Before you order another Domino's Pizza. we thought you'd like .to know ... Domino's . Discriminates• Domino's Denies NOW Access to Public Facilities In May 1988. Domino's Pizza denied the Ann Arbor/Washta­ now County Chapter of the National Organization for Women the right to hold a hayride tundralser at their corporate headquarters. even though they allowed • Rlght­ to-Ufe • to do so. NOW was told they could not use Dom­ Ino ·s public facilities because the owner of Domino's Pizza. Tom Monaghan. Is religiously opposed to NOW's support for abortion rights. As a result. Ann Arbor/Washta­ now County NOW flied a complaint with the Michigan Civil Rights Department charging Domino's with violation of Michigan's Elliot-larson Civil Rights Act. The Owner of Domino's Contributes Thousands to Anti-Choice Causes On Nov. 8. 1988 a proposal to outlaw Medicaid funding for abortion services passed In Michigan. Tom Monaghan. owner of Domino's Pizza. donated over $50,000 to ·The Committee to End Tax-Funded Abortions: What Can You Do? let your local Domino's franchise know how you feel about their discriminatory policies. Help educate others by spreading the word. When It Comes To Equality ... Domino's Doesn't Deliver! For More Informal ion and Add~lonol Fliers Contact Mk::hlgan NOW • Box 18063 • Lansing, Ml 48901 • (517)-485-'1687 US. 'O!TAGf. IUI.JC • .ua PAID 0 O•l•oit, .Wch. r,,~ ; , U& JCOI DETROIT METRO TIMES ATTN: WOMEN/S EDITOR 800 DAVID WH I TNEY BLDG DETROIT. MI 48226 MEN, TIIEIR R!GILTS A.ND ~OTHING MORE; WOMEN, THEIR RIGHTS AND NOTHING LESS April/May 1989 ~ STATE CONFERENCE CALEJVpACJ{ "Making Connections NOWl" Conference goers will APRIL is the theme of this year's have the evening to them Michigan NOW State Conference selves to enjoy local rest 29 Operation Bully will try aurants and theatres both to close women's health held this year in Detroit, clinics, To help call May 20 and 21. in Detroit and across the RCAR 833-7086, Alison Hine, a member of the river. Board of Directors for Women's Sunday will see the last MAY Action for Nuclear Disarmament, part of the b~siness meet­ will- give the luncheon keynote 7 "The Law & Human Imperative ing including the· announce­ for Human Rights", dramatic address. Ms. Hine is a stirring ments of the elections. All readings at B'ham Temple speaker who should enable us this will take place at the Choir, 2 pm. Call 577-3453 all to take the conference theme Day•s Inn at Michigan and to heart. 12-14 Det, Area Faith & Resist­ Following the lunch there Washington Blvd. ance Retreat, Call 549-3888, The fee will be $35 for 963-4539. 822-2055. will be workshops on racism/ the entire conference. For affirmative action, the state further information con­ commission report on domestic 13 Conference to discuss sult the latest Michigan raising the minimum wage, violence, and the State Supreme NOW Times or call Detroit Dave Miller Bldg, 9-2 pm Court hearings on gender dis­ NOW. Don't for get a Confer $5. crimination in the courts. ence organi zers deeply 14 Peace Child, theatre piece, Between 4 and 5 there will be appreciate your early reg­ Central Methodist Church, an action relating to the boy­ istration. Detroit, 3 pm, Also May 19 cott on Domino's pizza. And the at Trenton Theatre, 7a30, organized merriment will be and May 21 at Baldwin Th. capped off with a cocktail party Royal Oak, 3 pm. Alternative Housing Needed( at the Trolley Plaza _ ~t 5 pm. 19-21 Rev, T. Simon Faransani's tour for a health clinic in refugee camp in S, Africa, Call MCHR, 832-4400 Detrbit8VOW _.GACLU 14 RCAR Memorial to Women The abortion case of the 15- --The Connecticut regulation Denied Choice, Christ Ch. year old rape victim was turned (denying Medicaid abortions) Cranbrook, 4-5 pm down at the circuit court level does not impinge upon the fund­ but is being appealed. Detroit 20-21 Mich. NOW State Conf., Days amental right of privacy recog­ Inn, Detroit NOW along with eight other orgar nized in Roe v. Wade that pro­ izations tried to enter the tects a woman from unduly bur­ JUNE case as intervening plaintiffs densome interference with her but were denied. Ironically, freedom to decide whether or 24 Pride '89 Festival, Call RTL and even six individuals not to terminate her pregnancy. 549-3851, 646-8784 were admitted as intervening plaintiffs. JULY --Although the impact of the Here are some gems from that (Hyde) Amendment falls on the 20-23 NOW National Conf., decision written by Judge John indigent, that fact does not Cinncinnati, Ohio H. Hausner. itself render the funding re- NOMINEES NEEDED FOR Domino's cont. FEMINISTS OF THE YEAR can stop his influence. His Word of God organization, estimated at 20,000 members It's time once again to plan for our annual nationally, met in Ann Arbor in the summer of August 26 celebration. CVetroit !{OW 'S8 with some ten thousand in attendance. The In addition to the gen cult believes that women are "handmaidens of eral good time and feel ~Soard of Q;recto" ~ ings we have then, we men," forces arranged marriages, and supports a always recognize people school 1n Honduras believed to shelter the who deserve special re­ President Contras. Monaghan's Puebla Institute in Ann cognition for their con Karen Sundberg 345-9644 Arbor is headed by a man who reportedly was tributions to the strug gle for women's rights. Immediate Past President Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's former editor of The awards are in four Maxine Parshall 569-1287 La Prenza. (These connections have been catagoriesa people who documented in detail by Detroit writer Russ have worked in politics, V, Pres, Membership Bellant in his November articles in the New in the community, in Faith Robinson 835-5033 NOW and special awards. York Times and 1n the National Catholic We have honored judges, Treasurer Reporter.) legislators, news people, Debra Renner 835-5033 and petition solicitors, men ' as well as women. Recording Secretary Monaghan has tried to depict himself as a self­ Please send your nomin David Sobelsohn 961-0582 made man who has overcome an ophaned ations to Detroit NOW. childhood to succeed. The reported facts are Corresponding Secretary quite different. His mother was a single parent Jacquie Steingold 838-6152 RCAR MEMORIAL struggling to support two children and earn a v. Pres. Political Action nursing degree. According to family friends, This Mother's Day will Bill Allgeyer 531-8777 young Tom was so abusive to her that in have a special signifi­ cance for feminists. The Violence Against Women desperation she temporarily placed him in foster Religious Coaltion for Diana Warshay 861-1051 care. Abortion Rights will hold a celebration of woman's Reproductive Freedom Monaghan' s vindictiveness is often public: when choice on May 14, at Kirsty Moore 925-7411 Christ Church Cranbrook he discovered that Tiger star Kirk Gibson was from 4-5 pm. The service Labels generously donated li ving unmarried with his girl friend, Monaghan will also be a memorial by Jennifer Kundak and ca lled Gibhy a slob and ~orse. Gibson left the for those women who died Jeff Cowells Tigers and the rest is baseball history. from self-induced or il­ legal abortions and in Monaghan also fired · his key vice president for child berth. franchising, based on a personal extra-marital affair. Many other key employees have profits for right wing, anti-American causes. .. resigned" ~ithout explanation after they were Those who do--we'll recognize. Their pressure known to have disagreed with Monaghan. might force a change. According to a Free Press article, Tom However, we hope many local businesses will Monaghan now believes that he lives in a state find Monaghan's actions in violation of their of grace with God. This fanatical belief places business contracts, and switch to another chain him in a class with the Ayatollah of Iran. or go independent. To those who refuse to act we can only say, "if you lie down with dogs, yo~ fair to the local pizza owners? get fleas." We are asking franchise owners to take a --By Jan BenDor April. l989. THE :'-IEWS \'OW ___ _! esp_onsible posture _against the use of Domino's ··, ' ·· MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION I wish to ioin NOW arid commit myself to take action to bring women into full This spact~ participation in the mainstream of American society now. exercising lull nghls available for and respons1blilt1es 1n partnership with men. your ad. Call 273-7400 for I FIRST NAME details. LAST NAME----------- ADDRESS--------------------------- Business ads CITY ------- STATE __ ZIP --- PHONE NO. ( ) .. _ _____ _ _ Personal ads Greetings I ENCLOSE: NATIONAL, MICHIGAN. AND CHAPTER DUES $_ __ Regular Dues ($40) TOTAL ENCLOSED$ ------- $_ __ Reduced Dues ($16 · $39) . CHAPTER OF , $ __. Additional Contribution ;; YOUR CHOICE --------- c ;;;"' ~ Mail to Detroit NOW membership processing 14900 Archedale, Detroit, MI 48227 c/11essage From Our President DETROIT NOW/ ACLU cont. · I write this as I am music, and literature. strictions constitutionally at Washington National Recently I just realized, invalid, for poverty, is- not a Airport waiting to board this is my life! These suspect classification, my return flight to issue~ unfortunately, Detroit after the aren't going to go away __There is no right under the historic March for any time soon, and we may equal protection guarantees of Women's Equality/Women's well be fighting these the State Constitution (even Lives in the nation's fights for many years to one with an E.R.A.) to have the Capitol today.