NOW Minutes

Northeast Missouri NOW Minutes

April 11, 2009

 Present:  Hena Ahmad, Monica Barron, Laura Gruber, Julia Reed, Linda Seidel, Mary Sims, Sarah Trimborn.

 Blog.  Monica is at work creating a blog for Northeast Missouri NOW.  When it’s completed, we will let everyone know what it’s for and how to do it!

 Planned Parenthood Action.  Monica also reminded us that Tri-Rivers Planned Parenthood is planning a Visibility Event on Saturday, May 2, from 11am-1pm.  If this is similar to their Visibility Events for the last couple years, it will consist of standing on Baltimore Street in front of the TRPP Clinic with pro-Planned Parenthood signs.  NOW very much wants to support this action and encourages everyone to join in.  We’ll get more information out about this later in the month.

 Movie Night.  We had three DVDs to choose from for our feminist movie night:  North Country (a fictionalized account of the successful sexual harassment suit brought by a woman miner in Minnesota),

Frozen River (two women smuggle illegal aliens into the Mohawk reservation in upstate New York from Canada), and

In Good Conscience (documentary on Sister Jeannine Gramick whose ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics prompted a Silencing order from the Vatican—which she hasn’t obeyed).

 Since North Country and  Frozen River are commercial releases and therefore more easily available, we decided to watch In Good Conscience, which was very well done and provoked some good discussion. 

 Thanks to Linda for thinking of Movie Night, and for hosting!!

 Mary Sims

Secretary, Northeast Missouri NOW