National Women's Liberation

National Consciousness-Raising
2017-09-10 | FL
On Sunday, September 10, women across the country will gather to answer the question, “How would my life be different if we had guaranteed health care?”
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 for women’s liberation and a single payer health system.
Interested in hosting a Consciousness-Raising in your community? We developed a CR Tool Kit and Reading Materials to get your started.

Abortion & Birth Control Committee Meeting
2017-09-25 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | FL
When: Monday, September 25, 6:00-7:00pm at the NWL Office
Where: NWL Office, 200 NE 1st, Suite 201
Join us to plan our next action against Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC) in October, and for a report back on first picket at local CPC, Sira, held on August 8.
We are picketing CPCs because they are impostor clinics that attack women’s self-determination by lying to women about their options to scare them away from choosing abortion, using birth control, and if they are unmarried – having sex. These fake clinics are also funded by our state. If you’re angry, join us to push back. For more information or to RSVP for meeting, visit our Facebook event.

NWL General Meeting
2017-10-25 18:30 - 20:00 | NWL-Gainesville Office, 200 NE 1st St, suite 201, Gainesville, FL, 32601
Wed., Oct 25th, 6:30pm-8:00pm
at the NWL office, 200 NE 1st St, Suite 201 (enter from garage)
Join us this month for a discussion on what should be done at UF to combat sexual assault, in response to Betsy DeVos’ announced changes to federal policy on campus sexual assault, including now allowing accused perpetrators to cross-examine sexual assault survivors.
We will also provide an update on budding work to advocate for the Morning After Pill in vending machines at UF; work that can be done in coalition with current effort by Gators Matter, Period which is demanding that UF provide free tampons and pads to students and staff as a Title 9 school. (Click here to sign the petition to demand that UF provide free tampons and pads to students and staff at the UF.)

Reading we will discuss:

Blame The Rapists and Those Who Protect Them- NWL News Spring 2013- by Kendra Vincent
Emergency Contraceptives Now Available in Old Union- The Stanford Daily, 09/25/17
Students Look to Vending Machines for Better Access to Morning After Pill- NY Times, 09/28/17
Betsy DeVos, Title IX, and the “Both Sides” Approach to Sexual Assault- The New Yorker, 09/28/17

NWL Roe v. Wade 45th Anniversary Benefit Show
2018-01-20 19:00 - 2018-01-21 01:00 | FL

NWL-NYC February General Meeting
2018-02-05 19:30 - 21:30 | FL
We will answer these CR questions:

What parts of the reading resonate with you and why?
What are your reasons for wanting children or not wanting them?
Has your thinking changed?
If you do care work (care for the young, old, or sick or injured) when does this work feel like an individual responsibility? When does it feel like a collective (community, society-wide, national) responsibility?

For the general meeting, please read Florence Rush’s Woman in the Middle.

Meeting Location: Commons Cafe – 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

NWL believes that women should lead the fight for our liberation, so our meetings are for self-identified women only.

Joint Meeting of the Abortion and Birth Control Committee & Campus Committee
2018-02-07 18:30 - 20:00 | FL
When: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: NWL Office, 200 NE 1st St, Suite 201 (enter from garage)
This month we’ll be combining the Abortion & Birth Control Committee meeting and the Campus Committee meeting. Join us to plan the next crisis pregnancy center informational picket at #fakeclinic Sira and learn about our work to get Plan B vending machines on campus. We’ll also be discussing the following article, “We need 24-hour access to the UF Infirmary’s $10 Morning After Pill.” For more information or to RSVP for the meeting, visit us on Facebook.

About Crisis Pregnancy Centers:

So-called Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) use misleading tactics and spread misinformation to steer women away from choosing abortion, using birth control, and if they are unmarried – having sex. Help us expose these imposter clinics!

Check out NWL members Kerri and Erica speaking about CPCs on The Straw Hat Podcast
Read about HB 41/SB 444 which seek to appropriate state funds for CPCs

Tallahassee Organizing Committee Meeting
2018-02-09 19:30 - 21:00 | FL
The NWL Tallahassee Organizing Committee will be meeting on Friday, February 9, 2018 at 7:30pm at All Saints Cafe, 903 Railroad Ave., Tallahassee, FL. Visit us on Facebook for more information or to RSVP.

Gainesville Monthly Meeting
2018-02-28 18:30 - 20:00 | FL
Wednesday, February 28th, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
NWL Office – 200 NE 1st St, Suite 201 (enter from garage)
We will report back on the Constitution Revision Commission meeting, the Roe v. Wade Benefit, and our campus organizing. Come to find out how you can get involved.

Tallahassee Monthly Meeting
2018-03-05 19:00 - 20:30 | FL
Join us this month to learn about the history of NWL and the Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) as well as membership and recruitment. We’ll also be discussing our upcoming campaigns, including raising awareness and consciousness both locally and nationally about the hidden war on women’s work and bringing the morning after pill to vending machines at FSU & FAMU! Come see where you can get plugged in, and join us in our fight against white male supremacy and for women’s rights! For more info, visit our facebook event.
Where: Collins Main Library, Magnolia Room, 200 West Park Avenue Tallahassee, FL

Gainesville NWL's Campus Committee Meeting
2018-03-14 17:45 - 18:30 | FL
Wednesday, March 14th @ 5:45pm
Little Hall Room 119 on the UF Campus…plenty of free parking outside building

NWL’s campus committee meeting is open to all self-identified women interested in organizing women in higher education. NWL was the grassroots group behind getting the Morning After Pill (MAP) over the counter, and we’re continuing to push for more access to MAP. We’re now demanding a MAP vending machine at UF. Come learn about what we’ve accomplished so far, the work ahead of us, and how you can get involved in this campaign! To RSVP or for more information, visit us on facebook.

Women of Color Caucus Documentary Screening
2018-03-18 15:00 - 17:00 | FL
Sunday, March 18th, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
NWL Office – 200 NE 1st St, Suite 201 (enter from garage)
The Gainesville NWL Women of Color Caucus will be hosting a discussion and showing of Aishah Simmons’ No! The Rape Documentary. In light of the the #metoo movement (started by a black woman), along with the exposure of rampant sexual abuses by men in power, the timing seems ripe for women of color to discuss rape and sexual assault. This meeting is open to all people of color who self-identify as women.

Abortion and Birth Control Committee Meeting
2018-04-12 18:30 - 19:30 | FL
Thursday, April 12, 6:30pm-7:30pm
NWL Office – 200 NE 1st St, Suite 201 (enter from garage)

Join the Abortion and Birth Control Committee for a recap of the recent counter protest against anti-abortion group Created Equal and help plan our next action. For more information or to RSVP, visit our facebook page.

NYC Health Care Consciousness-Raising Meetings
2018-05-06 14:00 - 16:00 | FL
The Abortion and Birth Control Committee is doing a series of Neighborhood Consciousness Raisings.
Women will be gathering to answer questions from our personal experience, and then as a group we will compare the similarities and differences in the testimony in order to study our oppression. Movements have been using consciousness-raising as a tool for examining the political root of our so-called personal problems. We look at who is oppressing us, who benefits, and who pays, and how to fight back. We will use the testimony and conclusions from these CRs to plan our work.
We’ll answer these questions – What are/were your reasons for wanting children or not wanting them? (whether we had them, didn’t, or are still planning to). Has your thinking changed?
Meeting Details

Inwood | May 6th, 2:00 PM *location has cats & stair-only access
Clinton Hill | May 19th, 2:00 PM
Bushwick | May 20th | 4:00 PM *location has stair-only access
Bed Stuy | May 27th, 4:00 PM *location has stair-only access
Upper West Side/Morningside | June 3rd, 4:00 PM *location has dogs/cats
Jamaica Estates, Queens | June 24th, 4:00 PM *location has stair-only access

Click here to RSVP.

Families Belong Together
2018-06-30 | FL
We are only as strong as our collective communities.
Join us this Saturday to protest family separation and detention at our southern border, the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Trump’s white supremacist Muslim Ban, the erosion of decades of law that established domestic violence as a reason for women to seek asylum, and ICE’s unrelenting and unrestrained attacks on immigrant communities of color.
During a time when civil and human rights are generally under attack, it is clear that the Trump administration, its courts, and law enforcement agencies are focusing with laser precision on Muslims, Black and Latinx people, and immigrant communities of color. These recent actions by the 1% keep power at the top: the billionaire class dilutes the power of the people by terrorizing marginalized groups and decimating our communities.
Even those of us who aren’t targeted directly suffer from the government’s actions; we are being divided when we need to be fighting together for our freedom. Trump’s opportunity to appoint another justice to the Supreme Court makes it even more urgent for us to stand together against injustice and oppression.
The preservation of all liberation movements in the US hinges on our ability to act together. We must mobilize, organize, and stand with each other at this moment and in the difficult moments that are sure to follow.
We must fight together for our liberation; we must fight together until we win.
Join us this Saturday as we mobilize with our sisters and brothers in struggle. Look here to find a #FamiliesBelongTogether rally and protest near you.
NYC
Families Belong Together Rally and March, NYC
Foley Square @ 10AM
NWL NYC will meet at 9:45AM at the northwest corner of Reade St and Lafayette St (in front of the Municipal Credit Union). Look for the NWL banner and t-shirts!

Gainesville, FL
Families Belong Together Rally and March, Alachua County
City Hall @ 5PM
NWL GNV will meet at 5PM at the base of the clock tower at the corner of East University Ave and NE First St. Look for the NWL banner and t-shirts!

Speakout: We demand a MAP vending machine at UF!
2018-07-18 11:15 - 12:30 | FL
Thursday, July 19, 11:15am-12:30pm
Reitz Union North Lawn on UF’s campus
“What was your experience when you needed the morning after pill?” We demand that MAP be available in a vending machine on UF’s campus. Come to our speakout on campus and speak your truth! Your testimony will play a vital role in achieving our demands and your presence will bring power to our message. Women deserve 24/7 access to the morning after pill.
We will meet at 11:15 a.m. for setup on Thursday the 19th at the Reitz Union North Lawn. There is a concrete platform outside the north side of the Reitz Union. Testimony will begin around 11:30 a.m.
For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Join NWL-NYC for a Fundraiser and Feminist Get-together
2018-07-18 19:00 - 22:00 | Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Grattan St, Brooklyn, NY
Join National Women’s Liberation NYC for an evening of live music, activist tabling, feminist swag, tarot card readings, and more!
Now’s the time to build a strong women’s liberation movement. To be successful, we need every day women—not corporations and their foundations—to fund it. As Redstockings wrote in 2000, “This means an independent financial base, for an independent women’s liberation movement … The power of “Sisterhood is Powerful” has always meant organized feminism…”
National Women’s Liberation is funded by dues-paying feminists, and we need your support. Help us fight back against male supremacy and win more freedom for women!
Admission: $10 at the door, all proceeds go to NWL. Cash only.

Medicare's Birthday
2018-07-28 17:00 - 19:30 | FL
The Alachua County Labor Coalition, and co-sponsors including National Women’s Liberation, celebrate one of the greatest public health triumphs of the 20th century with a Medicare Birthday Party. Please join us on Saturday, July 28th, for cake and shared testimony about improving and expanding Medicare to all residents. This year’s celebration will be at Working Food, 219 NW 10th Ave., in Gainesville from 5:00pm – 7:30pm. For more information, visit the Facebook event.

Campus Committee Meeting: Next Steps to Get a MAP Vending Machine
2018-08-30 19:00 - 20:30 | FL
When: Thursday, August 30th, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Where: Little Hall 119 (plenty of free parking behind Tigert Hall)
We are building momentum on getting the Morning After Pill (MAP) into a vending machine on the University of Florida campus. This win would mean that all students could access this birth control at ANY TIME- even when the UF pharmacy is closed- for the reduced student cost of $10.Join us to plan next steps on pressuring the administration to give students greater access to birth control.
For more information, please visit us on Facebook.

September Campaign Planning Meeting
2018-09-12 18:30 - 20:00 | FL
Join us Wednesday, September 12th, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
“Dr. Fuchs, why do you oppose a Morning After Pill vending machine on campus?”
Last week, our campus committee confronted UF administration about its refusal to provide 24-hour access to the Morning After Pill (MAP) on campus. We need to keep the pressure on!
September 12th, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
200 NE 1st St Suite 201 (enter through garage)
Join NWL to brainstorm ideas and develop next steps for fall actions on this campaign and others. This year marks the 50th anniversary of many women’s liberation milestones. Learn how you can help our archives committee plan events commemorating this anniversary. Find your place in the movement!

NWL-NYC September General Meeting: People Power!
2018-09-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Members of the Mountain States Women’s Abortion Coalition form a picket line in front of the State Capitol in January of 1972 (David Cupp, Post Archive/Getty Images).
Many people are moving to fight the appointment of Trump’s US Supreme Court Justice nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, under the belief that nine justices gave us the Roe v. Wade (1973) decision and five justices will keep Roe from being overturned. Join us to learn how it was actually serious grassroots organizing in the Women’s Liberation Movement—and not the courts—that won us access to legal abortion in 1973. We’ll also discuss strategies for preserving and expanding abortion access beyond SCOTUS and Roe.

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6th Annual Roe v. Wade Anniversary Show and NWL Benefit
2019-01-12 19:00 - 2019-01-13 00:00 | FL
Join National Women’s Liberation in an epic celebration of the power of organizing by celebrating the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision with bands, DJs, local community groups, guerilla theatre and a silent auction! Proceeds will benefit the organizing work of National Women’s Liberation.
DJs: Kelly Kochis & Mike Goston
Bands: Routines & Glitter Whiskey
All Ages Show!
Our right to reproductive justice has been consistently under attack ever since the Roe v. Wade decision. Many believe it was solely this decision (via the Supreme Court) that gave us the right to abortion in the U.S. when in reality it was the years of struggle and organizing and bold demands by ordinary people that won us the right to abortion.
Come learn more about why we need to keep fighting, not only to preserve Roe, but to push for free and full access to all forms of birth control. Enjoy great music, hear from other local groups fighting for justice, and bid on amazing silent auction prizes, all while financially supporting the movement! For more information, visit us on Facebook.

Feminists Fight Back!
2019-01-16 18:30 - 20:00 | FL
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019 from 6:30-8pm
200 NE 1st St. Suite 201 (enter through garage), downtown Gainesville
National Women’s Liberation is launching a national campaign for 2019. We refuse to accept the ways our economic system relies on women’s unpaid work and are fighting for the social wage programs we all need! Join us for this first meeting of the new year where we will break into working groups to plan next steps. For more information, visit this event on Facebook.

Gainesville, A Flashpoint of Feminist Revolution
2019-03-25 16:30 - 18:30 | Ustler Hall, University of Florida, 162 Fletcher Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32611
Carol Giardina’s talk, Gainesville, a Flashpoint of Feminist Revolution, will reveal Gainesville’s hidden history in the movement’s cutting edge breakthroughs. This free event in Ustler Hall on UF campus opens with a reception and book signing with the author at 4:30pm. Carol’s book, Freedom for Women, Forging the Women’s Liberation Movement 1959-1970 will be on sale there. Her talk follows at 5:30pm.

Carol began making referrals for then-illegal abortions in 1963 from her freshman dormitory at UF. By 1968, with Judith Brown, she co-founded Gainesville Women’s Liberation (GWL), the first women’s liberation group in the South and was representing GWL in the Miss America Pageant Protest in Atlantic City, NJ – the demonstration that put the movement on the world’s radar as beauty contest protests swept small towns and world capitals. Fired her from State job and blacklisted as “unemployable,” she was told that the protest had been entered on her “permanent record.” She joined a core of movement founders that developed and spread radical feminist theory. Carol continues to work for the feminist revolution today in the uncompromising “go for what we really want” spirit of the Sixties.

Carol Giardina is the author of Freedom for Women: Forging the Women’s Liberation Movement (2010), and one of the founding organizers of National Women’s Liberation.

1968 Miss America Pageant Protest. Carol Giardina is picketing with the placard that reads, “Can Make-Up Cover the Wounds of Our Oppression?” Image courtesy of the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action. redstockings.org

Birth Strike book talk at Strand with Liza Featherstone
2019-04-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Strand Bookstore, New York, NY
Join us as feminist organizer Jenny Brown discusses her new book, Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work, with Nation and Jacobin columnist Liza Featherstone. (Video here.)
When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested “More babies, please,” in a New York Times column, they openly expressed what policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using technical language like “age structure,” “dependency ratio,” and “entitlement crisis,” establishment think tanks are raising the alarm: if U.S. women don’t get busy having more children, we’ll face an aging workforce, slack consumer demand, and a stagnant economy. Feminists generally believe that a prudish religious bloc is responsible for the protracted fight over reproductive freedom in the U.S. and that politicians only attack abortion and birth control to appeal to those “values voters.”
But hidden behind this conventional explanation is a dramatic fight over women’s reproductive labor. On one side, elite policymakers want an expanding workforce reared with a minimum of employer spending and a maximum of unpaid women’s work. On the other side, women are refusing to produce children at levels desired by economic planners. By some measures our birth rate is the lowest it has ever been. With little access to childcare, family leave, health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike.
In other countries, panic over low birth rates has led governments to underwrite childbearing and childrearing with generous universal programs, but in the U.S., women have not yet realized the potential of our bargaining position. When we do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improving the difficult working conditions U.S. parents now face when raising children.
Recorded April 1, 2019

Birth Strike Book Release in Gainesville
2019-04-26 19:30 - 21:30 | FL
Join us to celebrate the release of “Birth Strike; The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work” with the author, Jenny Brown. Brown will give a brief talk, which will be followed by food, music, and a book signing.

Birth Strike Monthly Book Club – Tues, July 9th
2019-07-09 18:30 - 20:30 | FL
200 NE 1st Street Suite 200 (enter through garage)
Childcare Provided

Chapters for Discussion:

Comstockery to the Baby Boom (Ch. 4)
Population Panic to the Baby Bust (Ch. 5)
Longevity: Crisis or Blessing? (Ch. 6)

Join us for our next book club meeting as we continue to discuss Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work. You are welcome to join at any time, regardless of whether you can attend all of the meetings.

The meeting will include a Consciousness-Raising. Please prepare answers to the consciousness-raising question, “Do you expect to be able to retire” and also to at least one of the additional questions below:

If your parents, grandparents, or other relatives need care, who provides it? If you need care, who provides it?
Does anyone in your family (or you) get a Social Security check? What portion of their (your) income is it?
If you or your family member were without Social Security, how would that person support themselves?

The Birth Strike Book Club will meet the second Tuesday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. until October of 2019. Meetings are open to all self-identified women.

Birth Strike Book Club in St. Petersburg, FL
2019-07-11 18:00 - 20:00 | FL
Pinella Democratic Socialists of America are hosting a book club series on Birth Strike, and we hope you can join them!

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Part 1 of 4 Birth Strike Book Club

Thurs, July 11th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Allendale’s Family Life Center (Stage Side)
3803 Haines Road North, Saint Petersburg, Florida 33703

Join Pinellas DSA for a discussion of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work. Chapters for Discussion are Ch. 1 – 3.

Discussion Questions:

Who is the power structure? What are some terms people use to describe these individuals? Which terms do you prefer? Why?
To what do you attribute the continuing battle over abortion and birth control in the U.S.? Did the reading change your view? How?
What caused other countries to develop universal programs such as childcare, healthcare, paid family leave, and family allowances?
What do “pro-family” conservatives mean by family? What is their ideal of family life? Who would benefit from that?

For more information, please contact Pinellas Democratic Socialists of America.

July General Meeting
2019-07-16 19:30 - 21:30 | FL
NWL General Meeting: Bitch, Sisters, Bitch!
Tuesday, July 16, 7:30-9:30PM
Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn

As a feminist, which current events or issues have you concerned, angry, optimistic, or inspired? For our July meeting, NWL will host a casual meeting and happy hour for new and old members to come together and discuss current events and news items from a feminist angle.

Please bring a news article of your choice and be ready to share why the topic has you fired up. We’ll put our heads together and discuss over drinks.

Blue Light Protest!
2019-09-17 16:30 - 18:00 | FL
Frat Row on UF Campus

In April, the UF Student Government Senate had the opportunity to support a resolution that could have facilitated the implementation of blue lights along Frat Row. The resolution did not pass, mostly because the Judiciary Committee refused to approve the bill for consideration before the whole Senate. They cited their belief that the fraternity presidents should have been consulted with about the legislation. However, we believe a blue light would be a benefit to all residents of the area.

The bill was then considered under special rules on the Senate floor, and shockingly, the vote culminated in a tie. The Senate President, who was listed as a sponsor on the bill, cast the tie-breaking vote to fail this resolution.

Join us on September 17th at 5 pm as we demand the expansion of campus safety by protesting for the installation of blue lights along Frat Row.
