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2019 Annual Meeting

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You’re invited to attend the
ERA-NC Alliance Annual Meeting

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

Register for the Annual Meeting HERE.

Katie Hornung

Keynote Speaker: Kati Hornung

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

Stay tuned for more details!

June Action for the ERA

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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. [Read more…] about June Action for the ERA

Our 2019 Moxie Interns!

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Please join us in welcoming our 2019 MOXIE Summer Interns!

ERA-NC Alliance MOXIE intern, Kate Shurtleff Kate Jacqueline Shurtleff grew up in Morehead City, North Carolina and currently attends the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majors in Communication and Women’s & Gender Studies. Upon graduating from UNC, she plans to attend law school and hopes to have a career in human or civil rights law. Through her work with the ERA-NC Alliance, she hopes to not only advance the ERA in the state of North Carolina, but also become more aware of the process of legal activism. Her goals for her participation in the program are to grow as a professional, become more comfortable and familiar with activism in the non-profit sector, and explore the possibility of the legal profession in such activism.

ERA-NC Alliance MOXIE intern, Ann-Marie IngramAnn-Marie Ingram is a rising senior at UNC-Chapel Hill and is originally from Statesville, NC. She will graduate from UNC in the Spring of 2020 with majors in Political Science and Public Policy as well as a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. After college, Ann Marie hopes to work with organizations that recruit and support women in running for public political offices. She also takes a special interest in policies that protect and represent the interests of women. Thus, she hopes to learn more about the political processes that go into passing legislation in her work with the ERA-NC Alliance this summer. 

Our 2019 Moxie scholars will gain a better understanding of the legislative and social challenges with enacting laws to ensure equality for women.  They’ll be working on 4 projects this summer: 
1)  Increase membership in the ERA-NC Alliance among college-aged women and men.   
2)  Increase diversity:  Understand the needs of and engage with various communities with communication focused on how the ERA will benefit all. 
3)  Broaden political support across the spectrum for the Equal Rights Amendment. 
4)  Educate:  Part of their experience will be in assisting or preparing for education on the Equal Rights Amendment including displays, programs, written materials, website updates, etc.

The MOXIE Project is an academic and community engagement project through UNC Chapel Hill’s Carolina Women’s Center. Students take a hands-on approach to women’s activism through community organizations during these summer internships, and in the process develop their own sense of activism and community engagement.

Photos & Video of the Clothesline Project

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May 16, 2019 – ERA-NC Alliance members set up a clothesline at the NC General Assembly to show off all the municipalities, counties and organization resolutions – as well as hundreds of petition signatures – in favor of ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment. Several of the bill co-sponsors dropped by, and we chatted with many state employees about the fact that women are not formally protected under the US Constitution. So many people believe the amendment was ratified in the ’70’s! Sadly, several members of the NCGA leadership passed us by with a dismissive ‘you don’t need it’ comment, and refused to stop and talk with us. We need to get their attention and hold real conversations about why women in North Carolina and across the country should be in the constitution!

Photos courtesy Mike Oniffrey

Make Mama Happy!

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Want to Make Mama Happy on Mother’s Day?
 
Simple! Flowers, candy and cards are wonderful. But what Mom really wants is for her family to be stronger, happier and more secure. Mom wants the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment! North Carolina can be the final, happy 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. 
 
Donate to the ERA-NC Alliance, and help assure equal rights for ALL family members regardless of gender.  
You can give online here. Or go to www.era-nc.org and use the DONATE button.  It’s easy and your Mother’s Day will be happier because of your support! Because of our 501(c)4 status, donations to the ERA-NC Alliance are not tax deductible, but there’s no doubt you’ll want to contribute to our Make Mama Happy campaign!
 
Thank you so much for your help and generosity!  
 
You can also send a check, payable to ERA-NC Alliance, to:
 
ERA-NC Alliance
Make Mama Happy Campaign 
P. O. Box 20222 
Winston-Salem, NC 27120 

Listen Up! ERA on WUNC

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ERA-NC Alliance co-president, Joanna WadeJoanna Wade, co-president of the ERA-NC Alliance, will be interviewed on “The State of Things,” a radio show on WUNC, Thursday, April 18, noon to 12:45 p.m. Frank Stasio is the host.

Other guests include Sen. Terry Van Duyn, a leading proponent in the General Assembly for North Carolina’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
 
Angela Robbins, assistant professor of history at Meredith College, will discuss the history of women’s rights nationally and in North Carolina.