This Saturday, January 17th, 2015, N.O.W. Shreveport-Bossier will hold their first annual 'Stand for Women's Lives' event from 10:00am till noon in Festival Plaza in downtown Shreveport.
The Shreveport-Bossier Chapter of the National Organization of Women has been serving Northwest Louisiana since August of 2012 and would like to invite like-minded people to join their cause.

The group holds monthly meetings on the second Monday of each month at 6pm.

Here's more on this weekend's protest from President Debbie Lynn Hollis of NOW Shreveport/Bossier:

N.O.W. Shreveport-Bossier will host the first annual "Stand for Women's Lives" event this Saturday, January 17, from 10AM to noon at Festival Plaza in Shreveport.

The primary goal for this event is to educate the public about the legally-protected reproductive rights available to all women. N.O.W. members want to do our part to ensure that all children brought into this world are loved and wanted, and that all mothers, sisters and daughters have access to safe, legal medical services and support.  This event will also give a public voice to the people in Shreveport-Bossier who tirelessly advocate for the equal rights, health and welfare of women and families.

Many will stand with us this Saturday in support of, and in solidarity for, every woman's basic right to life and liberty. We will share factual information about women's health, and speak out against the current onslaught of medically-unsound, anti-woman legislation.

As activists, we continually work to help women maintain access to regular medical care, and exercise their legal right to privacy while doing so.  We strongly believe that women should not be forced to contend with elected officials and private interest groups who seek to take away our basic human rights to our own bodies.

N.O.W. Shreveport-Bossier hopes others will be empowered to speak out for the health and safety of the women they love.  Women's lives matter, and we will not remain silent while special interest groups hijack our constitutional rights.

All like-minded people are invited to join N.O.W. Shreveport-Bossier's "Stand for Women's Lives" this Saturday.

This will be a peaceful protest, and the rules of civil disobedience will be observed.

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The Shreveport-Bossier Chapter of the National Organization of Women has been serving Northwest Louisiana since August 26, 2012.

We hold monthly meetings on the second Monday of each month at 6PM.

Our chapter's priority issues are:

1. Access to reproductive rights in our state,
2. Economic equality for women and families,
3. Workplace/illegal discrimination against women,
4. LGBT rights and racial equality,
5. Coalition-building with women throughout Louisiana.

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