Sonoma County
N.O.W. MEETING
January 18, 2017 @ 1:00 PM
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GUERNEVILLE AND MARLOW
SANTA ROSA, CA.
January 2017
Happy New Year, 2017. As I celebrated the new year
I could not help but become concerned over what lies
ahead for all of us with this new president and his
administration. I sense a lot of fear and concern in
people’s hearts, myself included. To help me cope with
some of my fears and concerns I made a commitment to
become more active and aware of what is going on
locally in my community. As members the time has
come to become more involved and speak out against
any injustices we see. I have listed two events that NOW
is participating in and I invite you to join us. There is
great power and comfort in numbers.
SONOMA COUNTY STANDS TOGETHER FOR WOMEN
JANUARY 21st, 2017, Noon
Santa Rosa City Hall
On January 21, 2017 we will unite in front of City Hall in
Santa Rosa, CA for a non violent rally in support of the
Women’s March on Washington. We stand together in
solidarity with our partners and children for the protection
of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families -recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are
the strength of our country. All are welcome and wanted:
women, men, girls and boys.
For those unable to attend in the march in DC, please join
us to stand in unity. This is an INCLUSIVE rally giving us
the opportunity to stand peacefully together for love, respect, and inclusion. HEAR OUR VOICES!
SONOMA COUNTY STANDS
TOGETHER FOR WOMEN
IN THIS ISSUE
Women’s March
Page 1
President’s Message
Page 1
Minutes and Agenda
Page 2
Mike Pence
Page 3
Women’s History
Page 3
Women Run for Office
Page 4
Terrifying Headline
Page 4
Teen Vogue
Page 5
All are welcome to march with us at the event “SONOMA
COUNTY STANDS TOGETHER FOR WOMEN,” in
solidarity with the Washington DC Women's March that
is happening in Santa Rosa Saturday, Jan 21, 2017
from 12-1:30 PM. People will gather at Santa Rosa City
Hall (100 Santa Rosa Ave., Santa Rosa)
Join us on January 29th at the North Bay Community
Engagement Fair 2017in Santa Rosa for a post-inauguration community engagement fair, an afternoon exhibition of organizations and community groups from
across the North Bay looking for volunteers and activists
to help them secure civil liberties, protect the disenfranchised and empower a more equitable economy and
resilient ecology. The fair will take place from 12-5 at
Garret Hall, Santa Rosa Fairgrounds.
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power
to create, nurture and transform.” – Diane Mariechild
is the author of Mother Wit and Inner Dance. She leads
workshops and lectures frequently on women and Buddhism.
homegirl productions 2017
EASY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION
Sonoma County N.O.W. January 2017 1
NOW Minutes for Dec. 21, 2016
Meeting was called to order at 1:02 PM by Marion Aird in
Pres. Holtz's absence.
Guests June Brashaers and Maria Elena were present
The agenda was approved - MSC
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Treasurer's report was accepted; it was noted that the PO
Box fee will be due in February.
Website - webmaster Mark Franaszek signed up the required sites; a list of items will be added to the site. The logo
will be discussed as will be the ability to load photos. Mark
has agreed to maintain and set up the site.
Newsletter - The President's report will be on the front page
but limited to 100 words; if more than 100 words, it will be
carried over to another page.
There will be additional graphic changes, as well. A library
of 12 months of newsletters plus the current newsletter will
be on the website .
Old Business - The year 2020 Celebration - Holtz has
spoken with AAUW regarding publicity and participation.
There needs to be a lot of planning as this will be a big
event - with noted women, such as, Barbara Boxer and
Kamala Harris being invited. The 19th Amendment Scholarship money choice will be focused on diversity - on those
working in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering
and Math) areas.
New Business - Endorsements have been put forward for
the January 21st March in Santa Rosa. Instead of Sonoma
NOW having a table, we will be marching with our NOW
banner to make a wider statement.
The Declaration "It Won't Happen Here" - was presented
before the group and it was decided that Sonoma NOW will
endorse this statement.
Planning for the March NOW meeting which will include the
women of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Shirlee Zane, Susan Gorin and Lynda Hopkins - will be
done in the January meeting. The location is yet to be
determined.
National NOW has announced that more women have
applied for political positions.
WOMEN’S SPACES
Elaine B. Holtz Producer/Host "Women's Spaces"
www.womensspaces.com
Show airs: Mondays on KBBF 89.1FM
Calistoga Santa Rosa
Time: 11am Live and replays at 11pm .
N.O.W. Sonoma County
AGENDA January 18, 2017
Call to Order
Approval of Agenda
Approval of Minutes December 2016 Meeting
Financial Report
Website Report: Mark Franacszek
Face book Report: Evelina Newsletter Report
Old Business: Planning for 2020
Endowing scholarships to A.A.U.W. Vote to
Donate to AAUW for 2 - $500. 00 each.
Update on March 22 Event
Update on Jan 21 Women’s March
Review of Letter of Dec. 21
New Business:
North Bay Community Engagement Fair
Particpation
Announcements
Adjourn
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over
men; but over themselves.”
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the
Rights of Women
NOW OFFICERS 20167
Chair: Elaine B. Holtz
A film on the life of Alice Paul is in production - fundraising
should be considered for this project.
Recording Sec’y: Pro Tem-Eileen Bill
Meeting adjourned at 2:05
Newsletter Editor: Marion Aird
Sonoma CountyNational Organization for Women
P O Box 6223
Santa Rosa, CA 95406
www.nowsonoma.org
[email protected]
707-545-5036
Corresponding Sec’y: Mary Chouinard
Telephone Helpline: Eileen Bill
Webmaster:
Media Contact: Elaine Holtz
Women’s Network: Anne-Therese Ageson
National Abortion Providers Day:Eileen Bill
Mother’s Day: Mary Chouinard
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Want to know more about Mike Pence
and reproductive freedom?
Want to know more about Mike Pence and reproductive
freedom? This is the leader of a state that literally criminalized a woman for having an abortion, led the national
fight to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood funding, and who has said he “longs for the day that
Roe v. Wade is sent to the ash heap of history.”
Combined with Donald Trump’s proposal to criminalize a
woman who has an abortion and his threat to appoint
Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade, a
Trump-Pence ticket could spell out a scary reality for
American women and our families.
Here are some all-time lows on Pence’s anti-choice record (with the alarming record of voting 38 of 38 times in
the House against reproductive freedom):
Repeatedly cosponsored legislation that would, if it
went into effect, make abortion illegal nationwide in almost all cases and ban some of the most common forms
of contraception, stem-cell research, and in vitro fertilization.
Repeatedly voted for the Federal Abortion Ban, a law
that criminalizes some abortion services, with no exception to protect a woman’s health, and carries up to a
two-year prison sentence for doctors.
Led multiple drives - including the government shutdown threat in 2011 - to defund Planned Parenthood
health centers that, in addition to a full menu of reproductive-health services, provide abortion-related care.
Repeatedly voted for the Unborn Victims of Violence
Act, a law intended to give separate legal status to an
embryo or fetus. Anti-choice Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
boasted that the law “undermines abortion rights.”
Repeatedly voted for legislation that would impose a
new, impossibly complex national patchwork of parentalnotification mandates on doctors and young women.
Voted to deny abortion coverage for women in the
health-insurance exchanges nationwide.
As governor, repeatedly signed into law TRAP measures that subject abortion providers to burdensome restrictions not applied to other medical professionals.
As governor, signed into law a measure prohibiting abortion coverage in the entire private insurance market.
January 7, 1896 – Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook is
published in which she standardized cooking measurements
January 7, 1955 – Marian Anderson is the first
African American woman to sing at the Metropolitan
Opera
January 8, 1977 – Pauli Murray is ordained as the
first female African American Episcopal priest
January 11, 1935 – Amelia Earhart makes the first
solo flight from Hawaii to North America
January 12, 1932 – Hattie Wyatt Caraway (DArkansas) is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate,
becomes the first woman to chair a Senate Committee
and the first to serve as the Senate’s presiding officer
January 25, 1980 – Mary Decker became the first
woman to run a mile under 4 1/2 minutes, running it at
4:17.55
January 29, 1926 – Violette Neatly Anderson is the
first black woman to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court
And each one of these guys came for the
women & you didn't care as we were sexually assaulted & denied our rights.
January Highlights in US Women’s History
January 3, 1949 – Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine)
starts her tenure in the Senate, where she stays in office
until 1973, became the first woman to serve in both the
House and Senate as she previously served in the House
(1940-49)
January 5, 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated
as the first woman Governor in U.S. history (Governor of
Wyoming)
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Since the Election, More Than 4,500 Women
Have Registered to Run for Office
By Claire Landsbaum
For proof we need more women in politics, look no
further than Ohio, where lawmakers just passed one of
the most restrictive abortion bills in the country without
considering why a woman would want an abortion in the
first place. Women are still underrepresented at every
level of politics in the U.S., but the fact that a woman
just lost the race for the highest elected office in the
nation seems to be galvanizing women into action,
rather than deterring them.ccording to Time, since the
election, more than 4,500 women have registered to
run for office through the organization She Should Run
— a nonprofit that seeks to prepare women to run for
elected office. Women can nominate themselves or
their friends to run for office through the organization’s
website, after which they’re guided to an online incubator that gives them steps they can take to prepare.
They’re also invited to join a Facebook group of likeminded women: a built-in support group.
The Washington Post just ran
this terrifying headline:
Roe v. Wade may be doomed. Dark days are ahead
for reproductive rights.
The argument is simple—with Roe v. Wade hanging on
by a 5–4 majority, and with three pro-Roe justices at
ages 78, 83, and 80, the chances that Trump will get to
appoint the deciding vote on Roe are frighteningly high.
That's why the Post predicts that it's "likely by the time
we get to the end of Donald Trump's term, Roe will be
history."1
We know we can win this fight because most people who
voted for Trump didn't support him because of this issue.
In fact, Hillary Clinton ran as the most unapologetically
pro-choice candidate we've ever seen, and Trump didn't
run a single campaign ad attacking her for it.
The reason why Trump's campaign avoided reproductive rights is because their internal polling likely showed
what we all know: that seven in 10 Americans support
the right to safe, legal abortion.
This was true before the election, and it's still true now.
But to win, we're going to have to organize and mobilize.
And we can't just preach to the choir. We need to
actively reach out to the voters who supported Trump
but don't want him to attack abortion rights. They are a
crucial part of our coalition.
This could be the biggest challenge we've ever faced.
Women protest outside Trump Tower in New York.Photo:
Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
Erin Loos Cutraro, She Should Run’s co-founder and
CEO, told Time she’d expected a few hundred new
registrants at most, but she understands why Donald
Trump’s election spurred women to action. “They[’re] …
part of a fabric of voices that are wanting to be heard
and wanting to make the case for smarter policy solutions,” she said.
There are a variety of reasons women don’t run for
office — sexism, funding, and unwanted cultural
perceptions of women in power, to name a few. But
organizations like She Should Run are hoping to
change that by giving women concrete steps to take
and constant motivation to follow through. As Cutraro
told the Cut in November, “The very act of planting a
seed with a woman or girl … and encouraging her to
see elected office as a place where she can make a
difference is incredibly important.”
SONOMA COUNTY STANDS
TOGETHER FOR WOMEN
JANUARY 21st, 2017, Noon
Santa Rosa City Hall
On January 21, 2017 All are welcome and wanted:
women, men, girls and boys.For those unable to attend
the march in DC, please join us to stand in unity. This is
an INCLUSIVE rally giving us the opportunity to stand
peacefully together for love, respect, and inclusion.
HEAR OUR VOICES!
JOIN US IN CARRYING THE N.O.W. BANNER
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Female political opposition to the president-elect has cropped up in
places as unlikely as Teen Vogue.
By Ilana Novick is an Alternet contributing wroter andand production editor
December 29, 2016
On November 8, America elected a sexual predator to the presidency.
Despite reeling from a collective gut punch, women who were opposed to
President-elect Donald Trump channeled their sadness and rage into
activism and organization.
The biggest and most well-known way women are objecting to Trump is
the Women's March on Washington, headed by three women of color and
expected to draw hundreds of thousands. But women are leading the
resistance in many other ways, from a teen magazine that called out
Trump when the rest of the media still dealt in false equivalencies to a flood
of Planned Parenthood donations made in Mike Pence's name.
Here are ways women are resisting Trump.
Women's March on Washington
prominent teen publication was quietly publishing articles like
"Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America," "How the 'Heartbeat Bill'
Is Affecting a Girl Who Had An Abortion" and "What's Happening
at Standing Rock, from 2 Native American Girls" (which is among
the magazine's most watched videos ever).
Many media observers were suprised that a publication for teenage girls would be so forceful. They shouldn't have been. As the
New York Times notes, "Teen Vogue has been speaking frankly
about more than fashion for a while." That's thanks to editor-inchief Elaine Welteroth and digital editorial director Phillip Picardi,
who have beefed up the publication's political coverage since the
2016 presidential primary debates. According to a New York
Times story on Teen Vogue's work, this is only the beginning: "part
of the strategy, Ms. Welteroth and Mr. Picardi say, is to let teenage
girls tell their own stories of how political issues affect their lives."
As Picardi noted, “If you hear someone’s story... you are more
likely to let your guard down.”
Women of color elected to most diverse Congress in history.
At 10am on January 21, more than 200,000 women and their male
allies will gather in Washington, D.C. on the corner of Independence
Avenue and Third Street near the Capitol Building and continue along the
National Mall, according to an email message from Women's March on
Washington spokeswoman Cassady Fendlay. On Tuesday, march organizers announced that Gloria Steinem and Planned Parenthood would be
official partners of the march.
It all started with rage and a Facebook page. While many of those who
thought Hillary Clinton would win the election were still sobbing in their
beds the morning of November 9, a Hawaii woman named Teresa Shook
created a Facebook event and invited 40 of her friends to march on
Washington on January 21 to protest Donald Trump's election. Their idea
snowballed all the way to Pantsuit Nation, the 3 million-plus member
Facebook group of Hillary Clinton supporters, and suddenly there were
multiple event pages with thousands of women signing up to go.
Activist Bob Bland and her team consolidated the Facebook pages, but
they quickly realized most of the people involved were a) in way over their
heads; b) not professional organizers; and c) white. As the Facebook event
page explains, to be more inclusive and more strategic, they brought in
some women of color: Carmen Perez, Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory,
three accomplished social justice activists, who among other achievements, led a 2015 march from New York City to Washington, D.C., walking
250 miles to demand a fairer criminal justice system. If anyone can
effectively mobilize the nearly 200,000 people who have signed up to
march on the 21st, it's these three powerhouses. Visit the website for more
details and to RSVP.
Donating to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence's name.
As of December 8, Planned Parenthood had received 315,000 donations
since Donald Trump's electoral victory—and 82,000 of them were made in
Mike Pence's name.
No, the man responsible for spiking Indiana's HIV rates and hosting
funerals for fetuses hasn't had a sudden change of heart, but who cares?
To show their support of the organization and to piss off Pence, tens of
thousands of women are using his name for a good cause. The best part
is, Pence gets thank-you notes for each donation.
Teen Vogue emerges as a political and journalistic force.
While America elected the KKK's candidate of choice for president, some states helped to boost the number of women of color
in the Senate. Kamala Harris, Tammy Duckworth and Catherine
Cortez Masto are the names of the three silver linings who, when
sworn in January 20, will quadrupule the number of women of
color in the Senate. There is currently just one, Mazie Hirono, from
Hawaii.
There were also gains in the House of Representatives, as ABC
reported:
Pramila Jayapal, who won in Washington state, immigrated to
the U.S. after being born in India and raised in Indonesia and
Singapore. Stephanie Murphy, who won in Florida, is the daughter
of Vietnamese refugees; she will be the first Vietnamese-American in Congress.
Nanette Barragan is the first Latina elected by her congressional
district in Los Angeles, and the group of incoming congresswomen is rounded out by Colleen Hanabusa from Hawaii. Lisa
Blunt Rochester will be the first African-American to serve in
Congress from Delaware, and Val Demings will be the first African-American to fill her Florida congressional seat.
More women running for office.
Women like Harris, Cortez Masto and Duckworth are only the
beginning. Multiple organizations that help women run for office
are noting increased interest and pledges from women who say
they want to run for a variety of elected offices, from school board,
city council and governor, all the way to Congress and eventually
the White House.
According to the Huffington Post, the non-partisan female leadership training organization She Should Run, has heard from 4,500
women who want to attend its incubator training. Emily's List,
which focuses on electing pro-choice Democrats, told the Huffington Post that it received $770,000 in donations after November 8
through early December, 36 percent of it from new donors. Similar
organizations, such as Emerge America, have also seen spikes in
interest and donations.
Underestimate teenage girls at your own peril. While the rest of the media
was contemplating whether to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, a
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