[NOW News] Take Up The Song

Support NOW's Work |	July 14, 2008	| Tell a Friend

BELOW THE BELT: TAKE UP THE SONG In my January Below the Belt column called "Maddening Reminder," I wrote about the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the countless forms of violence against women internationally. Most recently, a painful reminder has me looking closer to home. Read more CONGRESSIONAL RACES HEAT UP: NOW PAC WEIGHS IN WITH ENDORSEMENTS Kay Hagan, Candidate for Senator in NC The 2008 election is less than five months away and feminist candidates are working to get the votes that will propel them to the U.S. Congress. The National Organization for Women's Political Action Committee (NOW PAC) has been busy interviewing candidates from districts across the country. Read more WHAT WOMEN NEED: A CONGRESS WILLING TO TACKLE HARD ISSUES A year after the Democrats took over leadership of both the House and the Senate, there has been little progress on NOW's feminist/progressive agenda, primarily because of repeated filibusters by the Republican minority in the Senate. Read more MEDIA HALL OF SHAME: 2008 ELECTION EDITION Re-live the most sexist media moments from the 2008 elections. Rate them yourself on our Misogyny Meter. Submit your ideas and take action against the worst offenders. Read more and take action! Contribute to our work on the Media Hall of Shame, and submit ideas. MORE RECOMMENDED READING: Family Courts Come Under Volunteers' Watch - by Alison Bowen, Women's E-news Unfetter Women's Intellect on Campaign Trail - by Lisa Witter, News Day Pantsuits and the Presidency - by Clark Hoyt, The New York Times 36th Anniversary of Title IX - Feminist Daily News Wire		NEW YORKER COVER: SATIRE OR SLUR? You don't even need to open the latest edition of the New Yorker to see racism in the media and the presidential race. All you need to do is look at the cover! The New Yorker magazine features a racist caricature of Senator Barack and Michelle Obama in the Oval Office. Take action now! JOIN KATIE COURIC, JANET RENO, DR. DOROTHY HEIGHT AND OTHER INTREPID WOMEN AT OUR GALA Join us at NOW's Intrepid Awards Gala on July 17, at the historic National Museum of Women and the Arts, preceding NOW's National Conference. Help us honor these intrepid women: Katie Couric, Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Hon. Janet Reno, Linda Chavez-Thompson and Marna Tucker, with emcee Maureen Bunyan of WJLA-7. You can purchase tickets, tables or tributes online. Read more FEMINIST SUPERHEROES UNITE! NOW CONFERENCE JULY 18-20 Three days of fabulous speakers, roundtables, panels and workshops, members of Congress and politicos (and maybe one VERY special guest). Register online and preview the agenda for this year's NOW Conference, along with a list of our workshops. We will also be honoring Lilly Ledbetter, whose courage in fighting pay discrimination led to House passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act. Read more BALLOT INITIATIVES: A NEW FRONT IN THE WAR ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS This November, women's reproductive rights will be put before the voters in at least five states. Heavily funded by right-wing religious and political extremists, the effort is part of a strategy they hope will turn out voters to elect like-minded politicians while placing new limits on women's access to reproductive health care. Read more DOMESTIC PARTNER AND MARRIAGE, ADOPTION BANS ON FALL BALLOTS Several ballot initiatives and state constitutional amendments this fall, as well as several state legislatures, will consider whether to restrict the legal rights of same-sex and other cohabiting couples, and whether to limit their ability to receive equal benefits through marriage or domestic partnerships. Read more
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