Equal Rights Amendment North Carolina Alliance
It's Time to Write Women Into the Constitution!
The ERA-NC Alliance is celebrating the bipartisan U.S. House vote today at 1:58 p.m. on House Joint Resolution 17 to lift the arbitrary time limit on the Equal Rights Amendment. The final vote was 222 to 204, with four Republicans and 218 Democrats voting yes. It is now up to the U.S. Senate to take up the companion bill, Senate Joint Resolution 1.
It’s precinct meeting time! Here is a non-partisan resolution in support of North Carolina’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment for you to use this to introduce at your precinct meetings toward getting the Equal Rights Amendment into your party’s platform. You can also download the resolution here.
A Resolution Calling for Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (2022)
WHEREAS, women, who constitute over 51% of the population of North Carolina (N.C.), play an essential and irreplaceable role in society, contributing to our economy and advancing our nation in both public and private realms; and
March is Women’s History Month – or as we like to call it, Women’s Herstory Month. This year, 100+ years after women won the right to vote, the ERA-NC Alliance is hopeful to finally see the ERA published as the 28th Amendment. And it took a lot of women, and men, many years to make this happen. In honor of Women’s Herstory Month, the Alliance would like to honor those N.C. women who made a difference in YOUR life – whether as an equality warrior or a teacher or an activist or even your BFF – whoever they are, you want the world to know they made a positive difference in your life. We plan to post their photos – or their names – on our Facebook, Instagram and right here on our website throughout March for a small donation. Suggested donation is $28 in honor of the 28th Amendment. Your donation will fund our efforts towards ratification in NC.
Join us on February 16th at 12:30 to learn about the inequities facing N.C. women, particularly women of color, both before and during the pandemic. The presentation by Executive Director, Mary Williams Stover, will focus on the research by the N.C. Council for Women highlighting the income, health issues and political participation inequality that has plagued N.C. women as well as their challenges during the pandemic. After the presentation, there will be a short Q & A featuring Mary Williams Stover, Adrienne Spinner and Sadie Blue as well as representatives from the ERA-NC Alliance.
Bills have been filed in both the House and Senate on January 27th for the state to ratify the amendment!
HOUSE BILL 8: https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/H8
SENATE BILL 15: https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2021/S15
Please call or email your legislators right away! There’s a very short window for them to co-sponsor the bill: just 24 hours in the Senate and 48 in the House.
North Carolina made the national news in US News after yesterday’s press conference on the planned re-introduction of ratification bills for the Equal Rights Amendment in the NC General Assembly! Here are links to a few of the articles, we are getting noticed across the country:
https://www.usnews.com/news/
https://www.newsobserver.com/
https://thedailyrecord.com/
https://www.
https://www.stamfordadvocate.
https://apnews.com/
NC will try once again to ratify the (ERA) Equal Rights Amendment, WXII
Thanks to all the Senators and Representatives who have signed on as sponsors and co-sponsors. Let’s work to make N.C. the second Southern state to ratify the ERA!
Lori Bunton
Co-President, ERA-NC Alliance