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May 15, 2003

Memo to N.O.W.: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Independent Women's Forum Announces Major Expansion
Targets Courts and Campuses

http://www.iwf.org/news/030515a.shtml



WASHINGTON, DC (May 15, 2003) - The Independent Women's Forum (IWF) today
announced a major expansion and commitment of financial resources toward
combating feminist judicial activism and campus indoctrination.

"N.O.W. and other extreme feminists have been smart-rebuffed by public
opinion and legislative bodies, they have worked hard to make their agenda
into law by taking their pleas to activist, liberal judges who are willing
to write law from the bench," says IWF President Nancy M. Pfotenhauer. "And
they have permeated college campuses to such a degree that they have
successfully killed intellectual diversity-college students with differing
views are routinely intimidated into silence.

"Our forays into the American campus have connected us with countless bright
young women frustrated by rigid feminist propaganda of male hatred and
female victimhood," Pfotenhauer adds. "But they need our support to battle
the feminist campus bureaucracy and insist on true intellectual diversity."

"IWF has long fought a guerrilla battle against such tactics. Today, we are
pleased to announce we have the resources to launch a full-scale defense of
both the Constitution and intellectual freedom on America's campuses."

IWF will take several major steps in the coming months:

*  Major expansion of personnel and programs

*  Amplify IWF presence in court battles

*  Dramatically increase resources for IWF's highly acclaimed campus
outreach-development of additional campus chapters, a nationwide speaker's
bureau, an improved website, and new publications

*  Building upon the enormous success of the IWF website (over a million
hits per month), launch a newly designed site providing daily reporting and
instant commentary

"For far too long," Pfotenhauer notes, "feminist groups like N.O.W. have
claimed to speak for American women. We're issuing fair warning: extreme
feminists, get to your foxholes because IWF is on the attack."

The Independent Women's Forum, founded in 1992, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan
educational organization.



News of IWF's Expansion Is Making Waves in National Journal

Women's Forum Opens a New Front (excerpted from National Journal)

http://www.iwf.org/news/030515.shtml
The conservative Independent Women's Forum certainly isn't shy about picking
fights with the National Organization for Women and other liberal feminist
groups. "Memo to NOW: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid," reads a statement by forum
President Nancy M. Pfotenhauer, announcing her group's effort aimed at
"combating feminist judicial activism and campus indoctrination." In an
interview, Pfotenhauer said the annual budget of the 11-year-old forum is
expected to double from its historic average of $1.3 million. She said the
forum would use the infusion of money to hire more personnel, to mount a
stronger presence in court battles, to develop additional campus chapters,
to launch a new Web site providing daily reporting and commentary, and to
fund other programs.

As the forum sees it, liberal feminist groups "have been smart" in recent
years about avoiding legislative fights and instead have focused on
advancing their agenda through the courts and in colleges and universities.

Now, Pfotenhauer said, the forum is launching a counterattack in those
arenas. "We have the resources to do it," she said. "We are going to have a
cat fight in the courts, and a cat fight on campuses." -Robert Gettlin





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