One of four top NOW leaders, Action Vice President Rosemary Dempsey will give a speech to local students entitled "Stopping the Politics of Hate: Exposing the Radical Right," that exposes the agenda of the radical right and presents grassroots organizing skills for opposing this agenda. Dempsey and NOW Organizer Kimberlee Ward will also conduct a workshop with students designed to build coalitions, cultivate the power of student activism and mobilize student support for NOW's April 14 Fight the Right March in San Francisco.
"We refuse to sit back and watch as the radical right turns their divisive rhetoric into state and national policy," said Rosemary Dempsey, Vice President-Action for NOW. "We must stop ballot measures attacking affirmative action and lesbian and gay rights. We must stop legislative threats to poor women's basic survival, funding for domestic violence, civil rights and reproductive rights."
Campus Tour Schedule for Oregon
Monday February 12: Taylor Auditorium, Pacific University, Forest Grove OR
7 p.m. (speech); 8 p.m. (organizing workshop)
Tuesday February 13: Lewis & Clark University, Portland OR (location TBA)
4 p.m. (organizing workshop); 7 p.m. (speech)
Wednesday February 14: Reed College, Portland OR (location TBA)
6 p.m. (speech); 7 p.m. (organizing workshop)
Thursday February 15: University of Oregon, Eugene OR (location TBA)
3 p.m. (organizing workshop); 5:30 p.m. (speech)
Monday February 19: Hatfield Room of Hatfield Library, Willamette Univ., Salem, OR
5:30 p.m. (speech); 6:30 p.m. (organizing workshop)
Tuesday February 20: MU Lounge, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR
12:30 p.m. (speech); 1:30 p.m. (organizing workshop)