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Sen. Thom Tillis
Sen. Ted BuddAction Alert: Sign4ERA Petition
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the year Alice Paul first introduced the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Seneca Falls seeking to codify the prohibition of sex-based discrimination in the United States Constitution. For a century lawmakers, activists and grassroots organizers have been fighting to pass the ERA and we have never been closer. While the ERA has fulfilled all Article Five requirements, the last hurdle is removing an arbitrary deadline placed upon its ratification when it successfully passed Congress in 1972.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to bring the ERA up for a vote on the Senate floor this week.
A petition drive, Sign4ERA, just launched today to raise the groundswell of support we need to push the ERA over this last hurdle.
Please sign the petition, and call in your friends and family to sign, too!
The more signatures, the better – it will show that equality of rights under the law is the will of the American people. The ERA is the most permanent protection possible, safe from the whims of anti-choice, anti-women, anti-equality courts and politicians. Only the ERA will provide the constitutional basis to stop the attacks on abortion and birth control. The ERA would enable passage of stronger laws for survivors of gender-based violence to hold their abusers accountable. And the ERA is essential for achieving economic equality for women.
In the days ahead we’ll keep you posted with progress reports, action alerts and other steps you can take to put the ERA in the Constitution. But right now:
We don’t have a moment to lose. Now is the time we must count on each other. Now is the time to act.
Bills Introduced at NCGA to Ratify ERA
ERA, that crazy notion of women’s equality,
is officially 100 years old
Raleigh — Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman wrote the Equal Rights Amendment a century ago: “Equal rights, under the law, shall not be denied or abridged, by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
The requisite 38 states have ratified the ERA but you will not find North Carolina on that list.
Yet.
Today, on International Women’s Day, Rep. Julie von Haefen and Sen. Natalie Murdock held a press conference announcing two new bills that will put North Carolina firmly on record as supporters of equal rights under the law for all its citizens.
Visit the ERA-NC Alliance YouTube channel or Facebook page
to watch the press conference.
Poll Shows NC Supports ERA!
A brand-new Meredith Poll of North Carolinians shows the continuing and overwhelming support for equal protection under the law regardless of sex. The results were released on Monday, March 6. Meredith Poll Director, David McLennan, will be present at a press conference Wednesday, March 8, at the NC General Assembly to discuss the results and take questions from the press.
Visit the Meredith Poll website to read the full poll report. The press conference will be streamed live on the ERA-NC Alliance Facebook page.
Responses to the Poll show an increasing majority of North Carolina voters support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The poll was conducted in partnership with ERA-NC Alliance.
Press Release: New NC Ratification Bill
For immediate release
Contact: Teri Walley, twalley@me.com, (704) 560-1105
ERA, that crazy notion of women’s equality,
is officially 100 years old
Raleigh — Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman wrote the Equal Rights Amendment a century ago: “Equal rights, under the law, shall not be denied or abridged, by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
The requisite 38 states have ratified the ERA but you will not find North Carolina on that list.
Yet.
At 10 a.m. on March 8, International Women’s Day, Rep. Julie von Haefen and Sen. Natalie Murdock will hold a press conference announcing two new bills that will put North Carolina firmly on record as supporters of equal rights under the law for all its citizens. The press conference will be held at the N.C. General Assembly, 16 W. Jones St., Raleigh.
Tens of millions of Americans have assumed that the land of “liberty and justice for all” naturally included women. It does not.
ERA-NC Alliance Testimony on S.R. 4
TESTIMONY ON S.R. 4 BEFORE U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
FROM THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE
FEBRUARY 2023
My name is Roberta Madden; I am a co-founder and board member of the Equal Rights Amendment North Carolina Alliance. For more than six decades, I have worked to make the Equal Rights Amendment part of the United States Constitution. Previously living in Iowa, Tennessee, Louisiana and other states, I personally experienced sex discrimination. I was unable to obtain a credit card in my own name. I was excluded from jury service. I was paid three-fourths of the wages earned by men for the same job. Without the Equal Rights Amendment, women had no legal recourse.
The ERA North Carolina Alliance is proud to support Senate Resolution 4—a simple proposal.
2022 Candidate Surveys
Every two years, the ERA-NC Alliance reaches out to EVERY North Carolina candidate running for Congress and the General Assembly to determine their support for the Equal Rights Amendment. We send out letters with postage-paid return postcards to each candidate, and follow up with phone calls as much as possible.
A ‘yes’ 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.
2022 Annual Meeting
2022 Annual Meeting
Saturday, November 19th
11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
(Doors open at 11 a.m.)
Hybrid – both in-person and via Zoom
Bennett College Global Learning Center
521 Gorrell St., Greensboro, NC 27406
Click for map
Our Annual Meeting team is busy planning a great day of excellent speakers, Alliance board and officer elections, a year in review and planning for the year ahead. So save the date, bookmark this page, and check back often as we fill in all the details!
Article features Alliance partners
The UNC Daily Tarheel interviewed ERA-NC Alliance co-president, Lori Bunton, as well as two of our partner organization leaders, Antionette Kerr, Women AdvaNCe’s co-director, and Judy Lotas, former Alliance board member and currently State Co-Chairperson for the ERA in the League of Women Voters.
“We really have a goal right now of seeing that North Carolina becomes a state where women have the same rights and same equality as men,” Bunton said.
Read the full article, “Fifty years after Congress passed Equal Rights Amendment, still not part of Constitution,” by Maggie McIntyre, on their website.
Call for Nominees!
In advance of our Annual Meeting scheduled for November 19, 2022, the Nominations Committee of the Alliance is seeking candidates for Officers and Directors for the 2023-2024 term (2 years). Any Individual Member who is in Good Standing according to the bylaws may be eligible to be nominated as an Officer or Director.