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NEWS ARTICLES OF INTEREST TO FEMINISTS
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articles
Updated July 14, 2008
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COMING EVENTS
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Senator
Menendez must explain opposition to U.S. Marshal candidate
Letter to the Editor
June 29, 2010
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SATURDAY, MAY 22nd
STANDING UP
STANDING TOGETHER
WEST STATE STREET, TRENTON
12 NOON
Click here for flier
click here for bus information
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SATURDAY, MAY 1st
TAKE BACK TRENTON RALLY
125 WEST STATE ST., TRENTON
1:00 PM
Click here for
flier
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April 14, 2010, 6:30 pm
a discussion of important issues plaguing the Reproductive Justice Field
and How to confront these problems
Rutgers-Newark School of Law
Maretta Short, NOW-NJ
President
will be on the discussion
panel
Click here for the flier
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The Clare Estate
Independent & Assisted Living
Invites you to
Stand Against Racism
"Peace, Justice, and the Fight against Racism and Sexism."
Speaker: Maretta Short, President of N.O.W.
Friday, April 30, 2010 2:00PM
Click here for
the flier
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NOW-NJ SUPPORTS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
MARK YOUR CALENDERS FOR THE FOLLOWING 2010 EVENTS:
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MOTHER’S MATTER COLLECTION
Gloucester County College
and the
Center for People in
Transition
Ongoing from now until May 1st
Click
Here for Details
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"When the Child Cries",
A Play by Leroy Harris
Rowan University,
201 Mullica Hill Road,
Glassboro, NJ
March 19 and 20
martind@rowan.edu
Other
Events at Rowan
and
Fairleigh Dickenson
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CATFISH FRIDAY WOMEN’S ARTS COLLECTIVE PRESENTS:
SANCUARY FOR THE BELOVED
TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2010
ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE
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COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS WOMEN’S CENTER HONORS
CAROL HAWTHORNE
(SHE HAS TRAVELED TO POOREST COUNTRY,
HAITI FOR 15 YEARS)
FRIDAY, MARCH 19TH, 2010
Details
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Caldwell
Library Supports
Women's
History Month
Saturday, March 13, 2010
More
Information
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Ready
To Run
Campaign Training for Women
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
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URBAN ISSUES INSTITUTE
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
EVENT
"WHAT ABOUT OUR DAUGHTERS IN
THE LGBT COMMUNITY?"
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 2010
Flier
Vendor Info
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CALL YOUR U.S. SENATORS DAY
TELL THEM STUPAK IS THE PITTS!
Tue., December 1st - 4th, 2009
LAUTENBERG:
Newark -- (973) 639-8700
Camden -- (856) 338-8922
MENENDEZ:
Barrington -- (856) 757-5353
Newark -- (973) 645-3030
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Garden State Equality
and Allies Lobby Day
Thursday, Dec. 3, at 8:00am
110 West State Street
Trenton, NJ
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Joy of Resistance Presents:
Multi Cultural Feminist Radio
“Women in Prison and
Reforming the Prison Industrial Complex”
Thursday, Dec.
3, at 11:00am
Listen in at 99.5 FM or
stream.wbai.org
Invited Guests:
Professor Angela Davis
Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Tina Reynolds
Produced and hosted by
Maretta J. Short and Fran Luck
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4TH, 2009
NOW-NJ JOINS WITH NOW- NY PICKET AGAINST STUPAK AMENDMENT AND HYDE
AMENDMENT
IN FRONT OF
SENATOR SCHUMER’S OFFICE
757 THIRD AVE. (AT 48TH ST) NYC
Click Here
for more information
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"So You Think You
Know About Health Care?"
NOW-NJ President Debates for Single Payer Health Care
Wednesday November
18, 2009 @ 8 PM
Rutgers University Douglass Campus Center
100 George St New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1412
(more info. To Come)
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Watch for Autum Edition of
NOW-NJ News Briefs Coming in November.
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Past Events --
Photos & Reports: |
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SIGN ONTO HISTORIC WOMEN'S
LIBERATION DOCUMENT
"What Every Woman Needs To Know"
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4TH.
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A Back-To-School-Health Care
Rally
NOW-NJ PRESIDENT
MARETTA SHORT - GUEST SPEAKER
Presented by
Rutgers Women's and Gender Studies Assoc. (Radigals)
Thursday September 10th, 2009
12:30 pm-2:30 pm
Brower Commons on College Ave.
MORE INFO CALL 908.507.0268
Click Here for the flier
Click Here for directions
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Stop Violence Against Women
“Worst to First Campaign”
2010!
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NOW-NJ Activist Support Rally
for Abortion Rights in Nebraska
Friday, Aug. 28th, 2009
Click here for
the flier (pdf)
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Rally for Single Payer Health
Care
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Washington, DC
1 PM in the Upper Senate Park
Celebrate Medicare’s 44th birthday
Down load flyer
Bus information
Download
Transportation Guide
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FEMINSTS PICKET SENATOR
SCHUMER FOR SINGLE PAYER NATIONAL HEALTH CARE INSURANCE
WOMEN WILL NOT BE FOOLED BY
FAKE HEALTH CARE REFORM
THURSDAY, the 27th of August, 2009 6-7PM
More Information
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Save the Date!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Single Payer Health Care Regional Conference
At
Princeton Theological Seminary - Princeton, NJ
Sponsored by
One Plan One Nation Coalition
and
The Presbyterian Church USA
Click Here for more
info
Print Flyers and Distribute
Color flyer
B&W flyer
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April 8, 2008
Women Making Green History
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Click here for more information
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NOW-NJ CoSponsors Film
Afghanistan Women
Sunday, March 29th 2:00 PM
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
Click here
for the flier
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Mark Your Calenders and
Support
Women's History Month Enjoy
Women's Voices:
"A Woman's Pride
and Stride"
featuring Amina Baraka
and Shanelle Gabriel
March 26, 2009
Atlantic Cape Community
College
Women's History
Events
Douglass Campus, Rutgers
"Black Women in the Ivory Tower"
March 5-6, 2009
Joy of Resistance
"Feminist Music Extravaganza"
Mercer County Community
College
March 3, 10, 20, 24, 26, 27
Gloucester County College
March
3, 2009
Bergen Community College:
Green
Initiatives for Women
Women's History Calendar
Brookdale Community College
An Evening with Maya
Angelou
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
and
An Afternoon with Golda
Friday,
March 27, 2009
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“Road Map to Economic
Recovery”
Town Hall Meeting
Thursday,
Dec 11, 2008
6 - 8 PM
flier
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December 8
& 11, 2008
COUNTING THE COST HEARINGS
Examining the cycle of arrest, incarceration,
reintegration & re-entry
Hosted by
ASSEMBLY MAJORITY LEADER
BONNIE WATSON COLEMAN
More
Information
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Lecture by
Antonia Juhasz
“The Tyranny
of Oil”
Saturday,
Nov. 15, 2008
NJ Peace
Action’s
51st
Annual Soup Luncheon
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2008 NOW-NJ
State Conference
“$trategizing for Economic Ju$tice”
Saturday,
November 8, 2008
9am - 4pm
Rutgers
University - Cook Campus
Conference
Information
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September 6, 2008
NOTE: Updated Time & Place
Sponsored by NOW-NJ Foundation,
NOW-NJ Combating Racism TF, and the Women of Color and Allies
Essex County Chapter
Save the
Date for Film Screening
“NO!”
The Rape Documentary
Produced
and Directed by Aisha Shahidah Simmons
Click to
preview:
http://notherapedocumentary.org
NOTE:
Updated Time & Place
Click to Download Flyer
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JUNE 19TH, 2008
NOW-NJ COSPONSORS
NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST
Health Insurance Corporations
More information:
Newark
Rally
Philadelphia Rally
National NOW Talking Points
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
NOW-NJ CO SPONSORS
Conversations on Race
and Voting
9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Liberty Science Center
Liberty State Park
222 Jersey City Boulevard
Jersey City, New Jersey
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Sunday, April 13
2 PM - 3:30 PM
ERA Education Fund, Inc.
presents a March History Month’s program of
Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
“LOOKING BACK and MOVING FORWARD”
Click Here for details
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April 11-12, 2008
Economic Justice Summit
NOW Foundation, Institute for
Women's Policy Research, and the National Council of Negro Women
are convening an
Economic Justice Summit in
Atlanta.
Submit workshop proposals and
research papers now, and register
online.
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March 10, 2008
Middlesex County NOW Forum:
Women in
the NJ Workplace
Speakers:
Sharon
Taylor
Sr. VP, Prudential Ins
Dr. Sindy
Paul
Medical Director, NJ Dept of
Health
Jeannine
LaRue
VP of Public Affairs, Rutgers
Click Here for details
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Sat.,
March 1, 2008
"Peace, Justice, and the
Fight against Racism and Sexism"
Guest Speaker: Maretta
Short,
NOW-NJ President
Poetry by Amina Baraka
Marc's Place Coffee House
Click Here for more information
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Sat., January 19, 2008
Second Annual Peace
Conference ." Rutgers University Law School, Newark, NJ.
8 am to 4 pm
More details here
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
NOW-NJ President, Maretta
Short, and Senator Loretta Weinberg to discuss the Mandatory HIV Testing
Bill for pregnant women and newborns. Sunday, January 6th at
12 PM on My9
The "New Jersey NOW" program
with Anchor Mike Gilliam.
Hosted by My9 News.
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