Nat'l Organization for Women-Are They Driving Down the Wrong Road?
The National Organizarion for Women will be celebrating it's 40th birthady, soon . One of the founder's who passed away last year Betty Freidan, wrote the organizations purpose statement in 1966. They also include a disclaimer of sorts: NOTICE: This is a historic document, which was adopted at NOW's first National Conference in Washington, D.C. on October 29, 1966. The words are those of the 1960s, and do not reflect current language or NOW's current priorities. I have posted highlights from an organization whose mission, agenda and leadership have drastically changed. Looking at the site today, forty years later, it's not the same organization my mother joined. They support organizations such as Code Pink, individuals like Cindy Sheehan, George Soros, while blasting the President of the United States with this link:
The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men.
NOW is dedicated to the proposition that women, first and foremost, are human beings, who, like all other people in our society, must have the chance to develop their fullest human potential. We believe that women can achieve such equality only by accepting to the full the challenges and responsibilities they share with all other people in our society, as part of the decision-making mainstream of American political, economic and social life.
We organize to initiate or support action, nationally, or in any part of this nation, by individuals or organizations, to break through the silken curtain of prejudice and discrimination against women in government, industry, the professions, the churches, the political parties, the judiciary, the labor unions, in education, science, medicine, law, religion and every other field of importance in American society.
WE BELIEVE that the power of American law, and the protection guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution to the civil rights of all individuals, must be effectively applied and enforced to isolate and remove patterns of sex discrimination, to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and education, and equality of civil and political rights and responsibilities on behalf of women, as well as for Negroes and other deprived groups.
NOW WILL HOLD ITSELF INDEPENDENT OF ANY POLITICAL PARTY in order to mobilize the political power of all women and men intent on our goals. This Statement of Purpose was written by Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique".
Overview of their Website in 2006
On Fourth of July, NOW Fasts for Peace (Joining CODE PINK and the Anti War Movement)
The National Organization for Women Celebrates 40 Fabulous
** Research is Needed on Toxic Platinum in Silicone Breast Implants
Tribe President Suspended for Supporting Women
NOW Denounces New York Court's Intolerant Decision
Read Stories From the Equal Marriage Story Bank
President Bush Supports "Products and Services", As Long as You Don't Actually Mean Birth Control
Is their mission productive? Or have they driven off the road that truly did so much for American Women? I'm knocking no one, I am just asking the question.
