Is Gandy right on Sotomayor?

Ladies – please read the following and give me your opinions . I realize many of you have not yet joined NOW so I am bringing you the current president’s announcements for your perusal and I want your input as to where we stand on this particular issue.  Maybe we can talk about this on [...]

The Majority United for Women’s Equality, Laws, Rights and Choice

By: BettyJean Kling, Katherine Morrison @ 2009 Hillary Clinton during the 2008 election stated that ‘women’s rights are human rights.’ If one accepts this statement as true then there needs to be a realigning of priorities for women’s groups. For quite awhile many women’s groups have slowly become political organizations with a platform similar to [...]

Michael Jackson GONE TOO SOON [ Clinton Gala 1992 ]

Make the Media Pay Attention to Iran

News of late has obviously focused on Michael Jackson’s death. Yet this is not a good reason for news networks to again ignore the ongoing issues in Iran. The above video showed superbly how major events can share the same stage. Please let the news networks know that it is not okay to ignore the [...]

DC: Theater Packed for Premiere of Film “The Stoning of Soraya M

Contributed by Jeffrey Imm http://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/dc-theater-soraya/ On Friday night June 26, in Washington DC, the E Street Cinema theater had a packed showing for the film “The Stoning of Soraya M.” The audience reacted with concern and anguish over the suffering of women portrayed in the movie, based on the story of an actual stoning in [...]

Free Iran Recap – Freedom Via Internet

Since the election in Iran on the 12th of June, information about the protests and brutal government crackdowns has flowed in via the internet, particularly social media sites, and specifically Twitter. Twitter was the first place to provide information about the protests as the media largely missed the story in the beginning.

It’s about the sexism not her politics stupid

Another Rant By: BettyJean Kling What have we come to when we sit back and allow men to have at a woman day after day after day just because she is a Republican? Kerry is not a comedian and this is not acceptable neither is our silence! It’s about the sexism and you know it. [...]

The Stoning of Soraya M.

This Friday night, a ground-breaking, critically acclaimed film opens in select theaters, The Stoning of Soraya M. It is a powerful and timely film, based on a true story, about an Iranian village’s persecution of an innocent woman as she is falsely accused of a crime under Shari’a law. The importance of this movie is [...]

Make your voice heard!

Not sure if this is for real but it certainly echoes what many of us are or should be saying loud and clear. ENOUGH already – this is our country and ENOUGH with these parties! GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. She writes an open letter to our nation’s leadership: I’m [...]

N.O.P.O.W.E.R.

A reluctant reader rethinks her position, I am grateful; we need every woman we can get. I love her acronym and I sense there is an opportunity to create and unstoppable momentum here- a wave – no a tsunami. We have only just begun – if folks can rise in the streets of Iran and face beatings, bullets [...]