Yeah, well, this is something I just wrote about. When the RCC came into
being, I asked Poquita Jurgenson, who was with the (Chapel Hill)
newspaper, to publicize the fact that we're in business. And she asked
me to come and talk with her. So I brought a sheet describing
everything, what we hoped to offer and everything. And she said this
good, can I keep it." "Yeah," So then she says, "I'll be honest with you
Miriam. I'd rather not mention NOW or your name." And I got so upset. I
didn't say anything to her, but you know how it is, when you internalize
it. I was really angry. I was thinking here I'd worked myself so hard
and all the women on the task force. We'd given money, we'd given time,
we gave up a lot of things we wanted to do, in order to do this. And
she's saying don't mention the fact that you did it! [Laughter] But she convinced me that it would be best if we didn't use NOW.
As a matter of fact, I've got the clipping if you want to see it. In the
clipping, she used the handout I gave her, she mentioned me as a
spokeswoman, never mentioning me by name. And she didn't mention NOW. It
hurt. It hurt a lot (098). But we got people to call us, several people
called us for information. Fortunately, just a few people called us for
emergency situations. But the climate then was so anti-woman's movement
(106). We were bra-burners, we did need all the support we could get,
which was our favorite joke. And radical women, you know. It was just so
difficult for me to understand people's mindsets. Here we were doing
something that we felt good about. And yet people didn't want to know
that we were the one's doing it.