Women’s March On Raleigh: Women Mobilize NC on 1/21/17 – Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Press contacts:
Salma Mirza, 716-432-1576, salma.m.mirza@gmail.com
Anna Grant, 484-326-4399, Anna@carolinajewsforjustice.org

January 6, 2017

Triangle Women Planning Rally and March On Raleigh for 1/21/17

Hundreds Expected to Protest Politics of Division

Raleigh, N.C. – A multiracial, multi-religious, and multi-generational grassroots group of women are planning a Women’s March on Raleigh (WMOR). It is a solidarity event with the Women’s March on Washington, also taking place January 21st, 2017.

Dozens of women and allies have been planning the march from the basement of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church for the past several weeks. Reverend Michelle Laws of the NAACP is a confirmed speaker, as well as MaryBe McMillan of the NC AFL-CIO and Sarah Preston of Lillian’s List.

Read the entire press release, including quotes from organizers Salma Mirza, Carly Jones, Anna Grant, and NC NOW’s President, Gailya Paliga at WMOR Press Release.

 

What to do now…

First, we mourn this great unexpected loss. Hillary Clinton was everything many of us wanted in a president – a compassionate, resilient, intelligent woman and politician with the necessary experience and temperament for the job of leading our country. Clinton had an inclusive vision, policy knowledge and skills to spare. You can read “133 reasons (and counting!) Hillary Clinton should be our next president,” Huffington Post, 10/28/16. At the same time, you can read why the Trump/Pence ticket was and is our greatest fear. For many or most of us, a fear not even recognized as a real possibility until it happened before our shocked and disbelieving eyes. Read why we fear Trump and for the safety of friends and neighbors and minorities of all kinds at “An American Tragedy.” Many of us feel,  as the article states, “[t]he election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. ” That bad. Donald Trump is America’s “Brexit” (New York Times, June 2016). The world is still wondering ‘How did Brexit happen,’ 6/24/16, in the same way it wonders how did Donald Trump win.

Then we buck up and look toward the future. We suggest a few main things to do, once we get our minds around this new and darker future.

Women’s Equality Day Celebration in Fayetteville NC (2016)

Fayetteville NOW and Quaker House join together again to celebrate Women’s Equality Day on Saturday, Aug 27, 2-4pm.

Check out Fayetteville NOW’s Facebook event page. https://www.facebook.com/events/1603260633300044/

Read about Women’s Equality Day at http://www.nwhp.org/resources/commemorations/womens-equality-day/

ERA Alliance Launch Event – 4/12/16

Exciting news!  NC is making the first state alliance of the ERA Coalition organization.  Join us for our launch event!  It begins with a press conference at 2:30pm.  At 3:30pm, we’ll have a panel discussion, “Why the ERA?  Why now?” That will be followed by a book signing and reception at 4:30pm.  We are featuring Jessica Neuwirth, the author of “Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for the Equal Rights Amendment Is Now”  Neuwirth is President of the ERA Coalition.

Equal Means Equal, by Jessica Neuwirth

Please join us! 

Gerrymandering: “Assault On Democracy?”

Great upcoming community event (not an NC NOW event).  This is a topic of many current, past and future conversations in NC, especially during a presidential election year.

Gerrymandering: “Assault On Democracy?”
How much is gerrymandering the “problem behind the problem” of our current political, moral and economic upheavals in NC?
What’s being done about it?

Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016
Time: 7:00p.m.
Place: Community United Church of Christ
Address: 814 Dixie Trail, Raleigh, NC 27607 (Corner of Dixie Tr. and Wade Ave.)

Photo credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service via ncpedia.org

See flier at Jane Pinsky Coming to CUCC.Mar2016

Join Community UCC’s Economic Justice Task Force in an expanded discussion and exploration of the issue with Jane Pinsky of the NC Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform. Pinsky has been director of the NC Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform since 2007. The Coalition, in which Common Cause North Carolina is a key player, works to make government, at all levels, more open and accessible to the citizens of North Carolina. It works on ethics, transparency, and redistricting reform.

She Wins, We Win event press advisory – 3/2/16

This Women for Hillary event is part of the “She Wins, We Win” campaign.  Ellie Smeal (Ms. Magazine and Feminist Majority), and Terry O’Neill (NOW) are coming to Raleigh for a rally and press conference on Thursday, Mar 3, at 11am at the Legislative Building. We have some really great speakers from North Carolina as well!

The forwarded press release includes the press conference speakers only.  The press conference will be followed by a rally in the Auditorium!

Our great speakers from around the state include Rev. Michelle Cotton Laws, Mandy Carter, fiery teenager Madison Kimrey, a mother/daughter team (11 year old daughter), individuals, and leaders of various women’s organizations. We are speaking on topics that are very important to women, like equal pay, education, LGBT issues, immigration, and reproductive justice.  Please join us!

                                   Madison Kimrey speaking at rally in DC in 2015

We’re all working for a better future for North Carolina and for America!

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Fayetteville NOW hosts another round of “Cracking the Code”

Fayetteville NOW is working with other organizations to promote discussions around race and white privilege.  This 3 part ‘Cracking the Code” series works to promote understanding each other through cultural awareness.

Join us the Pate Room of the Headquarter Library at 301 Maiden Lane in Fayetteville, NC on these 3 dates:

April 4, 2016 – 7:00 pm
May 9, 2016 – 7:00 pm
June 6, 2016 – 7:00 pm

“We are not looking for people to say what we want to hear. We want honest discussion.”

2 Movie Nights in the Triad! 2/18/16+2/23/16

Michael Moore’s latest film, Where to Invade Next? includes a call for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment! Here are two links, the first for more information about the film, and the second for a/perture cinema information.

Triad NOW’s Night at the Movies!
Thursday, Feb. 18, 6 p.m.
a/perture cinema – 311 West 4th St., Winston-Salem
Contact president@triadnow.org if you want to make arrangements to meet up and sit together.

 

 

 

Michael Moore – official movie picture

Celebrate Susan B. Anthony with Charlotte NOW – 2/15/16

Celebrate Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday with Charlotte NOW!

Monday, February 15 is famed feminist and women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony’s birthday.  Charlotte NOW plans to celebrate her on this occasion.  What better way to do that than to throw her a party– with birthday cake, of course!

Join us February 15 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte (234 N. Sharon Amity Road) to ring in the big day! For more details, email Cindy at cltnow@yahoo.com

(Lithograph by Armstong & Co., Boston, MA Artist)

In honor of the suffragette’s 196^th birthday, here are a few things you might not have known about Anthony.

1. She voted in the November 1872 presidential election—a full 47 years before the 19^th Amendment was passed. She was fined $100 (a lot of money at the time!), but never paid her fine.
2. The B. in her name stands for Brownell.
3. Contrary to popular assumption, she was not present at the 1848 Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention.
4. Her first political goals were temperance and the abolition of slavery—not women’s rights.
5. She was the living woman depicted on U.S. currency.
6. A ship named after Susan B. Anthony holds the world’s record for number of lives saved. Read about it here.

Hope to see you all there!

10th annual HK on J march and rally in Raleigh – Feb 13, 2016

Join NC NOW chapters in the 10th annual Historic Thousands on Jones St March and Rally on Saturday, Feb 13, 2016.

Gathering begins at 8:30am.  Pre-rally entertainment begins at 9:00 a.m.  March step-off is at 10am. The march will take us to the mass people’s assembly on the doorstep of the State Capitol.

Look for NOW rounds and our NC NOW banner.  You can always bring your own signs – so much to say!

Be sure to dress for the weather!

More at http://www.hkonj.com/moral_march_on_raleigh

Here are some pictures from last year’s HK on J.

NC NOW group before the HK on J march. Photo Credit: Marena Groll

NC NOW’s banner at HKonJ.  Never Another Season Of Silence! Photo Credit: Gailya Paliga