For Immediate Release: March 3rd, 2026 President Julie Kent, Florida NOW, president@flnow.org
Orlando, FL — March 3, 2026 — The Florida National Organization for Women (Florida NOW) issues a forceful condemnation of the bombing that struck a girls’ school in Minab during ongoing military operations in Iran.
In the late 1980s, Palm Beach County NOW was actively organizing around sexual violence and workplace harassment. After a reported rape at a public beach in Boca Raton in 1989, the chapter organized a “Take Back the Beach” protest to call attention to violence against women and unsafe conditions in public spaces. During that action, a male lifeguard approached NOW members to share concerns about the sexual harassment of female lifeguards within the City of Boca Raton’s lifeguard department.
Rev. Jesse Jackson with NOW members at the March on Washington for Affirmative Action, 2000.
Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., civil rights leader, Baptist minister, and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. For more than five decades, Jackson stood at the forefront of movements for racial justice, voting rights, economic equity, and affirmative action, shaping national conversations about democracy and inclusion.