Two Powerful Documentaries available on Women and the Media.
1. Miss Representation
This powerful new documentary explores how the media's misrepresentation of women has led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence. The film challenges the media's limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.
The Miss Representation screening will be held on Tuesday, November 29 at Motorco in Durham. The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:00pm and film will begin at 7:00pm. NC Women United is proud to co-sponsor this film screening.
2. Generation M - Misogyny in Media and Culture
Another great documentary on the medias affect on women and girls is Generation M - Misogyny in Media and Culture. That was shown at Fayetteville NOW's fourth Friday/Women's Equality Day event in Fayetteville last August, the one in which we reenacted the Suffragist march. Read about it at http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=234
Wow, look at some great pictures on the Women's Equality Event at
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=2EEC0250C1B8C31A&id=2EEC0250C1B8C31A%2127549&sc=photos
Raleigh NOW was there in the 100 women march, regardless of Hurricane Irene bearing down on NC.
NC NOW's state conference is this weekend in Fayetteville. The conference starts at 9am. We have a great plan for the day, and we'd love for you to join us. If you want to come, don't worry about the preregistration date - just please warn me so we will be sure to have enough room and food for you.
In the morning, we are concentrating on NC's anti-gay marriage push, and the best way for our grass-roots organization to deal with this. It's also an opportunity to meet and hear Representative Rick Glazier, who always defends people so passionately and eloquently. Our keynote speaker, Representative Diane Parfitt, will talk about this crazy contentious legislative session and how the bills are hurting women and families. In our afternoon session, we will break out into groups to learn how women are doing in different areas (jobs, health care, reproductive rights) and what we may do to improve matters in these areas. So you can see we'll have a busy, interesting and productive day.
Please join us on Saturday. Call 919-539-7702 or 910-484-7936 for information.
Many of NOW activists from different parts of NC were part of the estimated 500 people at the rally that NC Equality set up outside the North Carolina legislature Tuesday in opposition to the anti-gay constitutional amendment that will be on the ballot in May of 2012. I wanted to share some of the great signs from the rally, many of them handmade.
Did I vote on Your marriage?
Welcome to North Carolina, where you can marry your COUSIN but not your partner.
Keep your STAMp of Bigotry off my constitution.
(reference to Representative Paul Stam, who was involved in much of the anti-woman and anti-family legislation put forth this year.)
Here are some reasons why the amendment is worse than it sounds.
a) This proposed amendment affects much more than marriage - it could ban ALL legal recognition of committed and unmarried couples, both gay and straight.
b) This amendment would TAKE AWAY BENEFITS from committed couples.
c) Our constitution should DEFEND people's rights and freedoms - NOT DIMINISH them.
Read more about why this Constitutional Amendment is bad at http://equalitync.org/amendment