NEWSLETTER
Hunterdon/Somerset
NOW
Box 694 Somerville
08876
NOWNJ
110 West State ST Trenton 08608
609-393-0156
MARCH/APRIL/MAY 2006
CHAPTER MEETINGS
March 8
April 12 (see next page)
May 10
7:30 pm
Freeholder's Conference Room
County Administration Bidg.
Grove Street and Main
Somerville
STATE BOARD MEETINGS
March 5—Northern NJ
May 5 or 6—Morris County
August 19—Alice Paul
December 9 or 10—Somerset/Hunterdon
MARCH 26—SEE NEXT
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NATIONAL MEETINGS
40th Anniversary
Celebration and Young Feminists Summit.
July 21-23,
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, NY. Call 1-800-Crowne and ask for
"NOW room block." Or use
www.crowneplaza.com
March 7—NARAL Pro-Choice National Day of Action. Prevention First. As 96% of women use some sort of contraception
at some time in their lifetime, NARAL is planning a day to
emphasize the importance of this. Call NJ NARAL, 609-581-7171
for more information.
March 9—3 pm, NARAL Pro-choice NJ will hold a meeting on
Emergency Contraception. North Brunswick Municipal Building,
Council Room, 710 Herman Avenue, N. Brunswick. Call
1-800-647-5541 PIN 3535 for directions.
Women's Wellness &
Health Center Connection—This group is offering weekly support
sessions at Robert Wood Johnson. Topics are: Surviving Hearts
Support Group, Striving for Balance, and a women's support
group. Call 732-253-3115 to get more information and to
register. Sessions are at 6 and 7pm.
Hunterdon County Green Table Meetings are March 16 and May 18. Echo Hill Environmental Center, 51 Lilac Drive, Stanton Station.
Call 908-782-0422 for information and reservations.
This newsletter could not go out without expressing sorrow at
the loss of two great women who have done so much for other
women. Betty Friedan, author, gadfly, (and proud of it)
founder of NOW and its first president and Coretta Scott King,
whose speeches, writings and works have been an inspiration.
They will be missed.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN
NEW
JERSEY FOUNDATION
Cordially invites you to join us in our Fourth Annual
NEW
JERSEY WOMEN MAKING HISTORY
Honoring event The 2006 Award recipients are:
Paula Kassell And
The
Founding Mothers of The Alice Paul Centennial Foundation
Patricia Owens, Nancy Quinn, Diane Quinton, Patricia Williams,
Esq.,
Janet Tegley, Jen Perry, Barbara Irvine, Judy Buckman,
Elsie Behmer
We
will also be honoring Susan Waldman
With
an Intrepid service Award
For
her work with the Women's Fund of New Jersey
Sunday, March 26, 2006
1:00
PM
Sheraton Edison Hotel Edison Center, Edison, NJ
Donation: $ 60.00
Use
Exit 10 on NJ Turnpike
Make checks payable to NOW NJ Foundation. (Tax Deductible)
Indicate choice of Chicken, Beef or Vegetarian, and your name
and address.
Mail to NOW-NJ Foundation, Jacqueline Willis, 10-16 Fair Lawn
Ave.
Fair Lawn, NJ 07410. If unable to attend, send a donation,
which
is also tax deductible if sent to NOW-NJ Foundation.
For
prices of ads in souvenir ad journal, please call State NOW
or
go on line to State Now web site.
APRIL 12, 2006 7:30 pm SPECIAL MEETING SOMERSET/HUNTERDON NOW
FREEHOLDER'S CONFERENCE ROOM SOMERVILLE
SPEAKER, JOANNE KAISER, from WIMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER
This will be a presentation of the program for battered women
and their children in Somerset County, and a discussion of how
the two organizations can work together to improve and implement
the program in light of the many cuts being made to programs for
women and children. COME and DISCUSS.
NOW
NEW JERSEY
NOW NJ is trying to start a speaker's bureau. If you know of
anyone who would be a good speaker on a topic of interest to
women, labor, business, divorce, etc. get in contact with Katie
Blouse at VPaction@nownj.org
Volunteer for the Women's Fund AND earn money for NOW NJ. The
activities are varied-tabling, stuffing, etc., and the amount of
money earned depends on the number of hours volunteered. Call
Susan Waldman at 973-895-2218 or
sueandned@optonline.net
New
Jersey Pro-Choice America gives New Jersey a grade of B on
women's issues. To get all the latest information and to track
activities in our state, go to
www.Pro-ChoiceAmerica.org
Are you interested in joining health research? There are
two new projects at Robert Wood Johnson.
1. Post
menopausal and suffering from vaginal atrophy, between the ages
of 45-80, in good health. Study includes physical. ECG, pap
test, mammogram, blood tests, transvaginal ultrasound, study
medication. $306.26 compensation. Call Monday to Friday, 9am to
4 pm, 732-235-7799 or e-mail
brevetdi@umdni.edu.
2.
Healthy females between 18 and 40, sexually active, in a stable
relationship, you may be eligible to test a low-dose
contraceptive. Free physical, pap, pregnancy test, blood tests. $25 per visit, 1 year study, 6 visits.
Call 732-235-7292
or christnf@umdnj.edu.
Friday,
March 24 , 8:30 to 4:30- What' s NEW in New Jersey History.
The 13th annual History Issues Convention, Trenton. Call
Ms. Diane Dillon 609-984-3458 or
njhc@sos.state.nj.us
for more information. Cost is $35.00 including continental
breakfast and lunch.
National NOW
An
e-mail asking us to call our senators, Lautenberg and Menendez,
to thank them for voting against Alito. The .... has already
hit the fan, as the President has asked the Court to re-visit
the issue of late term abortions under the so-called "Partial
Birth" Bill. The issue is that Congress decided that there was
no need to do this procedure for the health of the mother, and
so they left "health" out of the bill. National NOW will be
working on this issue. (Your editor is distressed that lay
people are making health decisions. Viagra causes heart attacks,
so perhaps they should ban it.)
2. A
long e-mail from Kim Gandy to thank everybody for all their help
in getting the good legislation passed, and encouraging our
allies to fight for more money for women and children. If
you are not on the e-mail alert list, go to
www.NOW.org or
nowpresident@now.org
and tell Kim that you are interested in joining the e-mail and
phone list. This will probably also get you the NOW e-mail News,
which is short, succinct and helpful. Like most newsletters, it
will take you to more
information in areas of your interest.
MISCELLANY
Revisiting Plan B, the morning-after pill. Wal-Mart was sued in
Mass. by three women for not filling a prescription. As Mass.
has a law that pharmacies MUST fill legitimate prescriptions,
Wal-Mart has agreed to abide by the law, and look at the whole
issue of Plan B. Maybe public pressure does help. Currently only
4 states have laws requiring pharmacies to fill all
prescriptions, but ten have laws pending. Good news for women. Note: Feb. 14 paper says that Wal-Mart will expand its health
coverage so that more employees and their children can use it.
Never underestimate the power of public opinion—particularly
when women get involved.
ACLU has announced its Workplan for 2006. It includes
challenging abuses of power in the name of the war on terrorism,
safeguarding and advancing religious liberty, protecting
reproductive rights, equal rights for LGBT people, and
government accountability for human rights abuses. Sounds like
many of our own issues. If you are not a member of ACLU, use
your computer or the library to keep up with their activities. They always are standing beside us when it comes to reproductive
rights, and their attorneys assist the NOW attorneys and staff.
They have been active in trying to protect the prisoners at
Guantanamo which fits in with two of their areas of emphasis. Deb Huber writes that she heard a talk by Janis Karpinski, the
general who was held responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib. Karpinski stated that half the women in the military are the
victims of sexual assault or rape. She also stated that three
women died of dehydration in Iraq because they limited their
fluids late in the day so they would not have to use the
latrines at night. (This talk was given in Hunterdon, and I saw
nothing in the paper about it. Ed. )
Interesting addendum—Do you want to get your picture in the
paper? Stand next to Deb at any demonstration where she is. She
ALWAYS gets her picture in the paper, and so will you if you
stand next to her. Watch for her when you see the next write-up
of a NOW or peace demonstration. She will be there.
As
things go from bad to worse in Iraq, a depressing footnote from
Women for Women International. 90% of the casualties of
war are civilians, 75% of whom are women and children.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN
CALLING NOW ACTIVISTS
We
Want a New Direction for our country and the world
MARCH
FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY
A war
based on lies Courts stacked with right wing judges
Spying and
attacks on civil liberties
Budget slashing of critical domestic
programs
Katrina survivors abandoned by government
Unite
for Change – Let’s Turn OUR COUNTRY AROUND!
THE
TIMES ARE URGENT AND WE MUST ACT
We
have a foreign policy that is foreign to our core values,
and
domestic policies wreaking havoc at home.
It's time for a
change.
SATURDAY, APRIL21, 2006 NEW YORK CITY
Our message to the White House and to Congress is clear:
either stand with us or stand aside! We are coming
together to march, to vote, to speak out and to turn our country
around!
April 29th Initiating Organizations:
United for Peace and Justice
U.S.
Labor Against the War Rainbow/PUSH Coalition,
National
Organization for Women
Climate
Crisis Coalition
Friends
of the Earth Peoples' Hurricane Relief Fund
Additional information will be posted as available at
http://www.now.org/nyc2006/
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