KTLA News: "NOW and HOW address women's liberation" (1971)

how now day in Southern California got a left-footed start this morning as pickets from the Orange County and Whittier chapters of now the National Organization for Women demonstrated at the office of congressman Charles wigin in Fullerton the women liers hung Wiggins in effigy as Rosalie Abrams read the indictment representative Wiggins your days in Congress are numbered will the sister voter please prepare the news ready by order of the 200 chapters of the National Organization for Women we sentence you Charles Wiggins to hang by the neck until the Equal Rights Amendment is passed without your Infamous tripling Rider representative Wiggins didn't see the event he wasn't in town but the members of how were in town the happiness of Womanhood group was holding a satin pillow rally at the convention center how president Jackie Davidson explains the significance of the satin pillow uh the satin pillow stands for the easy life that American women have we feel that the American woman has the best life that any woman any time or any place has ever had we have it pretty good if we decide to be a wife and mother if we Tire in the middle of the day we can go lie down on satin pillows and rest men don't have this opportunity how now day in Southern California was not the tremendous success that either side had hoped for but if you take a consensus of men involved I think that they will look at the concepts of how as the one they would support most and how dick Garten Channel 5 action news [Music] reporting absolute equality absolutely a [Music] Lor well somebody ought to know what are we doing here no I want I wanted my I wanted who's the guy oh I don't which one the one with the SES on Amendment benefit of women we want equality not Wiggins handout protection human exploit brother two equal rights amendment we the members of the Orange County with here Los Angeles and Long Beach chapters of the National Organization for Women do hereby carry out the following action to benefit humankind representative Charles Wiggins from El Monte the 25th district attached a section to the equ rights amendment this wrer prevents women from obtaining well-paying jobs and keeps women in poverty situations we also serve notice by this action to all congressional Representatives throughout the country that we want the Equal Rights Amendment passed in its purest form and we want it passed now 48 years is long enough swimming is the only exercise I can I March and I supped to pillow Mrs Davidson what is the significance Mrs Davidson what is tomorrow we can do so with no fear so we've really got it better than the men I'm sorry sir what is your answer to women's lib who wants everything changed uh it's fine whatever they want for them you know if they want to go out in the world and be somebody or the beauty of being an American woman is we are free to do and be whatever we want to be but when they start getting uh bills passed that are going to affect me then I get concerned uh for instance the Equal Rights Amendment uh if it's passed my daughters could be subject to draft in the military service well that's infringing on woman's role we have it pretty good now and we don't want that changed [Music] how now day was not the greatest success in the world that each side had hoped for but if you pulled all the men involved I think that they [Music] would how now day in Southern California has not been the Earth shaking success that either side had hoped for but if you take a consensus of any of the men involved I think you'll find that they prefer the how concept and how Vic Garten Channel 5 action news [Music] reporting