Justice for Mike Brown! Justice for Eric Garner! Justice for all those we have lost at the hands of racist cops! #BlackLivesMatter. Our lives matter. All lives matter! On Saturday December 13th, in NYC and in every major city, we march together as one. Our call to action: Demand that the Department of Justice pursue…
Gamergate: Stalking is No GameFrom our colleagues at National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women: Violence against women is never a game! Congress must ensure that persons making online threats of assault, sexual violence and death are held accountable. WE NEED YOUR STORIES!!! #stalkingisnogame Trigger warning: rape, murder, violence; this alert…
As in every election, it comes down to you. Please consider helping out our endorsees and find out how you can do more to help Get Out the Vote!It’s time to Get Out the Vote!! Find out about Pennsylvania NOW PAC’s endorsees for the Fall election, and about our push in collaboration with National NOW…
Pennsylvania NOW President Caryn Hunt testified September 18th before the House Labor and Industry Committee in support of House Bill 1890, which would close loopholes in the existing Pay Equity Act of 1959 (yep, 1959) and end pay secrecy, the practice of not allowing employees to share their salaries. Hunt testified in July before the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Pennsylvania NOW Calls For Commissioner Frank Noonan to Resign PHILADELPHIA, October 2, 2014- It’s been a week since Attorney General Kathleen Kane disclosed that hundreds of sexually explicit materials had been shared via email in the Attorney General’s office under Tom Corbett’s leadership. It is appropriate that Pennsylvania Department of Environmental…
Stacey Dean Rambold, the Montana teacher previously sentenced by Judge G. Todd Baugh to just a 30-day sentence for rape of his student, 14-year-old Cherice Moralez in 2007, a girl who subsequently committed suicide, was re-sentenced today by Justice Randal Spaulding to 15 years in prison, with 5 years suspended. The re-sentencing and the censure…
Philadelphians are gathering this evening at Love Park, Center City, at 7PM to participate in the National Moment of Silence, a peaceful vigil to remember Michael Brown, who was senselessly shot down in Ferguson, MO earlier this week, and to reflect on all the violence inflicted on African American communities and the injustice that follows…
Pennsylvania NOW President Caryn Hunt will testify today, 2PM at Philadelphia’s City Hall, in a hearing held by the Pennsylvania House Democratic Policy Committee on House Bill 1250, which would increase the penalties to businesses who discriminate against their workers on the basis of gender and break the Pay Equity law (enacted in 1959). Here…
Joint statement issued by Pennsylvania NOW and Montana NOW at the public censure proceedings against Judge G. Todd Baugh in the rape case against Stacey Rambold: Mr. Baugh: We are Marian Bradley and Joanne Tosti-Vasey, representing, respectively Montana NOW and Pennsylvania NOW, state chapters of the National Organization for Women. We are one of the…
