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Reproductive Rights | Economic Justice | Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Civil Rights | Violence against Women | Racial/Ethnic Diversity

Reproductive Rights

• access to abortion (including medical abortion//RU 486)
• Roe v. Wade
• emergency contraception (EC)
• birth control in health care plans
• sexual education
• maternity/paternity care/leave
• family planning
• access to reproductive health care
• post-abortion care
• childcare
• fertility/infertility

Be a clinic escort! Contact Barbara Hoke (hokex@comcast.net) with your phone number, organization, and full name and address, if you can give three hours twice a month, or even once, on Tuesday, Thursday or Friday mornings.

Help OEB NOW survey local pharmacies about the availability of Emergency Contraception. E-mail us at oaklandeastbaynow@yahoo.com.

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Economic Justice

• equality in the workplace
• welfare
• pay equity
• health care/mental care access
• employment access/job training
• public education
• immigrant/migrant labor/rights
  

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Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Civil Rights

• discrimination issues
• insurance; taxes
• gay marriage
• adoption
• HIV/AIDS/Hepatitis C
• hate crimes
• culturally-sensitive health care/access to health care

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Violence against Women

• public education about gender-based violence, including domestic and sexual violence against women and children
• exposing the cycle and motivating reasons behind the cycle
• shelters (battered women, women and children, etc.)
• stigma
• war
• community violence

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Racial/Ethnic Diversity

• HIV/AIDS
• education equality/access
• affirmative action
• school integration
• culturally-sensitive health care/access to health care
• immigrant/migrant rights/labor
• reparation

Do you know of activism happening around these issues in the Bay Area? Let us know! OEB NOW members might be able to support your event...

E-mail: cdnorberg@comcast.net

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