ERA is now at the Tipping Point. ERA needs YOU
Convey your strong ERA need by CALLING these 4 MOST IMPORTANT of all ERA-targetted Florida Legislators immediately. Choose what you will say from below, or use your own words. Thanks, all of us at Equal Rights Alliance, Inc, sandyo@PassERA.org.
Emails tend to just get deleted, but phone calls usually get repeated to the legislator. Asking for “the Legislative Aide” before leaving your message is the better approach; very unlikely you will be talking to the legislators her/himself. This is just how it’s done…and it WORKS.
Here’s Your REPORT on the Rally-Protest against the War On Women on the front lawn, USA Capitol, DC, Saturday, Aug 18,2012
via Sandy Oestreich, Pres, founder, Nat’l Equal Rights Amendment Alliance
(sooo FUN, we’re gonna’ do it again! Stay tuned.) *See our vintage ERA banner that Sandy marched with in the 1970s, below. *PS Sandy speaks in Jacksonville on Friday Aug 24 at 1pm “Women’s Equality Day” and Blog Talk Radios, Tennessee, NJ, and nationwide. See sandyo@PassERA.org, www.2PassERA.org, Fbk:PasstheEqualRightsAmendment, Twitter: @sandyo
Watch in pics for Sandy Oestreich, Pres., National Equal Rights Amendment Alliance in the red polka-dot dress with ERA Crew Chief BJ Kling in pics at the mike, etc. “Absolutely astonished and thrilled at the turnout and the amazing number of ERA organizations here, most we weren’t even aware of! But they sprang into action just as www.WeAreWoman.us did when they heard what Ol’ Limbaugh called a young lady lawyer! And when they SAW listings of the 916 anti-woman, anti-family bills filed IN JUST 3 MONTHS across the USA and in Congress continuing!
The forest fire of neo-medieval sex discrimination now scorching the country will be made AVIOLATION OF THE US CONSTITUTION by ERA! We have a commitment from other organizations and individuals now to FOCUS with lazer-gaze on PASSING THE ERA since ERA under girds all issues of women and the men who respect and love them! NOTHING else has the power.”
First, IMPORTANT ERA task right now, please, for you: Please phone Florida’s US Congressman Bill Young, 727 394-6950 (say “Cong Young PROMISED to co-sponsor HJRes 47 to pass ERA at the August St Pete Republican Picnic. I am REMINDING him, and there are witnesses.”) Then phone US Senator Bill Nelson, 1 888 671-4091. (say,“For years 300,000 ERA members of the ERA NATIONAL MOVEMENT have asked for Sen. Nelson’s co-sponsorship of ERA bills. SJRes39 is his chance to stand up for women and watch them vote!. We expect co-sponsorship now.” CLOG their phones. Both are the sister-ERA-bills to speed up ERA passage that we helped create and file! Sandy urges YOU to do this IMPORTANT, EASY WORK FOR ERA RIGHT NOW, for YOUR own benefit now. THANKS from us all at www.2PassERA.org
Don’t miss both Summary AND Pics here...
URLs FOR INITIAL PICS OF RALLY/PROTEST:
DATE OF SHOWING ON C-Span IS TBA; HERE'S URL, so BOOKMARK it for now:
1)*http://www.c-span.org/Events/39We-Are-Woman39-Rallies-Supporters-of-Women39s-Rights/10737433247/.
2) *http://www.flickr.com/photos/81706750@N02/sets
3) And a photo from Reuters: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/multimedia/pictures/detail.dot?mediaInode=b19fda6e-9574-47a5-894b-addd9444765f
4) More Reuters Photos:
http://www.wearewoman.us/2012/08/initial-photos-from-we-are-woman-rally.html
5) VIDEO: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3YjATlM-zM&feature=plcp
Watch for Sandy Oestreich, Pres., National Equal Rights Amendment Alliance, in the red polka-dot dress with ERA Crew Chief BJ Kling in pics at the mike, etc. “Absolutely astonished and thrilled at theturnout and the amazing number of ERA organizations here, most we weren’t even aware of! But they sprang into action justas www.WeAreWoman.us did when they heard what Ol’ Limbaugh called a young lady lawyer! And when they SAW listings of the 916 anti-woman, anti-family bills filed IN JUST 3 MONTHS across the USA and in Congress continuing!
The forest fire of neo-medieval sex discrimination now scorching the country will be made AVIOLATION OF THE US CONSTITUTION by ERA! We have a commitment from other organizations and individuals now to FOCUS with lazer-gaze on PASSING THE ERA since ERA under girds all issues of women and the men who respect and love them! NOTHING else has the power.”
Quick RALLY-PROTEST Summary fyi:
Attendees sit under painted umbrellas as they 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. And U.S. Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Code-Pink, Planned Parenthood, NOW, Nat'l Council of Women's Organizations, Sandy and others address the We Are Woman rally for women's rights on the west lawn of theU.S. Capitol in Washington, August 18, 2012.
Sun, 94 degrees, some partial overcast (whew!), and NO rain as projected!
C-Span recording it ALL; venue info tba
Interviews by radio: The Coffee Party; Bud Fields’ broadcasts from Tennessee, andmore I don’t know yet. We will be posting this to all our members andmember-organizations as it rolls in
Women, men, children were wall-to-wall from 10 am to suppertime
Endless rousing cheers and legendary cowbell punctuating speeches
Many women’s irreverent, thrilling music groups performing and spontaneous dancing, cheers, shout-outs
Sloganized parasols, banners incl. our vintage Natl ERA Alliance’s 2 antique green‘n white ones 4x6 feet at the podium that we carried proudly in the 70’s; our 3x 8 foot banner across the podium when
SandyO spoke: PASS THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT; and the Don Addis cartoon banner w/ ERA fist coming out of grave, tombstone.
Mock-ups w/pink late uterus w/fallopian tubes and ovaries 6x6 feet
Video of speakers, me too, urging all people and esp. organizations to GET THE MOJO to recognize THE ERA AS THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFENSE against AMERICAN FEMALES’ and Males’ issues of unAmerican SEX DISCRIMINATION. ERA makes sex discrimination A VIOLATION OF THE US CONSTITUTION—can’t get more powerful than that! Nothing ELSE does it. We organizations must find the moxie to make ERA THE priority as it under girds ALL our issues. So, we must all focus Focus FOCUS on ERA, truly.
Balloons, placards with pics of Boehner, Paul Ryan et al saying Probe THEM, Get Out of My Body, etc.
Meet-ups with hundreds of cyber-friends Natl ERA Alliance has never met face-to-face! Hugs all around!
Feedback everywhere Totally POSITIVE.
THE TAKE-AWAY MESSAGE? The WOMEN’S REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN
CONNECT, link arms now to OCCUPY OCCUPY THE CONSTITUTION for ERA :
Your Natl ERA Alliance forges on in partnership with growing numbers to WORK ENDLESSLY FOR UNWAVERING SOLIDARITY for Passing the Equal Rights Amendment full speed via THREE MORE STATES and HJRes 47 and SJRes 39, US House and Senate speed-up bills! MAKE SURE YOU CALL #S!
Sign the Facebook.com/ERAnow-ERA petition that urges a Congressional Hearing of new ERA speed-up bills, HJRes 47 and SJRes 39, US House and Senate. These are OUR speed-up bills for YOU.
Call YOUR US Senator and Representatives to SIGN ONTO THESE BILLS asap. Check our 2passERA.org, click LINKS to connect with the other state ERA initiatives for your friends elsewhere. Can get a stamper from Office Depot with "www.2PassERA.org" or other for letters and cards you send out anywhere. PUBLICITY is what ERA lacks--main media ignores women, we all know.
Contact to focus YOUR ENERGY, YOUR TIME, YOUR DONATIONS for Passing the Equal Rights Amendment, the cure for sex discrimination:
SandyO@PassERA.org / www.2PassERA.org or other ERAs. CONNECT NOW.
Don’t Iron while the Strike is HOT!
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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.org Thank YOU!
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