National Women's Liberation

Roe v. Wade Event Planning Committee Meeting
2014-12-11 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Gainesville Chapter of National Women’s Liberation (NWL) is beginning to plan our second annual Roe v. Wade anniversary & NWL benefit show in January. Last year’s event- which featured local female-led bands, raffle prizes, political content, food, and drinks- was a huge success. Help us do it again and go further this year!

Join us for our first committee meeting on Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 7:00pm at our office downtown, 14 E. University Ave., #204. (The entrance is in the back of the building between the back entrance of Salon La Di Da and the University Club.)

The right to birth control, including abortion, is a cornerstone of women’s freedom. Without an organized, strong, visible feminist movement making demands and keeping up the pressure, Roe v. Wade and other victories we’ve had on abortion, birth control, and health care will continue to be threatened. Click here to find out more about the fight for abortion and birth control.

Please RSVP to let us know if you’re planning to attend or if you’d like to be involved but are unable to make it to this first meeting.

Roe v. Wade Anniversary Show: A Benefit for National Women's Liberation
2015-01-24 21:00 - 2015-01-25 01:00
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2015
Time: Doors open at 9pm, Show starts at 10pm
Place: The Backyard at Boca Fiesta & Palomino

The Gainesville Chapter of National Women’s Liberation (NWL) invites you to join us for a Roe v. Wade anniversary & NWL benefit show. The event will feature Howleez, Guts and Letters. If you can’t attend, please consider a donation.

Join us to celebrate the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973. The right to birth control, including abortion, is a cornerstone of women’s freedom. Without an organized, strong, visible feminist movement making demands and keeping up the pressure, Roe v. Wade and other victories we’ve had on abortion, birth control, and health care will continue to be threatened.

NWL Consciousness-Raising Study Group
2015-01-26 18:00 - 20:30
WHEN: Mondays, January 26, February 9, February 23 & March 9, 6pm to 8:30pm
WHERE: Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures, “La Casita”
1504 W. University Ave., Gainesville, FL 32603
FEE: $25 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

This series of consciousness-raising study groups is for women who want to understand basic truths and political causes of the unfairness in our daily lives; how Reproductive Justice and the social wage are the right of every woman; and how each woman can contribute as grassroots organizers.

The study group will meet every other week beginning Monday, January 26th to discuss the topics outlined below. Each meeting will include a Consciousness-Raising (CR) as well as a discussion of assigned readings. Participants are expected to have read and prepared CR testimony in advance of each study group. Participants will have the opportunity to alternate planning and leading topics by attending “mini-group” meetings.

The following topics will be covered:

The Pro-Woman Line and Radical Feminism
Reproductive Justice
Feminist Leadership
The Pro-Woman Line: Sex Roles and Brain Washing

We ask that study group participants commit to being in all study groups meetings and at least one “mini-group” meeting. This will allow women to learn together and build on materials week after week.

Join NWL in NYC to Protest Street Harassment
2015-02-15 12:00 - 14:00
Join National Women’s Liberation and Redstockings for an action to raise consciousness about street and workplace harassment, sexist advertising and the connection between them.

When: Saturday, February 7th, Noon-2
Where: Outside American Apparel, 704 Broadway, just north of West 4th Street, New York, NY (see on map)

Call on men to stop harassing women and to speak up when they see other men harassing women. Let’s call out ad-makers for using imagery that oppresses women and men for falling for it. Come fight with us! We’ll be picketing and handing out flyers in front of American Apparel, a company which is notorious for objectifying women in their advertisements.

Women of Color Caucus Meeting
2015-02-21 12:00 - 14:00
Join us for our next Women of Color Caucus Meeting, Sat., February 21, 2015 at noon. We will be holding a consciousness-raising meeting in Gainesville, Florida and New York City at locations to be determined. We will be discussing our experiences with violence by answering the following questions:

When have you been physically or verbally threatened or experienced violence against you (i.e. from men, from police, etc.)? Did you fight back in some way? Why or why not? What happened? What role did race play, if any? What role did sex play, if any?

The Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) is an organizing think tank composed of women of color associated with National Women’s Liberation (NWL). We believe that women of color involved in women’s liberation must also meet separately from white women in order to address problems specifically affecting women of color.

NWL Co-sponsors Film Screening of "Made in Dagenham"
2015-03-16 19:00 - 21:00
Alachua County Labor Coalition is screening the film “Made in Dagenham” on Monday, March 16, at 7PM at the Civic Media Center, 433 S. Main St. The Gainesville Chapter of National Women’s Liberation and Gainesville Area NOW will co-sponsor the event.

“Made in Dagenham” is the 2010 film about female workers at the Ford Dagenham (England) car plant who walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. Their actions played a major role in the battle for equal pay, both nationally and internationally. Although the women are skilled upholstery seamstresses, they are classified as unskilled labor and paid a fraction of what the men make. While trying to address their grievances with the company, the women become outraged by the lack of respect shown by the company. When their grievances go unanswered, the 187 women workers go on strike.

With humor, common sense and courage the women take on their bosses, and increasingly belligerent local community, and finally the government. Daring to stand up and push boundaries, the women changed a system that no one wanted to admit was broken.

Actors include Bob Hoskins and Rosamund Pike.

Alachua County Labor Coalition is screening the film ‘Made in Dagenham’ as part of their on-going series of monthly labor film showings in the Alachua County community.

Free, but donations appreciated.

Is consumerism a major form of oppression of women?
2015-04-21 18:30 - 20:30
Ellen Willis’s 1969 paper ‘Consumerism’ and Women takes on this widespread anti-woman misconception.

Join us for a study and discussion of the paper at our monthly meeting in April. We encourage participants to read the article, Consumerism and Women, before the meeting, but will also provide hard copies and time to review the piece in the meeting. The article is a gem from the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action.

When:Tuesday April 21st from 6:30-8:30pm
Where:The Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn between Hoyt and Bond, near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street A/C/G. You can also take the 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or the D,N,R to Atlantic-Pacific. map
RSVP: Encouraged but not required, to nwl@womensliberation.org.

“For women, buying and wearing clothes and beauty aids is not so much consumption as it is work.” – Ellen Willis

On June 27-28, 1969, mostly under the name “Women’s Liberation,” Redstockings activists flooded a New Left women’s conference in New York City with a spate of new writings. Willis’ piece was one of these “mimeographed thunderbolts,” and is still chock-full of relevant and insightful insights for today’s feminist movement. Willis was a co-founder of Redstockings and a radical feminist thinker and writer. Read more of the history on the Redstockings website.

New York City General Meeting
2015-05-19 19:00 - 21:00
Part of our Third Tuesdays Monthly Meetings. New women welcome!

When: Tuesday May 19th from 7:00-9:00pm
Where: The Commons in Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond, near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street A/C/G. You can also take the 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or the D,N,R to Atlantic-Pacific. map
RSVP: Encouraged but not required, to nwl@womensliberation.org.

Help us sharpen our aim and our analysis! In our May meeting, we will be evaluating the materials we created for our last action on street harassment and sexist ads with an eye towards holding another action this summer.

Join us for a lively discussion of the following flyers and statements:

Street Harassment Project Mission Statement (Pre-Amble, Our Beliefs, Our Intentions)
Redstockings 1969 Stickers Assail 2015 Ads
NWL/Redstockings flyer “All men benefit but ‘The Man’ Profits”

More Information

Earlier this spring, National Women’s Liberation held an action with Redstockings to “take on the interlocking tentacles of male chauvinist pig catcallers on the street and the sexist ad makers of big business.” The action was an outgrowth of our joint 10 week class, “Building Women’s Liberation Now: Gems from the 1960s and Beyond for Radical Feminist Theory & Action Today.” Through consciousness-raising, women testified about being fed up with men who feel entitled to harass us on the street, tell us to smile, and/or comment on our appearance. From there we dug deeper, investigating the connection between street harassment and what corporate forces gain through the sexualization and exploitation of women in advertising plastered all over our public spaces. In our May meeting, we will be evaluating the materials we created for our last action with an eye towards holding another action in July.

Women of Color Discuss Organizing in Mixed-Race Groups
2015-06-04 19:00 - 21:00
As women of color, we are involved in various struggles for freedom and social justice. As a result we often find ourselves working with or in solidarity with white allies. Join the Women of Color Caucus for a meeting on Thursday, June 4 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss our experiences organizing in mixed-race groups or coalitions (successes, challenges, etc.). We will also be discussing the following readings:

Feminism and Black Nationalism by Myrna Hill, April 2, 1971, The Militant, New York City.
Coalition Politics: Turning the Century by Bernice Johnson Reagon, 1983, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.

This meeting is open to women of color. You can join us for this meeting in person in:

Gainesville, FL – RSVP to maxwell.natalie@gmail.com or call (321) 230-4773 for meeting location information.
New York City – RSVP to woccnyc@yahoo.com or call (646) 285-1723 for meeting information.

If you are not able to make it to the meeting in person, you can participate by phone by sending your RSVP to maxwell.natalie@gmail.com for call-in information.

General Meeting
2015-06-16 19:00 - 21:00
Women, are you sick of being bombarded with advertisements that depict women as sexual objects? That use our bodies to sell products? That embolden men to disrespect us? That tell us we are not worthy unless we conform to unrealistic, sexist, racist, and unhealthy beauty standards?
So are we! Join us and fight back. Attend our next meeting on Tues June 16th at 7pm.
When: Tuesday, June 16th from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Where: The Commons in Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond, near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street A/C/G. You can also take the 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or the D,N,R to Atlantic-Pacific. Map.
RSVP: Encouraged but not required, to nwl@womensliberation.org.
National Women’s Liberation and Redstockings recently teamed up to re-create the vintage 1969 “This Oppresses Women” sticker for slapping on sexist ads. The sticker is one of the “1960s gems” from the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action. Help us plan a zap action using the stickers this summer.
The sticker was an outgrowth of our joint 10 week class, “Building Women’s Liberation Now: Gems from the 1960s and Beyond for Radical Feminist Theory & Action Today.” Through consciousness-raising, women testified about being fed up with men who feel entitled to harass us on the street, tell us to smile, and/or comment on our appearance. From there we dug deeper, investigating the connection between street harassment and what corporate forces gain through the sexualization and exploitation of women in advertising plastered all over our public spaces. This summer we plan to raise consciousness publicly.

General Meeting
2015-07-21 19:00 - 21:00
Reserve Third Tuesdays 7-9pm for our monthly meetings @ the Commons in Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond, near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street A/C/G. You can also take the 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or the D,N,R to Atlantic-Pacific. (map)
Next Meeting: Tues., July 21st, 7:00-9:00pm
RSVP: Encouraged but not required, to nwl@womensliberation.org.
#thisoppresseswomen stickers are popping up everywhere! Get your stack at our monthly meeting. Join us to discuss: what’s next in the campaign? who benefits from sexist advertising? who pays? why are we still fighting this crap?
National Women’s Liberation and Redstockings teamed up to recreate a vintage 1969 “This Oppresses Women” sticker, and have been distributing them to women at protests, their monthly meetings and other venues. The sticker went viral, and has been covered by press around the world.
Contact us for more info and to get involved: nwl@womensliberation.org.

General Meeting
2015-08-18 19:00 - 21:00
In our August 18th meeting we will discuss NWL’s founding statement “What We Want, What We Believe.” Please read the statement and join us to discuss:
What resonates with you? What do you disagree with? How can we rebuild a strong women’s liberation movement that will put male chauvinism on the run again?

We’ll also discuss projects and how you can get involved:

Distribute #ThisOppressesWomen stickers for slapping on sexist ads
Make a video exposing male supremacy using satire and women’s testimony
Build website to post #thisoppresseswomen stickers and other multi-media projects

Details: Tues 8/18 from 7-pm @ The Commons in Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond, near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street A/C/G. You can also take the 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or the D,N,R to Atlantic-Pacific. Map.
We meet the Third Tuesday of every month:

Tues., September 15th 7:00-9:00
Tues., October 20th 7:00-9:00

Campus Feminist Meeting
2015-09-02 18:30 - 19:30
Join us for our first meeting of the semester and learn about the #thisoppresseswomen sticker campaign and how you can get involved with National Women’s Liberation.
When: Wednesday, Sept. 2nd, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Where: Anderson Hall, Rm. 117 at University of Florida (1507 W. University Ave. map)

National Women’s Liberation and Redstockings recently teamed up to re-create the vintage 1969 “This Oppresses Women” sticker for slapping on sexist ads. The sticker is one of the “1960s gems” from the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action. The sticker went viral, and has been covered by press around the world. Get your stack at the meeting and help to plan next steps in the campaign.

Save the date! We’ll be meeting the first Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m.:

October 7
November 4
December 2

General Meeting
2015-09-15 19:00 - 21:00
Tues., Sept 15th from 7-9pm @ The Commons in Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond, near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street A/C/G. You can also take the 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or the D,N,R to Atlantic-Pacific. Map.
We have been distributing #ThisOppressesWomen stickers for slapping on sexist ads, and we’re taking the campaign further. Help us create a video that will showcase women’s testimony. We’ll be in the streets talking to women on Sunday Sept 20th, 1pm-5pm. Meet outside the Atlantic Center, corner of Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue (near the Guitar Center). Email us for more info: nwl@womensliberation.org.
We meet the Third Tuesday of every month:

Tues., October 20th 7:00-9:00
Tues., November 17th 7:00-9:00

Join Us at the Feminist Video Booths
2015-09-20 13:00 - 15:00
We have been distributing #ThisOppressesWomen stickers for slapping on sexist ads, and we’re taking the campaign further. Help us create a video that will showcase women’s testimony.
We’ll be asking: How are you oppressed as a woman? How does sexism affect you?
Sunday Sept 20th, 1pm-3pm
Meet outside the Atlantic Center, corner of Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue (near the Guitar Center).
Tuesday Sept 29th, 5pm-7pm
Meet at the Ghandi statue in the southwest corner of Union Square
Email nwl@womensliberation.org for details and let us know if you can come.

Women of Color Discuss Organizing in Mixed-Race Groups
2015-10-05 19:00
As women of color, we are involved in various struggles for freedom and social justice. As a result we often find ourselves working with or in solidarity with white allies. Join the Women of Color Caucus for a consciousness-raising meeting on Monday, October 5th at 7:00 p.m. EST to discuss our experiences organizing in mixed-race groups or coalitions (successes, challenges, etc.).

This meeting is open to women of color. You can join us for this meeting in person in:

Gainesville, FL – RSVP to maxwell.natalie@gmail.com or call (321) 230-4773 for meeting location information.
New York City – RSVP to woccnyc@yahoo.com or call (646) 285-1723 for meeting information.

If you are not able to make it to the meeting in person, you can participate by phone by sending your RSVP to maxwell.natalie@gmail.com for call-in information.

Women of Color Discuss Organizing in Mixed-Race Groups
2015-10-05 19:00 - 21:00
As women of color, we are involved in various struggles for freedom and social justice. As a result we often find ourselves working with or in solidarity with white allies. Join the Women of Color Caucus for a consciousness-raising meeting on Monday, October 5th at 7:00 p.m. EST to discuss our experiences organizing in mixed-race groups or coalitions (successes, challenges, etc.).
Organizer Natalie Maxwell speaks out about her abortion, University of Florida 2014
This meeting is open to women of color. You can join us for this meeting in person in:

Gainesville, FL – RSVP to maxwell.natalie@gmail.com or call (321) 230-4773 for meeting location information.
New York City – RSVP to woccnyc@yahoo.com or call (646) 285-1723 for meeting information.

If you are not able to make it to the meeting in person, you can participate by phone by sending your RSVP to maxwell.natalie@gmail.com for call-in information.

Campus Feminist Meeting
2015-10-07 18:30 - 19:30
When: Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Where: Anderson Hall, Rm. 117 at University of Florida (1507 W. University Ave. map)
The University of Florida recently released the findings from its campus climate survey on sexual assault, which found that 20% of campus women have experienced sexual assault since coming to UF, while the majority of those assaults remain unreported. (See newspaper coverage of the survey in The Alligator and The Gainesville Sun.) Is “rape culture” to blame for sexual assault or something else? Join us for a discussion on rape and sexual assault on campus.

Save the date! We’ll be meeting the first Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m.:

November 4

Workshop: Roots of the Women's Liberation Movement in the Civil Rights Movement
2015-10-17 14:00 - 17:00
From the left, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) workers Doris Rutledge, Gene Pinkston, Judith Benninger (Brown), and Ira Simmons, Gadsden County, Florida, August 1964.
This workshop is for women to learn about the roots of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements—and how this history can be used today.

What were the positive lessons that gave women the tools to attack male supremacy?
How did Black women lead in the Women’s Liberation Movement and why is this not known?
What did Black organizers tell white women that caused them to organize for Women’s Liberation?

Please e-mail nwl@womensliberation.org to reserve your spot and so that we can email you the readings in advance. Space is limited so be sure to email and reserve your spot today.
A $10 donation will be requested at the workshop.
More on the workshop
With the growing movement against racist police murders and the rise of Black Lives Matter, we think it’s a good moment to correct the myths about the history of Women’s Liberation and Black Liberation, and study the lessons from this vital relationship for our organizing now.
Instructor: Jenny Brown has been organizing for Women’s Liberation for 25 years, with Gainesville (Florida) Women’s Liberation, Redstockings, and National Women’s Liberation. She is co-author of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America, and an author of Labor Notes book How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers.
This workshop is originally part of the 10-week class, Building Women’s Liberation Now: Gems from the 60s and 70s for Activist Use Today, we offered last year in cooperation with Redstockings (www.redstockings.org). Please let us know if you would be interested in taking the 10-week class–we will offer it again if there is enough interest.

Campus Meeting on Building Women's Liberation
2015-11-04 18:30 - 19:30
Join us to meet, strategize, and plan to put male chauvinism on the run again.
Wed. Nov 4, 2015 from 6:30-7:30 pm @ 117 Anderson Hall at the University of Florida, near the corner of University Ave and NW 13th Street. Map.
In our Nov. 4th meeting we will discuss NWL’s founding statement “What We Want, What We Believe.” Please read the statement and join us to discuss:
What resonates with you? What do you disagree with? How can we rebuild a strong women’s liberation movement that will put male chauvinism on the run again?
We’ll also discuss how you can get involved in upcoming projects like our Roe v. Wade anniversary band benefit.

#Shout Your Abortion in New York City
2015-11-17 19:00 - 21:00
Join us on Tues., Nov. 17th from 7-9pm to learn about #ShoutYourAbortion in NYC and the history of abortion speak-outs. RSVP on facebook and invite your friends.
The #ShoutYourAbortion campaign that began in Seattle is spreading to the East Coast – come to our November meeting to learn more. We’ll also read and discuss a short article from the Redstockings Archives on the largely hidden history of how women won abortion in the U.S.: not because Supreme Court justices were nice to us, but through speak outs, disruptions, and bold demands of women’s liberation organizers in NYC and beyond in the late 1960s.
We’ll be meeting at The Commons in Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond, near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street A/C/G. You can also take the 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or the D,N,R to Atlantic-Pacific. Map.

Campus Feminist Meeting
2016-01-13 18:30 - 19:30
Join us to learn how you can get involved with National Women’s Liberation in 2016, including planning for our upcoming Roe v. Wade Benefit and our Women’s History Month Event.
When: Wednesday, January 13, 2016, from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Where: Anderson Hall Rm 117 at the University of Florida (near the corner of University Ave. and NW 13th St.) map

Roe v. Wade Anniversary Show
2016-01-22 20:00 - 2016-01-23 20:00

Campus Feminist Meeting
2016-02-10 18:30 - 19:30
When: Wednesday, Feb 10th, from 6:30-7:30pm
Where: Little Hall, Rm 119 at the University of Florida (map)
At the meeting we will discuss Kathie Sarachild’s, The Power of History, pp. 13-24 (Sections I and II) from Redstockings’ Feminist Revolution. We’ll also have a report back on our Roe v. Wade benefit concert and continue planning on our upcoming showing of the film, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.

Women of Color Caucus Meeting
2016-02-16 19:00 - 21:00
The Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) meets separately from white women to better understand how white supremacy intersects with other forms of oppression. WOCC meets quarterly. The next meeting will take place February 22, 2016 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Please RSVP to woccnyc@yahoo.com to get the meeting location.

General Meeting
2016-02-16 19:30 - 21:30
To Have Children (Or Not): A Consciousness Raising
Monthly Meeting February 16th 7:30-9:30pm (*note new start time)
In January we celebrated the anniversary of Roe v. Wade by doing a CR on when we have needed birth control and abortion. In February, we will dig deeper and explore whether we want or do not want children, now or in the future, and why.
We’ll be answering the following questions:
1. What are our reasons for wanting children, if/when we wanted them. (Whether we had them, didn’t, or are still planning to.) Reasons for not wanting them? If we had them, did our thinking about this change after we had them? If we didn’t have them, did our thinking change?
2. Additional question for those who have done parenting work: When does this work feel like an individual responsibility? When does it feel like a collective (community, society wide,national) responsibility?
Details: Tuesday 2/16 from 7:30 – 9:30 pm @ The Commons in Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond, near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street A/C/G. You can also take the 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or the D,N,R to Atlantic-Pacific. Map.

NWL Screening of "She's Beautiful When She's Angry"
2016-03-15 19:00 - 21:00
NWL Proudly Presents a Screening of the Documentary, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, followed by a Panel Discussion to Celebrate Women’s History Month
Gainesville, FL – National Women’s Liberation will be showing the documentary “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at the Wooly, located at 20 North Main Street in downtown Gainesville. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the film starts at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $5 – $10 sliding scale. This event is co-sponsored by Gainesville Area National Organization for Women (NOW).
A panel of guest speakers will immediately follow the film. Guest speakers include:
• Kathie Sarachild, who joined the female liberation movement in 1967, working with New York Radical Women. Her radical feminist speeches and writings continue to be reprinted in anthologies. Today she is director of the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action.
• Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, who worked as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) project leader during Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964 and is currently a professor of African American and Religious Studies at the University of Florida.
• Kendra Vincent, who is a feminist organizer for National Women’s Liberation (NWL) and the chair of the Florida chapter. She is a public high school English teacher and the elected secretary for Alachua County Education Association.
• Whitney Mutch, who is a graduate of Florida State University, where she studied and taught Philosophy. She also holds a B.A. from Agnes Scott College in Philosophy and Classical Languages. Ms. Mutch is the President for the Gainesville chapter of NOW.
“Knowing the particular women makes the movement very real. It provides real women and actual work to check against distortion, the distortion which prevents women from knowing the movement’s sources, knowing the groundwork and learning from it,” said Kathie Sarachild. “For instance, without knowing the particular women you cannot know that women did what they did quite deliberately and consciously, operating on the basis of theory, strategy, and experience. You may think it was an accident of ‘history’ that those women achieved what they set out to achieve in the first stage of their plan.”
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971. The film, directed by Mary Dore, takes us from the founding of NOW, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of WITCH (Women’s International Conspiracy from Hell!). It does not shy away from controversies over race, sexual preference and leadership that arose in the women’s movement, and brilliantly captures the spirit of the time—thrilling, scandalous, and often hilarious.
National Women’s Liberation is a feminist group for women who want to fight back against male supremacy and win more freedom for women. We believe change comes about from the actions of everyday people. We are a new group with old roots; we come from a collaboration between organizers from Redstockings of the Women’s Liberation Movement (NY) and Gainesville (FL) Women’s Liberation that began in 1968. We are funded by the dues of women, not corporations or their foundations.

Action Planning Meeting
2016-04-01 18:30 - 20:00
Wednesday, April 13th, at 6:30pm
@ Little Hall, Rm 119 on UF campus (map)

Are you angry about the new abortion restrictions and anti-clinic laws passed by Florida’s legislature? Join the Gainesville Chapter of National Women’s Liberation for this month’s community organizing meeting to discuss our own experiences with women’s clinics (for abortions, birth control, well-woman care, etc.) and finalize plans for our April 19th action to respond to these anti-woman restrictions.

Suggested Reading for Meeting: “Abortion Without Apology” by NWL members Jenny Brown and Erin Mahoney

Speakout for Reproductive Rights
2016-04-19 12:00 - 13:00
On Tuesday, April 19, 2016, National Women’s Liberation (NWL), Gainesville chapter will hold a Speak-Out for Reproductive Rights on the Plaza of the Americas at UF at 12:00pm.
This year, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed HB 1411, an anti-abortion law defunding women’s clinics that provide abortions. The right to birth control, including abortion, is a cornerstone of women’s freedom. Women’s right to abortion is being chipped away at through each law passed, and we are fed up with it!
Join our social media campaigns #NotMyClinic and #ThisOppressesWomen
Take Action Now:
1. Visit a federal qualified health center near you
2. Film yourself asking for a reproductive health service
3. Upload the video to the Not My Clinic Facebook group and tag it using the hashtags #notmyclinic and #thisoppresseswomen

General Meeting
2016-04-19 19:30 - 21:30
Join us on Tuesday April 19th for our monthly meeting. We will continue to build on our previous meetings where we held consciousness-raising sessions about our experiences with birth control and abortion and the choice to have or not have children as well as discussions surrounding the social wage theory by brainstorming new ideas for future actions.
As always we encourage all women to participate during this meeting, we want to hear your ideas!
Details: Tuesday April 19, 2016 from 7:30pm – 9:30pm @ The Commons in Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond, near the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street A/C/G. You can also take the 2,3,4,5 to Nevins or the D,N,R to Atlantic-Pacific. Map.
We meet the Third Tuesday of every month:

Tuesday May 17, 2016 7:30 – 9:30pm
Tuesday June 15, 2016 7:30 – 9:30pm
