Rise Up! Shoulder to Shoulder for the Equal Rights Amendment
Tammy Simkins
In honor of Dr. Alice Paul, ERA Action is
launching our "RISE UP! SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER FOR THE EQUAL RIGHTS
AMENDMENT" Virtual Social Media event to commemorate the 90th Anniversary
of the Equal Rights Amendment. On July 21, 1923, Dr. Paul unveiled the
amendment at the 75th Anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention in
Seneca Falls, New York.
It was quite fitting that Alice chose this day to introduce her amendment as
she realized the event was not only a day to celebrate the victory of the long,
hard fought battle to gain the vote for women, but the beginning of the next
phase for the movement - to obtain full Constitutional equality.
As Alice famously said: "We shall not be safe until the principle of equal rights is written into the framework of our government.”
After nearly a century, we have the privilege and obligation to move forward, building on the foundation Dr. Paul began on that summer day 90 years ago in Seneca Falls. We have made advances for women in the past 50 years in our nation thanks to the tireless and dedicated work of the women's liberation movement before us and now it is our time to complete the unfinished business of the women's movement by ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment into our Constitution.
Our ongoing event will encompass a bipartisan outreach campaign to those legislators who have yet to co-sponsor the resolutions to remove the ERA deadline for ratification in the states, Senate SJRes 15 and House HJRes 43. In addition we will be promoting the Senate and House Resolutions to award Alice Paul the Gold Medal of Honor, S.457 & H.R874. We are also planning Thunderclap Actions, a social media platform that helps us to be heard and generates attention to our cause. Twitter campaigns will be utilized as well for outreach.
Many of you have joined other ERA calls to action and thanks to all of us working together, they have all been successful. It is our hope that this event generates even more enthusiasm and dedication to progress our movement forward to reach our goal. http://tinyurl.com/qexaugx
