on 2/2/17 for February and March, including a showing of Equal Means Equal on 3/26/17 with Durham NOW in Durham.
Rally to end gerrymandering – 3/1/17
Democracy NC set up a lobby day to end gerrymandering on 3/1/17 (listed in the earlier post). And they have added a rally afterward – maybe because they filled all of the lobbying appointment spots (9am-1pm) and people still want to have a say!
If you’re on facebook, mark yourself at https://www.facebook.com/events/274748426279577/
We Will Be Heard – Burr/Tillis Town Hall on 3/5/17, 2-4pm.
Community members in the Triangle area will be holding a Citizens Town Hall to gather and make our voices heard. We will speak out about issues that concern North Carolinians, and send our comments to US Senators Burr and Tillis if they do not attend. They were invited.
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Tagged reproductive rights, training, women
NC NOW Newsletter for October/November 2016 is available online. What are some of the topics covered in it?
What do we do now (after the election)?
We celebrated NOW’s 50th anniversary and this historic time in US history of a woman running for president, and running as the candidate with the absolute most experience of the bunch. More on page 3.
We find seeing is believing—video of Senator Burr’s shocking comments made at a GOP event propel him into the spotlight. Note: be sure to mail any exposing videos to CNN! More on page 2.
Join us to deliver the Pro-Choice Signature Ad Packets to our legislators at their offices in Raleigh on Monday, 5/23/16. We run our pro-choice signature ad in Indy Week every year to commemorate the Roe v. Wade anniversary. Later during the year, we deliver packets including signature ads to our legislators to remind them of the many pro-choice residents of our state.
Members from around NC are delivering NC NOW’s pro-choice signature ad packets to all of our legislators on May 23, 2016. Please join us! This year our packet includes a letter from NC NOW summarizing anti-choice legislation and the harm that HB 2 does, an article about anti-choice legislation signed into law in 2015, as well as an article about how disastrous HB 2 is for women.
Roberta Waddle speaking out against HB465 on May 8, 2015, in Fayetteville NC. Part of “Don’t Break Your Promise” tour. Photo Credit: Hannah Osborne
NC NOW delivered copies of our pro-choice signature ad with NC NOW’s view on reproductive rights and related issues to every NC Senator and Representative in the NC House. NC NOW does a pro-choice signature ad every year to commemorate the Roe v. Wade anniversary. The ad runs in the Indy Weekly, and includes columns of names of pro-choice men and women in North Carolina.
Here is a picture of the 2014 pro-choice signature ad.
This year, the pro-choice signature ad packet included a folder with the following:
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Tagged abortion, bad law, Families, health, ncga interference, North Carolina, reproductive rights, women
See NC NOW’s latest newsletter. Do you know
Find out about these and more at https://northcarolinanow.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/ncnraleigh-now-newsletter-spring-2015-v6.pdf
Also, read more about how rudely the NC House sped HB465 through, and how some good legislators tried to make it more reasonable (and/or school the House on why this law will be overturned if it gets that far) at https://northcarolinanow.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/interfering-condescending-and-invasive-bill-hb465/
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Tagged abortion, bad law, civil rights, discrimination, Equal Rights Amendment, Families, ncga interference, North Carolina, reproductive rights, safety, social justice, violence against women, women, women's rights
1. Trust Women Rally on Wednesday, April 8, 2pm
Join NC NOW and other women’s organizations at the Trust Women rally to tell our elected officials to TRUST WOMEN and stop playing politics with women’s reproductive health! In this case, the sore point is anti-abortion language the conservatives stuffed into what had been a bi-partisan bill to fight human trafficking.
We’re meeting in front of Senator Thom Tillis’ office (same place where Jesse Helms used to work), at 310 New Bern Avenue Raleigh, NC 27601.
Find the event on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/1580336125538857/
It is also listed on NC NOW’s facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/NC-NOW-National-Organization-for-Women/180024368705304
I plan to mention other obstruction our Senators have been doing.
2. Either way – take an easy action from home!
Whether or not you can make the rally, give our elected Senators an email on the same topic.
Take this easy action from wherever you are – home, work, stuck in traffic. It does 2 things for you – encourages voting for excellent US Atty General nominee Loretta Lynch and encourage congress to pass a clean bill against human trafficking – get the anti-abortion mess out of there.
https://northcarolinanow.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/this-easy-action-is-a-twofer/
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Tagged abortion, bad law, Equal Rights Amendment, legislative agenda, ncga interference, stonewalling qualified candidate, women, women's rights
Thursday, Jan 29, 2015 – Triad NOW Meet and Greet at 7pm at Augustine’s Bistro. It’s at 401 W. 4th Street in downtown Winston-Salem For more information, go to https://northcarolinanow.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/triad-now-meet-and-greet-29jan15.pdf
Tuesday, Feb 3, 2015 – No Raleigh NOW meeting. Go instead to the Panel Discussion at NCCU in Durham “The Economics of Education: What We Owe Our Children and Our Nation.” Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Orange, Durham and Chatham Counties and the NCCU School of Education. See an event flyer at http://www.lwvodc.org/files/02-03-15_program_flyer.pdf
