Conference Update: C’mon, C’mon!

Date: Saturday, October 12, 2013.

Location: George Mason University; Fairfax campus; George’s Restaurant in the Johnson Center.

Map can be found here (click).

Purple parking lots are for Visitor Parking.

The Johnson Center is building number 29, in the center of campus.

Please register in advance. George’s Restaurant has a capacity of only 100.

(Click here) for conference registration.  Please pre-register as capacity of the restaurant is 100 people.

Virginia NOW Officers :   VIP Tickets (Optional Donating)

Virginia NOW Members :  Fee and Membership ($35.00)
Students w/ID : Fee ($10.00)
Sliding Scale for low-income registrants : $5 – No Charge

Invited Speaker: Robin Marty of RH Reality Check

Robin and our own Tannis Fuller put on the most attended (standing room only) panel at the national conference in Chicago this year. Robin will be signing her book Crow after Roe (copies available at signing) and discussing current and future challenges to reproductive rights, and strategies for countering those challenges.

Terry O’Neill of the National Organization for Women will attend, possibly address the conference. Her participation is sponsored by the GMU Department of Women and Gender Studies.

Schedule:
9 to 10: Registration and coffee; book signing with Robin Marty. Copies of Crow after Roe will available on site.
10 to 12: Reproductive Rights with Robin Marty
12 to 1:30: Lunch
1:30 to 4: Voting Rights with NALEO, the Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights, and NAACP (invited, speakers to be confirmed)

Links (alphabetically):

George Mason University Department of Women and Gender Studies (click) 
Lawyer’s Committee on Civil Rights (click)
NALEO (click)
Robin Marty and RH Reality Check (click) and Crow after Roe (click)
Terry O’Neill of National Organization for Women (click)