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September 15, 2004

National Day of Action This Saturday

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National Day of Action This Saturday

We apologize if you have already seen this alert from the NOW Action Center. However, the upcoming election is so critical that we decided it was appropriate to make sure you see this important information. We encourage all NOW activists to do everything they can do to help bring about the much needed results in November.

What: National Women's Election Day of Action
When: Saturday, September 18, 2004
Where: In New Hampshire, there will be events in Manchester, Concord, Durham, Newmarket, Nashua, and Seabrook

Visit this site for specifics:
www.americavotes.org

Visit NOW's 10ForChange web site to learn how you can help register women - women who will determine the outcome of this election and change the course of our country.
www.10forChange.org

TEXT VERSION of NOW's 10FORCHANGE ALERT:

Get Out the Women's Vote on a National Day of Action This Saturday

Dear NOW Activist,

We're encouraging all 10 for Change participants to spend this Saturday, Sept. 18, taking part in a national day of action highlighting our efforts to get women to the polls this November. America Votes (www.americavotes.org/action/), along with NOW and our national coalition partners, is organizing "Fifty Million Women Count: National Women's Election Action Day," where women and men will take to the streets, especially in battleground states, to register, recruit, educate and mobilize the 50 million women who are eligible to vote in the U.S.

Action Idea:

Plan your own event for Saturday, Sept. 18, in official recognition of National Women's Election Action Day. If you're in one of the target states, post your event on the America Votes calendar, and make this a true coalition effort by connecting with other like-minded feminists and progressives on AmericaVotes.org.

The goal: to ensure that women count and are counted in this election. Especially in battleground states, volunteers will be contacting voters through phone banks and door-to-door canvassing; they'll also be registering voters and taking part in campus organizing activities and activist trainings. Those of us who are not in battleground states should continue to register women voters and support local candidates, or plan to travel to a "hot" state or hold a "cell phone party" to call lists of voters from the target states.

The Truth About George: Time is moving quickly - the election is just seven weeks away. Get the latest on Bush, his cronies and their flip-flops by signing up to receive email alerts from TheTruthAboutGeorge.com. We'll be updating the website with breaking news on the "war" against women's rights, the war in Iraq, Bushisms, policy flip-flops and more.
(www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com)

Sign and circulate a petition demanding that the presidential candidates and congressional leaders stand up for women and girls. We need their leadership to end discrimination against women and restore women's rights by supporting initiatives and policies that promote health, safety and opportunity for all of our nation's girls, women and families, not just for the privileged few.
(Find the petition here: www.now.org/issues/right/)

10 Reasons for Feminists and Progressives to Get Out the Vote in the Weeks Ahead:

Because the current administration and their right-wing, anti-women allies have:

  • Deepened discrimination and pay inequality
  • Rolled back women's educational opportunity gains
  • Expanded the gulf between rich and poor, and placed poor women and children at even greater risk
  • Promised to return poverty to the lives of retired workers by undermining Social Security
  • Severely restricted health care programs
  • Cut and misdirected funding for the Violence Against Women Act and mishandled incidents of sexual violence against military women
  • Nominated numerous regressive, anti-women federal judges
  • Closed women's offices and appointed government officials opposed to women's rights
  • Pushed discriminatory constitutional amendment banning marriage equality
  • Restricted women and girls' reproductive rights and access to contraception and health care

    More Resources:

    "Save Our Democracy" Election Tips
    www.10forchange.org/organizing/election_tips.html

    Formulario Nacional de Inscripci??e Votante - National Mail Voter Registration Form (in Spanish)
    www.fec.gov/votregis/pdf/nvra_spanish_public.pdf

    Diez por Cambio - en Espanol
    www.10forchange.org/about/diezporcambio.html

    Declare Yourself: A guide for first-time voters
    www.declareyourself.com/press/voter_guides/voter_guide_download.pdf

    Voter registration toolbox
    www.mncn.org/mpp/doc/regtacticstoolbox.pdf

    Be an election monitor in a crisis state
    www.workingforchange.com/electionprotection/index.cfm

    Apply to receive an absentee ballot
    electionimpact.votenet.com/truemajority/absentee.cfm

    Find your polling place
    electionimpact.votenet.com/truemajority/pollboothlocator.cfm

    Find a partial list of other progressive groups, along with NOW, who may be working on progressive voter registration and mobilization efforts in your community.
    www.10forchange.org/organizing/progressive_groups.html

    For more information, email Seacoast NOW at info@seacoastnow.org.

    Last Updated Sept 22, 2004