We had been warned by our friend Marcia Pappas, President of NOW NY, to expect to be harrased by Monserrate’s representatives.
You were right Marcia, and it did not take long!
The phone number listed on our press release has received several calls from various telephone numbers from a man by the name of Davidson Goldin.   Davidson works for Dolce Goldin, which describes itself as a “Reputation Management” firm.  Media reports say that Monserrate is paying the firm $15,000 to tidy his current and past reports of violence. Davidson called last night …

Here are a few stories that caught my eye this week…
The First Couple stepped away from the White House pressure cooker for a short visit with Washington D.C. schoolchildren. Among the topics addressed was the perennial favorite “what do you want to be when you grow up?”  According to “The Swamp” (the outlet for the Chicago Tribune’s Washington Bureau), one little boy informed Mr. Obama he would like to be the President of the United States.  The future former President responded encouragingly: “I think you might make it.”  One …

Jane Smith blogs at Unapologetic Feminist.
On January 22, 2009, at 6:17 p.m., something remarkable and historic took place on the floor of U.S. Senate. You may think that I am talking about the passage of the Lily Ledbetter Act, but I am not. The momentous event I am talking about is even more profound than the Lilly Ledbetter Act itself, and is revealed in the Senate roll call vote from that night.
A total of 97 votes were cast in the Senate on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. In order …

On Feb. 5th, on her home court at the University of Tennessee, Lady Vol’s basketball coach Pat Summit became the first coach in Div. I college basketball to accumulate 1000 career victories. 
Summit’s amazing career coaching college basketball stretches back to her first win as coach of the Tennessee Lady Vol’s on January 10th 1975. Devoted fans were thrilled to learn that Coach Summit has been signed to a contract extension that will carry her into 2014 with what can truly be described as “her” Lady Vol’s team.
 The University of Tennessee …

For Immediate Release
Contact: Amy Siskind
(484) 844-2996
NewAgendaPress@yahoo.com
The New Agenda Calls on NY Senate to Force Monserrate to Step Down

The New Agenda, a national non-partisan women’s rights group, is joining NOW NY in demanding that New York State Senate Sen. Hiram Monserrate step down immediately. Monserrate is charged with second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection with a domestic violence incident involving his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo. If convicted, Monserrate faces up to seven years in prison.
“In an appalling demonstration of partisanship over women’s safety, the …

We are thrilled to announce our newest gathering of New Agenda members!  Join us for Coffee and Cameraderie at the first Austin Texas meeting of The New Agenda!  Bring your friends!
Date: Sunday, February 8th at 9:00 am
Location: 360 Uno Espresso Vino (Coffee House)
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Austin, Texas 78746
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Reposted from Gretchen Glasscock’s blog, Advancing Women. Gretchen Glasscock is a co-founder and contributing writer to The New Agenda. Ed.

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As NJ.com reports in “Princeton dean departs for Washington to work for Clinton,”
Anne-Marie Slaughter has resigned as dean of the prestigious Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to serve the first female director of the State department’s Office of Policy Planning, reporting directly  to new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is very clearly building out a robust and experienced team to deal …

Reprinted with permission of the author.  Originally appeared in WomenseNews.
Senator Gillibrand
NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)–I am only human after all. I have sworn to uphold the basic creed of my profession by maintaining a healthy skepticism, often going as far as suspicion, of all elected officials.
I, however, am writing this now to admit I fail in the case of Kirsten Gillibrand, the new junior U.S. senator for New York, with whom I share the upstate-downstate, New York identity.
I have followed her closely for a few years now because she represented the mountainous …

The New Agenda issued the following press release this evening:
For Immediate Release
February 3, 2009
Contact: Amy Siskind
(484) 844-2996
NewAgendaPress@yahoo.com
Obama Gets Do-Over and a New Chance for Women
The New Agenda, a non-partisan national women’s rights group, is calling on President Obama to fill recently vacated seats with qualified women. The Secretary of Health and Human Services position is now open due to serious tax issues that derailed Senator Tom Daschle’s nomination. These tax and legal issues are also calling into question Timothy Geithner’s fitness for the Treasury Secretary position.
The New …

Beverly Cooper Neufeld is the Vice President of New York Women’s Agenda and Coordinator of the Equal Pay Coalition NYC.
Surrounded by members of Congress, President Barack Obama signs the Lilly Ledbetter Bill with Lilly Ledbetter, at center, behind Obama. SOURCE: AP/Ron Edmonds
What a picture: a petite, blond grandma from Georgia, dressed in red, standing next to our first African-American president as he signs his first major piece of legislation into law, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. In that moment, we who have felt anxiety, anger, …