NATIONAL NOW
As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women (NOW) is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since our founding in 1966, NOW’s purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.
SANTA FE NOW
Santa Fe NOW (SFNOW) is an all-volunteer network founded in 2009. Within the framework of NOW’s mission, SFNOW undertakes work in issues of urgency to New Mexico. SFNOW engages in citizen lobbying and bills related to these issues each year during the New Mexico legislative session.
Reproductive Rights and Justice
SFNOW supports safe and legal abortion, affordable and effective birth control, and reproductive health education for all.
Economic Justice
SFNOW advocates for a wide range of economic justice issues intertwined with racial justice, reproductive freedom, and other systems of oppression.
Ending Violence Against Women
SFNOW recognizes violence against women as a broad and interconnected issue profoundly impacting children and families.
Constitutional Equality
SFNOW is a proud supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and prioritizes giving women explicit protections in the United States Constitution.
Exposing Crisis Prevention Centers
SFNOW is part of a coalition to educate the public about dangerous anti-choice “clinics” that falsely present themselves as genuine healthcare facilities to discourage pregnant women from getting an abortion.
Promoting the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act
SFNOW works with a coalition to support a worker’s right to take paid family and medical leave to bond with a child, to address a serious health condition, or to take care of a needy family member.
Preventing Gun Violence
SFNOW is a founding member of an alliance dedicated to changing the culture that enables gun violence to flourish. The Alliance for Gun Violence Solutions meets the last Tuesday of every month. The alliance includes people from the NAACP, SFNOW, NMPGV, Unitarian Universalists, Indivisible SOS, SFCFDW, NMLWV, SF Indigenous Center, and AAUW.
Supporting the Health Security Act
SFNOW is part of the campaign to create a cooperative health care plan in New Mexico that offers freedom of choice of health care providers and provides a comprehensive, affordable benefit package.
In this time of heightened awareness of racial injustice, Santa fe NOW commits to the following:
Expand our relationships with other organizations that are dealing with racial issues, through membership and active participation. Form partnerships and collaborations. Support allyship.
Deepen our understanding of institutional racism through readings and conversations so that we can act to dismantle racism when we encounter it.
Speak out and act our when we identify injustice in our society, particularly in our own organization and our local community.
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