[NOW News] NOW Salutes Carol Moseley Braun

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NOW SALUTES CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN'S HISTORIC BID FOR PRESIDENT Carol Moseley Braun, who withdrew her historic bid for the presidency this week, stood tall among the presidential candidates, pressing for fairness, pay equity, family security, equal opportunity and retirement dignity for women and communities of color. Read more MARCH FOR WOMEN'S LIVES WILL MAKE HISTORY On April 25, 2004, women and men from across the country will march on Washington, D.C., to demand reproductive freedom and demonstrate the depth of support for these life-and-death issues. Read more A MESSAGE FROM NOW PRESIDENT KIM GANDY Before we get totally consumed in the planning for the April 25 March for Women's Lives, we want you to know that stretching your budget to include NOW made a real difference in 2003. Read more BUSH TELLS WOMEN: FORGET AN EDUCATION OR JOB TRAINING ... FIND A MAN INSTEAD George W. Bush wants to spend $1.5 billion to "promote marriage." What he's telling poor women is, 'You don't need an education, you don't need a good-paying job—you just need a man.' Read more in NOW's latest Equality Report. COMMENTARY: STIFFING WORKERS ON OVERTIME PAY According to the Center for American Progress, the Bush administration has once again deployed an executive agency to encourage Big Business to stiff average workers—this time on overtime pay. Read more | Take action!		NOW OUTRAGED BY BUSH'S UNDERHANDED APPOINTMENT OF JUDICIAL NOMINEE CHARLES PICKERING "Bush's total disregard for the Democratic members of Congress who rightfully blocked Pickering's nomination is appalling," said NOW President Kim Gandy. Read more NOW PRESIDENT AND D.C. ACTIVISTS TO HONOR ROE V. WADE ANNIVERSARY AT SUPREME COURT BY CALLING FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL NOW activists in Washington D.C. and across the country are holding vigils and other events on the Jan. 22 anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared abortion legal in the United States. Read more STUDY SHOWS TOP COLLEGES HAVE FEW WOMEN PROFS IN HARD SCIENCES Women and people of color are significantly underrepresented in the science and engineering departments of the nation's major research universities, according to the results of a new national study. Read more NOW ENCOURAGED BY FDA'S REFUSAL TO APPROVE SILICONE BREAST IMPLANTS "We have been saying all along that there is simply not enough long-term data to warrant telling hundreds of thousands of women that they are safe to use," said NOW President Kim Gandy. Read more IS THERE ANYONE WAL-MART DOESN'T EXPLOIT? NOW named Wal-Mart a "Merchant of Shame" in the summer of 2002. Since then, more and more of the company's abuses and illegal actions are rising to the public consciousness. Read more
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