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2025 ERA Advocacy Day

March 26, 2025 by Audrey Muck Leave a Comment

New bills affirm 28th Amendment to U.S. Constitution, urge N.C. to ratify ERA

North Carolina Rep. Julie von Haefen and Sen. Natalie Murdock introduced bills affirming the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment and urging North Carolina to become the 39th state to ratify.

The ERA was fully ratified in January 2020, and has been affirmed as the 28th Amendment by the American Bar Association and respected constitutional scholars.

Rep Julie von Haefen“I am proud to be the primary House sponsor of this bill for the fourth consecutive session,” said Rep. von Haefen. “Some people may ask why our state still needs to pass a bill regarding the ERA after Virginia became the final state necessary for ratification in 2020. [Read more…] about 2025 ERA Advocacy Day

Filed Under: ERA News, Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: Audrey Muck, Equal Rights Amendment, ERA-NC Alliance, Jennifer Rubin, League of Women Voters of NC, Marla Barthen, Megan Shook, NC Association of Women Attorneys, North Carolina, Rep. Julie von Haefen, Sen. Natalie Murdock

2023 Annual Meeting

November 7, 2023 by Audrey Muck Leave a Comment

Equal Rights Amendment NC buttons

2023 ERA-NC Alliance Annual Meeting
Saturday, December 9
11 A.M. – Noon
Virtual meeting on Zoom

On behalf of the ERA-NC Alliance, we deeply thank you for your support of the ERA-NC Alliance.  We invite you to join us for the annual meeting on the status of the Equal Rights Amendment and Alliance activities in 2023, as well as elections of Directors for 2024-2025. [Read more…] about 2023 Annual Meeting

Filed Under: Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: annual meeting, Equal Rights Amendment, North Carolina

Rise Up for ERA!

November 26, 2021 by Audrey Muck 2 Comments

Watch our latest video campaign in partnership with the national ERA Coalition!

Let’s Speak Up
Let’s Step Up
Let’s refuse to shut up until the ERA is no longer held up
Let’s Ramp up and Sister Up for the change we deserve
And the Equality we should have been born into
So that our daughters and their daughters will be
Let’s Shake Up
Let’s Stand Up
Let’s Woman Up
Let’s do it Right Now!
Rise Up for ERA

Filed Under: Action Alert, Uncategorized Tagged With: Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, Rise Up for ERA, RiseUpERA

Action: Rescind Barr Memo

November 7, 2021 by Audrey Muck Leave a Comment

Urge the Office of Legal Counsel to rescind Barr memo to Archivist

Christopher Schroeder is the new Assistant Attorney General overseeing the Office of Legal CounselTake action! The ERA-NC Alliance urges everyone to immediately ask Christopher Schroeder, left, the newly appointed Assistant Attorney General overseeing the Office of Legal Counsel, to rescind the 2020 memo to the National Archivist. That memo, sent during U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr’s tenure, effectively stopped National Archivist David Ferriero from publishing the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The ERA met all constitutional requirements when Virginia became the 38th and final state needed to ratify on January 27, 2020.

[Read more…] about Action: Rescind Barr Memo

Filed Under: Action Alert, ERA News Tagged With: Attorney General Bill Barr, Barr memo, Christopher Schroeder, David Ferriero, Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, National Archivist, Office of Legal Counsel

Press Release: ERA Sentinals

June 26, 2021 by Audrey Muck Leave a Comment

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.

[Read more…] about Press Release: ERA Sentinals

Filed Under: ERA News, Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: 28th Amendment, David Ferriero, Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, Merrick Garland, Silent Sentinels

Precinct Resolutions

March 11, 2021 by Audrey Muck Leave a Comment

It’s precinct meeting time! Here is a non-partisan resolution in support of North Carolina’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment for you to use this to introduce at your precinct meetings toward getting the Equal Rights Amendment into your party’s platform. You can also download the resolution here.

 

A Resolution Calling for Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (2022)

WHEREAS, women, who constitute over 51% of the population of North Carolina (N.C.), play an essential and irreplaceable role in society, contributing to our economy and advancing our nation in both public and private realms; and

[Read more…] about Precinct Resolutions

Filed Under: Action Alert, Uncategorized Tagged With: Equal Rights Amendment, NC, precinct meeting, resolution

Exploiting Inequity

February 7, 2021 by Audrey Muck Leave a Comment

Join us on February 16th at 12:30 to learn about the inequities facing N.C. women, particularly women of color, both before and during the pandemic.  The presentation by Executive Director, Mary Williams Stover, will focus on the research by the N.C. Council for Women highlighting the income, health issues and political participation inequality that has plagued N.C. women as well as their challenges during the pandemic.  After the presentation, there will be a short Q & A featuring Mary Williams Stover, Adrienne Spinner and Sadie Blue as well as representatives from the ERA-NC Alliance.

[Read more…] about Exploiting Inequity

Filed Under: Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: Adrienne Spinner, COVID-19, economic inequality, Equal Rights Amendment, ERA-NC Alliance, inequity, Mary Williams Stover, N.C., pandemic, Sadie Blue

Equality Tour

September 23, 2020 by Audrey Muck 3 Comments

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.

[Read more…] about Equality Tour

Filed Under: ERA News, Events, Uncategorized Tagged With: Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, North Carolina, Vote Equality US, Voting

Dads for Equality Action Alert!

June 16, 2020 by Audrey Muck Leave a Comment

Here’s an action for Father’s Day! Download a postcard (or all four!) and share with all the Dads you know … and make the calls yourself to Senators Burr, Tillis and McConnell.

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The contact information:

Sen. Thom Tillis
113 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-6342
www.tillis.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-me

Sen. Richard Burr
217 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-3154 or (800) 685-8916
www.burr.senate.gov/contact

Sen. Mitch McConnell
317 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2541

Filed Under: Action Alert, Uncategorized Tagged With: Dads for ERA, Equal Rights Amendment, Father's Day, Men for Equality, Men for ERA, North Carolina

ERA-NC Alliance condemns racial injustice

June 8, 2020 by Audrey Muck Leave a Comment

ERA-NC Alliance condemns racial injustice, pledges to fight for equality for all

We want to say loud and clear that Black Lives Matter. Now more than ever this statement cannot be ignored. The ERA-NC Alliance stands with our Black sisters and brothers in denouncing the brutality and oppression that far too many have endured. The recent events have shown that not acknowledging and glossing over systemic racism has created a perfect storm of incidents where Black lives have been lost, only to end with little to no justice.

Throughout our country’s history, racism and sexism have gone hand in hand. Some of the most vocal abolitionists were women who saw the parallels in their fight against slavery with the lack of their own rights. As the civil rights movement erupted in the 60s, so did the Second Wave women’s movement’s fight for equality. Racism and sexism are so deeply embedded in our culture that we are unaware of them until a spark ignites a flame of anger and protest.

Every parent of a Black child in this country has reason to fear for their children’s lives. The #SayHerName campaign has highlighted Black girls as young as 7 and Black women as old as 93 who have been killed by the police.

Board member Jillian Riley at a recent Black Lives Matter protest in GreensboroBlack women have been the backbone of the women’s movement, despite the frustrations expressed by many that their issues have not been in the forefront of concern.

The women’s movement has been passive and complicit for far too long, and we intend to be on the right side of history. We must fight for equality for all Americans if we are to truly achieve equality for all women. For all to be free, the fight against racism and sexism must be interconnected. Our nation is not a democracy until ALL of our citizens are treated equally in the eyes of the law. Regardless of our race, our ethnicity, our gender, our religion or our sexuality, every one of us should have the same rights and laws protecting us as do those who seek to govern us.

The ERA-NC Alliance condemns ALL forms of racism and injustice. We pledge to be inclusive in the fight for equality for all marginalized communities. We stand together in this fight.

Please join the national ERA Coalition’s virtual Town Hall on the Equal Rights Amendment and its impact on girls and women of color at 5 p.m. Eastern, Thursday, June 18. You can register HERE.

Lori Bunton
Co-president, ERA-NC Alliance
and
The Executive Council, ERA-NC Alliance

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Equal Rights Amendment, Equality, ERA, Racial Injustice, Racism

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