Feminist Calendar
Monday, October 16th, 8:00 a.m.
Birmingham Bloomfield Task Force on Race Relations & Diversity Birmingham Community House.
Monday, October 16th, Oakland Now General Meeting; Small Justice 9 Garland Waller Breaking the Silence Renee Beeker. Michigan NOW President.
Tuesday, October 17th, Navigating the Intersection of Religion and Politics...2006 and Beyond, Luncheon,the Rev. Romal Tune keynote: “Grassroots Activism Challenging Current-Day Religious- Political Extremism”, Marriott Detroit Southfield 27033 Northwestern.
Friday October 20th, Detroit Women's Forum, Patricia Godchaux, at the Whitney.
Monday, October 23th, 7:00 p.m. Granny D Goes to Washington WAND MI Southfield Public Library.
Wednesday, October 25th, 6:00 p.m. 4th Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Candlelight March, Southfield.
Wednesday October 25th, 5:00 p.m., Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony Sheraton Detroit-Novi, www.michiganwomenshalloffame.org
Tuesday, November 7th, Statewide Elections.
Saturday, November 18th, 10:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. State Coordinating Council (SCC) Mt Pleasant.
Monday, November 20th, 8:00 a.m. Birmingham Bloomfield Task Force on Race Relations & Diversity, Birmingham Community House.
Monday, December 18th, 8:00 a.m. Birmingham Bloomfield Task Force on Race Relations & Diversity, Birmingham Community House.
January 12th - 14th, 4th Battered Mothers Custody Conference www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org
Sunday, January 20th 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. State Coordinating Council (SCC).
Michigan National Organization for Women
Annual State Conference and Elections
" Vision Summit" March 31, 2007
Oakland Community College
Orchard Ridge Campus,
Women's Center
July7-9, National Conference in Dearborn Michigan
Message from the President
Recently, my brother asked me to write an autobiographical piece for a time-capsule which he is burying to be opened in one hundred years. While writing, I reflected on how much has changed since I joined NOW thirty years ago to bring women ...into full participation in the mainstream of American society exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men, and how much has remained the same.
There has certainly been progress, but it appears to me that we are fighting many of the same battles for decades. Along with other activists, I received a letter from Mandy Hagseth, who lives in Canton, South Dakota. She and many others are fighting the proposed abortion ban which threatens to take choice from the women of South Dakota. The women are staging pot-lucks to raise money to fight the radical right which is, as Ms. Hagseth says, trying to use (my) state as the launching pad for their assault on Roe v. Wade. I remember when we had bake sales to raise money in our fight for the Equal Rights Amendment.
I thought those days were over; they are not. Please consider sending money to the Planned Parenthood Federation of Minnesota, North and South Dakota to aid Ms. Hagseth, and her compatriots, in their struggle to save Roe and preserve their constitutional right to an abortion.
Proposal 2, the so-called Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, will be on the ballot November 7th and should have resolved long ago. Please vote NO! on Proposal 2 because it would end affirmative action in Michigan. Affirmative action programs help establish equal opportunity for women and minorities.They redress past gender, racial and ethnic discrimination, and encourage diversity in educational institutions and workplaces. Despite the progress that has been made over the last three decades, equal opportunity in the workplace and in education remains an unrealized goal. Affirmative action ensures that women and minorities have equal access to quality education at all levels and provides opportunities for women to enter non-traditional occupations. Remember, vote NO on Proposal 2! It is neither civil nor right.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Remember to Vote on November 7, 2006
to Protect Our Choices and Our Rights