FLDO 'War On Women' Panel Packs Senior Center
The event was sponsored by Democrat Clubs from four municipalities.
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Local women expressed anger over what they felt were recent national and state legislative threats to women's rights and health care at a panel discussion Thursday night. Over 100 people turned out in the rain at the Fair Lawn Senior Center for the panel hosted by the Fair Lawn, Hawthorne, Glen Rock, and Paramus Democratic clubs, and the Fair Lawn Democratic County Committee.
Panelists included State Senator Barbara Buono (D-Metuchen), Assemblywoman Connie Wagner (D-Paramus), and Michele Jaker, Executive Director at Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey. The panel was moderated by Fair Lawn councilwoman, and former Mayor, Lisa Swain, who quoted a New York Times editorial dated May 19, 2012 which said, "Whether this pattern of disturbing developments constitutes a war on women is a political argument. That women’s rights and health are casualties of Republican policy is indisputable."
"This is more than an assault on women's rights," Assemblywoman Connie Wagner said. "It is an assault on poor people, on the middle class and on the public education system."
The group pledged to organize themselves on a grass roots level and to take this fight not only to Trenton, against Govenor Christie, but to the Fair Lawn borough council, where Swain explained that the Republican majority had recently silenced Democrat councilman Kurt Peluso at a meeting.
Perhaps the most significant outcome of the meeting, which also had State Senator Bob Gordon actively involved, was a pledge made by all these Democratic groups -- not only from Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, Hawthorne and Paramus, but also from New Milford and other municipalities. They pledged to start now, organize and fight back on this war against women.
Janice
10:38 am on Saturday, May 26, 2012
I think it's bad enough to kill your baby, but to demand that I pay for it is going way too far!!!
Ed Rooney
2:45 pm on Saturday, May 26, 2012
Janice- that is just the type of ignorance that fuels the "war". No one is asking you to pay for it- Planned Parenthood is way more than that very small piece of their budget. It is imperative you educate yourself on the issues with the details, not just repeating things you heard on a Fox News headline.
I dare you to call them up and ask questions about what it is they do- get the truth.
Call up one of the participants and ask them to explain the women's issues and how the GOP is working towards legislating death to many women through anti-women's health policies. I am also pro-life and certainly refuse to pay to kill a baby, however, it is way more than that. Please learn more.
Allan E. Fineberg
3:08 pm on Saturday, May 26, 2012
It was a good meeting. Too bad Janice wasn't there.
kevin
10:28 pm on Saturday, May 26, 2012
Janice, sometimes there is only one way to win,vote with your feet, come on November !
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12:13 pm on Sunday, May 27, 2012
Yeah, vote with your feet, because they don't want you to vote with your brain, and certainly not with your desire to be an equal human being with the rights to specialized medical care or birth control. You just keep pumpin' out those kids and cleaning and hanging in the house, because a happy woman knows her 'place' in the world. Just like those happy 'colored' folks used to...and that's sarcasm for the thinking impaired. Sad to think that something said by Rebecca West eighty years ago is still true today - and that the forces that want to continue that bigotry that enslaves half the population have now latched on to an entire political party to endorse their warped agenda.
Cornell Christianson
1:16 pm on Sunday, May 27, 2012
From my friend who writes for the Los Angeles Times:
Excellent. An important piece too. It's here, and places in America like Fair Lawn, that the battle has to be fought, so the tide isn't given any chance to turn.
Good reporting.
The irrational right-wing so-called religious base the Republican party is exploiting for its own power is one of the saddest, and most dangerous, things going on in American politics today -- and it's been going on for a long time.
Allan E. Fineberg
4:15 pm on Sunday, May 27, 2012
Read Sinclair Lewis' book It Can't Happen Here, or Philip Roth's The Plot Against America to get some idea of what fascism would look like in the USA.
"That which the fascists hate above all else, is intelligence."
Miguel de Unamuno
LENNY
11:58 am on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
how much rent did the town get for the use of this building? this was not a town event we should get income Mr boro manager.
Tommy P
2:05 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
He won't do that. He needs there votes in case if one of three (R)s don't line up with him.
Stuart Pace
12:15 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
silencing Kurt was a war on women?
Tommy P
2:03 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Its a war on truth. Here is the truth, Obama's reelection chances are in BIG trouble.
The majority of Americans are not statists, we don't like them. There is a calculation if they can create the fear and uncertainty in the minds of women that they will vote for Obama and forget or not realize what/who he is. That is all this was nothing more. Its hard to distinguish Obama from Mussolini, but Americans are not that dumb. He fooled a lot of people once, I don't see how he can do it again.
The irony is the abusive tax policies, onerousness regulations and other social programs like calling the majority of people (ie woman) a minority actually makes things worse for women not better.
I have a copy of the audio from this event, its quite disgusting and I am sure it will make for a good TV commercial some day.
Stuart Pace
2:13 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2ykHinIPg
Allan E. Fineberg
5:27 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Tommy P says, "I have a copy of the audio from this event, its quite disgusting and I am sure it will make for a good TV commercial some day." Why don't you post it on the Patch? We're still waiting to hear what Donald Trump's investigators uncovered in Hawaii regarding the President's birth certificate, so maybe you can placate us a bit with your audio tape.
Tommy P
5:33 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Allan, " I pray that the Flying Spaghetti Monster may wrap you in his noodly appendage. May all your meatballs be little ones. Ramen and ramen! "
The video was given to me with the proviso that I not distribute it.
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8:31 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
They should have let the junior airhead talk so the public could all hear about his inability to understand how government meetings work. As for the secret tape...don't hold your breath.