RATIFY ERA-NC

Read the story in The Asheville Citizen-Times by Beth Walton.

Read the Associated Press story by Gary D. Robertson

 The new women warriors: Reviving the fight for equal rights

Watch the video and read the article by Jessica Ravitz on CNN.

Here’s an important message from our sister organization, NC4ERA. Please call or write these 11 members of NC House Judiciary 1 Committee and urge them to support the Equal Rights Amendment. In the article you’ll find each member’s telephone number. If you prefer to email simply click on the Representative’s name below their picture.

ASHEVILLE – Roberta Madden wants to live to see the day the Equal Rights Amendment is added to the U.S. Constitution.

At 78, the Black Mountain resident fears she is running out of time.

“It’s amazing to think how long I have been working on this — since 1972,” said Madden, who retired as director of racial and social justice at the YWCA in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, seven years ago.

“The problem is no one knows what the ERA is, or they think it has already passed,” she said.

Ninety-two years after the landmark legislation was first introduced in Congress, some Western North Carolina women say it’s time to again try to win state support to ratify the ERA, an effort planned for this General Assembly session.

“We have a legacy of discrimination,” said Madden, who is the co-director of Ratify ERA-NC. [cont. reading]

In an interview with Jeffrey Rosen for New Republic, Ginsburg discussed how her experience as a female Supreme Court Justice has been rewarding, but also trying. Since R.B.G. was appointed in 1993, she’s been confused for Justice O’Connor, has dealt with frustration at the Court’s approach to reproductive health, and has made a constant effort to approach gender equality with common sense…. [read more of the article by Nina Bahadur in The Huffington Post.]

Read the article about Alice Paul, author of the Equal Rights Amendment, by Macklin K. Reid in The Ridgefield Press.