Members of Chicago NOW will be in attendance at Anthony Abbate’s Police Review board trial at 10am on Tuesday. The dates are set for Nov 17th & 23rd. This trial will determine if he will be fired from the Chicago Police Department!
The trial is open to the public:
November 17th & 23rd
10AM
30 North LaSalle Street
Suite 1220
Chicago, IL 60602
From our friends at Planned Parenthood…
When it passed a historic health care reform bill, the House also adopted the Stupak amendment, a dangerous piece of legislation that would ban abortion from private and public insurance plans for millions of American women. Fortunately, the fight for women’s health didn’t end in the House, and our sharp focus is now on the Senate. We are demanding that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ensure that language similar to the Stupak amendment does not become part of the Senate health care reform bill.
Join Chicago NOW for a friendraiser at Early to Bed. We will have an after hours party from 8:00 – 10:00. We will have wine and cheese. Early to Bed will donate 10% of the sales that night to Chicago NOW to support our programming and education. We will also have a raffle with donation from Early to Bed. Searah Deysach will give a 30 minute presentation on sex toys & sexual health.
Call Senators Durbin and Burris today and demand that they strip the Stupak amendment from the healthcare bill passed Saturday in the House of Representatives. This anti-choice amendment would eliminate abortion care coverage for women. We cannot let this happen.
Please contact both of these Senators at the office closest to you. There is more info on this amendment at the end of this email. Thanks for your work for NOW!
1. Senator Dick Durbin:
| WASHINGTON, D.C.
309 Hart Senate Bldg. |
CHICAGO
230 S Dearborn St. |
| WASHINGTON, D.C
387 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Phone: 202-224-2854 Fax: 202-228-3333
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Chicago Office
Kluczynski Federal Building 230 S. Dearborn, Suite 3900 Chicago, IL 60604 Phone: 312-886-3506 |
If you’re concerned about discrimination against women in academia and the subordination of academic fields in which women predominate, please show your support for diversity in higher education on Thursday November 5th, from 1-3pm at the DePaul University student center to protest the discriminatory denial of tenure to female Professors.
As featured in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-depaul-tenure_grossmannov01,0,648862.story), DePaul University disproportionately denied tenure to qualified female Professors last year. These tenure denials will reduce the number of female Professors on campus and diminish the strength of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department, among others.
We need your help to show DePaul—and all institutions of higher education—that students do not support and will not tolerate their administrations denying tenure in a discriminatory manner. Please come and support diversity and non-discrimination in academia:
WHERE? Corner of Sheffield and Belden, NE Corner of LP Student Center by the statue.
WHEN? Thursday, November 5th, 1-3pm.
QUESTIONS? Contact Chera Tribble, chera.patrice@gmail.com.
Join us for Love Your Body Day on Saturday, October 24th at 11:00am. This year’s event will be held at the Phoenix Military Academy, 145 S Cambell Ave in Chicago. We will have the winners of the LYBD essay contest share their essays.
The topic of this year’s essay contest is “Body image and the media: Together we can fight the media’s harmful portrayal of women’s bodies by…” Everyday, we are exposed to thousand of commercials, advertisements, magazines, etc. that tell us our bodies aren’t good enough and are in need of constant improvement. The fashion, cosmetic, and diet industries have reduced women to body parts – legs, lips, breasts – that are airbrushed and retouched to meet an impossible standard; a standard most people will never attain, even with the “help” of all of the products that the industries want us to buy. Our goal is to engage young men and women in thinking critically about what they see in the media, how the images affect their own feelings and self-esteem, and what they think can be done to stop these negative influences. We are honored to have the group “Sisters Empowering Sisters” and a counselor from Phoenix Military Academy, Darci, to lead activities.
If you would like to attend Chicago NOW’s Love Your Body Day, or if you have any questions regarding the event, please email Jessica Brown jessica.brown.79@gmail.com
The status hearing did not happen today. The defense canceled again. The next status hearing is scheduled for October 13th.
The tentative trial dates are November 17th and November 23rd. Anthony Abbate will also appeal his criminal conviction. The new criminal trial dates are unknown at this time.
When – Sunday, October 11, beginning at 1:00pm.
Where – Daley Plaza – under the Picasso
Chicago NOW will join with activists from all over Chicago to demand equality for LGBTQ individuals. Click here for more information!
Chicago NOW joins PAVE to spread the word that Rape is Rape!
Sat, 10/10 at 7:00 pm at AMC River East 21 Theatres, 322 E Illinois Street, Chicago, IL
PAVE’s Chicago Chapter will hold a Roman Polanski Petition Campaign to counteract Hollywood’s shameful support of this child rapist. Bring signs and candles!
If you are not in Chicago, join a protest or organize a protest in your area. Find more information about the campaign against Roman Polanski at www.RapeIsRape.com.
Learn more about PAVE – Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment
From the Chicago Tribune:
The Chicago City Council today voted 27-11 to pass an ordinance creating a so-called bubble zone requiring anti-abortion activists to keep their distance from people entering clinics.
