On April 8, 2009, President Barack Obama proclaimed April to be the National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It is time to seriously raise public awareness about sexual abuse.
The National Organization for Women - NYS is working hard, urging our NYS Legislature to protect young girls from sexual violence. Recently, we joined with Assemblywoman Markey, Senator Duane, and a coalition of organizations to show our support for the Child Victims Act of New York (A2596/S2568).
Take Action by urging the NYS Legislature and the Governor to pass this important legislation into law. You can read the full text of the bill here.
Violence Against Women is a Hate Crime
NOW - NYS stands in support of NYS Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington's new legislation (A6160/S2788) to make violence against women a hate crime. Read our press release.
Urge the Governor and the NYS Legislature to support this bill. Write a letter to your local media outlets. Take Action. Contact your District Attorney and tell her/him that we need A6160 passed into law. Use this sample letter (Word document).
Disorder in the Courts! Participate in this very important survey
From New York to California, women have suffered at the hands of courts that are biased against women. NOW - New York State and Dr. Phyllis Chesler, author of Mothers on
Trial, are asking custodially embattled parents, lawyers and judges to complete a survey. The survey will be used by Dr. Chesler to update her research for the purpose of publication and by NOW - NYS to update its research for legislative purposes. The survey is available as a PDF document or a Word document.
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This is What a Feminist Looks Like
Support the
Reproductive Health Act
Marcia A. Pappas, President of Now - NYS, Senator Ruth Hassel- Thompson, and Alberta S. Roesser, President of Rochester NOW, kick off the NOW - NYS Campaign to Pass The Reproductive Health Act.
It is time for the New York Senate Legislature to pass the Governor's Reproductive Health Act. The New York State Senate can pass the most important bill for New York's women since 1970, the Reproductive Health Act, Senate Bill # S5808.
Call Your Senator Today!!!
Tell her/him to support the Reproductive Health Act!
Find your senator's contact information by typing in your zip code in the search box at our Take Action page.
Download and sign our petition supporting the Reproductive Health & Privacy Protection Act. Ask your friends, family and community members to sign our petition. There is power in numbers!
Pass Pay Equity Legislation in New York State
NOW New York State is a member of the NYS Pay Equity Coalition. We are working diligently to make sure that women receive equal pay. The feminization of poverty is an issue that affects women in their everyday lives.
Women continue to make only 77 cents on the $1.00 that their male counterpart makes. It is time for New York State to pass The Fair Pay Act (A-2712/S-3936). This bill has been introduced into the NYS Assembly by Susan John. The NYS Assembly has passed this bill but, it has yet to pass the Senate. Senator Craig Johnson is the prime sponsor in the NYS Senate.
Take action. Print the Petition and send emails to your NYS legislators and Governor Paterson. Go to our Take Action section for a form letter that you can sign and send. We also have posted the Action Tool Kit that has been designed by the Coalition:
Equal Rights Amendment Read why it is time to pass the ERA - Equal Rights Amendment - now! Sign our petition asking New York State legislators to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
Young Feminists
NOW - New York State has received numerous requests from women on campuses asking how they can start a NOW chapter or a CAN (Campus Action Network). For more information on how you can start a NOW chapter or a CAN, contact us at info@nownys.org or call 518.452.3944
Words To Live By
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." -- Susan B. Anthony
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