National Women's Liberation

General Meeting
2015-07-21 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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

Campus Feminist Meeting
2016-05-11 18:30 - 19:30
Wednesday, May 11th, 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 at this month’s community organizing meeting on campus. We’ll be discussing our social media campaigns, #notmyclinic and #thisoppresseswomen, and planning for a national week of actions in support of full access to birth control, including abortion. We will also be discussing the article “Abortion Without Apology” by NWL members Jenny Brown and Erin Mahoney.

FL Women Speakout for Abortion and Birth Control
2016-06-03 17:00 - 18:30
As part of the Women are the Experts: National Week of Action for Abortion and Birth Control, in Gainesville, FL we are organizing a speakout on Friday, June 3rd from 5pm-6:30pm on the SE corner of North Main Street and University Avenue. Gainesville Area NOW is co-sponsoring the speakout with us.
This speakout is also part of the larger event, Raise Your Voice! And Funds for Reproductive Justice.

#NotMyClinic Day of Action
2016-08-01 12:30 - 14:30
Join us for a Day of Action:
Monday, August 1 from 12:30 – 2:30
200 NE 1st Street Suite 201, Gainesville, FL 32601

Are you tired of the Florida legislature telling you what to do with your body? Are you mad about Florida’s newest abortion restrictions? Governor Rick Scott signed HB 1411 into law in March, and the only reason it hasn’t gone into effect yet is because a Federal Judge granted a preliminary injunction against the bill. But an injunction is not enough! Because HB 1411 may still go into effect, it still risks the lives and freedom of women across the state of Florida.
This injunction came in the wake of the United States Supreme Court striking down a similar abortion restrictions bill in Texas in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt this June. However, the Supreme Court’s ruling was narrow enough to allow room for further creative law making by anti-woman politicians across the country. While Whole Woman’s Health decision is a small victory for women and our right to abortion, it is not enough. It is not repeal. It is reform, which keeps us fighting against restrictions and defending against more attacks. Until we achieve total repeal of all abortion laws, our freedom as women is at stake! We demand repeal of all abortion laws, including HB 1411!
If HB 1411 goes into effect and most abortion clinics across the state, including Planned Parenthood clinics, have to close their doors, the Florida legislature has referred women to a list of “Federally Qualified Health Centers” for our reproductive health and abortion needs. Not a single one of these centers provides abortions. These centers also do not provide many other reproductive services that clinics like Planned Parenthood provide, including cancer screenings, STD testing, birth control options, etc. These centers are insufficient. These centers are #notmyclinic! That is why National Women’s Liberation is calling on YOU to help us show Governor Scott and the Florida legislature why we will not stand for HB 1411 or any other abortion restrictions they try to throw our way.
We demand reproductive freedom! We demand control over our bodies!We demand repeal!

"Women's Liberation: Where Do I fit In?" A 10-Week Class in Fall 2016
2016-09-28 - 2016-12-07
Wednesdays, September 28-December 7 (excluding 11/23), 6:30-9:30pm
FEE: $40 for members, $50 nonmembers (includes readings), No one turned away for lack of funds
TO REGISTER: Email nwl@womensliberation.org
This class is for women who want to understand basic truths and political causes of the unfairness in our daily lives; how a feminist movement was organized to change this; what we can do now to build the kind of movement that can put the male chauvinist establishment on the run again; and how each woman can contribute to that effort.
You will learn about the heroic struggle women have waged, individually and collectively, for our survival and our freedom. What lessons and strategies from women’s fighting history can we apply today? Through a combination of lecture, discussion of readings*, and consciousness-raising, participants will learn about the radical ideas and methods that sparked the rebirth of the feminist movement in the 1960s.
This class is not about personal liberation through improved self-esteem or an alternative women’s culture, recalling a golden age of matriarchy, or how feminism can save the planet. Nor is it about achieving status in the present corrupt system through individual self-improvement or lifestyle changes.
The following will be covered:
• The origins of the feminist movement and the how these truths have been buried.
• Consciousness-raising: getting to the root of sexism. Who benefits? Who pays?
• Radical feminist theory: what is radical? What is radical feminism? What is male supremacy?
• Reproductive Labor and Reproductive Justice
• Planning an action to fight back

Sexism and the Election
2016-10-18 19:30 - 21:00
Are you sick of women being judged by what we wear? How we sound? Coverage of the Clinton campaign has laid bare sexist double standards on a national scale. At our October meeting we will discuss the “damned if you, damned if you don’t” moments we experience in our own lives, and how we can create a stronger feminist movement to change this.
Details: 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.
Where: The Commons in Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue

Quarterly Meeting for Women of Color
2016-11-03 19:00 - 21:00
Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. (please note time change)

This meeting is open to all women of color. RSVP to nwl@womensliberation.org for meeting location and information.
Join us for a discussion about when and how we as women of color work in coalition with our allies within and across movements for social justice.

We will be discussing the following readings:
Bernice Johnson Reagon. “Coalition Politics: Turning the Century.” Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Ed. Barbara Smith. 356-368.
Rosario Morales. “We’re All In The Same Boat.” This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color. Eds. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. 91-93.

Post-Election Meeting
2016-11-15 19:30 - 21:00
What do the results mean for the feminist movement? How do we move forward to win lasting changes for women?
Where: The Commons in Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue
Details: 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.

Post-Election Meeting for Women of Color
2016-12-07 19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 7:00 p.m.

This meeting is open to all women of color. RSVP to nwl@womensliberation.org for meeting location and information.
Join us for a Consciousness-Raising Meeting to discuss the impact of the election on you. We will answer the following questions:
1. What has been the effect of the election campaign on your life? What effect has the outcome of the election had on you?
2. What are you doing and what do you think the feminist movement should be doing?
We will also continue discussing how we as women of color work in coalition with our allies within and across movements for social change.

Recommended Readings:
Bernice Johnson Reagon. “Coalition Politics: Turning the Century.” Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Ed. Barbara Smith. 356-368.
Rosario Morales. “We’re All In The Same Boat.” This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color. Eds. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua. 91-93.

In 2017, Let's Continue Building the Resistance
2017-01-05 - 2017-02-12
This election was a stunning reminder of how white supremacy and sexism run deep and threaten our basic democracy. That white working class people continue to identify with the capitalist 1% who are responsible for the pain in our daily lives.
While Clinton got the popular vote, a bigoted billionaire bully has taken the top spot in our country as a nightmare backlash against our first African-American President. NWL commits to build a resistance movement and stand up for justice. We need you.
Now is not the time to retreat and lick our wounds.
All of us are under threat, but in particular we stand with our Muslim brothers and sisters, our undocumented and people of color brothers and sisters.
But standing alone is not enough – we need to be ORGANIZED.
Today join a group. Go to meetings. Invest your time and your money in making social change – make it part of your life.
NWL is meeting in New York, NY and Florida to discuss what to do next. Please join us.

In New York, NY:

Mon. January 9th: Women of Color Caucus Meeting, 7:30pm – 9:30pm. Email nwl@womensliberationorg for more details.
Sat. January 14th: Abortion/Birth Control Organizing Committee Meeting, 12:00-1:30, University Settlement Houston Street Center, 273 Bowery, Manhattan
Sat. January 14th: Sign-making Party for the Women’s March, 2:00-4:00pm, Queens. E-mail for address.
Thurs. January 19th: Monthly General Meeting, 7:30-9:30, Prepare to Strike and March Inauguration weekend

In Gainesville, FL:

Thurs. January 5th: Roe v. Wade Anniversary Show Planning Committee, 6:30pm – 8:30 pm, Location: 200 NE 1st Street, suite 201 (entrance in back of building)
Mon. January 9th: Women of Color Caucus Meeting, 7:30pm – 9:30pm. Email nwl@womensliberationorg for more details.
Tues. January 10th: Monthly General Meeting, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Location: 200 NE 1st Street, suite 201 (entrance in back of building)
Sat. January 21st: Picket for #womenstrike, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Location: W. Newberry Rd. More information at https://goo.gl/ULSqy5.

In Tallahassee, FL:

Sun. January 8th: Organizing Meeting, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Location: The Plant, 517 W. Gaines St.
Mon. January 9th: Women of Color Caucus Meeting, 7:30pm – 9:30pm. Email nwl@womensliberation.org for more details.
Sun. February 12th: Organizing Meeting, 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Location: The Plant, 517 W. Gaines St.

Women Strike
2017-01-20
STRIKE to protest Trump, Pence, and the Republican Congress’ ANTI-WOMAN Agenda
NO WORK, PAID OR UNPAID
Sign the pledge and share it with your friends: womenstrike.org

Why did National Women’s Liberation call a women’s strike for the inauguration?
Women had many good reasons to strike before this election, but now we have a president-elect who openly disrespects and assaults women, and wants to limit our roles to servant, mother, or sexual plaything. This strike comes from anger at men in our lives who didn’t vote, or who voted for Trump, or who aren’t taking seriously the threat that his presidency represents. And it is a reaction to an election campaign that-apart from Bernie Sanders in the primary-ignored the universal programs that women and all people need, and that work well in so many other countries, from paid family leave to childcare to national health care.
The Democrats didn’t pursue these plans when they could have, and now the Republican-majority Congress is promising to cut, undermine, privatize, or eliminate every social contract from public schools to Medicare to Social Security. They expect the family (that is, WOMEN) to fill in the gaps and pick up the pieces. NO WE WON’T. This strike is a warning. Our work can no longer be taken for granted.
When we get 20,000 signatures, the strike will be ON. Every pledge counts, pledge today.
