NOW election
The truth about the NOW election
I want to talk about the future of NOW, and that’s going to be my next post. But first, it’s time to dispel some of the nonsense about the election:
#1: The real issue at the NOW election was that the organization is broke and going nowhere fast. Membership has nose-dived and so has [...]
NOW conference infiltrated by NOW members
The fallout from the NOW election is proving very amusing. Over at Viva La Feminista, Roni writes breathlessly:
There have been comments flying in the blogosphere and Twitter that the Palin people were a rumor. I took pics of at least one of them.
She took a picture! Of “at least one of them”! [...]
Apparently I’m an anti-choice feminist without even realizing it
The coverage of the NOW election is becoming garbled. Over at Salon, Judy Berman writes:
Meanwhile, Viva la Feminista blogger Veronica Arreola, who supported Lyles, says O’Neill (who is pro-choice) owes her election to pro-life feminists. She writes:
“The Sarah Palin supporters swung this election….
Whoa, nellie. “Sarah Palin [...]
Nation anxiously awaits details from NOW conference, blogger fails to deliver
I feel like a Soviet spy here, smuggling in a photograph snapped with a bow-tie camera. See all those grainy people up there whose faces you can’t make out? That’s Leonid Brezhnev Carol Moseley Braun introducing the new officers of NOW: Terry O’Neill (prez), Bonnie Grabenhofer, Erin Matson, and Allendra Letsome.
Moseley [...]
We won! We won! We won!
WOO HOO!!!!!!!
Terry O’Neill is the new president of NOW!!!!
We WON!
WOO HOO!!!!!!!
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NOW rises from the dead, speaks
Quelle coïncidence! I was just getting ready to post a link to a lovely essay by MadamaB, wherein she bewails the moribund status of establishment feminism (a stance with which I entirely agree, though I’m not sure about MadamaB’s proposed solution. More on that later.)
Anyhoo, here I was, merrily linking away, [...]
Why NOW needs new leadership, and why you should care
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you already know that many of the leaders of the feminist establishment in this country behaved shamefully last year. (And if you don’t know it, read this and this and this and this). If life were an Akira Kurosawa movie, Ellie Smeal and Kim Gandy [...]
