Equal Rights Amendment North Carolina Alliance
It's Time to Write Women Into the Constitution!
We’re looking forward to seeing you in Raleigh on March 26 at the North Carolina General Assembly, 16 W. Jones St.! Bring your signs and energy and talking points as we rally for equality and visit our legislators in their offices.
We’re excited that new ERA ratification bills will be introduced that day by our ERA Champions, Representatives Julie von Haefen, Mary Belk, Lindsey Prather and Renee Price, and Senators Julie Mayfield, Natalie Murdock and Woodson Bradley.
THE ‘SAVE’ ACT ENDANGERS WOMEN VOTERS
Does the name on your birth certificate match the name you go by today? Or did your last name change when you married?
If the names don’t match, the federal SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) would require proof on paper that you are a U.S. citizen before you can register to vote or update your voter registration information. You’d have to dig up your birth certificate or show a passport or some other proof of citizenship. This is totally unnecessary, as state election officials already have systems in place to verify your status as a citizen.
The SAVE Act is simply legislation playing politics. Half of us in this country don’t own passports. Your birth certificate may have drowned in a flood. And if you’re a married woman who took her husband’s name, good luck hunting for the right pieces of paper to prove you are you. In fact, the SAVE Act makes no mention of being able to show a marriage certificate or change-of-name documentation.
Women and citizens of color are most vulnerable to this kind of discrimination. The Center for American Progress notes that as many as 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s name do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name.
CALL OR WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO! ON THE SAVE ACT
Find your U.S. Representative’s and Senators’ contact information here
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!
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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:
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!
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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!
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.
Watch our latest video campaign in partnership with the national ERA Coalition!
Let’s Speak Up
Let’s Step Up
Let’s refuse to shut up until the ERA is no longer held up
Let’s Ramp up and Sister Up for the change we deserve
And the Equality we should have been born into
So that our daughters and their daughters will be
Let’s Shake Up
Let’s Stand Up
Let’s Woman Up
Let’s do it Right Now!
Rise Up for ERA
Take action! The ERA-NC Alliance urges everyone to immediately ask Christopher Schroeder, left, the newly appointed Assistant Attorney General overseeing the Office of Legal Counsel, to rescind the 2020 memo to the National Archivist. That memo, sent during U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr’s tenure, effectively stopped National Archivist David Ferriero from publishing the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The ERA met all constitutional requirements when Virginia became the 38th and final state needed to ratify on January 27, 2020.
August 26th is typically when we commemorate the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That was the date it was formally published to the Bill of Rights in 1920. However, we recognize that simply achieving the right to vote was not enough to ensure that women have equal protection under the Constitution. The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1923, and is still not part of the Bill of Rights, even after Virginia became the 38th and final necessary state to ratify in January, 2020. That’s why we’re calling this August 26th Women’s (IN)Equality Day!
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
Sen. Thom Tillis
Sen. Ted Budd