2005 National NOW Conference Opens in Nashville July 1, Voting Held July 2
It's that time again—feminist activists from around the country will gather in Nashville, Tenn., for the 2005 National NOW Conference the weekend of July 1-3. Home of the Grand Old Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville is a rollicking good place for NOW to convene.

NOW Cheers Reintroduction of Equal Rights Amendment into Congress
NOW welcomed the reintroduction of the Equal Rights Amendment at a Capitol Hill press conference with hopes it will renew the national dialogue on constitutional equality for women.

Legislative Update: GOP Budget Undercuts Equity, Human Needs Programs, Adds More Tax Cuts
George W. Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress pushed through a shameful $2.57 trillion budget resolution that slashes social spending, adds more than $100 billion in tax cuts over the next five years and deepens the federal deficit.

Nuclear Option: Not About Senate Rules, But Your Rights Going Up In Smoke
This nuclear option is not about Senate rules, or just these few nominees Democrats continue to filibuster. Republicans want the nuclear option so they can clear an easy path to get the next anti-women, anti-choice justice onto the Supreme Court.

Talking Social Security While the Privatization Push Continues
You'll find the Social Security "crisis" in the same undisclosed location as the Weapons of Mass Destruction — or in the same dictionary as "Clear Skies" or "Family Time Flexibility," two Bush measures that did nothing their title implied.

VAWA 2005: New Prevention Initiatives Address the Needs and Fears of Young People and Work to Break the Cycle of Violence
It's incredible to think that more than a decade has passed since the first Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was signed into law in 1994. Since its passage, VAWA has impacted women of all ages and backgrounds, all races and religions and all communities throughout the nation.

NOW in the News: And the Beat Goes On
Spring in the Action Center quickly warmed up for the heated debates over Social Security privatization, judicial nominees and silicone breast implants. The NOW press office worked the phones and reached out to media coast-to-coast bringing women's lives and issues into these debates.

Viewpoint: A Foolish Bargain for Women
Using a combination of shell-game math and "the sky is falling" rhetoric, proponents of Social Security privatization to frighten us into giving up the only guaranteed family safety and retirement insurance this country provides, while wooing our support for private accounts with visions of big bucks from playing the stock market.

Moral Pharmacists: No Birth Control Here, Just Sexism
In the year 2005, it's outrageous to see women's reproductive freedom would be in such grave danger. With a Supreme Court resignation looming and Republicans threatening to use the "nuclear option" to railroad extremist judicial nominees through the Senate, the future of Roe v. Wadelooks shaky.

Women of Color and Allies Summit a Spectacular Success
Hundreds of activists and leaders from across the country gathered in Arlington, Va., April 1-3, for the Women of Color and Allies Summit organized by NOW Foundation and co-sponsored by dozens of organizations. The event was a major success, with participants leaving energized and inspired to keep in touch, work together back home, and take concrete action on issues of concern to women of color.

Activist Training Weekend in D.C. Galvanizes Grassroots Network
The National Action Center recently expanded the State Presidents Training Program to include three banks of activist training workshops—action, communication and membership—an addition that will help expand the grassroots efforts of existing chapters and bring new or reactivated chapters up to speed.

NOW Acts: Students CAN Get Active
When student activists contacted NOW to start a group on their campus, until now, we could only offer them one option—a NOW chapter. A fine choice when possible, but starting a full-fledged NOW chapter typically did not meet the needs of young women or the campus requirements for a student group.

Equal Marriage Launches During Freedom to Marry Week
The National Organization for Women celebrated Freedom to Marry Week with the launch of a year-long Equal Marriage Campaign and an information drop on Capitol Hill.

2005 National NOW Elections - Candidate Information
Every four years, NOW holds its national elections. Candidates run together in slates of four; member delegates vote at the national conference for NOW's president and three vice presidents, who will lead the organization for the next four years. Currently, two slates have announced their candidacy. Each ticket's information is provided to all members per NOW's bylaws.

NOW Awards Jane Goodall at 2005 Intrepid Gala
NOW and NOW Foundation's third annual Intrepids Gala returns this year to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Sept. 15. Maureen Bunyan, news anchor for WJLA-TV will once again emcee the event.

Giving Breast Implants As Birthday Gifts Makes 16 Less Sweet
In this age of television's extreme makeovers, many young women now think that plastic surgery can help them attain that "perfect beauty" society teaches women to covet. Pursuing society's unrealistic ideal of tiny waists, long legs, large and perky breasts is a risky and costly venture.

Celebrating Women Making History Today from Athletes to Nobel Prize Winners
During Women's History Month, NOW celebrated the lives of the countless women throughout time whose endeavors advanced equality for women. Today, multitudes of women out there fight and work for women and our empowerment every day, nationally and globally.

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