It's all about the money

Author Accuses Women's Groups of Racketeering
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

WASHINGTON — A researcher of women's organizations is accusing bedrock feminist groups of threatening legal pressure and public embarrassment of corporations and schools if they don't contribute millions of dollars and alter policy to their liking.

Author Kimberly Schuld, who recently published a Guide to Feminist Organizations for the Capital Research Center, breaks down the membership, personnel and funding of nearly 40 established women's organizations, think tanks and health groups.

"They use each other, they are very closely aligned and they don't work independently," Schuld told Foxnews.com. "The MO of these feminist organizations is to threaten with lawsuits and threaten with embarrassment. They don't care about women, they care about their own power."

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Officials at NOW did not return calls for comment. Between NOWLDEF, NOW and the NOW Foundation, the operation raised more than $12 million in revenues in 2000, though membership has been in decline for a decade, said Schuld.

I can't help but wonder what Ms Schuld would think about Australia, where women's groups are about to take over one state's government. Victoria will soon be a subdivision of NOW. I expect to see a committee formed at NOW Australia to oversee the Victorian courts and politics soon, if it doesn't already exist.
Australians were worried about giving sovereignty to a section of Queensland to the Japanese? Wait til they see that Victoria belongs to a declining radical organization!

"[Women] have workplace protections up the wazoo, we are probably the most protected class in the country." Schuld said. "But this is just a shakedown over public relations. The last thing [corporations] need is a story in The New York Times saying their corporation is being sued."

For instance, Schuld said, in 1999, NOW-NYC activists pressured more than 900 women employees to sue Merrill Lynch for gender discrimination on the job. The stock trading company settled with individual plaintiffs, and Merrill Lynch donated $25,000 to the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund in 2000.

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Under the threat of legal action, schools have cut longstanding swimming, football and baseball teams. Brown University is currently engaged in a lawsuit over female athletic participation rates -- even though it has more teams for women than for men on campus.

Schuld said the women's groups are in cahoots to "basically throw the fishnet out for plaintiffs" on campuses across the country, encouraging girls to seek legal assistance if they feel spurned by the system

Well, NOW has to get money from somewhere...

In the US, NOW and other women's groups can be charged under RICO statutues for such activities. Members and leaders can go to jail and be subject to significant fines. In Australia, the most anyone can do is just go to the beach and have another cappucino.
It's just a civil matter. And NOW is never involved. The cases are always organized so that only the coached plaintiffs and defendants can lose. It's a game called, "Let's you and him fight."