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Equality - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow ~ February 2010 Meeting

Pacific Shore NOW and the JOY Ministry (Justice, Outreach and You) invites you to an evening of conversation about equality.  From Marriage Equality to the ERA, Restore 2010 and HJ Res 61, its all about equality. Join us for refreshments and conversation.  For information contact the church at (949) 494-8061 or Pacific Shore NOW.

7:30PM
Thursday, February 25th
Neighborhood Congregational Church
340 St. Ann’s Drive
Laguna Beach
 

Celebrate Roe and Choice ~ January 2010 Meeting

National Council of Jewish Women/Los Angeles Co-Sponsored by City of West Hollywood Women's Advisory Board, Planned Hollywood Los Angeles-Pasadena & San Gabriel, Hollywood NOW, Pacific Shore NOW

Pro Choice is our Choice Too...Roe v. Wade at 37

Thursday, January 21, 2010
11:30 a.m. ~ 1:30 p.m. (program begins promptly at noon)
543 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Moderator: Mayor Abbe Land, City of West Hollywood
Guest Speakers:
Laurie Levenson, Professor of Law Loyola Law School
Rebecca Isaacs, President and Chief Executive Officer, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
Dr. Arthur Fleisher, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at U.S.C. Keck School of Medicine
Sandy Merida, Founder Young Feminist Club, Hollywood High School

To RSVP or for info call 323-852-8503 or email ruth@ncjwla.org

December News

Dear Pacific Shore NOW,

I wonder often if you know how outstanding NOW is, how far your annual membership fee goes.  If women and girls are forgotten, NOW is there.  If HCR fines women for reproduction, NOW is there.  If lesbians and all queers are working to end discrimination, NOW is there; which means you are there.  Every time you see a NOW round, you are there.   I am very proud of what NOW is doing and that means YOU.  

Sunday December, 13  Please consider our holiday celebration ~ your celebration.  Please RSVP, bring a dish and a friend.  If you did not get your evite, please let me know.

December 2 STUPAK PITTS  NOW will converge on Capitol Hill and will deliver to our representatives and senators this message: Harmful anti-abortion language has no place in health care reform legislation. NOW will ask them to take a pledge to vote against any bill containing anti-choice language that goes beyond current law.

Pacific Shore NOW has proudly signed on to a press release along with;

• Hollywood NOW
• Long Beach-South Bay NOW
• Palm Springs NOW
• Planned Parenthood Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley
• The City of West Hollywood
• NCJW-LA
• Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP)
• Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project - LA County
• One Voice for Choice campaign

If you would like to attend the local press conference, please contact me and I will forward the information to you.

 Friday Dec 4, Costa Mesa  You may know that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going to be at the Airport Hilton to address the Orange County Democratic Party.  Tickets are $150.  (do you have a spare?)

It is for the Harry Truman Awards.  If you google Nancy Pelosi Orange County Dec 4 you will find all types of groups from the tea party people to pro-life and, it is safe to assume after Tuesday’s address to the nation, there will be anti-war people.  Should you want to be there, carry a Pacific Shore NOW round, please call or email me. 

Holiday Gifts The best $15 you can spend to protect the rights of women and girls is a holiday gift of a NOW membership.  http://now.org  Join Pacific Shore CA 0450

Please go on line, buy one for everyone you know, they will be in our chapter, support things you believe in, receive NOW information from DC and most importantly, they will be a part of this important voice for women and girls.

Palm Springs Pride

Join with us at Palm Springs Pride.

Saturday, Nov 7, 10 AM.

Wrapping Up 2009

Congratulations on a spectacular showing at the National Equality March.  We sponsored four members and many more were there!  In our Sisterhood Coalition, we joined with all our wonderful sisters from Hollywood NOW, Long Beach ~ South Bay NOW and Palm Springs NOW as the march organizers.

 

WHATS NEXT

Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 12 noon - 4 PM
Love Your Body Day-- with special celebrity host Lisa Ann Walter 
West Hollywood Park Auditorium
647 N. San Vicente, West Hollywood, CA 90069
The celebration will include: entertainment, health & wellness information, shopping, giveaways, fitness demos & classes, free goodie bags to the first 100 attendees
Meet the Whooza Kooza Crew promoting Cirque du Soleil's KOOZA at Love Your Body!! 
President Zoe Nicholson and Vice President Becky Dolhinow will be at a table with I <3 Consensual sex tees and buttons.  

Wednesday, November 4, 7 pm – 10 pm.
Equality Network Rally “Where were you when EQUALITY died?”
Santa Monica & Vermont

Sunday, December 13, 5 pm – 8 pm
Holiday Gift Swap and Pot Luck Dinner
Bring a wrapped gift (under $5) and dish and a friend!

What a fantastic year –
Our chapter is growing and having a blast.
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National Equality March

Thanks to Pacific Shore NOW and the NOW Sisterhood Coalition of Southern CA for organizing the NOW contingent for the National Equality March.

 

March for Equality News

If you are a member on facebook, you have seen the NOW March logo everywhere.  It is also featured on the main march site as one of the march posters.  Your chapter, Pacific Shore is one of four that is organizing the march, along with Hollywood NOW, Long Beach, South Bay NOW & Palm Springs NOW. MARCHERS

As of today our Marchers are:
Melissa Darnell
Beth Payne
Shannon Payne
Dan Choi
Zoe Nicholson
(is there anyone else??)

DONORS:
Our angels who have donated are Lauren, Sally, Julie and we all but emptied our treasury.  There is still plenty of time to donate for hotel & airfare.  I know of two more people who would like to go but for the money.

There is much you can do, whether you are going or not.  You can post on twitter & facebook in support of the march.  You can write the OC Register & Daily Pilot about your chapter and the march.  You can have a rainbow picnic on Sunday October 11 and know that in spirit you are in D.C.

NOW endorses the National Equality March

NOW Endorses National Equality March
Statement of NOW President Terry O'Neill
September 21, 2009
    The National Organization for Women is proud to endorse the grassroots National Equality March taking place in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 11, 2009. In the 21st century, it is simply outrageous not to have full equality under the law for all people, including women, lesbians and women of color -- and we have a moral obligation to change that.
     Throughout history, the struggle for civil rights and social justice has changed the face of private and public institutions. Yet, discrimination remains rampant, particularly against lesbians. NOW recognizes that no woman will have full equality under the law until all women have full equality under the law.
     Eliminating second-class rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people requires more than repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, currently casting shadows of inequality over the military and the institution of marriage. It requires more than passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
    Our call for change must be bold and uncompromising -- political negotiation only assures that women get less than they deserve. Grassroots NOW activists from around the country will join the National Equality March to demand full equality for all women and all people.

Pacific Shore NOW Endorses The National March for Equality

The NOW Sisterhood Coalition of Southern California is proud to endorse the National March for Equality.  This March represents two of our top three issues - Equality and LGBT Rights.  These four activist Chapters are not only endorsing but also attending the March for Equality in Washington DC, October 11, 2009.

 

We recognize that the time has come:

·         To recognize Marriage and all its privileges for pairs of adults, regardless of sex.

·         To end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the Defense of Marriage Act.

·         To end the social stigma of LGBT, calling to eliminate the antiquated idea of separate but equal.

 

This Sisterhood Coalition is proud to state and stand by the principles that families are diverse.  We demand that LGBT families qualify for family insurance policies; are able to visit family members in hospitals; and inherit their mutually-created property. We want LGBT families to be able to adopt and rear children without harassment.  We want LGBT people to be the recognized and legally-enabled caretakers for one another in old age.

This Sisterhood Coalition is proud to state and stand by the principles that LGBT people have the right to openly serve in the military.  They want to serve and protect the safety of their families, our families, and the nation; they always have and always will.

This Sisterhood Coalition believes in equality under the law with all the rights and responsibilities that come with it. That is why we are marching in our Capital on October 11^th, 2009. Those of us who can travel, walk, and ride will be there, but we will also be there for the thousands who are hiding, lost, and homeless - for youth, for seniors, for the isolated and the lonely who only wish they were in love, being loved, and planning to marry. On October 11^th, each of us will march for more than ourselves.

Celebrate Women's Equality Day with Terry O'Neill, NOW President.

Pacific Shore is proud to be a Co-Sponsor, along with Hollywood NOW and the City of West Hollywood of a special event for Women's Equality Day. 

The Women's Advisory Board (WAB) of the City of West Hollywood will host a Town Hall discussion of the Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act, featuring NOW President, Terry O'Neill. (pictured on the right)

7 PM, Wednesday, August 26
Hollywood Park Auditorium
Televised on WeHo Channel 10