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 next meeting on Feb. 22, 2012, we will have a guest speaker, Claire Conner, talking 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 will be covering such topics as, "What About Women: Former Pro-Life Speaker Looks at Pro-Lifers", and "Kicking the Poor, the Old, the Unemployed: How the Right Love the Rich and Hate Nearly Everybody Else". Please join us!
We will be collaborating with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Clearwater to show the documentary film Women, War and Peace, on March 8th for International Women's Day.
Thursday March 8th, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 2470 Nursery Road Clearwater, FL 33764
(727) 531-7704
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.
Pinellas 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 next meeting on Feb. 22, 2012, we will have a guest speaker, Claire Conner, talking 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 will be covering such topics as, "What About Women: Former Pro-Life Speaker Looks at Pro-Lifers", and "Kicking the Poor, the Old, the Unemployed: How the Right Love the Rich and Hate Nearly Everybody Else". Please join us!
We will be collaborating with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Clearwater to show the documentary film Women, War and Peace, on March 8th for International Women's Day.
Thursday March 8th, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: 2470 Nursery Road Clearwater, FL 33764
(727) 531-7704
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.
Pinellas 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.
