Pass the Equal Rights Amendment

05/29/2021

ADDING EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT #28 TO OUR U.S.CONSTITUTION IS DESPERATELY NEEDED BY WOMEN & LITTLE GIRLS, AND EVERYONE ELSE~RAPES AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HAS RISEN EXPONENTIALLY. WE'VE WORKED HARD, SPEAKING NATIONWIDE, LOBBYING EVERY STATE FOR MORE THAN 22 NONSTOP YEARS, 18/7, UNPAID. ERA IS NOT NOW AND NEVER WAS "ALL ABOUT ABORTION"...WOMEN ARE MUCH MORE THAN THEIR UTERUS! YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR SITE, WWW.2PassERA.org TO BE AMAZED AT ITS BENEFITS ..IF ONLY WE CAN GET PARTISAN LAWSUITS SQUELCHED SO ERA CAN BE ADDED TO OUR CONSTITUTION. YOUR DONATION OF ANY AMOUNT CAN BE SENT FROM OUR SITE--IT GETS DOUBLED! SANDY OESTREICH, FOUNDER-PRESIDENT, NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT INC., 501C3 CHEERS, DEARS!

MY NAT'L EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT ALLIANCE INC., 501C3 HAS WORKED NONSTOP, 18/7, UNPAID FOR MORE THAN 22 YEARS HAS NOW FULFILLED REQUIREMENTS FOR ERA TO BE ADDED

05/22/2021

EME Launches New Campaign: Attorney General Garland - How Much Longer Must Women Wait for Equality?
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Kamala Lopez via bounce.bluestatedigital.com

12:56 PM (22 hours ago)

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Equal Means Equal

Dear Sandy, (PLEASE ATTEND TO THIS NOW, sandyo)

The fight to enshrine equal rights for women in our Constitution has reached a state of urgency; but we have a chance if we act now. We have turned our attention to the new Attorney General Merrick Garland and Biden’s Department of Justice (”DOJ”) and we need your help.

It has been well over a hundred days since the Biden administration came to power, and they are still fighting the ERA in court and refusing to enshrine it in the Constitution. Sadly, Joe Biden’s government is continuing the anti-ERA policies and practices that Trump instituted. Wait… Whaaaahht??

The reality is that American women are now under attack like never before:

Domestic violence/femicide numbers skyrocketed during the pandemic with women trapped at home with abusers and prisons refusing to take in new criminals.
The economic devastation of the past year has left millions of women jobless after having to stay home to take care of children being home schooled. Despite unemployment numbers droppfing overall, millions of women remain unemployed and overly represented in that group. Still the notion of universal childcare as infrastructure is mocked by politicians. Who do they think should take care of the children? I think the answer is pretty clear - keep the status quo and let the women figure it out - they always seem to somehow...
The Supreme Court has decided to take up a case risking the 50-year precedent of abortion rights. Heartbeat bills. Contraception access eroded. Unequal, inferior, more expensive health care. ‘Nuff said.
ALL OF THIS POINTS TO THE ABSOLUTE, UNEQUIVOCAL AND EXISTENTIAL NEED FOR ERA TO BE FORMALLY ADDED TO OUR FEDERAL CONSTITUTION IMMEDIATELY.

If the First Circuit Court of Appeals rules against the ERA before it gets published, our ability to argue that ERA is already law will be severely diminished.

While many will say that the law is the law and politics is politics, what I have seen and can attest to, is that the legal is political and the political can become legal.

So, we must push hard right now to demand that Merrick Garland remove the Bill Barr memo and direct the Archivist to immediately publish the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.

U.S. Archivist David Ferrierro claims his hands are tied because of the Bill Barr/OLC Memo ordering him not to publish ERA.

The White House claims its hands are tied because it cannot tell the Department of Justice to withdraw the Barr Memo without appearing “political.”

The White House claims that because the last administration used a heavy hand at the DOJ they are loathe to appear to be interfering.

This is a disingenuous argument given the fact that the Barr Memo was as deeply political as it was inappropriate and illegal.

Bottom line, Biden *can* call on Merrick Garland to remove the Barr memo - but for now he isn't doing it.

The White House clearly wants the DOJ to take the lead on this.

Well, kids, guess whose hands are not only untied, but are hands that can and should REMOVE THE BARR MEMO, DROP THE CASES AGAINST THE ERA IN COURT AND PUBLISH THE AMENDMENT IMMEDIATELY?

ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND, THAT’S WHO.

The DOJ’s lawyer at our hearing in the First Circuit (listen here) argued that the DOJ does not believe that women are being harmed by non-publication of the ERA — he also said that states that oppose the ERA would be harmed if the ERA were published because states would have to begin fixing their discriminatory laws.

Think about that: Our United States Department of Justice thinks it would be burdensome for states to ensure that women have full equality under all laws; and not burdensome for women to have to endure the unequal treatment stemming from not fixing those laws. Huh. OK.

The DOJ also submitted the unconstitutional D.C. District Court Opinion in Virginia, et al. v. Ferraro in our case as supplemental authority for their argument against the ERA!

The time is now for all of us to rise up and demand that Attorney General Merrick Garland remove the Bill Barr/OLC Memo so the ERA can be published as the 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Here is Merrick Garland’s contact information, and a sample letter you can use to make your voice heard. Either through the online form or snail mail (which is extremely powerful) - please take a moment to send your letter RIGHT AWAY, using our language or your own.

Please also join our Slack Channel and pick up EME's daily tweet and send it out from your social media account to the persons we have identified at the Department of Justice. We will be sharing a new post every day with a different fact about why ERA is so crucial for America and must be adopted NOW.

JOIN OUR SLACK CHANNEL

Finally, please donate to us. Equal Means Equal is committed to fighting for the ERA, but with litigation and public education expenses, we really need your financial help now. Please donate $28, or as much as possible, to get us to the finish line, recurring monthly if you can. If we don't get the ERA in the Constitution soon, we likely won't see it added in our lifetimes. We need to put our adrenaline to work now. Together, we can do this! We have a very small window of opportunity to make this happen - probably two to four weeks. So let’s do it.

FUEL THE FIGHT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS

With love,

Kamala, Natalie, Wendy, Thila and the EME Team
(FOLLOWUP HERE BY SANDY OESTREICH OF 22 YR OLD NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT ALLIANCE INC WWW.2PASSERA.ORG)
ERA IS DEFINITELY IN BAD SPOT/ THIS, AFTER MY/OUR NATL ERA ALLIANCE INC, 501C3, HAS WORKED ITSELF DOWN TO A NUB FOR MORE THAN 22 SOLID 18/7 UNPAID YEARS FOR EQUAL TREATMENT VIA OUR CONSTITUTION FOR ALL OF YOU.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE US WIN THIS FIGHT AGAINST THE "OTHER POLITICAL PARTY", SEND A DONATION OF ANY SIZE (IT GETS DOUBLED) TO: NAT'L ERA ALLIANCE INC., 501C3 , 1100 PONCE DE LEON BLVD 405s, CLEARWATER, FL 33756. NONE OF THESE DONATIONS GO INTO OUR OWN POCKET! HERE'S THEIR PLEA:

(AND I WILL FORWARD TO EQUAL MEANS EQUAL of the ollowing plea):

04/26/2021

Done

04/26/2021

03/02/2021

Sandy Oestreich convincing US Senate to Vote Yes on adding the 100 yr old Equal Rights Amendment for All to US Constitution.

01/11/2021

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=youtube+i+am+woman+helen+reddy =60&vid=4d3fb2d4292358d51c4da81243d9c65e&action=view

SANDY OESTREICH who reignited the Equal Rights Amendment after years of silence along w/ a few other strong women, says: click on video above and sing it LOUD. WE NEED THAT STRENGTH NOW THAT THE GOP HAS FILED LAWSUITS AGAINST ERA TAKING ITS PROPER PLACE IN OUR US CONSTITUTION! IF YOU LIKE IT, LIKE WE WOMEN DOTED ON HELEN REDDY IN THE 1970s, play it over and over whenever you hold a gathering or meeting! PLEASE DONATE TO ERA'S FINE ATTORNEYS' FEES AS THEY WORK TO RIP UP GOP'S LAWSUITS AGAINST EQUAL TREATMENT FOR WOMEN, GIRLS AND ALL! GO TO OUR 2PassERA.org to DONATE whatever you Can to pay those bills so WE CAN GET YOUR ERA SETTLED RIGHT IN TO OUR US CONSTITUTION WHERE IT BELONGS! SEND US A CHECK FROM THERE, PUHLEEEEZ, NOW! I'M NOW 86 YEARS OLD and STILL WORKING TO PUT ERA IN IN IN OUR CONSTITUTION SO IT CAN START WORKING FOR US AND ALL AMERICANS! THANKS! SANDY OESTREICH P S !! YOUR DONATION GETS DOUBLED BY MY LEGENDARY ERA ADVOCATE WHO MARCHED WITH ME IN THE 1970s for ERA before it went to sleep for 40 years..that was Some tough , dangerous and exhausting job!! SING WHILE YOU DONATE. I WILL WRITE YOU OUR THANKS! SANDY OESTREICH CHEERS, DEARS! WE ARE ABOUT TO GET EQUAL TREATMENT THROUGHOUT THE USA! ###

11/22/2020

11 21 2020 sO, WE HAVE PASSED THE ERA ON JAN 27 2020, ALONGSIDE IN SOLIDARITY qq1aTHOUSANDS OF OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AFTER WE HAVE SPENT 21 SOLID, NONSTOP LOBBYING YEARS, 18/7, UNSALARIED, TO REACH THIS GOAL. BUT, NOW REPUBLICANS ARE BLOCKING WITH LAWSUITS THE ENTRY REQUIRED BY OUR CONSTITUTION INTO IT! THO EXHAUSTED AND BROKE AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, WE ARE RELYING ON OUR FINE ATTORNEYS TO SOLVE THIS HALT IN OUR FINALLY! READYING ERA FOR THE REQUIRED , SIMPLE ADDITION TO OUR CONSTITUTION SO THAT IT CAN BEGIN TO DELIVER AGAINST YOUR INSTANCES OF S*X DISCRIMINATION, WHETHER MALE OR FEMALE. WE DO THIS SOMETIMES DANGEROUS WORK FOR YOU AND ALL, NOT FOR MONEY, OR STATUS, BUT BECAUSE WE CARE!
PLEASE DONATE AT 2PASSERA.ORG ..ANY AMOUNT . ALL DONATIONS ARE DOUBLE BY A LEGENDARY ERA FRIEND WHO JOINED ME IN PROTESTING FOR ERA IN THE 1970's. I AM NOW 86 AND HEALTHY, TELLING US CONGRESS: " I AM 86, DON'T MAKE ME DIE BEFORE YOU CODIFY ERA IN OUR CONSTITUTION! YOU WILL DO IT, SO DO IT NOW!"