The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind speaks to Fox & Friend Co-Host and Pioneer Mentor Gretchen Carlson on the launch of The Mentor Exchange , with support from The Staples Foundation:

The New Agenda is proud to be an organizational partner of the Athena Film Festival for 2012.

The Athena Film Festival: A Celebration of Women and Leadership, announces its 2012 lineup of narrative and documentary films, as well as this year’s recipients of the Athena Film Festival Awards.  Now in its second year, the Festival runs from Thursday, February 9 through Sunday, February 12 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights.
2012 Athena Award Winners:  Julia Barry accepting The Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of her late mother; Rachael …

Happy Holidays from your friends at The New Agenda.

The New Agenda Foundation & FOURsight present
A Girlfriends’ Guide to Making it on Wall Street
Top 10 Myths and Musts
(come hear the insiders’ scoop, and ask the questions you’ve been afraid to ask)
Thursday, December 1st
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
The Scandinavia House
58 Park Avenue(btw 37 and 38th street
Cost: $30 donation at the door

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A portrait of a young Amy Beach.This weekend the National Symphony invited me to an evening at Strathmore (Washington area) entitled “Women Pioneers.”
The host was Madeleine Albright.
The program included
Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the common man”
Joan Tower’s “Fanfare for the uncommon women”
Saint-Saëns “Introduction and Rondo capriccioso”
Amy Beach’s “Grand Mass in e flat major”
Violinist Chee-Yun performed the solo part of Saint-Saëns “Introduction and Rondo capriccioso,” originally composed for Pablo de Sarrasate, the Spanish virtuoso …

The following press release has been sent to select media outlets.
October 26, 2011
The New Agenda, a national organization dedicated to achieving safety and opportunity for all women, launched an online petition to have a New Jersey county prosecutor who made victim-blaming statements about the NY Friedlander family murders terminated or re-assigned for his statements.  On Oct. 18 Amy Friedlander and her two children were brutally murdered by husband and father Sam Friedlander.
The petition addressed to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Attorney General Paula Dow, and Passaic County prosecutor Camelia M. …

As reported in the Ossining-CrotonOnHudson Patch:

Groups concerned with domestic violence are staging a rally Monday in White Plains to express outrage at the “victim blaming” since Tuesday’s Friedlander triple murder-suicide; and to offer support to victims who have not yet found a way to reach out for help.Sam Friedlander, 50, bludgeoned his wife Amy, 46, to death with a broken piece of furniture and murdered both his children—Gregory, 8, and Molly, 10—with a 12-gauge shotgun before turning the weapon on himself in their Cross River, NY home.
The rally begins at …

UPDATE: Thank you to those of you who signed or ‘liked’ our petition to fire Bill Maher. The petition has been delivered to the Time Warner Board of Directors, and initial calls have been made to HBO Management. The New Agenda will be forming a TASK FORCE to take such follow up actions as are necessary to ensure that HBO Management takes proper action with respect to Bill Maher’s misogynistic behavior. Info to follow…
On Friday, September 23rd, Bill Maher said this during his HBO show:
Sarah Palin Would ‘F–k’ …

ADMIN NOTE:  Since Dodgers Game is longer than usual, the show will begin around 8:30 or 9 pm EST.
Tune in Sunday night at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST as Amy Siskind co-hosts KABC Radio with Stephen Bannon, producer of The Undefeated.
Guess include:
1. Anand Giridharadas – to discuss his New York Times op-ed Some of Sarah Palin’s Ideas Cross the Political Divide;
2. Scott Conroy of RealClearPolitics;
3. Tony Lee of Human Events.
Tucker Carlson, editor of The Daily Caller has also been invited to appear in defense of The Daily Caller’s controversial, sexist …

The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind appeared on a political panel for Fox & Friends to discuss whether Sarah Palin will join the already crowded GOP field.  And how Palin is different than other GOP candidates.