Equal Rights Amendment North Carolina Alliance
It's Time to Write Women Into the Constitution!
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!
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
Several members of the ERA-NC Alliance attended the ongoing protest at the U.S. Department of Justice to encourage Attorney General Merrick Garland to remove former AG Bill Barr’s memo blocking the national archivist from publishing the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Here are a few photos from our days standing sentinel at the DOJ:
Here’s an action for Father’s Day! Download a postcard (or all four!) and share with all the Dads you know … and make the calls yourself to Senators Burr, Tillis and McConnell.
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Sen. Thom Tillis
113 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-6342
www.tillis.senate.gov/public/
Sen. Richard Burr
217 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-3154 or (800) 685-8916
www.burr.senate.gov/contact
Sen. Mitch McConnell
317 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2541
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Noon – 4 pm
(Registration opens at 11:30 am)
Pilgrim United Church of Christ
3011 Academy Road
Durham, NC 27707
pilgrimucc-durham.org
Kati Hornung is Campaign Coordinator for the state-wide, nonpartisan, grassroots VAratifyERA campaign working to ensure Virginia’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Her passion on the topic stems from her own life experiences and the interest of her two daughters in achieving constitutional equality. We are pleased to welcome her as our keynote speaker.
We will also celebrate our ERA Champion Award recipients, Joanna Wade, Partner with Winston & Strawn LLP and Julie von Haefen, NC Representative, District 36 (Wake Co.).
During our business meeting we will elect board new board members and review recommended by-laws changes. If you wish to be able to vote at the meeting, you must be a registered, dues-paid member by September 20th. You can easily join or renew your membership online. We are honoring the church’s request that no sales be conducted at the meeting, so we will not be selling t-shirts that day.
If you are interested in running for a position on the board, please review the call for candidates letter.
If you’d like to review the proposed bylaws changes, here are two documents to look at – changes within the full bylaws and proposed changes only.
We’ve arranged for group pricing at a nearby hotel for your convenience. When you register, just let them know you’re with the ERA-NC Alliance Annual Meeting group. Depending on participation, group pricing may end Sept. 20, so book now!
Comfort Inn University Durham/Chapel Hill
3508 Mt. Moriah Road
Durham, NC 27707
www.choicehotels.com/north-carolina/durham/comfort-inn-hotels
The Equal Rights Amendment Bills, House Bill 271 and Senate Bill 184, are still active bills since constitutional amendments are exempt from crossover deadline. In the next few weeks, please escalate personal visits, emails, letters, and calls with your elected representatives and senators in the NC General Assembly. It needs to be a face-to-face visit, individualized mailing, or phone call.
First, if your representative or senator is a Republican, please express your insistence that he/she must get the ERA Bills out of committee with a favorable report because women’s rights are foundational to this country.
Second, if your representative or senator is a Democrat, he/she is already a co-sponsor of the ERA Bills, so thank them and express your insistence that they all step up efforts to champion equal rights and push the Committee Chairs to get the bills out of committee with favorable reports. Contact your legislators even if you know they are supportive; we need to get them moving on this.
Third, ERA activities in May included the Great 38th Clothesline Spectacle on the Halifax Mall. At the event, we displayed ERA support resolutions and petitions that you and your teams collected from across North Carolina to show state wide support for Equal Rights. To reinforce the depth of ERA support by local municipalities, organizations and individuals residing in their legislative district, please personally deliver or email your resolutions/petitions to your legislators. Visit our resolutions page to find a copy of the resolution from your community.
Fourth, make a note of what you learn from your visit/correspondence and pass it along to us (info@era-nc.org). I will make sure that your information is recorded on our ERA Legislative Report Cards. The report cards will be used to calculate votes for ERA and to target potential yes votes for action. I am keeping report cards for each legislator. If you need any help or additional information, please let me know.
Let’s show our elected officials what persistence looks like!
Bills to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment were introduced in both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly on March 5th. ERA-NC Alliance organized a statewide presence in Raleigh, with ERA advocates from the coast to the mountains on hand to witness the introductions and to encourage every single member of the General Assembly to sign on as a co-sponsor. A panel discussion was held in the NCGA Equal Rights Caucus featuring Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority, and Carol Jenkins and Bettina Hager of the ERA Coalition, with ERA-NC Alliance co-president Joanna Wade as moderator. That was followed by a press conference with the bills’ primary sponsors and many co-sponsors present. A mobile billboard organized by Alliance Lead Organization, League of Women Voters of NC, also circled the capitol throughout the day!
Press Conference video:
Equal Rights Caucus video:
Video courtesy of Brave Lens Films, Inc.
Can’t make it to the NC General Assembly on March 5th but want to be part of the action?
You can contact the legislators representing your county to let them know that you strongly support the Equal Rights Amendment and expect them to do the same.
Here are some key points to cover (although we hope you will use your own voice, stories, and perspective!):
Legislators’ individual addresses can be found at www.NCleg.gov, click on ‘District Representation’, ‘Find your legislator’, scroll down to “representation by County”, enter your county, click on the names for both office and home mailing addresses. An in-person visit is always best, but emails and phone calls also count!
Thank you for joining us in this work!
Below is a list of the NC General Assembly Members who have indicated past support for a bill to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (either through past co-sponsorship or positive response to the 2018 ERA-NC Alliance survey of candidates’ positions). The lead sponsors of past ratification bills are noted in bold italics.
Please thank them for their support, and talk with them about ways to expand support for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment among their fellow legislators during the 2019-2020 Legislative Session!
You can also view the responses to our 2018 Candidates Survey here.
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Sen Erica Smith-Ingram D 3 Sen Terry Van Duyn D 49 Sen Valerie Foushee D 23 Sen Kirk DeViere D 19 Sen Floyd McKissick, Jr D 20 Sen Mike Woodard D 22 Sen Paul Lowe Jr D 32 Sen Mike Woodard D 22 Sen Don Davis D 5 Sen Gladys Robinson D 28 Sen Joyce Waddell D 40 Sen Natasha Marcus D 41 Sen Harper Peterson D 9 Sen Dan Blue D 14 Sen Jay Chaudhuri D 15 Sen Wiley Nickel D 16 Sen Sam Searcy D 17 |
Rep Edward Goodwin R 1 Rep Deb Butler D 18 Rep Susan Fisher D 114 Rep John Ager D 115 Rep Brian Turner D 116 Rep Graig Meyer D 50 Rep Robert Reives II D 54 Rep Marvin Lucas D 42 Rep William Richardson D 44 Rep Evelyn Terry D 71 Rep Howard Hunter III D 5 Rep Terry Garrison D 32 Rep Ashton Clemmons D 57 Rep Cecil Brockman D 60 Rep Mary Price Harrison D 61 Rep Joe Sam Queen D 119 Rep Chuck McGrady R 117 Rep Garland Pierce D 48 Rep Mary Belk D 88 Rep Chaz Beasley D 92 Rep Christy Clark D 98 Rep Nasif Majeed D 99 Rep John Autry D 100 Rep Carolyn Logan D 101 Rep Becky Carney D 102 Rep Rachel Hunt D 103 Rep Carla Cunningham D 106 Rep Kelly Alexander Jr D 107 Rep Verla Insko D 56 Rep Kandie Smith D 8 Rep Charles Graham D 47 Rep Harry Warren R 76 Rep Allison Dahle D 11 Rep Rosa Gill D 33 Rep Julie von Haefen D 36 Rep Ms. Sydney Batch D 37 Rep Yvonne Lewis Holley D 38 Rep Darren Jackson D 39 Rep Joe John D 40 Rep Gale Adcock D 41 Rep Cynthia Ball D 49 Rep Jean Farmer-Butterfield D 24 |
