The public information on John Roberts raises serious and grave concerns. The stakes could not be higher on the issues of the environment, civil rights, workers rights, privacy and women's health. North Carolinians deserve to know where Roberts stands on these issues, and we need your help! Please join our Just Ask for Justice Campaign, and encourage Burr and Dole to ask the Judiciary Committee to ask Roberts where he stands on these issues.

Date:Thursday, Sept 8
Time: 5pm
Location: Sen. Dole's district office: 310 New Bern Ave.
Contact: Gailya at 919-539-7702
Bring: Signs if you like (24" by 24" or smaller) We have some we used at our Honk for Justice on Aug 21.

Ideas for Signs:
"Worried About the Supreme Court - You Should Be!"
"Save Our Court"
"Keep our Right to Privacy."
"Don't want to lose Birth Control or Emergency Contraception? Lose Roberts"
"Keep the Government out of our Personal Decisions."
"Roberts against RoeVWade"
"Bob is BAD for Women & Girls",
Roberts "...was wrongly decided and should be overruled!"
------(Robert's actual quote: Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled)
"Take the sting out of this WASP! Swat ROBERTS!"
"Bush wants him -- that's reason enough to say NO Roberts!"
"Supreme Court -- Conservative Enough! No Roberts!"
"Throw Roberts back in the Bush!"
Americans with Disabilities AGAINST Roberts.
"[Roberts] = 0 [Title IX]"
"Roberts Against Civil Rights"
"Roberts Against Girls in Sports"
"Roberts Equals NO Justice!"
"Roberts Against Americans With Disabilities"

Note - there are events around the state at Burr and Doles offices. I can send you more information if you want (Winston-Salem, Asheville, Gastonia, Raleigh, Salisbury).

Please join us Sunday at the Honk For Justice event. We will meet at 10am at the NC NOW office to make signs. From there we will split up and go to the 5 sites I got permits for. If you can only make the Holding the signs part, call me at 539-7702 and I'll tell you where to go to spread out the crowd evenly. We did something similar in Jan 05 (Honk for Choice for Roe V Wade) and it was a great time. Lots of people honked for us.

Date: Sunday, Aug 21
Time: 10am
Place: 412 Morson St, Raleigh (near New Bern and Person)
Action: Make signs (2 feet by 2 feet) and split up from there to 5 sites around Raleigh to hold
our signs and cheer.

Come alone or with family and friends! RSVP (539-7702) so I know how much poster material to bring.

I. New actions
NOW is doing a 'HONK FOR JUSTICE' action in Raleigh this month. We will get permits on 5 or 6 sites around Raleigh and sent people to each site. We are looking at Thursday, August 18 or Friday, August 19 in the evening and Sunday afternoon, Aug 21. Write me if you are interested, president@raleighnow.org.

Next First Friday in September and at our Sept meeting - collect more signatures per past action below.

II. Past Action
Last Friday, Raleigh NOW joined Naral to collect signatures on Supreme Court petitions at First Night in Raleigh (Naral used theirs, and we used NOW's). Many people signed. Come to the next meeting if you want to sign too. The petition says:

"To my Senator: I am deeply concerned with the recent resignation of Sandra Day O'Connor and the nominiation of John Roberts as her replacement. Based in his previous statements, his nomination means we are facing devastating reversals on women's and civil rights in this country. I ask you to oppose his confirmation and that you demand a nominee more in tune with the majority of Americans. Thank you."