NC Ratify ERA.org Profile picture
A NC coalition of diverse feminists & feminist organizations working w/state legislators to ratify women's Equal Rights Amendment in NC. #MakeNC38 ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽
Oct 11, 2019 7 tweets 12 min read
📺NEWS Thread📰
#ncga #ncpol #ERA

NC may just become the 38th state to ratify the #ERA this year!

NC State Senator @EricaforUSSen20 made NC history Thursday filing a discharge petition to free ERA bill S184 from committee to force a floor vote this session! 1/

@ratifyERAorg @EricaforUSSen20 @ratifyeraOrg @EricaforUSSen20 employed the same Discharge Petition process first used by US Rep. Martha Griffiths in 1970 to force Congress to vote on the #ERA. Introduced in 1923, the #ERA bill was ignored for 47 years! That is 'til Rep. Griffith got fed up! 2/