Our first Fall 2008 meeting will be held tomorrow, Sunday, August 31st at 4 PM at the gazebo. From here on out we’ll be having them on Mondays at 5 PM just like last semester. We hope you can join us.

NOW UCF Wednesday May 21, 2008 Focus: Summer Activities/Voting

*review/additions, corrections, or reordering the agenda.

Change for Change Jar VaginaPendant Making Party
Purchase/Transfer Domain ownership
Tabling Schedule
Decision to open NOW bank account

What: NOW Conference registration by July 9th (allows for at least a month of fundraising)/June 30th for alternative housing/room share with FL NOW
Goal: $600.00 (sponsors members to attend conference, covers majority of ticket cost. Guesstimate of remaining cost $100 per person to attend)
Methods: Benefit Show…
Feminist Majority Foundation: Get Out HER Vote 2008Campaign to register voters “Currently, women hold a paltry 16 percent of the seats in the United States Congress and they make up 24 percent of the state legislatures. Only eight states have women governors, and we all know that the U.S. has yet to have a woman president or even a female nominee from a major political party. And as recently as 1992, women were only 2% of the U.S. Senate.
With women vastly under-represented in this arena, and glass ceilings still to be smashed, women’s rights advocates would be negligent not to try to correct such an imbalance.”
-NOW.org “Dragging Society Out of the Dark Ages: Elected Women Make a Difference”
Congratulations California! “In a 4-3 vote, the state’s highest court ruled that gay and lesbian couples should be granted legal rights to marriage. The case stems from a challenge in 2004, when history was first made by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Newsom had ordered the city to issue marriage licenses to thousands of same-sex couples, but the high court invalidated an estimated 4,000 marriages some six months later, because the legality of the underlying law had not been properly challenged. This case directly, and successfully, challenged the law that excluded same-sex couples from civil marriage. “
-NOW.org “California Supreme Court Rules Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Unconstitutional NOW Says Equal Treatment is Overdue”
Overturning of Gay Marriage Ban May Profoundly Impact November Elections
The California Supreme Court decision overturning state law banning gay marriage may have a profound impact on the state’s and nation’s November elections. Anti-gay rights activists have already submitted signatures for a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. The California Secretary of State is to expected to rule by the end of next month on whether or not the group’s petition gathered enough signatures, but the measure is expected to quality.
Even as gay-rights supporters celebrated the landmark Supreme Court decision, activists began gearing up for the political battle in November. “I wish we could simply celebrate and enjoy this incredible victory,” Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, wrote in an e-mail, according to the Union-Tribune. “But the truth is, this is just the beginning of the fight of our lives.”
-feministcampus.org
Against Amendment Two (full-speed in Fall) - Plans for summer? Questions/Contributions/Closing Statements

May 21, 2008

- We need to decide on a date to meet with Leandra about her new project, Safehouse Animal Shelter – it might be a good project for us to have for the future.
- Vagina Monologues: Waiting for more info. from Kelly and Bianca so we can take over for next year.
- Feminist majority foundation idea: take loose change and put it into a jar; money will be used for funds for NOW. Called “change for change.”
- Now.org / now.ucf – we want to buy the now.ucf url from the guy who has been paying for it (who used to be in NOW Orlando), and eventually move the website onto another server (possibly Joel’s).
- Feminist Majority Foundation: “Get Out HER Vote 2008 Campaign” - Work to get students registered to vote.
- Congrats to California for turning over the gay marriage ban!
- Full speed ahead with Against Amendment 2 à contact Fairness for All Families for more info. about events.
- Vagina pendant party tomorrow @ Kelly’s at 9 p.m.
- We’re table-ing at Freshman orientations. Kelly, Bianca, and Kevin have most of the dates covered, but we need someone to do it for a few nights.
- Working on the NOW Conference trip. We’re going to ask SGA for money and then fund-raise for the rest of it.

5 PM at the Gazebo. One of few summer meetings to discuss plans for the upcoming months and some dialogue on the importance of getting out HER vote (’08) Hope to see you there!

Hey NOWer’s!!!

Here are the meeting minutes from this week

Thanks to our awesome graphic designer, Joel Bergman, we have these fantastic graphic designs. Take a look! We’ll be using them in the future to jazz up our communications.

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Welcome Back!
I hope everyone had a relaxing Winter Break.
We’re not sure, when or where our Spring 2008 meetings will be just yet.
Check back next week for more information.

Today, January 10, 2008
7:00 pm
Student Union Key West Ballroom which is on the 2nd floor
Help VOX at UCF, Voices for Planned Parenthood, defend their bill in the UCF Student Government Senate, so they can attend a reproductive rights conference in Massachusetts.

Contact: Cari Cruz, President, VOX at UCF
ccruz1017@yahoo.com

See live performers, win raffle items, drink coffee, smoke hookah, and help UCF activists lobby congress (on the fifth anniversary of the war) to withdraw troops from Iraq.

Date:
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Time:
8:30pm - 11:30pm
Location:
Natura Coffee and Tea
City/Town:
Orlando, FL
Contact Info Email:
Annie Warshaw, President, Codepink at UCF
annie.warshaw@gmail.com

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