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This Summer It's All About Amplification: The ERA, Congress, and Virginia

This Summer It’s All About Amplification: The ERA, Congress, and Virginia

Dear Virginia,

A growing coalition of congressional representatives and senators are at work now to lift the deadline imposed by Congress that nearly shuttered ratification in 1982. The goal is to reintroduce legislation that will greenlight remaining ratification efforts.

This is just one part of the 3-State Strategy. Get a state, or get Congress, get momentum, lift the deadline, and PRESTO!…

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New Foremothers Oral History Videos Up

While we await the ERA vote in the Senate, I have released a few more Virginia Foremothers videos. You can find them at Virginia Foremothers on You Tube.

Now up are ALL of the segments of the big, glorious, marathon group interview with Marianne Fowler (joins later), Pat Harley, Mary Ann Beall, Mary Peterson Hartzler, Lee Perkins, Georgia Fuller, Ray Bridge, Emily McCoy. We filmed this just…

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ERA Passed one vote, with moderate enthusiasm

Today the Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee voted to “pass by indefinitely” in the ERA (SJ216). This means the committee voted not to vote, but to pass the bill back to the full Privileges and Elections Committee.

While several on the CA subcommittee are pro-woman candidates, some endorsed by VA NOW (and thank you all who support women!!!), the group as a whole remained tepid on the matter…

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Session opens this week: Turn The VOLUME UP!!!

Virginia's General Assembly 2015 Session opens Wednesday. Here's how to contact our representatives and let them know that this year is the year for women's equality.

“It isn’t over. There is much more to do.” Alice Paul’s last words 

This past Sunday was Alice Paul’s 130th Birthday.  Rights are never given, they are claimed and

When Alice Paul first introduced the ERA, this was the most popular phone in the US.

taken. Our foremothers worked for over 70 years for suffrage, and we are part of this great tradition of courage and grit. It’s in their spirit and…

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Keep the pressure on Illinois legislators, it's working! #RatifyERA

Keep the pressure on Illinois legislators, it’s working! #RatifyERA

If you are calling Illinois about the #ERA today, please call ONLY the legislators on the list attached. UPDATED call list to #RatifyERA in Illinois, plus scripts and talking points at the link!

Calls are flooding in, on both sides, to all offices, and staffers are unable to do anything else. Hurray!  But let’s focus just these 10 or so.

Pro-Life and Schalfley lobbyists are also in the house.…

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