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A Message from Marena Groll, Co-Chair, ERA-NC Alliance
A development of historic proportions. After more than three decades, Nevada is poised to become the 36th state to ratify the ERA out of the 38 states needed to amend the United States Constitution. The Nevada Senate passed the ERA … Continue reading
Let’s Make History by Ratifying the ERA
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/mary-sanchez/article136318393.html#0
Call to Action – contact House Rules Committee TODAY
URGENT CALL TO ACTION Please email or call the House Rules Committee TODAY. The message: I urge the Rules Committee to hold a hearing soon on H. 102, the Equal Rights Amendment. I urge you to support and vote for … Continue reading
NC State Legislators Introduce ERA
Here’s a television report on today’s introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment in the NC General Assembly: http://www.wral.com/lawmakers-push-ratification-of-1972-equal-rights-amendment/16529215/
How do your legislators stand on the ERA?
Find your NC House and Senate members, then check to see whether they cosponsored the ERA in 2015, and also whether they responded to our candidate survey on ERA. NCGA ERA Spread Sheet Feb 2017(2)
New ERA legislation in Congress
While working for the ERA in the NC General Assembly, we also need to pay attention to ERA legislation in the US Congress. Senator Cardin has introduced 3-State Strategy legislation (SJ Res 5) and Congresswoman Speier introduced HJRes 53, also … Continue reading
You Are Not Equal. I’m Sorry.
by Sleep.Eat.Write A post is making rounds on social media, in response to the Women’s March on Saturday, January 21, 2017. It starts with “I am not a “disgrace to women” because I don’t support the women’s march. I do … Continue reading
No Place For Women in U.S. Constitution
This is why I’m marching today in Black Mountain and Asheville, NC. Join me there–or wherever you are! ERA Action to Rise Up! Shoulder to Shoulder for the Equal Rights Amendment Cyber-Event January 20 at 9:31pm · #WhyWeMarch #WomensMarch Women DO NOT … Continue reading
ERA post-election update
Today, we are three states shy of making the ERA part of the Constitution. In a 2016 poll for the national ERA Coalition, an astonishing 94 percent said they would support an amendment guaranteeing equal rights for men and women. … Continue reading
Legislative, congressional candidates respond to ERA survey
In response to a recent survey on the Equal Rights Amendment, many North Carolina candidates for the General Assembly and the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have declared support for the ERA. Most of the legislative candidates who responded … Continue reading
