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2022 Annual Meeting

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2022 Annual Meeting

Saturday, November 19th
11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
(Doors open at 11 a.m.)
Hybrid – both in-person and via Zoom
Bennett College Global Learning Center
521 Gorrell St., Greensboro, NC 27406
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Our Annual Meeting team is busy planning a great day of excellent speakers, Alliance board and officer elections, a year in review and planning for the year ahead. So save the date, bookmark this page, and check back often as we fill in all the details!

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Gendered Citizenship

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Lunch and Learn with the Alliance

Thursday, February 17, Noon
“Gendered Citizenship” book discussion

 

Join us for an informative discussion with historian and author, Rebecca DeWolf, Ph.D. Her book, “Gendered Citizenship,” is the first comprehensive study of the original conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment.

 

Register in advance for this free webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pR2EgFnjQ0uaPWVSzRGbvg

2021 Annual Meeting

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ERA-NC Alliance Annual Meeting

Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Online via Zoom

Our keynote speaker for the annual meeting is Allison Titman, Executive Director of the Alice Paul Institute. She has held leadership, curatorial, and exhibit management roles at several historic house museums in the Washington, D.C. region, as well as the Women’s Memorial at Arlington Cemetery. You can learn more about the excellent work the Alice Paul Institute is doing at their website; they also have lots of background information and photos of Alice Paul herself there as well.

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2021 Board Elections

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2021 Elections Process

1. ELIGIBILITY: Any Individual Member or designated representative of Lead Organizations who is in good standing according to the Bylaws, (Article IV, Section 5. – GOOD STANDING) may be eligible to be nominated for election as an Officer or Director of the Board.  This means the member must meet all membership eligibility requirements and be duly registered by the Alliance.

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Women’s (IN)Equality Day

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Women's (IN)Equality DayAugust 26th is typically when we commemorate the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That was the date it was formally published to the Bill of Rights in 1920. However, we recognize that simply achieving the right to vote was not enough to ensure that women have equal protection under the Constitution. The Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1923, and is still not part of the Bill of Rights, even after Virginia became the 38th and final necessary state to ratify in January, 2020. That’s why we’re calling this August 26th Women’s (IN)Equality Day!

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Silent Sentinels

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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:

Press Release: ERA Sentinals

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ERA-NC Alliance to stand vigil June 29-30 in D.C.
to protest AG Garland’s inaction on women’s rights

Washington, D.C. — Frustrated by Attorney General Merrick Garland and President Joe Biden’s inaction on the long-awaited Equal Rights Amendment, members of the ERA-NC Alliance will stand vigil June 29 and 30 as Silent Sentinels outside the Department of Justice in protest. National organizers Equal Means Equal, which began the vigil June 10, have vowed to continue until Garland and Biden act on the ERA. Advocates nationwide have joined the vigil.

Garland has failed to order National Archivist David Ferriero to accept Virginia’s ratification of the ERA and to publish the ERA as the 28th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

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ERA at the NCGA News

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North Carolina made the national news in US News after yesterday’s press conference on the planned re-introduction of ratification bills for the Equal Rights Amendment in the NC General Assembly! Here are links to a few of the articles, we are getting noticed across the country:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-carolina/articles/2021-01-21/north-carolina-legislators-press-again-for-era-ratification

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article248673480.html

https://thedailyrecord.com/2021/01/21/nc-xgr-equal-rights-amendment/

https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/North-Carolina-legislators-press-again-for-ERA-15888455.php

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/North-Carolina-legislators-press-again-for-ERA-15888455.php

https://apnews.com/f3cf2700a409a130aa3fabaad157279d

NC will try once again to ratify the (ERA) Equal Rights Amendment, WXII

Thanks to all the Senators and Representatives who have signed on as sponsors and co-sponsors.  Let’s work to make N.C. the second Southern state to ratify the ERA!
Lori Bunton
Co-President, ERA-NC Alliance

Equality Tour

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ERA-NC Alliance teams up with VoteEqualityUS for North Carolina Equality and Voter Tour
The ERA-NC Alliance has partnered with the non-profit VoteEqualityUS (VEUS) and the League of Women Voters NC for a multi-city tour across North Carolina through Election Day 2020.
The tour will launch in Rocky Mount on Sunday, Sept. 27, at Ebenezer Baptist Church on 702 W. Raleigh Rd. from 8:30-12.
VEUS is traveling the state in a colorful RV to talk about the importance of voting and the impact it will have on equality in the U.S. Constitution.  It will be an open, outdoor forum where volunteers will answer voting questions, give out election information and have conversations about candidates and their stances on the Equal Rights Amendment, all done in keeping with COVID guidelines.

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