Meet-Up Announcement!
Atlanta, Georgia
Saturday, Mar. 28th at 2 pm
Join us for coffee and learn about The New Agenda!  Bring your friends, heck bring your enemies!  Everyone is welcome, and we’re saving you a seat!  The caramel macchiatos and banana nut bread alone make it worth the drive!
Starbucks Coffee
2580 Windy Hill Rd
Marietta, GA 30067
770-303-8217
If you have any questions please email newagendateamcaptain@yahoo.com

Meet-Up Announcement!
New York City, NY
Saturday, March 21st at 5:30 pm
You are invited to join us at the Algonquin Hotel for a meeting of The New Agenda!  Please bring yourself, all your friends, and your ideas about women’s issues.  You’ll enjoy great conversation, meet other interesting women, and you can even stay for dinner and drinks!
The Algonquin Hotel
59 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
If you have any questions please email newagendateamcaptain@yahoo.com

Oprah Winfrey has spoken out about dating violence and the Chris Brown assault on Rihanna. Winfrey and Tyra Banks hosted a live Oprah show from Chicago yesterday where the focus was dating violence. Winfrey dedicated the show “to all the Rihanna’s of the world.” The show has reignited the discussion of Brown’s assault on Rihanna, and at least one CNN male news anchor last night actively wished the topic would “go away.” Typical media reaction, wouldn’t you agree?
But it will not go away, nor should it. It has been painful …

We are the New Media.
Not The New Agenda, specifically, but bloggers, and particularly feminist bloggers, who have a powerful set of common interests and common goals. As print media shambles toward increasing obsolescence, eclipsed by the rapidly evolving world of electronic information, we who communicate in this medium have an opportunity to come together and speak in a single, booming voice that will reverberate all the way into the precincts of power.
Make no mistake: we will be heard. Which is why the choice of Valerie Jarrett as Chair of the …

This Blog Made Possible By…
Dr. Barbara Liskov
Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Liskov of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this year’s recipient of what MIT News calls the  “Nobel Prize of Computing.”
“Barbara Liskov pioneered some of the most important advances in fundamental computer science,” said  Provost Rafael Reif. “Her exceptional achievements have leapt from the halls of academia to transform daily life around the world.  Every time you exchange e-mail with a friend, check your bank account statement online or run a Google search, you are riding the momentum of her research.”
Indeed, …

Dr. Margaret Hamburg
Good news! Dr. Margaret Hamburg has been nominated to be the head of the Food and Drug Administration.
Dr. Hamburg was one of the youngest people ever elected to the Institute of Medicine (an affiliate of the National Academy of Sciences) and is a highly regarded expert in community health and bio-defense, including preparedness for nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. She is a leading advocate for changes in the nation’s public health policies and infrastructure, from local health departments to the highest levels of government.
Dr. Hamburg has had …

The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind wrote the following piece that was published in The Daily Beast.  Many excerpts were comments taken from The New Agenda blog.

President Obama’s choice to lead the newly created White House Council on Women and Girls has done virtually nothing to advance women’s rights. We should support her anyway.
Today President Obama signed an executive order creating a White House Council on Women and Girls. The President’s Council will have as its mandate: “To provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronted by women and …

This morning, The New Agenda sent out the following media advisory to the press:
MEDIA ADVISORY
March 11, 2009
White House Women’s Council a Welcome Development
The New Agenda welcomes President Barack Obama’s decision to create a White House Council on Women and Girls to strengthen the federal response to the challenges confronted by American women of all ages.
Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to Obama during his campaign for President, is expected to be named today to oversee the agency.
“This is a fitting way to mark both Women’s History Month and address the persistent …

Valerie Jarrett
Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama during his run to be President, will be named tomorrow to oversee a newly created White House Women’s Council.
Now I know the reactions here will be mixed. Those of us who voted for President Obama will think this is a fabulous choice. Those of us who were fans of SOS Clinton when she ran will view a certain irony that Jarrett is given a top spot in the area of promoting women’s issues. Those of us who voted …

Susan Arnold
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that another top woman in corporate America is stepping down. Susan Arnold, President of Procter & Gamble’s global business unit announced that she will leave after spending nearly three decades at P&G.
This is particularly discouraging. Currently, only 13 of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women –less than 3%. Women hold only 15.4% of corporate management jobs in the Fortune 500 Companies. This is also trending lower — down from 17.4% a couple of years back.
Why did Susan leave? …