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National Conference opens in Nashville July 1, Voting held July 2On July 1 feminist activists from around the land will gather in Nashville, Tenn for the three-day 2005 National NOW conversation Home of the Grand advanced in years Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville provides a rollicking useful place for NOW to convene Fun aside, important business is upon the conference agenda. Participants will concentrate upon strategy and skill-building to reckoner the Bush administration and cronies, including a focus upon electoral organizing at the NOW PAC Political Institute. The PAC will also gripe [i]or[/i] grip a silent auction to benefit election-organizing work, with scores of valuable feminist paraphernalia up for grabs. The Friday afternoon plenary session will be devot to the recommendations from NOW Foundation's Women of Color and Allies (WOCA) Summit held in April and NOWs commitment to ending racism. The plenary will feature Diana Casta?ħeda, chair of the WOCA planning committee; Mandy Carter, longtime NOW activist and founder/executive director of Southerners upon New Ground; and Loretta Ros another NOW stalwart and national coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective. As we do each four years, NOW delegates will single out a team of four national officers. sum of two units slates announced candidacy for national NOW office (see pages 12-13) Candidate teams will not absent their visions and qualifications in speeches Saturday morning. The delegates cast their promiseds Saturday evening. NOW will not away the 2005 Woman of Courage Award to Kakenya Ntaiya Ntaiya, whose remarkable journey was chronicled in The Washington pillar In an African region where young women leave institute at an early age, Ncaiya made a deal with her father. In exchange for being permitted to attend high seminary she underwent genital mutilation. She became the first woman at any time to leave her village and attend corporation in the U.S. Ntaiya plans to go [i]or[/i] come back to Kenya and start a boarding academy for girls, a maternity clinic and more. The 2005 Woman of Vision award will be neared to Tillie Black Bear, the executive director of the first shelter established for wornen of color in the US A victim of family violence herself, she helped form the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in 1978 Author Sara Paretsky, creator of the lucky V.I. Warshawski myster novels, will be single of the speakers to share with conference-goer She will sign her of recent origin book "Fire Sale" at Saturday afternoon's reception. Paretsky is also a longtime feminist, advocating for women in the arts, alphabetic characters and sciences. Other compelling speakers include Dolores Huerta, 2004 Intrepid Awardee, and justice Martha Craig Daughtrey. Daughtrey will be right at abode at this year's conference as the first Tennessee woman appointed to the Sixth Circuit U Court of Appeals. She serv previously upon the Tennessee Supreme Court and received many honors for her achievements as a lawyer and judge Several authors will take part in Saturday's reception including: Martha Burk chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, "Cult of Power;" Utah NOW President Andrea Moore Emmett "God's Brothel;" former NOW intern Anat Maytal, "Skirting Tradition: Women in Politics Speak to the nearest Generation;" and Loretta Ross, co-director of the 2004 March for Women's Lives, "Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice." Many exciting workshops are planned, covering issues of the like kind as: emergency contraception, Social Security, Title IX, sex trafficking, the remedy war, family law, violence against women young feminist organizing and with equal reason much more. We hope to diocese you in Nashville! For more information, visit www now.org/conference. By Lisa Bennett Communications Director Copyright National Organization for Women Inc. Spring 2005 This scarecrow is helping to patronize the farmer's crops. To find on the outside what is growing, read the ball of threads and write the answers in the confound Across: 3 Orange lower part vegetables... Kao has launched of recent origin products from "Sofina Raycious" Base Make Series. crops Features: Sofina Raycious brands are known as Kao's Prestigious Cosmetics; namely, foundation, base cream and face pow... CHICAGO -- For its 35th birthday celebration upon Oct. 1, Poster Plus, Chicago's oldest gallery, will mark the occasion with the release of a collection of 80-year-old [i]affiche[/i]s that were recently di... Another musician, Yoko Ono, is also getting attention from the art world. Ono's statuary installation, "Freight Train," is upon display outside of the Detroit Art Institute. The display was inspir... 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