For Immediate Release: September 9, 2025
FL NOW demands a Florida state budget to adequately support community needs.
Orlando, FL — The Florida National Organization for Women (FL NOW) denounces the 2025 state budget and escalating detention practices as a coordinated attack on women, LGBTQ+ communities, and immigrant families across the state.
For Immediate Release: August 13, 2025
By Julie Kent, FL NOW President, President@flnow.org
This attack is aimed at marginalized communities and focused on creating fear as Fascists do.
Orlando, FL — The Florida National Organization for Women (FL NOW) strongly condemns the Trump administration’s escalating authoritarianism and federal overreach in Washington, D.C., which now includes ICE raids at schools and shelters, attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, and the targeting of judges, election officials, and civil servants.
For Immediate Release July 6, 2025 by Florida NOW
Orlando, FL — The Florida National Organization for Women (FL NOW) joins the chorus of Indigenous leaders, environmental advocates, and human rights defenders in condemning the construction of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility in Big Cypress National Preserve.
“This is not immigration policy—it’s ecological violence and institutionalized cruelty,” said Julie Kent, President of FL NOW. “Governor DeSantis is turning sacred land into a prison camp. These people are not criminals and need due process. Women, children, and families will pay the price. Using the name Alcatraz to name this place is likening this to a horrible prison. It reflects the expected human rights abuses the U.S. has long abhorred and protested. Alligator Alcatraz involves many of FL NOW pillar issues like Reproductive Rights, Racial Justice, Ending Violence Against Women.”