“Take the Shackles off my Feet”: 150 Activists Rally for the Equal Rights Amendment on Women’s Equality Day“Our fate should not be dependent on who is in office, and our freedom should not be dependent on an election.”
#Rally4ERA was co-sponsored by the Feminist Majority and the ERA Coalition, along with coalition partners The National Organization for Women , The League of Women Voters, The Women’s March, The National Congress of Black Women, The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, The Transformative Justice Coalition, MANA, Generation Ratify, and many others.
Vice President of the National Organization for Women Bear Atwood highlighted the need to abolish the Senate filibuster to finish the fight to pass the ERA saying, “Opponents of equality know they can’t win their argument based on merit. So they try to game the system, and there’s no better example of this than the“Breaking the logjam of the filibuster will open the doors to democracy.
I can't help but wonder why the WomensMarch didn't mobilize for this? Today is the VotingRightsMarch for MLK. Those s will blow Women out of the water. Has anyone looked into the History of WHY MLK did his 1963 March just DAYS after the 19thAmendment Anniversary? Hmn?
I have a feeling this may grow!!
The original timeline was standard, not arbitrary; it was extended further; and yet the bill still couldn't be ratified.