"Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in May, anti-abortion forces have set their sights on Dr. LeRoy Carhart. Operation Rescue plans to besiege Dr. Carhart's Nebraska clinic this weekend in an attempt to terrorize the clinic workers and their patients, with the ultimate goal of closing down the facility," said NOW President Terry O'Neill. "Because NOW believes that it is every woman's right to have access to the full range of reproductive health care, I will be there to stand with leaders and activists from NOW and other organizations to help defend these brave providers."

Special thanks to the Institute for Women's Policy Research!

Barbara Ferris, Heidi Hartmann,
Carolyn Jacobson, Karen Mulhauser,
René Redwood, Susan Scanlan & Ellie Smeal
cordially invite you to a reception honoring

Terry O'Neill
President, National Organization for Women
and the newly elected NOW Officers
Bonnie Grabenhofer, Allendra Letsome & Erin Matson

Monday, August 31, 2009
The Stewart Mott House
122 Maryland Avenue, NE, Washington, DC
6:00 pm until 8:00 pm

The price of admission is a $35 NOW membership (students & young professionals may take advantage of reduced dues)

Or, for current members, a contribution of $25, made here

Please bring the printed confirmation page as your ticket

Memberships and contributions will also be collected at the door.

Several hundred women of all ages, ethnicities, backgrounds and orientations gathered at the Feminism 2.0 conference to strategize about ways action-oriented feminist organizations and the burgeoning online feminist community could work together to achieve equality for women.

While January 2009 will be most remembered for the inauguration of President Barack Obama, women's rights supporters remember another historic moment that took place on Jan. 22, 1973 -- the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.

This year's Women's EqualiTea at the Democractic National Convention in Denver was a great success! Please visit our website to see online videos taped from the event.

Staff and interns share their impressions of equal pay champion Lilly Ledbetter, who attended three days of NOW events in Washington, D.C., July 17 through 19.

Since 2003, the National Organization for Women and the NOW Foundation has saluted resolutely courageous, fearless and bold women from a variety of fields at our annual Intrepid Awards Gala. This year we will be honoring five amazing women on July 17 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

NOW's president Kim Gandy was on Comedy Central's The Daily Show for a segment on "Is America Ready for a Woman President". Watch it online.

Executive Vice President Olga Vives will be on a Spanish radio station called "Radio Bilingue" out of California today, Sept. 10, from 3-4pm EST. From the station: "In this program, deported Mexican activist Elvira Arellano talks about her request to visit the U.S. as a Mexican ambassador for peace and justice, and her cross-border quest to keep immigration reform demands alive. Also, the National Organization for Women in the U.S. is speaking out in support of Arellano and is urging its members to call for a moratorium on deportations and family separation. NOW Vice president Olga Vives will join this program."

Listen online (in Spanish or English) at http://www.radiobilingue.org/

NOW President Kim Gandy will be speaking at the World Women's Forum in Seoul, Korea, September 12-14.

Watch this clip of NOW President Kim Gandy on the Today Show discussing The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's decision to introduce an academic program in homemaking ... for women only.

A Rutgers basketball player sues radio host Don Imus for defamation after his infamous inflammatory remarks about the team. Dan Abrams speaks with radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa and Latifa Lyles from the National Organization for Women.

Watch her on ABC news or listen to her on NPR's "Tell Me More".

July 2: Fox News' Bill O'Reilly blames the victims in both the Chris Benoit murder-suicide and the Jessie Davis murder. Dan Abrams discusses O'Reilly's comments with the National Organization for Women's Kim Gandy and Rita Smith of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

On June 29, NOW President Kim Gandy joined a distinguished panel of speakers for a national town hall meeting on "Why Media Diversity Matters." The event took place simultaneously in Washington, D.C., and Denver, Colo., and aired live on the web.

Kim Gandy will join a distinguished panel of speakers for a June 29 national town hall meeting on "Why Media Diversity Matters." The event will take place simultaneously in Washington, D.C., and Denver, Colo., this Friday at 12 noon Eastern/10 am Mountain, and can be viewed live on the web.

NOW President Kim Gandy discussed the first presidential candidates' debate on NPR's To The Point. Full audio available.

Membership Vice President Latifa Lyles discusses feminism today on the Kojo Nnamdi show on NPR. Audio is available.

NOW President Kim Gandy appears on ABC News Now's program on the abortion debate.

“It’s completely hollow,” said Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, who called his words “beyond racist and sexist.” Her organization launched a drive Sunday for members to contact Imus’ corporate bosses at CBS Corp. and NBC Universal to demand his firing — and she says a few thousand have responded so far.

NOW President Kim Gandy appeared on the Lou Dobbs show on CNN on Monday, April 9, to discuss the racist and sexist remarks made by radio host Don Imus in regards to the Rutgers women's basketball team. Scroll down about halfway or search for "Gandy" to find where the interview starts.

Kim Gandy appeared on the Women Aloud radio show on the Greenstone Media network on Monday, April 2. This link takes you directly to the podcast of Kim's interview.

Women's Equality Summit & Congressional Action Day
March 26-27

President Kim Gandy will be speaking at the afternoon plenary, Women's Rights At Home and Around the World, on Monday at 2:15pm.

Executive Vice President Olga Vives will be part of a discussion of immigrant women's rights, a breakout session on Monday at 3:45pm.

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