Venice & North Port
PMB-2041181 S. Sumter Blvd.
North Port, FL 34287
Phone: toll-free 800-524-8771
Email: now_venice_northport@yahoo.com
Please Join Us!
Call us or come to our next meeting. We need women and men of feminist mind to join us. Now is the time to get active and stand up for women's rights! We need your energy, your help, and your membership.
Meetings are held the 3rd Saturday of each month at 10am-11:45pm. Join us for coffee and breakfast if you are hungry!
Stuff –A-Belly
14525 Tamiami Trl
(941) 426-9885
Directions from I-75 to
Board Members:
President: Jennifer Cohen
Treasurer: Rhonda DiFranco
Secretary: Kim Eversole
Media: Kathy Williamson
Advisor: Judy Wysnewski
Upcoming Events
Monthly meeting are held on the third Saturday of each month in 2008 10AM at the Stuff a Belly Diner in North Port.
January 1- Happy New Year 2008!
January 15th, 2008
Sonia Pressman Fuentes will speak at the Sarasota-Manatee Chapter of NOW meeting from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 15, 2008, on: “The Women’s Rights Movement: Where It’s Been, Where It’s At.” Her talk will be followed by a question-and-answer period and a book signing. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the Selby Library, at 1331 First Street in Sarasota.
Ms. Fuentes, the first woman attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), was a founder of NOW and FEW (Federally Employed Women). She will be honored by the Veteran Feminists of America at the Harvard Club in NYC on June 9, 2008, as one of 28 American women lawyers, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who fought for women’s rights in the 1960s and ‘70s.
Ms. Fuentes, the author of a memoir, Eat First—You Don’t Know What They’ll Give You, The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University and first in her class at the University of Miami School of Law.
The program is free and open to the public.
Contact Information: Sonia Fuentes Pressman
tel.: 941-379-6215
e-mail: spfuentes@comcast.net
website: http://www.erraticimpact.com/fuentes
January 19 th - New Officer Elections: will be held at this meeting. North Port/ Venice Chapter of NOW will be at the Stuff a Belly Diner 14525 Tamiami Trail, North Port. Breakfast may be ordered from the menu. There will be a reading of the 2007 annual report and planning for the 2008 calender.
January 23rd - Emily's List Campaign Training
Lido Beach
January 29th - Hand out NOW Chapter Information at the Polls during the Primary Elections
Members to hand out information at their polling place - Elect Women NOW
February 1 & 2 - 9th Annual Women' International Film Festival: Unifem
Hollywood 20, 1993 Main Street, Sarasota
February 2nd - NOW State Council Meeting, Orlando
The Center on Mills Ave.
February 6 -National Girls & Women In Sports Day: - (NGWSD) is a special day for girls and women to celebrate their participation in sports and athletics. When Title IX was enacted in 1971, 1 in 27 girls in high school participated in athletics. One in three girls participates in athletics in high school now! There has been an explosion in the number of athletic opportunities open to women and girls of all ages and levels of ability
March 14-23 rd - Sarasota County Fair
Shared booth NOW Sara/Mana and Venice/North Port
March 18 - NOW Lobby Days in Tallahassee
Group trip- Renting a van, reserve your seats
March 28-29 - Young College Democrats Conference
UCF- University of Central Florida, Orlando
NOW will have a table at this conference
April 10-12 - Economic Justice Summit: Atlanta, Ga. (NOW Foundation and allies)
May 10 th - Sarasota Pride Festival- Van Wezel Performing Arts Center
777 N Tamiami Trail, Sarasota
Shared booth NOW Sara/Mana and Venice/North Port
July 17 - Fifth Annual Intrepid Awards Gala: Washington, D.C. - details coming soon
July 18-20 - National Conference: Washington, D.C. (Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Md.) - more details coming soon
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