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Summer Film Series
    • May 25 - The Abortion Diaries
The Abortion Diaries is a documentary, by Penny Lane, featuring 12 women who speak candidly about their experiences with abortion. The women are doctors, subway workers, artists, activists, military personnel, teachers and students; they are Black, Latina, Jewish, and White; they are mothers or child-free; they range in age from 19 to 54. Their stories weave together with the filmmaker's diary entries to present a compelling, moving and at times surprisingly funny "dinner party" where the audience is invited to hear what women say behind closed doors about motherhood, medical technology, sex, spirituality, love, work and their own bodies.
30 minutes.
    • June 29 - Persepolis
In 1970s Iran, Marji Satrapi watches through her young eyes, the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution. As she grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. Persepolis, based on the graphic novel, is a timely and timeless story of a young girl's life under the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi's art is minimal and stark, yet often charming and humorous as it depicts the madness around her. Despite the grimness, Satrapi never lapses into sensationalism or sentimentality. Skillfully presenting a child's view of war and her own shifting ideals, she also shows daily life in Tehran and her family's pride and love for their country despite the tumultuous times. June 29. Animated. 96 minutes.
    • July 27 - Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Hip-hop is a man's game, but does it have to be? A self-described "hip-hop head" takes an in-depth look at masculinity and manhood in rap and hip-hop, where creative genius collides with masculinity, sexism, misogyny, violence and homophobia, exposing the complex intersections of culture and commerce. Filmmaker Byron Hurt was watching rap music videos on BET when he realized that each video was nearly identical: guys in fancy cars throw money at the camera while scantily clad women dance in the background, and decided to make a film about the gender politics of hip-hop, the music, and the culture that he grew up with. The result is riveting.
    • August 24 - No! The Rape Documentary
The groundbreaking feature length documentary by Aishah Simmons, an incest and rape survivor, features riveting testimonials from black women rape survivors who defy victimization. Violence prevention advocates, sociologists, historians, and leading human rights activists provide an interdisciplinary context to examine sexual violence in African-American communities. Impacting archival footage, spirited music, and poetry performances take viewers on a journey from enslavement of African people in the United States through present day. August 24. 94 minutes
All Films will be screened at the Civic Media Center, 433 S Main St. at 7:30 PM.  
Refreshments Served. Childcare not Available.

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What is NOW?     
     NOW is a multi-issue political organization. NOW's self-defined role has been
    to initiate change for the benefit of the greatest number of people, to affect the
    legal and institutional structures of the society in a way that systematically
    expands the choices and possibilities available to all women. In this way,
    NOW takes action to bring women, as a class, into the mainstream of society,   
    rather than offering aid to individual women, in achieving personal solutions or
    temporary relief from oppression, exercising all privileges and responsibilities 
    thereof in true partnership with men.
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        Abortion/Reproductive Rights                Constitutional Equality
          Promoting Diversity                                Economic Justice
        Ending Violence Against Women
            Lesbian/Bisexual Rights
                           
           

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Morning-After Pill Access                    National Health-Care

Universal Child Care                            No More Stolen Elections!

Get Women Out to Vote!                     Family Law


 

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