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Illinois becomes the 37th!

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Illinois ratified the Equal Rights Amendment by a vote of 72-45 on the evening of May 30th, 2018, becoming the 37th state to ratify!! This means just one more state needs to ratify to get the amendment into the Constitution!

Representative Lou Lang, a longtime ERA advocate, spoke passionately on the floor as the House debated passage of the ratification bill, calling it a no-brainer and an opportunity for Illinois to improve the lives of half the population of the United States. “Is the Illinois House for or against adding 161 million American citizens to the U.S. Constitution where they absolutely belong?” he asked. “A ‘no’ vote is a vote against the right of women in the United States of America.”

Opponents argued that ratification would allow easier access to abortion and that women of color wouldn’t see the same gains as white women.

The Illinois Senate passed the ratification bill on April 12th.

Game On, North Carolina! #OneMoreState!

 

Postcard Campaign

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Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone!  We so appreciate the fine turnout at the RBG (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) film screening on May 17, 2018, in Asheville, NC.  We are grateful for the good work that our friends at Women AdvaNCe are doing.  A reminder that the movie is still playing at Asheville’s Fine Arts Theater if you missed the event with panel discussion last week.

ERA Ginsburg screening

Because folks are going in many different directions, ERA-NC Alliance Action Teams 10 and 11 have decided to focus this summer on visiting our rural WNC counties and heading up a postcard campaign.  We have created these postcards to deliver to the North Carolina House and Senate Rules Committee chairmen urging them to hold a hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratification bills currently sitting idle in their committees.  You can download the cards at the link below (they come four to a page in landscape), print them out on card stock, and invite your friends and family, work colleagues, and neighbors to sign on.  Please mail to the address on the card by May 31, 2018.

 
Thanks so much,
Jimmie and Ellen

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”.

 

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 to join the effort!