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Urgent Action NOW!

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Write a Postcard to President Biden

Write a postcard to President Biden. Ask him to instruct the Federal Archivist to PUBLISH our fully ratified Equal Rights Amendment, the 28th Amendment!!

Address:

President Joe Biden
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

You can also call the White House at (202) 456-1111, or text (302) 404-0880.

Time is short! President Biden must do this before January 20th!

Time left for President Biden to publish the ERA:

 

From the national ERA Coalition:

Gender equality shouldn’t wait any longer! We’ve met all requirements for the Equal Rights Amendment to be part of the Constitution. Now it’s time for President Biden to cement his legacy as a champion for gender equality and do everything he can to make sure it’s published before the end of his presidency.  You can also help us spread the word about this campaign via social media. We need everyone who cares about gender equality to rally for the ERA.

You can also use these reminders from ERA-NC Alliance member and attorney, Gina Collias:

The American Bar Association (ABA) agrees Biden must publish. U.S. Senator Gillibrand agrees Biden must publish.

1.  No 7 year deadline is in the text of the ERA, so this ‘7 years’ business is GOP disinformation.

2. No state can ever rescind an amendment under Article V. Think prohibition. It came in with an amendment, and it had to be repealed by a separate amendment.

#PublishTheERA ASAP!

RATIFIED Screenings

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RATIFIED is a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality, and it’s an inspiring story of a multi-racial, multi-generational, bi-partisan effort to make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.  It’s also a story of how bureaucracy is used to stifle progress, and it takes a close look at the incredible perseverance of women – specifically, the Black women leaders who have taken their rightful place at the front of the movement for gender equality. Our impact campaign will activate 15,000,000 Americans on the issue of gender equality.

Thursday, October 17th, 2024
7:00 pm- 9:00pm (with panel discussion)
Lumina Theater, UNCW campus
615 Hamilton Dr.
Wilmington NC 28403
$10 suggested donation for non-students
Come early to grab pictures with the Vote Equality “Notorious RVG” (Ruthless Vote Getter) and pick up swag.

2024 Candidate Survey

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Every two years, the ERA-NC Alliance reaches out to EVERY North Carolina candidate running for Congress, the General Assembly and NC Council of State to determine their support for the Equal Rights Amendment. This year our survey is being conducted online, with follow up phone calls and visits to collect as complete a picture of candidates’ support for the ERA as possible before we all cast our votes in November.

A green checkmark means the candidate will co-sponsor and vote for the resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Many candidates also returned comments with their survey.

If the candidates on your ballot haven’t responded yet, ask them to respond to the survey! A request from a voter in their district may be all it takes to spur them to action.
[Read more…] about 2024 Candidate Survey

N.C. Politics 2024

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Our goal for 2024? Turn the NCGA “pro-ERA”

Turning the NCGA “pro-women” means an all-out effort from everyone.

First things first: Find out the hard facts about the N.C. political landscape. Then, use those facts to turn the NCGA.

Join us on Saturday, Feb. 3, at 11 a.m., as political science expert Michael Bitzer sheds light on North Carolina voting patterns and what we can expect for 2024. Zoom in with us for the maps, the candidates, the drama, the scoop!

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Thank you, Rosalynn Carter

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Rosalynn CarterWith her soft voice and steely will, Rosalynn Carter was an inspiration and a gentle goad to millions upon millions of girls and women around the world. When asked about events in her lifetime she most regretted, she said,

“My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified…Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?”

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2023 Annual Meeting

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2023 ERA-NC Alliance Annual Meeting
Saturday, December 9
11 A.M. – Noon
Virtual meeting on Zoom

On behalf of the ERA-NC Alliance, we deeply thank you for your support of the ERA-NC Alliance.  We invite you to join us for the annual meeting on the status of the Equal Rights Amendment and Alliance activities in 2023, as well as elections of Directors for 2024-2025. [Read more…] about 2023 Annual Meeting

ACLU of NC joins the Alliance

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The ERA-NC Alliance is pleased to announce our latest lead organization partner, the ACLU of North Carolina!

Chantal Stevens, Executive Director of the ACLU of North CarolinaExecutive Director, Chantal Stevens, writes, “The ACLU of North Carolina is committed to equal rights for all, regardless of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry, or national origin. Joining with the Equal Rights Amendment NC Alliance is another way to affirm our commitment to advocating for gender equality and social justice. [Read more…] about ACLU of NC joins the Alliance

86-year perspective on the ERA

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Roberta MaddenAlliance co-founder and former president, Roberta Madden, wrote an excellent article for the new Carolina Public Press opinion blog, NC Talks, about her lifetime of advocacy for the Equal Rights Amendment.

“I often experienced sex discrimination in my experience of living in several different states over the past 86 years. In Louisiana, I couldn’t get a credit card in my own name, nor even a library card; and I was excluded from jury service. In Tennessee, I was paid 57%  of the wages earned by men for the same job. Despite some improvements in women’s status — we may now serve on juries, even get credit in our own names, and take home 83.7 cents for every dollar a man does — sex discrimination remains.  The recent reversal of women’s reproductive rights after decades of constitutional protection is a glaring example. Until the Equal Rights Amendment goes into the U.S. Constitution, women were not guaranteed equality under the law.”

Read the whole article here: 86-year perspective: Lingering sex discrimination and the need for equal rights amendment

 

NC Senators Vote Against ERA

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Really?
Tillis and Budd vote AGAINST equality for N.C. women

The question asked of our U.S. senators was simple: Should we vote to affirm that the Equal Rights Amendment is rightfully the 28th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?

Yea, 51. Nay, 47. And two of those no votes were cast by our own Senators Thom Tillis and Ted Budd!

A whopping majority, 82% percent of Americans, believe the ERA should be law. And a recent Meredith College Poll specific to North Carolina found support for ERA has actually grown from 67.4 percent to 71.5 percent in the past five years. This pro-ERA conviction is true across party lines, in urban and rural settings, among men and women.

Do our senators actually believe in constitutional INequality as their votes suggest? The excuse for their non-support has been the arbitrary deadline included in the preamble to the ERA 51 years ago. It is a moot issue. Nowhere in our Constitution does it mention “deadlines.” This is a made-up, lazy excuse for denying women their fundamental and precious rights to full equality under the law.

We’re mad as hell. But the fight continues and a second vote is expected before this congressional session is over. We will skip over the demoralization we feel today and plot our campaign to turn our own senators into ERA supporters. When we fight and we’re right, we WIN.

WRITE, CALL OUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL!

See how all senators voted here:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00099.htm

If you missed the Senate action, you can watch it for yourself on the ERA Coalition’s Facebook page. They also livestreamed the press conference they held afterwards, with excellent comments from Zakiya Thomas of the ERA Coalition, House Representatives Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush, and Alyssa Milano.

Make Your Voice Heard

Please urge Tillis and Budd to support North Carolina women and SJR 4! 

Sen. Thom Tillis
113 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington D.C. 20510
(202) 224-6342
https://www.tillis.senate.gov

Sen. Ted Budd
B85 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3154
https://www.budd.senate.gov/share-your-opinion/