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NC Ratification Petition

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Going to church, an organization meeting or a big event? Download and circulate our petition to the legislators of North Carolina! The more signatures legislators see from their own constituents, the better!

Petitions can be sent to the NC Speaker of the House, NC Senate President Pro-tempore, and any legislator that represents one of your members. 

Please also send a copy of the petitions to Teri Walley, Vice-President, Communications of the ERA-NC Alliance

Here’s where you’ll find contact information for the NCGA leadership:

NC Speaker of the House: Rep. Tim Moore http://www.ncleg.gov/Members/Biography/H/339

NC Senate President Pro-Tempore: Phil Berger http://www.ncleg.gov/Members/Biography/S/64

NC House: http://www.ncleg.gov/House

NC Senate: http://www.ncleg.gov/Senate

 

Let’s Make History! ERA 2019

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North Carolina has a historic chance to be the 38th — and final! — state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Join us as we bring that message to our legislators. We need them to know that North Carolina wants equal rights for all – women and men!

One more state. Not one more genERAtion.
#ALLforERA

Event: Let’s Make History: ERA 2019
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: North Carolina General Assembly, 16 W. Jones Street, Raleigh, NC

Join our Facebook event and let us know you are coming!
Click here: Let’s Make History: ERA 2019 

Details:
9:30 am – Gather on the 1st floor, in the 1300 quadrant to the left as you enter the building, Jones Street entrance. You’ll receive instructions.

10:00 am – 12:30 pm – We’ll distribute 170 copies of ERA advocacy cards and DVDs to legislators (120 House, 50 Senate).

Colors: Alliance T-shirts or other green and white apparel or lapel ribbons if you are able, but not required.

Security: You must pass through a security check at entrances.

Information about directions, parking and dining at the legislature can be found here: General Information

Please share this invitation widely with your friends, family and acquaintances!

County Contact Campaign

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ERA-NC C3 Map May 20We’re recruiting for our County Contact Campaign!

We know the ERA ratification bills will be re-introduced in the NC General Assembly in 2020, and we want to be sure there’s at least one person in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties to be part of our rapid response team to help us get the word out about it! As a member of the campaign, you’ll contact your county representatives first, to encourage and remind them to sign on to the bills as co-sponsors, and then spread the word to other ERA activists in your county.

To get the ball rolling in your county, please fill out this form:

County Contact Campaign

ERA Postcard Drop

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We’re collecting postcards to deliver to the NC House and Senate Rules Committee chairmen urging them to hold a hearing on the ERA ratification bills currently sitting idle in their committees!

Download the cards below (they come 4 to a page, landscape), print them out and invite your friends and family, work colleagues and acquaintances to sign on! We’re collecting the cards and will deliver them en masse to the Chairmen personally in the coming weeks.

Congressional District 10 Action Team leader, Jimmie Cochran Pratt, and ERA-NC Alliance Board Member, Anne Von Brock, recently made a night of it, printing the cards out and getting them ready to distribute!

You can also make phone calls now, we have the phone numbers and suggestions for what to say when you call here: “The NCGA is Back in Session”.

 

Make phone calls!

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Effective: May 16, 2018
The NC General Assembly Short session begins at noon

House ActionSenate Action
NC House Bills H102 AND H1072,
both bills to ratify the
Equal Rights Amendment, is sitting
unheard in the House Committee on
Rules, Calendar and Operations.

Please CALL the House Rules
Committee Chair as a priority action.
E-mail him as a back up measure.

NCGA House Committee on Rules,
Calendar and Operations
Chair, Rep. David R. Lewis
919-715-3015
David.Lewis@ncleg.net

What to say when you call:
I urge you as Chair of the Rules
Committee to call for a hearing on the
Equal Rights Amendment bills
(H102 and H1072).
I urge you to support and vote for the
ERA to ensure equal rights for women
and men.

For more information about Rep. Lewis: http://bit.do/NC-Rep-David-Lewis		NC Senate Bills S85 AND S782,
both bills to ratify the
Equal Rights Amendment, is sitting
unheard in the Senate Committee on
Rules and Operations.

Please CALL the Senate Rules
Committee Chair as a priority action.
E-mail him as a back up measure.

NCGA Senate Committee on Rules and
Operations
Chair, Sen. Bill Rabon
919-733-5963
Bill.Rabon@ncleg.net

What to say when you call:
I urge you as Chair of the Rules
Committee to call for a hearing on the
Equal Rights Amendment bills
(S85 and S782).
I urge you to support and vote for the
ERA to ensure equal rights for women
and men.

For more information about Sen. Rabon: http://bit.do/NC-Sen-Bill-Rabon

It’s pro-family!
Everyone benefits from the ERA!
The financial life of the entire family prospers when wage earners
STOP losing income because of discriminatory practices.
#ALLforERA
ERA is for ALL of us. We’re ALL for the ERA.

CD 5 Action Team

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Join our Candidate Calling Project!

We are calling all candidates for the Congressional 5th District (CD 5) and all NC General Assembly candidates whose districts fall within the CD 5 footprint. First up – the candidates with primary races.

The ERA-NC Alliance will post candidates’ responses – whether they support North Carolina’s ratification of the ERA or not – to the website.

Contact Audrey Muck, cd05actionteam@era-nc.org or 336-365-6615 to join the effort!

ERA Resolution for Republican Precincts

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For those of you active in the Republican Party, here’s a resolution to take to your precinct meetings to gain the support of your county for ERA ratification by North Carolina!

Download the resolution as a Word document: 2018 ERA Resolution Republican Precincts

 

Text of the resolution:

A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR HEARINGS AND RATIFICATION OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT  

WHEREAS, Women, who constitute over 51% of the population of North Carolina, continue to confront workplace discrimination; health care inequities; disparate rates of poverty; rape and domestic violence assaults; a lack of political parity; and

WHEREAS, Anti-discrimination state laws are not uniform and federal laws are not comprehensive; additionally, these laws can be repealed or reduced; and

WHEREAS, The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is needed to help correct systemic sex discrimination, since the US Constitution does not explicitly guarantee that all the rights that it protects are held equally by all citizens without regard to sex; and

WHEREAS, The ERA was proposed in 1923, passed by Congress in 1972 and ratified by 35 of the 38 states necessary to put it into the Constitution as of a June 30, 1982 time limit; and

WHEREAS, Irrespective of a time limit for ratification, the Nevada Legislature ratified the ERA with a bipartisan vote on March 22, 2017, becoming the thirty-sixth state to ratify the amendment; and

WHEREAS, Congress can alter time limits in the proposing clauses of amendments, and the deadline for the ERA appeared only in the preamble and not in the text of the amendment; and

WHEREAS, Fifteen municipalities across North Carolina have adopted resolutions of support for the ERA in 2017; and

WHEREAS, ERA bills were introduced into both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly in 2015 and 2017; were assigned to Judiciary and/or Rules Committees, but were not considered in hearings; and

WHEREAS, The North Carolina Republican Party believes in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Republican Party will prioritize advocating that the General Assembly hold committee hearings upon like ratification bills and all Republicans will pursue ratification of the ERA to the US Constitution as proposed by Congress on March 22, 1972.

Submitted to the _________________ County Republican Party by (name)_________________________________, Precinct #_____, _________________ County February __, 2018. E-mail address: ________________________________________

ERA Resolution for Democratic Precincts

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For those of you active in the Democratic Party, here’s a resolution to take to your precinct meetings to gain the support of your county for ERA ratification by North Carolina!

Download the resolution as a Word document: 2018 ERA Resolution Democratic Precincts

 

Text of document:

A RESOLUTION CALLING FOR HEARINGS AND RATIFICATION OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT 

WHEREAS, Women, who constitute over 51% of the population of North Carolina, continue to confront workplace discrimination; health care inequities; disparate rates of poverty;  rape and domestic violence assaults; a lack of political parity; and

WHEREAS, Anti-discrimination state laws are not uniform and federal laws are not comprehensive; additionally, these laws can be repealed or reduced; and

WHEREAS, The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is needed to help correct systemic sex discrimination, since the US Constitution does not explicitly guarantee that all the rights that it protects are held equally by all citizens without regard to sex; and

WHEREAS, The ERA was proposed in 1923, passed by Congress in 1972 and ratified by 35 of the 38 states necessary to put it into the Constitution as of a June 30, 1982 time limit; and

WHEREAS, Irrespective of a time limit for ratification, the Nevada Legislature ratified the ERA with a bipartisan vote on March 22, 2017, becoming the thirty-sixth state to ratify the amendment; and

WHEREAS, Congress can alter time limits in the proposing clauses of amendments, and the deadline for the ERA appeared only in the preamble and not in the text of the amendment; and

WHEREAS, Sixteen municipalities and/or counties across North Carolina have adopted resolutions of support for the ERA; and

WHEREAS, ERA bills were introduced into both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly in 2015 and 2017; were assigned to Judiciary and/or Rules Committees, but were not considered in hearings; and

WHEREAS, The North Carolina Democratic Party Platform calls for a renewed effort to ratify the ERA; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the North Carolina Democratic Party will prioritize advocating that the General Assembly hold committee hearings upon ratification bills like those introduced in 2015 and 2017, and all Democrats will pursue ratification of the ERA to the US Constitution as proposed by Congress on March 22, 1972.

Submitted to the _________________ County Democratic Party by (name)_________________________________, Precinct #_____, _________________ County February __, 2018. E-mail address: ________________________________________

 

Informative Sources: ERA-NC Alliance era-nc.org; ERA equalrightsamendment.org; US Census Bureau census.gov/quickfacts/NC; ERA Coalition eracoalition.org; NCDP Platform Preamble tinyurl.com/ya3f5rfc

Join the Alliance at HKonJ!

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8:30 a.m. Begin gathering corner of Wilmington and South Streets near Shaw University in front of Duke Energy Center. Look for the ERA-NC Alliance Banner.

9:00 a.m. Pre-Rally/Speakers 10:00 a.m. March begins followed by Rally

Consider staying in Raleigh and visiting your legislators to explain why we need the ERA!!

Download the flyer here: