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Terry O'Neill Executive director of NOW discusses violence against women
02/07/13 Terry O'Neill/Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: women's issues, domestic violence, NOW
Terry O'Neill, the executive Director of NOW (National Organization For Women), discusses violence against women in the United States and her reasons for the passage of VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) that is being discussed in the Senate now. She discussed the changes from the bill that failed last year and the present status of the bill. Terry also discussed NOW's participation with so many other organizations in the "one billion rising" international celebration by dance and awareness ...
Be the first to commentGreg Palast and Terry O'Neil talk bout the importance of women voters in the upcoming elections
10/18/12 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Greg Palast, NOW
Greg Palast, investigative journalist extraordinaire (muckraker) who is the author of many books including THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY, ARMED MADHOUSE. and VULTURE PICNIC discusses his latest book BILLIONAIRES AND BANDIT BALLOTS. We particularly focused on the extraordinary number of citizens for many reasons-purging, caging, spoiling, ejecting, blocking, rejecting prestidigitizing, tossing and stuffing who are losing their vote or being challenged about...
Be the first to commentTerry O'Neil President of NOW talks about the recent defeat of the Equal Pay Act
06/07/12 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NOW, Equal Pay Act
Terry O'Neill the President of NOW-the National Organization for Women- talks about the failure of the U.S. Senate to support the Paycheck Fairness Act from being brought up for a debate and receiving a vote. In a 52-47 vote the Senate failed to get the needed 60 votes to invoke closure to end a fillibuster on the Act. Terry then discussed the importantce of this act to corect some of the loop holes lin the Equal Pay act which was passed in 1963 but has not been able to achieve parity for wo...
Be the first to commentEleanor Cecil from NOW talks about Conversation 2
05/31/12 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NOW
Eleanor Cecil from NOW (National Organization for Women) talks about Conversations 2 and the Women's and Gender Society of USF. Conversations 2 will be June 6th at the USF (Tampa) alumni Center from 6:30-9:30 pm. Students, faculty and women of the community who are interested in discussing and promoting women's issues will meet in a conversational manner to discuss issues of importance to them. The Converation is limited to 50 participants so it is necessarh to RSVP. Small groups will be f...
Be the first to commentNational Organization for Women 2011 Conference in Tampa looks at violence listen
06/27/11 Lachelle RoddyWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NOW, Feminism, Women's rights, women's issues
NOW is a national advocacy group focusing on fighting all forms of sex discrimination. NOMAS, the National Organization for Men Against Sexism, joined NOW and kicked off the weekend with a panel on feminist men in relationships. Ben Atherton-Zeman, the director of Voices for Men, said women have an understandable reason to still question the motives of feminist men.
One member of the Young Feminist Task Force, Micah Bochart, said feminist men have a responsibility to speak out against sexi...
5 commentsNOW panel on health care for women listen
06/24/11 Lachelle RoddyWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NOW, Women, women's issues, health care
The theme for this year’s national NOW conference is “Daring to Dream.” It started with a panel exploring how to achieve something many deem impossible: universal healthcare, or the single payer system. Katie Robbins, the national organizer with Healthcare NOW, opened the discussion with an explanation on universal healthcare and why it’s possible.
Before giving her statement on why single payer healthcare is important for women’s rights, Dr. Jewel Crawford, a family physician, said health...
Be the first to commentNOW President Terry O'Neill; Open Phones To Discuss President Obama's Speech About Afghanistan
06/23/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: NOW, Terry O'Neill, Medicare for all, Social Security Administration, wages, US Supreme Court, abortion, domestic terrorism, Roe vs Wade, Walmart
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming uu we'll have open phones to discuss President Obama's speech last night about a partial withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. First, three listener comments about yesterday's interview about the pending cut in state worker's pay. Then we'll hear from the president of the National Organization for Women terry O'Neill. NOW is holding it's nationwide convention in Tampa this week. One of the topics to be covered at the convention is...
Be the first to commentNational NOW Conference comes to Tampa this weekend listen
06/23/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: National Organization of Women, NOW, Women's rights, Jane Castor, Eleanor Cecil
The National Organization of Women starts its yearly national conference in Tampa tomorrow morning. In a series of panels and speeches, the event will focus on a range of issues impacting women, including abortion and workers’ rights. Ahead of the conference we caught up with Eleanor Cecil, a board member for NOW’s Tampa chapter, for a preview of the weekend’s events.
Cecil said the list of keynote speakers includes Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor. Some NOW members plan on demonstrating out...
6 commentsProtestors call on Rubio to preserve current Medicare budget listen
05/31/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Barack Obama, MoveOn.org, NOW, F-CAN
Last week the U.S. Senate shot down a controversial House budget that included sweeping changes to Medicare, but critics of the proposal aren’t quite ready to rest easy. About ten people demonstrated outside Senator Marco Rubio’s office in Tampa earlier today. Tim Heberlein of the Florida Consumer Action Network spearheaded the event, which attracted a range of activists.
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Women's Show-OLGA VIVES, N.O.W. Executive VP listen
01/03/09 Mary GlenneyFrom A Woman's Point of View
Tags: NOW, women's issues
Olga Vives, executive vice president of NOW, talked about NOW's agenda for women in the new administration. Topics included the percentage of women in high level government, economic effects on women, reproductive rights, health care, violence against women.
Vives also alerted us to the change in direction in HHS regarding conscience regarding women's ability to get the reproductive health care they desire and the hope that it will change under the new administration.
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