Posted by shan on May 28, 2007
Thanks to MN Valley NOW member Robin Martinek for coming to the meeting last week and letting us know about this upcoming NARAL event. Get a group of your friends together and get ready for a great night out!
NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota’s 8th Annual Comedy for Choice event will be held on June 21st. This year’s event will at the Suburban World Theater at 3022 Hennepin Ave in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. The evening starts at 6:00 PM and the performance goes underway at 7:00 PM. A cash bar will be open during the evening. The night will feature stand-up, storytelling, slam poetry, and impressions. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by shan on May 13, 2007
Hi, Everyone, from Sue Crosbie, Secretary of the MN Valley NOW Chapter.
I want to share some thoughts about the topic of our April meeting’s speaker, the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine, GARDASIL. We invited Jerri Johnson, a homeopath and health freedom activist, to give her perspective on the vaccine. To our pleasant surprise, Dr. Lesley Atwood, scheduled speaker for the May 19 State Conference (next weekend!) decided to come hear Jerri’s perspective. And so, we were treated to a sort of friendly informal debate on the topic.I have a 21 year old daughter who is a potential candidate for this vaccine, so I was curious to hear Jerri’s opinions. Since the meeting, I had my yearly physical, including of course the dreaded pap smear, and so I had a brief conversation with my nurse practitioner about the vaccine. I came away with a CDC information sheet about the vaccine. According to the CDC info sheet, “HPV vaccine can prevent most genital warts and most cases of cervical cancer.” Other facts on the sheet include: the HPV vaccine protects against four major types of HPV, and women will still need cervical cancer screening because the vaccine does not protect against all HPV types.
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Posted by shan on May 11, 2007
Join us on Thursday, May 24, 2007 for our next chapter meeting. Our general membership business meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. and all members are welcome to attend.
Our presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and is open to the public. Our speaker, Taylor Kristoffe-Jones, ran for the Minnesota House of Representatives for District 35B during the recent 2006 elections. She was endorsed by the House DFL Caucus and ran in a historically Republican district. She will speak about her campaign experience, her background, and her plans to run again in 2008. A question and answer session will follow.
You can read a candidate profile from 2006 about Ms. Kristoffe-Jones from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune here.
The meeting will be held at the Prior Lake Public Library, located at 16210 Eagle Creek Ave. SE, Prior Lake, MN.
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Posted by shan on May 6, 2007
Still wondering what to get your mother (or a special mom in your life) for Mother’s Day? Be sure to check out Minnesota NOW’s “Women We Honor” web page. It features heartfelt messages from sponsors to honor the special women in their lives. You can be a part of this ongoing program. Just go to http://mnnow.org/honor.htm for more information.
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Posted by shan on May 6, 2007
We’ve updated our home/front page to display the chapter blog, instead of showing the same welcome screen over and over again. To see the welcome screen and information about our chapter and about NOW, just click on the “About Us” tab at the top of the screen, or click here.
We hope you’ll check back often ~ this page changes often with new updates, information, and our thoughts about current events and feminist actions.
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Posted by shan on May 4, 2007
All of the videos in the sidebar to the right are now working again. Vod:pod informed us they discovered a problem on their end and repaired it for us promptly. Thanks to Scott and Mark at vod:pod for helping us out!
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Posted by shan on May 3, 2007
We’re experiencing some problems with a couple of the videos in the sidebar. The ABC News Now video with Kim Gandy and the Today Show video about the Vagina Monologues suspensions are not playing when you click on the screenshots in the sidebar. The Hillary Clinton video does work however. We’ve contacted vod:pod about the problem and will hopefully have it fixed soon. In the meantime, you can go to http://mnvalleynow.vodpod.com/ to view the videos – all of the videos are working correctly at our vod:pod site.
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