NEW YORK--(COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Apr 14, 2004--Women`s eNews, a New York-based nonprofit independent news organization, will be dispatching a team of 8 reporters to cover every angle of the March for Women`s Lives in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2004.
The March will be attended by more than 1,000 women`s rights, civil rights and health care organizations, alongside religious leaders from all 50 states, to send a message to leaders in the nation`s capital that the persistent governmental attacks on women`s health and reproductive rights will not be tolerated. Organizers expect an unprecedented number of women and men to attend the March.
Women`s eNews (www.womensenews.org), which specializes in global coverage of issues that are of particular concern to women, will take an active role in covering this national event. Launched in 1999, the prize-winning nonprofit news service is the definitive source of substantive news on women`s rights. In addition to Rita Henley Jensen, Editor in Chief of Women`s eNews, Alexandra Poolos, Mona Eltahawy, Cynthia L. Cooper, Allison Stevens, Emma Pearse and Shaya Mohajer will report from the 2-mile march route and the National Mall. Photographer Jennifer Crandall will capture the day-long event in a real-time photo essay. These journalists have reported a wide variety of topics for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Village Voice, Newsday and many more.
Seven organizations are co-sponsoring the March For Women`s Lives: The American Civil Liberties Union, Black Women`s Health Imperative, Feminist Majority, NARAL, Pro-Choice America, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, National Organization for Women (NOW) and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Additionally, for the first time in its 95-year history, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Board of Directors unanimously endorsed a pro-choice march. ''This is an issue of equal rights, and we are pleased to join those insisting on a woman`s right to control her own body,'' said NAACP Board Chair, Julian Bond.
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