Welcome to the website of Pinellas NOW. We are a chapter of the National Organization for Women in Pinellas County, Florida.
Visit us also at our Facebook group
You can also follow Pinellas NOW on Twitter
You can find more information on what NOW is doing in our state at the Florida NOW site, and more information on what NOW is all about at NOW.org
Our regular meetings are now on the fourth Wed. of the month at Girls, Inc. in Pinellas Park.
News:
At our recent meeting on Feb. 22, 2012, we had a wonderful guest speaker, Claire Conner, who talked about her book Wrapped in the Flag: What I Learned About Growing Up In America's Radical Right and Why it Matters Now and how she changed her views. Conner was a member of the John Birch Society and her parents helped put the Tea Party in power. She covered the right wing's attacks on women, and we had a rather large crowd show up that was very intrigued by the lively discussion.
We collaborated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Clearwater to show the documentary film, "Women, War and Peace", on March 8th for International Women's Day. It was a very moving film, and we had an interesting discussion afterwards.
Join us for Take Back the Night: Together We Empower -
Hosted by the Sexual Violence Task Force of Tampa Bay
(an important march and speak out on violence against women):
Date: Sunday, April 29, 2012
Time: 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Curtis Hixon Park
700 North Ashley Drive
Tampa, FL 33602
We will have a table set up at the Resource Fair.
The South East Regional NOW Conference will be held on Saturday May 12th in Raleigh, North Carolina.
It is a one day conference, from 8am-3:30pm.
It is an election conference, and you can vote for Toni Van Pelt, the current Regional Director, and Donna Slutiak, the Florida NOW state president to be reelected to the national board.
The hotel is the
Clarion Hotel State Capitol
320 Hillsborough St.
Raleigh, NC 27603
Call 919 832-0501 for reservations, mention NOW
There is a room block of 20 rooms for Friday night at the rate of $75 plus 7.75%
tax for up to four in the room. The rooms are being held for sale until April 20.
The hotel is sold out except for these 20 rooms.
Lunch is a buffet with a pasta choice with dessert, salad, ice tea and coffee
for $17.82 each.
FLORIDA NOW STATE CONFERENCE JUNE 2-3, 2012
"2012: WHAT'S AT STAKE?"
Hilton Palm Beach Airport, 150 Australian Avenue, West Palm Beach FL
... Join your host chapter, Palm Beach County NOW, for a weekend of timely
and challenging speakers and workshops, combining the personal and political.
We will focus on the 2012 elections and what is at stake for the state of Florida
and the nation.
There will be opportunity to meet and strategize with feminists from throughout
Florida, and elected officials who support women’s rights. Relax poolside or
spend a free Saturday night exploring nearby CityPlace and downtown West Palm
Beach.
You can win an iPad! Florida NOW is doing a fundraising drawing for a brand new
iPad. Suggested donation for tickets is $5 each or 6 for $25. The drawing will be
held June 2. You need not be present to win. (But we hope you will be) For
tickets, contact your chapter leader or Florida NOW president Donna Slutiak at
president@flnow.org We will be happy to mail you as many as you would like,
and you can send a check or pay via PayPal. This is an election year, and the
plan is for Florida NOW to donate this money to our PAC/CCE to help candidates.
So please dig deep and buy as many as you can afford.
Check out FLNOW.org for more information.
inellas NOW recently received some press coverage, which you can view
here: "Local Feminists Continue to Fight for Women's Rights" at Tampa Bay
Newspapers.
The National NOW Conference of 2011, themed, "Daring to Dream: Building a
Feminist Future", was held in Tampa this past June and was very informative
and exciting. It included speakers such as Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder,
Florida NOW member and former national NOW president Patricia Ireland, Tampa
Police Chief Jane Castor, and many other national leaders and advocates. There
were workshops held on a wide variety of issues pertaining to equality and great
plenary sessions, as well as numerous resolutions which were passed on the
Sunday of the conference. It was a wonderful event, and included a
protest in front of Senator Marco Rubio's office which is conveniently located
directly across the street from the hotel where the conference was held. There
was also an award given to the girls of Girls' Inc. of Pinellas County for the
wonderful video they made which you can view below, and the video was
shown at the conference as well. You can see some pictures here now, and
more pictures are to come on this website.
In March, 2011 we had an excellent presentation by young women from Girls'
Inc. on "Famous Women in History" to celebrate Women's History Month.
On January 29, 2011 we did our annual rally for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade
in downtown St. Pete! You can see pictures on the Flickr photo roll below; just
scroll down.
April 30th - May 2nd, 2010 was the annual state conference of Florida NOW,
and you can see pictures from this successful event below.
March 10th, 2010 we held an awesome screening of the amazing film Iron
Jawed Angels, which tells the story of Alice Paul's role in the suffrage movement
which won women the right to vote in 1920. Yes, that's right, we have only had
the right to vote in the U.S. for 90 years!
Below see a video we viewed at one of our meetings in 2010, created by
elementary school-aged girls at Girls, Inc. in Pinellas Park about a sexist video
that is in the neighborhood of their center. They did an amazing job on this and
you should definitely check it out.
Visit us also at our Facebook group
You can also follow Pinellas NOW on Twitter
You can find more information on what NOW is doing in our state at the Florida NOW site, and more information on what NOW is all about at NOW.org
Our regular meetings are now on the fourth Wed. of the month at Girls, Inc. in Pinellas Park.
News:
At our recent meeting on Feb. 22, 2012, we had a wonderful guest speaker, Claire Conner, who talked about her book Wrapped in the Flag: What I Learned About Growing Up In America's Radical Right and Why it Matters Now and how she changed her views. Conner was a member of the John Birch Society and her parents helped put the Tea Party in power. She covered the right wing's attacks on women, and we had a rather large crowd show up that was very intrigued by the lively discussion.
We collaborated with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Clearwater to show the documentary film, "Women, War and Peace", on March 8th for International Women's Day. It was a very moving film, and we had an interesting discussion afterwards.
Join us for Take Back the Night: Together We Empower -
Hosted by the Sexual Violence Task Force of Tampa Bay
(an important march and speak out on violence against women):
Date: Sunday, April 29, 2012
Time: 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Curtis Hixon Park
700 North Ashley Drive
Tampa, FL 33602
We will have a table set up at the Resource Fair.
The South East Regional NOW Conference will be held on Saturday May 12th in Raleigh, North Carolina.
It is a one day conference, from 8am-3:30pm.
It is an election conference, and you can vote for Toni Van Pelt, the current Regional Director, and Donna Slutiak, the Florida NOW state president to be reelected to the national board.
The hotel is the
Clarion Hotel State Capitol
320 Hillsborough St.
Raleigh, NC 27603
Call 919 832-0501 for reservations, mention NOW
There is a room block of 20 rooms for Friday night at the rate of $75 plus 7.75%
tax for up to four in the room. The rooms are being held for sale until April 20.
The hotel is sold out except for these 20 rooms.
Lunch is a buffet with a pasta choice with dessert, salad, ice tea and coffee
for $17.82 each.
FLORIDA NOW STATE CONFERENCE JUNE 2-3, 2012
"2012: WHAT'S AT STAKE?"
Hilton Palm Beach Airport, 150 Australian Avenue, West Palm Beach FL
... Join your host chapter, Palm Beach County NOW, for a weekend of timely
and challenging speakers and workshops, combining the personal and political.
We will focus on the 2012 elections and what is at stake for the state of Florida
and the nation.
There will be opportunity to meet and strategize with feminists from throughout
Florida, and elected officials who support women’s rights. Relax poolside or
spend a free Saturday night exploring nearby CityPlace and downtown West Palm
Beach.
You can win an iPad! Florida NOW is doing a fundraising drawing for a brand new
iPad. Suggested donation for tickets is $5 each or 6 for $25. The drawing will be
held June 2. You need not be present to win. (But we hope you will be) For
tickets, contact your chapter leader or Florida NOW president Donna Slutiak at
president@flnow.org We will be happy to mail you as many as you would like,
and you can send a check or pay via PayPal. This is an election year, and the
plan is for Florida NOW to donate this money to our PAC/CCE to help candidates.
So please dig deep and buy as many as you can afford.
Check out FLNOW.org for more information.
inellas NOW recently received some press coverage, which you can view
here: "Local Feminists Continue to Fight for Women's Rights" at Tampa Bay
Newspapers.
The National NOW Conference of 2011, themed, "Daring to Dream: Building a
Feminist Future", was held in Tampa this past June and was very informative
and exciting. It included speakers such as Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder,
Florida NOW member and former national NOW president Patricia Ireland, Tampa
Police Chief Jane Castor, and many other national leaders and advocates. There
were workshops held on a wide variety of issues pertaining to equality and great
plenary sessions, as well as numerous resolutions which were passed on the
Sunday of the conference. It was a wonderful event, and included a
protest in front of Senator Marco Rubio's office which is conveniently located
directly across the street from the hotel where the conference was held. There
was also an award given to the girls of Girls' Inc. of Pinellas County for the
wonderful video they made which you can view below, and the video was
shown at the conference as well. You can see some pictures here now, and
more pictures are to come on this website.
In March, 2011 we had an excellent presentation by young women from Girls'
Inc. on "Famous Women in History" to celebrate Women's History Month.
On January 29, 2011 we did our annual rally for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade
in downtown St. Pete! You can see pictures on the Flickr photo roll below; just
scroll down.
April 30th - May 2nd, 2010 was the annual state conference of Florida NOW,
and you can see pictures from this successful event below.
March 10th, 2010 we held an awesome screening of the amazing film Iron
Jawed Angels, which tells the story of Alice Paul's role in the suffrage movement
which won women the right to vote in 1920. Yes, that's right, we have only had
the right to vote in the U.S. for 90 years!
Below see a video we viewed at one of our meetings in 2010, created by
elementary school-aged girls at Girls, Inc. in Pinellas Park about a sexist video
that is in the neighborhood of their center. They did an amazing job on this and
you should definitely check it out.
Pictures from the Pinellas NOW Flickr Feed:
Below are pictures from the past few years at various Pinellas NOW, Florida NOW, and a few national NOW events. Check back in the future for more pictures, including some from the national conference of 2011:
Circus McGurkus 2009
Pinellas NOW and the NOW Tampa Bay Area Caucus (TBAC) had a table at Circus McGurkus in St. Petersburg in October, 2009. Each year, our chapter tables at this event, which is full of radical and progressive-minded folks from all walks of life and various community organizations and activist groups. Plus, there's live entertainment, speakers and good food to be had. Make sure you come out next year if you missed the CM this year. It is one of the best events that finds its home in St. Petersburg.
Lilly Ledbetter comes to St. Petersburg
Ruth and Jan from Pinellas NOW on the left and right of Lilly Ledbetter at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg campus, where she came to speak.
