News – Page 27

May 13, 2023 by pbcnow

Please Sign the Petition – Floridians Protecting Women’s Freedom

Click here to open and print petition.

Please share widely!!!

Hello Friends,

Most of us are outraged by the new anti-abortion laws and the fact that women’s lives and health have been put in jeopardy and more families will be shattered. This new petition would help change the laws in Florida. The link below provides the petition and specifics: who can sign (anyone who can vote in Florida), answers to other FAQs, where to send it when completed. For your convenience, the petition itself is attached below and please note that I am very happy to collect all petitions and deliver them to our local hub.

Please send the link to members of your organizations, family, and friends. For this citizen-initiated amendment to appear on a ballot, the coalition needs to gather at least 900,000 valid petitions as soon as possible (the deadline is December 31, 2023). Please note that to be counted each petition must be legible (every letter, every number), have county entered (not country), Date of Birth is not 2023, and the signature needs to match the one on record at the Supervisors of Elections. https://floridiansprotectingfreedom.com/petition/

Remember, if and when you have batches of any size at any time, please contact me: 561-504-09780 or ausitn@prescott.edu.

Please help! Step by step we’ll achieve women’s equality under the law. Many thanks,

Warmly,

Arlene

Arlene R Ustin

(561) 504-9780

austin@prescott.edu

May 12, 2023 by pbcnow

Support Dr. Stacy Volnick for FAU President; Currently Acting President

Click here to open and print flyer.

May 8, 2023 by pbcnow

Corrected link: Get Abortion Rights on the 2024 Ballot

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#FloridaNOWRepro

A newsletter of the Florida NOW Reproductive Rights Task Force

Florida NOW to Mobilize: Get Abortion Rights on the 2024 Ballot

Our reproductive rights movement’s ballot initiative campaign
Floridians Protecting Freedom is launching to protect access to abortion and ensure our personal medical decisions are ours and ours alone to make.

Get link to watch live Monday, May 8 at 10am!

Press conference this morning will launch the ballot initiative

Partners will announce the ballot initiative and lay out our strategy to protect abortion rights for Floridians now and for future generations by building specific guarantees in the State Constitution.

Tuesday, May 9

Introductory Zoom: Learn about the campaign; get training on petition gathering

Find out what you need to do to get petition forms, best practices for engaging with Florida voters, and how to turn them in as part of your local organization.

There was an error on the link to sign up for the Tuesday, May 9 Introductory Zoom to learn all about the Abortion Rights Ballot Initiative campaign and to get training on petition gathering. The correct link is also corrected below:

#FloridaNOWRepro

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Join Florida NOW’s Reproductive Rights Task Force

Our task force meeting monthly and we hope to have at least one representative from every local NOW chapter in Florida in attendance.

If you are not already on our task force email list and would like to be added (and receive Zoom info for upcoming meetings), please click below and fill out the form.

Saturday, May 20, 11am

Florida NOW State Conference to feature plenary focused on Abortion Rights Ballot Initiative

We hope to see all Florida NOW reproductive rights advocates in Orlando on Friday, May 19 to Sunday, May 20. Of special interest will be the Saturday morning plenary when we will hear from panelists who are part of the formation of a statewide strategy on getting abortion rights on the ballot, then getting the electorate turned out and ready to vote.

We will hear from:

Rep. Anna Eskamani, Florida House of Representatives
Kait Thomson, Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida
Amy Weintraub, Progress Florida and Florida NOW

Florida National Organization for Women

April 26, 2023 by pbcnow

Ms. Magazine Podcast

Fifteen Minutes of Fame with Michelle Goodwin

All the episodes dive deeply into interviews with experts on everything important to women from law, education, health, sexuality, and safety.

The April 25, 2023, Episode How the Law Fails Women (with Julie Suk) is a great place to start listening:

https://msmagazine.com/podcast/fifteen-minutes-of-feminism-how-the-law-fails-women-with-julie-suk/

https://msmagazine.com/podcast/

April 23, 2023 by pbcnow

Walkout 2 Learn: Florida Students Walk Out of School to Protest DeSantis Education Policies

From TeenVogue.com April 20, 2023:

“Florida students are taking their education into their own hands…

In lieu of taking a quintessential college spring-break trip, a group of youth organizers with Walkout 2 Learn went to Sarasota, Florida, for a weeklong brain dump before the group’s upcoming day of action. From morning to night, the 12 youth activists sorted through data from Florida high schools, Instagram pages, and other social media accounts hoping to identify young Floridians eager to help their cause: a youth-led demonstration on Friday, April 21, to call out state lawmakers for their attacks on student rights.

Florida’s Republican-led state legislature and governor have passed multiple pieces of legislation that censor conversations in the classroom about gender, sexuality, and race, stripping rights from the very students the state’s schools are meant to serve.”

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/florida-students-walkout-learn

Below is a short clip of FAU students protesting legislation that will impact them (April 19, 2023):

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/820321383

Advocating for Women & Girls