Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 14:03:43 -0500
From: "Duffy Mary" <Duffy_Mary.Mail3-AT-msmail.middlebury.edu> (by way of
Subject: FW: is feminism dead?



Subject:
       now-action-list Respond to Time magazine
   Date:
       Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:27:26 -0400
  From:
       National Organization for Women <now-AT-now.org>
    To:
       now-action-list-AT-now.org
Please respond via e-mail or fax or mail.

Feel free to forward the following to activists in its entirety or with
proper attribution:

>From the National Organization for Women Action Center:


The cover of the June 29, 1998 issue of TIME Magazine asks "Is Feminism
Dead?"
(http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980629/cover1.html)
The
articles inside answer the question with a resounding "YES!"  Perhaps a
magazine that unapologetically promotes the sexist notion that men rule
world with their "Man of the Year" awards should be expected to sabotage
feminism by pronouncing its demise.  Maybe it's unreasonable to think
that
a publication touted among journalism's elite would bother to contact the
country's largest feminist organization before writing the movement's
obituary.

NOW has a different answer to TIME's question.  While TIME might wish
that
feminists and feminism would go away, we are far from dead!  Feminism is
vibrant and thriving and making unprecedented gains for women and girls.

>From assembly lines to boardrooms, NOW has played a key role in
>winningvictories for women plagued by discrimination in the workplace.
>NOW's
Women-Friendly Workplace Campaign made historic breakthroughs in the
highly
visible sexual harassment cases against Mitsubishi and Smith Barney.
When
anti-abortion terrorists attacked women's health clinics, NOW headed for
the streets, the courts and Congress.  We organized activists to stand-up
for women's rights and to defend clinics.  We successfully sued the
anti-abortion racketeers using the RICO statute.  And we lobbied Congress
to pass the Freedom to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE).  NOW's unique
approach
of combining action in the streets with more conventional means of social
change has resulted in key victories.

We are asking feminists across the country to stand up and be counted!
Tell TIME that you, and the movement, are alive and well.  Send a clear
message that feminism is alive and TIME is out of touch.  There are
several
opportunities for you to speak-out:

 --Send an E-mail message to the editor of TIME at letters-AT-time.com

 --Participate in an online TIME/Yahoo! chat with Phyllis Chesler at 8 pm
ET on Thursday, June 25, 1998.

 --Flood TIME's snail-mail box and fax machine with letters of protest.

TIME Magazine Letters
Time & Life Building
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY 10020
fax: 212-522-8949

--Join NOW and sign-up your friends!  You can join online at
http://www.now.org/member.html
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