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EventsClick to Select: 1. NOW January 2022 EventsThursday, January 20, 2022, NOW Sonoma Membership Planning Meeting, via Zoom online. We are organizing our own gathering in support of the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in concert with the ERA Coalition's call for nationwide action on January 27th and need your help! Zoom Instructions for Membership Planning
Meeting NOW’s purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life. Come join our chapter serving California North of San Francisco! --- 2. Ongoing Events
---- 3. Future EventsMonthly meetings are usually on the 3rd Thursday of the Month at 6:00 PM. ---- 4. Recent Events
Women's Rights Vigil in Sebastopol, CA, 12/1/2021 Wednesday, December 1, 2021 Women's Rights Vigil in Sebastopol, CA. In December, the Supreme Courtheard arguments for the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which if lost, would mean that the 2018 Mississippi law forbidding abortions after 15 weeks would take effect. Currently, that law is on hold. Roe v. Wade is in danger and there are many states ready to pass their own legislation banning abortions if it's overturned as well. ---- Friday, October 29th, from 6–8 p.m. Special Presentation for LGBTQI?A+ History Month. The event was recorded and can be seen until November 30,2021, if you request it by email to info@nowsonoma.org October was LGBTQIA+ History Month (Coming Out Day was October 11th) and our Chapter hosted an online special presentation by two members of the Lesbian Archives of Sonoma County and one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
---- Saturday, October 2, 2021 10 am - Noon, Santa Rosa's Old Courthouse Square, Women's Rally to Mobilize and Defend Our Reproductive Rights. This event was sponsored by the Sonoma County Democratic Party. The previous President of NOW Sonoma County Chapter and host of Women's Spaces Elaine B. Holtz was one of the featured speakers. Her speech can be seen at https://youtu.be/EuojDhmmbj0 ----
See the Zoom video of the meeting on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/amynykamp/videos/569402930857138 We commemorated the 101st anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment. August 26 is Women's Equality Day and we have a lot to celebrate! Our Centennial 2020 Woman Suffrage Calendar was recognized with a Gold Resolution by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors for being an historical document that played a key role in our county's remembrance of women's suffrage. We honored those women in our county featured in our calendar and those who were instrumental in the creation of the calendar. Among those participating were:
• Molly Murphy MacGregor - Founder of the National
Women's History Alliance; Elaine B. Holtz, Former President, NOW Sonoma 2016-2021 These women each spoke on their vision of what NOW can do to help our community. See the Zoom video of the 8/26/2021 Special Women's Equality Day meeting on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/amynykamp/videos/569402930857138 Gold Resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Sonoma honoring our NOW Chapter for producing the 2020 Woman's Suffrage Calendar - an historical document:
Download pdf of the Gold Resolution - Click Here ----
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On Thursday, June 17, 2021, our chapter membership meeting was followed by
presentations by Nancy Rogers on Juneteenth History and by
Elaine Holtz ---- On Thursday, March 18, 2021, our chapter membership meeting was followed by a special presentation by Lilith Rogers in her on-woman show Rachel Carson Returns. If you missed the presentation you can see it on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPRWs0MvSjk .
Lillith Rogers ---- On Thursday, February 18, 2021, we had 60 participants at our Zoom meeting, and each had some time to ask questions or make a statement.
---- Thursday, October 22, 2020, NOW (Sonoma County Chapter) hosted a Zoom Meeting to learn about Measure P on the November 3rd ballot. NOW Sonoma supported Measure P with an action. See the Act page for the update on this successful action of its passage. ---- August 26, 2020 City of Sebastopol celebrates the 19th Amendment Centennial and Women's Equality Day.
---- Thursday, August 13, 2020 from 6:30 to 8 PM NOW Sonoma presented a Special Members and Guests Online Zoom Meeting featuring speakers Dr. Kim D. Hester Williams on African Women in the Suffrage Movement and Kolieka Seigle, NOW California President and Chair of the legislative arm of the CA NOW Political Action Committee who gave an update of NOW. ----
Friday, January 24, 2020 Reception, From Suffrage to #MeToo at
Museum of Sonoma County. The museum exhibit continues until September 13,
2020.
Above: Museum Staffperson, Leslie Graves who coordinated Suffrage March to Reception, Molly Murphy MacGregor Co-founder of the National Women's History Alliance and Elaine B. Holtz.President of NOW Sonoma County. Photo by Ken Norton.
Above: At the From Suffrage to #MeToo Exhibit, Elaine B. Holtz standing before a 1978 photo of her in the studio of Radio KBBF broadcasting the Women's Spaces Radio Show, the first Women's show in the County. Photo by Ken Norton. ---- Saturday, January 18, Women's March Santa Rosa, Old Courthouse Square. See the fb page for more photos: https://www.facebook.com/srwomensmarch/
Above: Approximately 3000 were led into the streets to march at Women's March Santa Rosa 2020 in Downtown Santa Rosa, Pro Bono Photo by Bill Clark.
Above: Santa Rosa Women's March 2020 standing before the NOW Booth are staff Eileen Bill, Carolyn Gooding, Ken Norton and Elaine B. Holtz, who flank friends of NOW Katie Jensen and Susan Jensen in the middle.
Above: Prayer Chapel Singers with President of NOW Sonoma Elaine B. Holtz and March Coordinator Leslie Graves celebrating after the Women's March 2020. Photo by Ken Norton ---- Sunday, August 25, 2019, Petaluma Progressive Festival hosted this year by Indivisible Petaluma, Walnut Park.
Ken Norton and Elain B. Holtz at the Women's Spaces and NOW booth at the Petaluma Progressive Festival on August 25, 2019. Photo by - 2019 Photo by Nichole Perry ---- Friday July 12, 2019, 5 to 7 pm, Rally on Migrant Detention, Santa Rosa Old Courthouse Square
Eileen Bill and Elaine B. Holtz, NOW members, at the Rally protesting the Detention of Migrants. 2019 Photo by Ken Norton.
Rally protesting the Detention of Migrants. 2019 Photo by Ken Norton.
Robin Latham, Alicia Sanchez,with Granddaughter,Vida, Elaine B. Holtz, and Therese Mughannam at the Rally protesting the Detention of Migrants. 2019 Photo by Ken Norton. ---- Click Here to download the pdf of the notes from the first meeting on August 29, 2018 facillated by Board of Supervisor Member Linda Hopkins. ---- Tuesday May 21, 2019, 5 to 7 pm, Stop the Bans Rally, Santa Rosa Old Courthouse Square
Elaine B. Holtz, President of NOW Sonoma, porotesting at the Stop the Bans Rally, May 21. 2019
Ken Norton, Webmaster of NOW Sonoma, protesting at the Stop the Bans Rally, May 21, 2019 ---- January 19, 2019, Saturday, Women's March in Santa Rosa https://www.facebook.com/events/269734966995428/
Elaine,B. Holtz, the President of NOW Sonoma County Chapter and the host of Women's Spaces, was honored to be one of the lead banner bearers, of the Santa Rosa Women's March 2019 which drew 4,500 marchers along with banner holders Dr. Jacqueline Lawrence of Legacy Showcase, her granddaughter Grace, Miss Sonoma County Tyler-Avery Lewis and Miss Sonoma County's Outstanding Teen, Pinkeo Phongsa. . 2019 Photo by Leslie Graves.
For more photos of the Santa Rosa March 2019 -Click Here. Past Events2018 earlier event, photos and videos can be found on the Memories page - Click Here. |
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Tina
Dungan is a life-long resident of Sonoma County who came
out as a Lesbian in the early 1970s while a student in
the first Women’s Studies Program at SSU. Since 2007,
she has been working with others through Lesbian
Archives of Sonoma County to capture the cultural and
political history of that community. Ms. Dungan also
teaches a class based on the Timeline through the Older
Adults Program at SRJC.
Shad
Reinstein came out shortly after Stonewall and has been
involved in local and national LGBTQI culture and
politics. She has been researching Lesbian history for
several decades. She co-produced the documentary film,
Mom’s Apple Pie, the History of the Lesbian Mothers’
Custody Movement. She is now researching a lesbian
community from the 1930s. Her work with Tina on the
timeline has helped her understand the history and
culture of Sonoma County, her new home. 
On
Thursday July 15, 2021, our chapter membership meeting was followed by a
presentation by
Ellen Snortland, a long time women’s rights
advocate and a board member of the National Women’s History Alliance. 
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