November 18, 2023
Attending for NOW members can be less expensive due to sliding scale we offer. To print and mail in your registration form, use the form on page 3. Note: sponsorship includes registration.
Announcing Congresswoman Deborah Ross as the keynote speaker for North Carolina NOW’s 2023 state conference, “What Women Want NOW,” on November 18, 2023.
In Congress, Rep. Ross is fighting for equality, justice, and progress. Rep. Ross is a lawyer who has been working for a better North Carolina her whole career, first as a civil rights lawyer, helping to pass the South’s first anti-racial profiling law and reforms to the state’s juvenile justice laws, then as the executive director for the ACLU-NC, and then in public office. NOW has been able to endorse her the whole way, since she ran in 2002. As a woman leader of a statewide organization and in public office at many levels, Rep. Ross really knows “What Women Want NOW!” Read more at https://wp.me/p22b2e-4o2
Over the past 57 years, members of the National Organization for Women (NOW) have fought for and helped win a wide spectrum of rights for women. Sadly, some of those same rights so mightily fought for are being eroded and even negated. With this in mind, and the future of women and girls at stake, North Carolina NOW is using the state conference to look at what can address these issues and ways to win back these rights and fight for more. The conference will be held Saturday, November 18th, from 9:00 am until 4:30 pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh (UUFR) at 3313 Wade Ave, in Raleigh. The draft agenda is available here.
Panel 1 – Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV)
Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence, also known as gender-based cyber-violence, is perpetrated against men, women and girls, and often targets the LGBTQIA community. Some technological advances that many find useful in everyday life may actually facilitate TFGBV. We will look at these and how people can protect themselves and changes that could make people safer. More on this issue here. More on the panel, including panelists here.
Panel 2 – How ERA gets women what they want and how we get ERA
So much is currently happening both nationwide and in North Carolina that negatively impact women and girls. This conference will focus on problems and what can turn things around – and ERA can do a lot. NOW’s core issues include Constitutional equality, racial and economic justice, LGBTQIA+ equality, ending violence against women, and reproductive justice. More about the ERA panel here.
Workshops
A timeslot of workshops is planned related to what women want. Some topics are what gets young pro-choice women to vote, social media 101, how do abortion pills work.
Fun and useful
We have a feminist jeopardy game ready to go!
We’re bringing the posters of the 10 honorees from the “She Changed The World” exhibit from just before the pandemic. Ten exceptional women from Durham and Chapel Hill were honored with this project.
Here are shortcuts to registration and sponsorship.
- To register online, go to https://forms.gle/Av5tnuDYsPHJkeex9
- To pay online, go to https://wp.me/P22b2e-4t9. Note: Attending for NOW members can be free due to sliding scale we offer.
- To do a sponsorship (which includes registration), go to https://wp.me/P22b2e-4tb.
- To print and mail in your registration form, use the form on pg 3 of 2023 Call To Conference Newsletter.
- To print and mail a sponsorship form (which includes registration), go here 2023.
Find the conference on Facebook as follows.
- Use Facebook Event for Nov. 18 to see developments for the conference, 9am-4:30pm, at https://www.facebook.com/events/288703503969541/
Call to Conference Newsletter: NC NOW Call To Conference Newsletter – Fall 2023
Hashtags: #WhatWomenWantNOW
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Past conference themes and speakers – click here.
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Shortlink: https://wp.me/P22b2e-4oY
North Carolina NOW 
I am really glad that you are doing a panel on the ERA at the conference. My sister Arlaine Rockey (AttorneyRockey@gmail.com) and I (ginacolliasattorney@gmail.com) are NC Attorneys and experts on the ERA. We would be glad to be on your panel if you would like. Here is our recent article. https://womensenews.org/2023/08/gratitude-is-stronger-than-fear-president-biden-has-a-constitutional-and-moral-duty-to-publish-the-equal-rights-amendment-now/