This Constitutional amendment will secure the birthright of equal treatment for male and female alike. Laws, state ERAs, the 14th Amendment are no guarantee.
That the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) did not pass earlier surprises many. But ERA is indeed still alive and well. ERA JUST NEEDS 3 MORE STATES TO RATIFY IT so it passes into the U.S. Constitution! We of the Equal Rights Alliance Inc. focus on this singular PURPOSE:
To see the Equal Rights Amendment PASS INTO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. But FIRST, 3 MORE States must ratify/vote for the Equal Rights Amendment. Florida is one of those States.
How your national organization, the Equal Rights Alliance Inc. DOES this for YOU for FREE:
We mobilize, Organize and Publicize the swelling need for America’s ERA which is already in place in every nation created since WWII. We advocate that the U.S. ERA be in our Constitution, too. We perform research via several national legal teams and spread information by cyber-newsletters, talks, rallies, media interviews, talking with officials, give speeches anywhere you ask us in Florida, the Southeast U.S., D.C., at nearly 67 Florida County Legislative Delegation meetings every year while helping to mentor the 6 other ERA-active states: Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, and now Virginia. It's year round 18/7 schedule.
We NEED you.
Your Alliance is poised for Equal Rights Amendment Action.
We have the support, the tools, the expertise, and the votes.
All we need…is for YOU to pitch in to convince state lawmakers that Equality IS a purely a fundamental, moral, American value. We’ll teach you how, as needed, and provide handouts to leave.
For those who cannot find time to volunteer with ERA occasionally, please DONATE what you can for operating costs to ERA Inc. OR ERA Education Inc, (our 501c3) at P.O. Box 59023, N. Redington Bch, FL 33708 or Paypal. None of us is salaried. You pay no dues. ERA is funded solely by donations like yours and ours. Thank you.
Please Read, Learn, and Comment at SandyO@PassEra.org. We are all for YOU, your children, theirs, theirs and theirs! Sandy Oestreich, Founder-President of the Equal Rights Alliance, who thrills to the idea of REAL PROTECTION against sex discrimination is now working with 300,000 supporters, 88% of the public who say they WANT AN ERA, 49 Florida officials, a legendary Board, 7 Regional Directors, and with the other ERA-active states.
Alert - EQUAL RIGHTS ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES - Alert
U.S. Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) addresses the We Are Woman rally for women's rights on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, August 18, 2012. Speakers at the event took on conservative politicians and what they see as anti-woman legislation, while asking their supporters to "remember in November" which side of politics they are on, and to vote in light of those policy differences at election time. REUTERS PICTURES Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
U.S. Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) addresses the We Are Woman rally for women's rights on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, August 18, 2012. Speakers at the event took on conservative politicians and what they see as anti-woman legislation, while asking their supporters to "remember in November" which side of politics they are on, and to vote in light of those policy differences at election time. REUTERS PICTURES Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
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Jacqueline Nantier, (L) wears a red, white and blue burka, as fellow attendee Laura Kacere voices her mild objections to its use as a protest symbol, at the We Are Woman rally for women's rights on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, August 18, 2012. Speakers at the event took on conservative politicians and what they see as anti-woman legislation, while asking their supporters to "remember in November" which side of politics they are on, and to vote in light of those policy differences at election time. REUTERS PICTURES Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
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People gather for the We Are Woman rally for women's rights on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, August 18, 2012. Speakers at the event took on conservative politicians and what they see as anti-woman legislation, while asking their supporters to "remember in November" which side of politics they are on, and to vote in light of those policy differences at election time. REUTERS PICTURES Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Women sit under umbrellas painted to look like a uterus (L) and a pack of birth control pills at the We Are Woman rally for women's rights on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, August 18, 2012. Speakers at the event took on conservative politicians and what they see as anti-woman legislation, while asking their supporters to "remember in November" which side of politics they are on, and to vote in light of those policy differences at election time. REUTERS PICTURES Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
Women sit under umbrellas painted to look like a uterus (L) and a pack of birth control pills at the We Are Woman rally for women's rights on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, August 18, 2012. Speakers at the event took on conservative politicians and what they see as anti-woman legislation, while asking their supporters to "remember in November" which side of politics they are on, and to vote in light of those policy differences at election time. REUTERS PICTURES Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
People gather for the We Are Woman rally for women's rights on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, August 18, 2012. Speakers at the event took on conservative politicians and what they see as anti-women legislation, while asking their supporters to "remember in November" which side of polictics they are on, and to vote in light of those policy differences at election time. REUTERS PICTURES Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
People gather for the We Are Woman rally for women's rights on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, August 18, 2012. Speakers at the event took on conservative politicians and what they see as anti-woman legislation, while asking their supporters to "remember in November" which side of politics they are on, and to vote in light of those policy differences at election time. REUTERS PICTURES Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
A big thank you to Reuters and photographer Jonathan Ernst for covering the rally!
MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT for Immediate Release August 12, 2012
CONTACT: Sandy Oestreich, Pres., National Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Alliance— 727 804-3052
THE WOMEN’S REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN
Women Rally at the U.S. Capitol to Protest surge of “NEO-MEDIEVAL PERSECUTION”, the current all too-real legislative War on Women
WHEN: SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: U.S. CAPITOL WEST LAWN, Washington, DC
WHAT: LARGE RALLY to PROTEST current partisan legislative WAR ON WOMEN and FAMILIES (e.g., 916 anti-woman, anti-family bills overjust 3-month period, ongoing)
The Capitol (Washington, DC)—The Woman’s Revolution against the partisan very real War on Women--916 anti-woman, anti-family bills IN JUST3 MONTHS-- kicks off August 18, 2012 atthe U.S. Capitol West Lawn, starting Saturday at 10 a.m. No laughing matter to these women.
Four sassy, savvy young women are in full rebellion against the War on Women. A bare few months ago, they came together, hopping-mad, as a grassroots organization at www.WeAreWoman.us to foment a Woman’s Revolution against the stingingly partisan legislative War on Women.
Their Rally-Protest at the Capitol will bring busloads of women and men from across the nation. Expect banners, music, balloons, bullhorns, cowbells and decorated umbrellas.
Legendary speakers will represent National Women’s Political Caucus, Planned Parenthood, Huffington Post, National Organization for Women, National Equal Rights Amendment Alliance, Feminist Majority, andothers protesting partisan legislators’ actions. Betty Jean Kling (PA) asserts that the ongoing War on Women that “is now gone over the top, absolutely IMMORAL to voters.” “Engage to be The Change you want to see” is her motto.
Founder- president of the National Equal Rights Amendment Alliance (FL) which works to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)into the U.S. Constitution says they will attend with banners flying. President Sandy Oestreich (FL) says, “This War is sex discrimination to the max. ERA makes sex discrimination (male and female alike) a violation of the U.S.Constitution. If we had ERA they would not dare strike at women like this.” Dr. Dorie Rothman (NJ) affirms, “NOTHING else has the power to change this shameful American hobby of treating women/girls as ‘less than’ men and boys.”
According to the National ERA Alliance web site, www.2PassERA, ERA is still “viable and contemporaneous”, and since no state has ever rescinded its vote, ratification by just three more state legislatures passes ERA into the U.S.Constitution. Oestreich declares ERA will finally codify gender-equal treatment “across the board” and put American “females’ birth rights in the nation’s contract with its People. Without Constitutional backing, women and girls can continue to be subjected to sieges against our personhood from every quarter. There’s no getting used to that.”
The site details ERA’s benefits to the economy: can boost tax revenues, cut Medicare/Medicaid and court costs, raise the Gross Domestic Product as in other countries, and ERA uniquely requires no funding. “What’s not to LIKE?”
ERA undergirds all women’s issues, says Wendy Cartright, one of the four WeAreWoman.us founders, “This Rally says we are not going away until women are in the nation’s contract with its people, protected from continued exploitation, harassment, rape and violence. Period.” Tennessee’s Bud Fields of BlogTalkRadio says “We’ve got to become Americans again. Keeping half the nation’s talents hog-tied is against America’s best interests. Shouldn’t we be electing ADULTS?”
www.WeAreWoman.us, info@WeAreWoman.us
www.2PassERA.org, SandyO@PassERA.org
Bud Fields, kybudman@gmail.com Call in to his BlogTalkRadio Sun. Aug. 19 at4:30 for the Wrap-up on the Women’s Revolution, (347) 426-3348
2013 FLORIDA LEGISLATIVE SESSION starts March 5, Tuesday
NEW bills, SAME wording, a RE-newed Senate Sponsor, new energies, more members, a Blog. Florida’s Democratic Women’s Clubs have connected to us to give some of our yearly 67 legislative delegation ERA talks. We welcome them.
We are honored again that the dynamic Representative Lori Berman (D-Palm Beach) is the House Sponsor of the 2013 ERA bill, HCR 8001 already gathering co-sponsors!
Alliance is proud that FL Senator Arthenia Joyner (D-Tampa, St. Pete) is back as Senate Sponsor of SCR 54. Our deep gratitude goes to Senator Arthenia Joyner who has faithfully filed the ERA ratification bills since 2003.
THIS YEAR WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO EVEN MORE CO-SPONSORS OF THESE ERA BILLS THAN LAST YEARS 44 COURAGEOUS LEGISLATORS.
You can CALL your own legislators from your own county* now with a reminder that you, as a constituent, are expecting her/him to co-sponsor SCR 54 or HCR8001 as soon as possible to show resolve for equal treatment for all Americans, regardless of gender. Any questions raised, let me know at SandyO@PassERA.org, and I will answer them within 24 hours. Guaranteed. Thanks for trying hard for ERA alongside the rest of us 300 000 in our National Equal Rights Amendment Alliance!
*Find your legislator via leg.state.fl.us; get to know her/him and say “American men and women have been noble too long, waiting for officials to name the problem of sex discrimination and make it A VIOLATION OF THE US CONSTITUTION, depending on the case! URGE him/her to “Co-sponsor the ERA, URGE hearings on the bills, and VOTE for ERA.” Do it now, before Session starts in March, while there is time to listen to constituents. Constituents are their VIPs, their employers—there’s power in that! Use it.
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Please call now. Suggested thoughts you might convey, below. Or use your own. Please choose randomly for best effect.
Florida men and women constituents have waited too long for you to hold a vote on ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment. 88% of constituents DEMAND IT. Do it in March!
Wherever gender equal treatment (the ERA) is the Standard, the GDP climbs by up to 3%! Hold a hearing on the ERA bill in March!
Given the treatment of your constituents by the Legislative leadership, constituents are getting restless! You NEED to hold an ERA bill hearing in March !
No more unnecessary feeding Big Business by stalling on the ERA. Hold ERA hearings early in March!
Whichis more important, keeping Business happy or keeping 52% of your constituents angry at you? Hear the ERA in March!
Florida’s leadership is ignoring ERA, human rights, to keep Business funding their campaigns! Agenda the ERA bills for a vote in March!
Legislative leadership worries about Business feeding their re-elections rather than the constituents who vote for them! Schedule ERA for hearings.
ERA is win-win for your constituents. Don’t you WANT to be re-elected? Put the ERA bill up for a March vote.
Agenda the ERA hearing for early March if you like the sound of “re-election”. Men and women are angry about sex discrimination. Hear the ERA bill asap.
Schedule a vote for the ERA bill, and just WATCH your VOTERS COME OUT! Schedule ERA committee meetings asap!
Constituents are getting angrier at corporations feeding re-election campaigns on the backsof women! NO more Business As Usual—Hear the ERA bill~
Ridiculous that the Legislative Leadership misleads publicly that “ERA “hurts’ Business”! Business is making obscene profits off the middle class and especially Women. Hold ERA hearings, in March!
Boost Florida’s image and its ECONOMY: Hold ERA bill hearings asap!
Constituents are angry that the Legislative Leadership plays games with us and kowtows to Business for campaign funds! Hold an ERA vote in March.
Stop playing games with ERA, with men and women voters. Schedule ERA hearings in March!
America wants sex discrimination banned. No matter that Business thinks it benefits by it. Constituents demand
ERA hearings in March.
Don’t you CARE about the well-being of your wives, daughters, sisters, mothers?? Holding hearings on the ERA is the ONLY way to protect them from sex discrimination. IF you care about them, hold ERA hearings asap!
TEN years is too long to wait for ERA. To bring equal treatment to men and women alike like all nations since WWII! Hold a hearing in March!
It’s been over a dozen years since the ERA bill was filed before Congress. Women are STILL NOT in the contract with their nation! Still “possessions of men”. Hear the ERA bill in March!
Stand strong for your constituents, male and female alike! Push for Hearings on the ERA bills in March!
300,000 constituents say: Eliminate Sex Discrimination. Hold hearings on SCR 180 or HCR 8003 asap in March!
Florida women are ANGRY at your stalling ERA! This March, HOLD hearings on the ERA bill asap!
Men have sex discrimination too. They ask you to ratify ERA, too! Don’t stall in March—HOLD ERA HEARINGS!
Child custody/ the military draft/ fair judgments on consensual sex. For male constituents: Hold ERA hearings asap!
Ask yourself if you love your family MORE than you do getting ELECTED! Hold an ERA hearings in March!
Huge benefits to passing ERA—fewer divorces, fewer on food stamps, Medicaid, fewer on Public Assistance. Just hear it. Vote ERA UP or Down in March!
Wake UP: ERA boosts revenues, cuts costs of courts, Public Assistance, Medicaid! This Economy needs a hearing on the ERA asap in March!
Copyright 10 14 2011 2PassERA.org ASK Sandy for other advice, help, suggestions: sandyo@PassERA.orgThank YOU!
SIGN THIS CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT PETITION. It goes directly to the Congressional Committee that will vote on whether our ERA bill, HJRes 47 will pass!! Do it NOW: Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to Ensure Equality for All Americans!
If you have watched our ERA web site, our successes and our tough, relentless personal efforts over 13 years to bring you, yours and ours equal treatment across the board and have not yet contributed, NOW IS THE TIME. Don’t you agree?
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Click on our blog. At top of this web site download our bulleted Talking Points for your visits to your own Florida legislators. Call your county Supervisor of Elections for contact info for your own Florida representative and your Florida senator. Make an appointment in their District Offices right now, while they have time for you and are not in Tallahassee. They are busier and less accessible as March approaches. Tell them you and most Floridians WANT TO SEE THE ERA RATIFIED BY FLORIDA as all other nations since WWII already have an ERA. One more thing: PLEASE email us how it went so we can strategize
to SandyO@PassERA.org.
We are all working for YOU. You are your two Legislators’ VIP. If you wish, let us help you make it a successful appointment. FOR PITCHING IN and SPEAKING UP for EQUALITY for all Americans, regardless of gender…
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Faculty and student protests at Washington U., St. Louis over Schlafly's "coronation" there May 16. 
