Illinois NOW Action Alert – Support Marriage Equality Please contact your Senator TODAY to VOTE YES on SB 10. Senate Bill 10 (Heather Steans), the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act, is now on 3rd Reading in the IL Senate and can be called for a vote at any time. Please contact your Senator and [...]
For the last two weeks, supporters of equal pay have been making calls to the Senate, and we can’t thank you enough. Well, we still need your calls, and we’re excited to let you know that the toll-free number is still working, so please read on . . . U.S. women need fair pay now [...]
We hope you are registered and ready to vote tomorrow, March 20th!! NOW is ready, and we have our list of 2012 endorsements to help you at the voting polls tomorrow: Congressional candidates endorsed by national NOW PAC: Federal Races Name Office District Election Result Leslie Coolidge U.S. House 6 race pending Tammy Duckworth U.S. [...]
Illinois NOW Action Alert Please call your state senator today and urge them to vote YES on HB 1958. As you recall HB 1958, bans shackling pregnant female prisoners. The bill as amended affects ONLY Cook Countyjail – not state prisons, downstate jails, or arrests by local police. Senator Hutchinson, the lead sponsor in the senate, committed [...]
Please take action today on HB 3027, the newest version of the Comprehensive Health Education Act. This bill was amended to include comprehensive sex education and is on concurrence in the House. The opposition is putting out alerts full of misinformation on this bill, so we need you to call in NOW to counter their [...]
2011 Illinois NOW State Conference Time Saturday, October 15 · 9:00am - 5:00pm Location Jane Addams Hull House Museum 800 S. Halsted Chicago, IL Created By Illinois National Organization for Women More Info This year’s theme is Unifying Voices for Women! We are proud to announce that Allendra Letsome, National NOW Membership Vice President, will be our honored [...]
SB 1619 Comprehensive Sex Education The sponsor, Senator Heather Steans (D-7) got a deadline extension of May 4 for this legislation. We are very close to garnering the 30 votes needed to pass it out of the Senate. We cannot wait to generate calls, emails, and faxes tostate senators asking them to vote YES on SB 1619. Illinois [...]
Please call IL state senators NOW: 217-782-3944 Windy City Times reports: “An amendment to a proposed bill in the Illinois Senate states that “a child welfare agency that is religiously based or owned by, operated by, or affiliated with a bona fide religious organization may decline an adoption or foster family home application … from [...]
ILLINOIS NOW ACTION ALERT: Tell Senate Executive Committee to VOTE NO on Senate Amendment 1 to SB 1123! Senate Bill 1123 Amendment 1 by Senator Koehler amends the Civil Union Act to allow religiously affiliated child welfare agencies to discriminate against parties to a civil union and to refer the parties to a civil union to DCFS for information concerning non-discriminatory child welfare [...]