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2011 ~ what a year.

For pictures, events and news ~ find us on Facebook at PacificShoreNOW

At this time every member of Pacifc Shore NOW is also using Facebook.  Since it is so much easier to use, to invite members to events, to post photos of our activities, we are not posting regularly on this website.  However, if you would like any informarion about Pacific Shore NOW and are not using Facebook, please contact us directly.  

 

Holiday Cheer 2010

 
Happy Holidays from Pacific Shore.

Congratulations on a great year!

2011 will be even better.

Orange County Pride 2010

2010 Orange County Pride ~ August 14

See you at Booth 66 at Orange County Pride.

Summer News

Demonstrate that GAY IS OK

Orange County's Community Response to Ex-Gay Conference

Saturday, June 26    4 PM – 6 PM
Irvine, intersection of Ridgeline Drive & University Drive.

The largest ex-gay ministry organization in the world, Exodus International, is bringing its annual conference to Concordia University in Irvine. Please come out and help show that LGBT people don't need to be 'healed', they need to be loved and supported!

WHAT: We will be waving signs, chanting, and passing out literature. We will be trying to raise visibility and educate conference attendees and the general public.

WHO: LGBTQQ people, family and friends, straight allies, supportive clergy, and.....YOU! Come stand in solidarity with Orange County's LGBT community!

WHEN: 4 to 6 PM will be the focal time, but you are welcome to come early and stay late.

WHERE: We will be assembling at the intersection of Ridgeline Drive and University Drive in Irvine, adjacent to Concordia University campus.

GOAL OF EVENT: Our goal will be to show that 1) LGBT people need love, not therapy, and 2) Orange County is a welcome and supportive place for LGBT people.

SIGNS: Signs and leaflets will be provided. However, if you want to bring your own sign, please remember the key words for this event are LOVE, SUPPORT, and POSITIVITY. For example, "Gay is OK," "I love my lesbian daughter," "Trans teens need love, not therapy," or "OC Loves its Queers!"

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ORANGE COUNTY GAY PRIDE  (can you staff our table??)   
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 10:00pm
Hidden Valley - Next to the Verizon Amphitheater
8800 Irvine Center Dr, Irvine, CA

EVENT FACEBOOK PAGE

OC Pride tickets are only $10.00 join us as we Party Like a ROCK STAR and show that the Orange Curtain is the color of the RAINBOW!! Please click link below to purchase tickets in advance!
$50 VIP Tickets-Priority Parking, FREE FOOD, DRINKS, & INTERACTION w/ performers and artist in VIP tent, VIP seating at main stage.  Buy your tickets today.

Social Justice Summit

Pacific Shore NOW will be at the Sixth Annual Social Justice Summit, Cal State Fullerton.  Join us at the workshop, Feminism for the 21st Century and at our table at the Resource Fair.

Saturday, April 17  9 am - 5 pm

 The Social Justice Summit provides a forum for people to exchange ideas about improving the state of our communities, offers space to dialogue about the obstacles to creating effective change, provides effective tools for social action, and offers tangible grassroots solutions.

Learn about human rights issues, environmental concerns, inequality and oppression on a local, national and global level.  The Social Justice Summit is a FREE event, open to the public. REGISTER today.

***Summit Highlights***

Empowering Workshops: Workshops will focus not only on educating participants, but also empowering them to bring about change in our community.

Workshop Session One:
Animals in the Farming and Testing Industry
The Working Class in Orange County
The Fight for Remembrance and Justice: The Armenian Genocide
Rebel Tongues: Writing Poetry and Spoken Word of Resistance
Capitalism Out of Control?
Empowering Marginalized Girls: Social Justice in Action
Malaria and the Medical-Industrial Complex
Feminism for the 21st Century
Language Matters and Social Justice in Kindergarten through University Education


Workshop Session Two:
Health Disparities among Ethnic Minorities in the U.S.
Bread and Roses: Global Flower Production and Local Food Justice
Global Warming: Too Hot? Too Cold? But Not Just Right
The California State Budget Crisis – Its Impact on California Public Higher Education and the California State University
Organizing for Respect, Dignity and Justice at Fresh and Easy Neighborhood Market
Afghanistan Beyond The Media Lens
March On for Marriage Equality
Gunkist Memories: Peeling Back the Layers of the Real Orange County

Workshop Session Three:

Intro to Prison Industrial Complex Abolition
Trans Leadership: The Gender Justice Movement Today

Undocumented Students and Their Struggle for Higher Education
Water Crisis Facing Our Communities
Overcoming Barriers and Obstacles for Effective Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Faces of our Multicultural Self!
Pintar Obedeciendo: Community Mural Work as Activism
Ethical Textiles: Humanity in the Marketplace and Fair Trade

Equality - Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow ~ February 2010 Meeting

Pacific Shore NOW and the JOY Ministry (Justice, Outreach and You) invites you to an evening of conversation about equality.  From Marriage Equality to the ERA, Restore 2010 and HJ Res 61, its all about equality. Join us for refreshments and conversation.  For information contact the church at (949) 494-8061 or Pacific Shore NOW.

7:30PM
Thursday, February 25th
Neighborhood Congregational Church
340 St. Ann’s Drive
Laguna Beach
 

Celebrate Roe and Choice ~ January 2010 Meeting

National Council of Jewish Women/Los Angeles Co-Sponsored by City of West Hollywood Women's Advisory Board, Planned Hollywood Los Angeles-Pasadena & San Gabriel, Hollywood NOW, Pacific Shore NOW

Pro Choice is our Choice Too...Roe v. Wade at 37

Thursday, January 21, 2010
11:30 a.m. ~ 1:30 p.m. (program begins promptly at noon)
543 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Moderator: Mayor Abbe Land, City of West Hollywood
Guest Speakers:
Laurie Levenson, Professor of Law Loyola Law School
Rebecca Isaacs, President and Chief Executive Officer, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
Dr. Arthur Fleisher, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at U.S.C. Keck School of Medicine
Sandy Merida, Founder Young Feminist Club, Hollywood High School

To RSVP or for info call 323-852-8503 or email ruth@ncjwla.org

December News

Dear Pacific Shore NOW,

I wonder often if you know how outstanding NOW is, how far your annual membership fee goes.  If women and girls are forgotten, NOW is there.  If HCR fines women for reproduction, NOW is there.  If lesbians and all queers are working to end discrimination, NOW is there; which means you are there.  Every time you see a NOW round, you are there.   I am very proud of what NOW is doing and that means YOU.  

Sunday December, 13  Please consider our holiday celebration ~ your celebration.  Please RSVP, bring a dish and a friend.  If you did not get your evite, please let me know.

December 2 STUPAK PITTS  NOW will converge on Capitol Hill and will deliver to our representatives and senators this message: Harmful anti-abortion language has no place in health care reform legislation. NOW will ask them to take a pledge to vote against any bill containing anti-choice language that goes beyond current law.

Pacific Shore NOW has proudly signed on to a press release along with;

• Hollywood NOW
• Long Beach-South Bay NOW
• Palm Springs NOW
• Planned Parenthood Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley
• The City of West Hollywood
• NCJW-LA
• Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP)
• Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project - LA County
• One Voice for Choice campaign

If you would like to attend the local press conference, please contact me and I will forward the information to you.

 Friday Dec 4, Costa Mesa  You may know that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going to be at the Airport Hilton to address the Orange County Democratic Party.  Tickets are $150.  (do you have a spare?)

It is for the Harry Truman Awards.  If you google Nancy Pelosi Orange County Dec 4 you will find all types of groups from the tea party people to pro-life and, it is safe to assume after Tuesday’s address to the nation, there will be anti-war people.  Should you want to be there, carry a Pacific Shore NOW round, please call or email me. 

Holiday Gifts The best $15 you can spend to protect the rights of women and girls is a holiday gift of a NOW membership.  http://now.org  Join Pacific Shore CA 0450

Please go on line, buy one for everyone you know, they will be in our chapter, support things you believe in, receive NOW information from DC and most importantly, they will be a part of this important voice for women and girls.

Palm Springs Pride

Join with us at Palm Springs Pride.

Saturday, Nov 7, 10 AM.