Gainesville May Day Celebration
Join labor and immigrant groups in a celebration of International Workers' Day and immigrants' rights. There will be a march followed by live music, speakers, and tabling by social justice organizations. To march with NWL, meet us at 4:15p.m. at the corner of University and 13th to Bo Diddly Plaza. After the march, stop by the NWL…
Grassroots Feminist Theory Meeting
Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 1:00pm-3:00pm NWL office: 200 NE 1st St, Suite 200 (enter from back garage) Topic: The Pro-Woman Line & The Personal is Political, Part 2 (RSVP here) What keeps women down? Do we oppress ourselves and other women? Do we have a common struggle? How do we make advances together? We will dig…
NWL-Gainesville General Meeting: Showing of La Operación & Discussion
Tues., June 13, 6:30-8:00pm Cyclops Cinema, 10 E University Ave Join us for a showing of La Operación: a documentary on the social policy of female sterilization in Puerto Rico. The film was directed by Ana María García in 1982; at that time, Puerto Rico had the highest rate of sterilization in the world. Over one-third…
Tallahassee Organizing Committee Monthly Meeting
Our NWL Tallahassee Organizing Committee monthly meeting will be Monday, July 10th from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at The Plant, 517 W. Gaines St, Tallahassee, Florida. RSVP here. In this meeting, we will discuss the topic the ideology of "False Consciousness" and reading "False Consciousness” by Jennifer Gardner and "Resistance to Consciousness," Irene Peslikis. Please read…
Campus Committee: Roots of Plan B in Gainesville
Monday, July 17th, 5:45 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Little Hall Room 117 - on UF campus, plenty of free parking in the lot behind Tigert Hall Did you know that NWL was foundational in getting Plan B over the counter? Come to campus committee to learn about the decades long fight and important milestones as we…
Grassroots Feminist Theory Meeting
NWL-Gainesville Office 200 NE 1st St, suite 201, Gainesville, FLTopic: National Health Care and the Social Wage, Part 1 Sunday, July 23, 2017, 1pm - 3pm (RSVP here) NWL office: 200 NE 1st Street, Suite 201 (entrance from the back garage). Gainesville, FL 32601 Does America have the best health care system? Why is health care a feminist issue? What can we learn from…
Community Meeting for Women of Color
At this month's Women of Color Caucus meeting, join us as we continue last month's discussion on how to move our work forward as activists and as a woman of color think tank. During last month's meeting, WOCC advisory board member Zoharah Simmons presented on her experience at the Words of Fire Conference: Sex, Power and…
Crisis Pregnancy Center Protest & Prep
Women facing an unintended pregnancy deserve information that is medically accurate, comprehensive, and unbiased. Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) are not health clinics and use misleading tactics to lure women in. Join us in warning our community about the misinformation that these "clinics" provide, and to protest that our tax dollar are used to lie to…
National Consciousness-Raising Training Call
National Women's Liberation is expanding our Consciousness-Raising (CR) initiative to learn from women across the country and use what we learn to guide future actions. CR is a powerful tool used throughout the Women's Liberation Movement, and on September 10 we hope to use it to raise consciousness around health care and to build momentum…
Campus Committee Meeting
Join NWL for our first campus committee meeting of the semester. The objective of this committee is to mobilize women in higher education. This month our format is consciousness raising. Please read Kathie Sarachild, "Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon," Feminist Revolution (Redstockings, 1975). We will continue our work on getting Plan B vending machine on campus. Prepare…