Monthly
Meetings
Our
chapter meets
at 6:00pm on the 2nd Tuesday of
each month at (See
directions):
Selby
Library
1331 First Street
Sarasota, Florida 34236
For
At-Large members, no additional cost and includes Chapter monthly
newsletter.
Call
us or come to our next meeting. We need women
and men of
feminist mind to join us. Now is the time to get active and stand up
for women's rights! We need your energy, your help, and your membership.
Have an old Cell Phone?
SPARCC, (Sarasota
Co.)
Safe
Place and
Rape Crisis Center, can put your old cell phone to good use. They
refurbish them and give them to clients that need them to call 911 in
an emergency. Contact SPARCC or 941-365-1976 for more information.
Get on Rep. Vern Bucanan's
email list.
Let
the congressman know how we feel. Send him emails. When he sends out a
poll, try to click on it and send it back. Often the answers to the
poll are often poor and there are no good ones, but we have to try. If
all he gets is correspondence from his "base" he'll never have any
reason to doubt his votes in Congress.
Upcoming
meeting dates:
10 April, 2012 at the Selby Library
8 May, 2012 at the Selby Library
NOW's
Mission
Statement:
NOW's goal has been to take action to bring about equality for all
women. NOW works to eliminate discrimination and harassment in the
workplace, schools, the justice system, and all other sectors of
society; secure abortion, birth control and reproductive rights for all
women; end all forms of violence against women; eradicate racism,
sexism and homophobia; and promote equality and justice in our society.
NOW takes action to bring women as a class into the mainstream of
society rather than offering aid to individual women in achieving
personal solutions or temporary relief from oppression.
NOW seeks a diverse membership. No one is denied full participation in
this organization on the basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexual
orientation, national origin, disability, or class.
The Shrine Down The Hall (
click
here). No Comment.
Florida State NOW is helping coordinate clinic defense and
actions in Orlando in July 2011.
For dialog and comments, go
to the local
NOW
Facebook page and participate.
I
pledge to oppose the Personhood ballot
initiative, which, if passed, would ultimately ban birth control,
outlaw
fertilization clinics, criminalize abortion, and allow fertilized eggs
to
inherit and litigate.
Are you on FaceBook?
Join
our cause on the Sarasota Manatee NOW FaceBook page.
WOMEN'S
NEWS
Missed the most recent broadcast of Women's News on WSLR's
Women Matters?
Read a transcript of the news on the
Women's News site.
Of course you can always listen to the show archives as well.
Sarasota-Manatee
NOW Blog site
We now have a Blog for
those that would like to join us. To use the
blog, a MySpace membership is required. It is free and when you go to
the above link, if you are not a member, it will offer an you
opportunity to
join.
Yahoo-Group
Page:
We've created a Yahoo-Group page for local members. To join, merely
click the
link
and sign on. A Group is like
a
bulletin board where members can post
messages, photos and files. signup is free and easy.
See
what's happening. There are a number of upcoming
activities, do check the calendar for specific information!
Sometimes the calendar link
can be a bit slow to
respond. Clicking on it a second time does no harm and sometimes will
cause it to hurry up. January-March is a very busy
period,
so check back often.
If
you have an
event to add, please send it to:
Directions to NOW
Monthly Meeting:
Take the Fruitville Rd exit (Exit 210) and go West towards the beaches
for about 5 miles, cross Route 301, and then take a left on Central
Ave. The second right is First St. and the large white building
is the Selby Library. There is a two-hour parking limit in the
parking lot, most attendees prefer to find a parking spot on the
street, or at the city parking garage (free) nearby.
Officers:
