http://www.noworlando.org National Organization for Women Orlando Chapter works to advance the rights of women in the Greater Orlando Area. Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:32:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jenna Cawley has officially stepped down as Orlando NOW's President. She's not going far, though! She's our new VP. Cicely Scheiner, Orlando NOW's former VP is now our new President! Also, Vanessa Bernstein has joined us to manage membership and treasury. Vanessa will work as an officer with our chapter, and ... http://www.noworlando.org/archives/59 Orlando NOW unveiled the winning design of the license plate contest at the 2007 state conference the first weekend of January. Thom Cicchelli submitted the winning design! We have received a lot of press on this project and now we are collecting signatures and money to make it ... http://www.noworlando.org/archives/56 Thank you so much for all the entries. The deadline for submissions has now been met, and the top three entries will be announced soon. We got some awesome submissions and quite a bit of money raised, but of course we still need a lot more. So ... http://www.noworlando.org/archives/52 Jenna, Kim Gandy and Cicely The Equal Marriage Rally We also went out and had a good time... Things got a little blurry. http://www.noworlando.org/archives/50 Click Here to Write to Senator Nelson. Today, Orlando NOW activists arrived at a rally for Senator Bill Nelson to demand an answer as to why he voted for the harmful, “Child Custody Protection Act.” This act is more appropriately labeled the “Teen Endangerment Act” or the “Grandmother Incarceration Act,” since ... http://www.noworlando.org/archives/46 Yesterday, July 24th, was the second reading of the ordinance to ban feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park. In protest of this ordinance and to speak out against oppression, many of us attended the City Council meeting to speak with the Commission. I spoke and, if I do say so ... http://www.noworlando.org/archives/43 NY Representative Carolyn Maloney is pushing legislation which will make it illegal for "crisis pregnancy centers" to trick women into entering their clinics by posing as Planned Parenthoods or using signs that say "abortion." Please take a minute to email Rep. Maloney to say "thank you!!" for standing up for ... http://www.noworlando.org/archives/42 Tribe President Suspended for Supporting Women By Jessica Hopper, Communications Intern June 15, 2006 Cecelia Fire Thunder, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, was suspended by the tribal council after its members voted to ban abortion on the tribe's Pine Ridge Reservation. Fire Thunder has been a long-time advocate ... http://www.noworlando.org/archives/41 Call Florida Senator Bill Nelson TODAY! Senator Bill Nelson has expressed that he will not vote for the Federal Marriage Amendment, and will not allow George W. Bush to write discrimination into our Constitution. We need to let him know that we appreciate his opposition to this measure! Please call him ... http://www.noworlando.org/archives/40 Dear Ms. Howell, I am stunned that you allowed the article, “Emergency contraceptive available at UCF for $24: Decision to Sell Pill Prompts Students to Consider its Morality,” to run in this week’s UCF Future. This article contained information, presented as fact, which was not only misleading and inaccurate, but dangerous ... http://www.noworlando.org/archives/39