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Above: The 2020 Rose Parade float commemorating the Women's Suffrage Centennial |
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Welcome to Sonoma County NOWApril 2024
Rose Gaffney, Sonoma County environmental hero, 1960s
Sonoma County NOW Contents
1. March Presentation Recording Hello NOW Friends! 1. March Presentation Recording On March 18, our chapter hosted Kirstyne Lange, president of the Sonoma County NAACP branch, who gave us a presentation of a number of women who changed history for us, including Ida B. Wells, the Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray, Angela Davis, Ruby Bridges, and others. This history then segued into today's world and what the branch is actively working on in Sonoma County to combat racism wherever it is found. The recording of this is on our YouTube channel and I encourage you all to watch it as it is quite inspiring. To learn more about the NAACP and the Sonoma County branch in particular, go to their website here. **************************************** 2. CA NOW Conference Our NOW state conference is August 10th—save the date! The theme is "Moving Forward and Igniting Change." This year the conference will be held in Santa Rosa, at the Presbyterian Church of the Roses. Many thanks to our treasurer, Elaine B. Holtz, for finding the venue! We expect people from all over the state to attend and we can use volunteers to help in the days leading up to and including the conference. The conference will be a hybrid one, though attending in-person is preferable. More details to come as well as a call for volunteers.. Proposals are in the process of being submitted. If you wish to submit a proposal (due April 8), here are the instructions from CA NOW:
**************************************** 3. Save the Date--Juneteenth Celebration The 54th Annual Juneteenth Celebration will be held in the MLK Park in Santa Rosa on June 15th. To find out how to become a sponsor, please click here. This website will also give many more details about the celebration, including being a vendor or a volunteer. We hope you will attend this important festival. **************************************** 4. Member Get-to-Know-You Invitation Calling all members! We'd love to get to know you better. We are looking for submissions to appear in the newsletter, such as a short bio, an event you wish NOW members to attend, an article you find important and think our readers would appreciate, a poem you've created, even a photo of you. Up to two submissions per member allowed at a time and these will be published at the discretion of the editor. Please send submissions to info@nowsonoma.org. Our newsletter deadline is the 25th of each month. We hope to hear from you! To start this concept off, we have included two poems by Elaine B. Holtz. See below. **************************************** 5. Contributions This month is a general membership meeting; while there is no presenter, if you attend, you will learn more about the inner workings of our chapter. You can help by sending in a contribution to our chapter so that we can expand our presence in Sonoma County. See below for how to contribute. **************************************** 6. April Meeting Information This month is a general membership meeting; while there is no presenter, if you attend, you will learn more about the inner workings of our chapter. You can help by sending in a contribution to our chapter so that we can expand our presence in Sonoma County. See below for how to contribute.
April 15, 2024 Zoom Details
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If you are interested in joining our board, please write to
info@nowsonoma.org. We'd love to be able to do more in the county and need
your skills for many different types of special projects, including planning
upcoming events, particularly as we consider how we might further partner
with the NAACP and other organizations.
—Amy Nykamp, President
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**************************************** If you are not yet a NOW member or need to renew
your membership, please join our growing organization! Our chapter's ID is
CA0660 and you can select it when you sign up here. If you prefer to write a
check, here is a form you can clip and mail.
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and P.O. Box 6223 Facebook:
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Above: Our Chapter celebrating the 50th Anniversary of NOW with the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, October 2016. ---- August 26, 2020, the 19th Amendment Centennial and
Women's Equality Day was celebrated in Sebastopol with the Women's Suffrage
Banners.
---- The 2020 Rose Parade featured the We Heart float
commemorating the Women's Suffrage Centennial and won the Theme Trophy.
See video clip below for the passage of the float and the Women Suffragist
marchers in front of KTLA cameras January 1, 2020. ----
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Let's Meet! Monthly Meetings are on the 3rd Monday of every month, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. See Events page for details.
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