On Monday, DoloresHuerta led a delegation of ERA supporters to deliver letters from 15,000 people urging SenatorSinema to help end the filibuster. fourthwaveprof reports:
“Senator Kyrsten Sinema … is one of the few senators who hang in the balance of making or breaking an end to the filibuster to clear the way for constitutional rights for women and voting rights for all Americans.”Dolores Huerta leads a delegation of Equal Rights Amendment supporters delivering 15,000 letters and postcards to Sen. Sinema’s office in Phoenix to urge the Arizona Democrat to end the filibuster and clear the way for the ERA in the Senate.
“I drove all the way from California to be here today to join with the Phoenix leaders of the ERA and voting rights, and local activists with Feminist Majority and Women’s March,” Huerta reiterated to , “because we know how important this is and we are depending on Sinema to be our champion. She’s always been a champion of women’s rights, but now is a moment of truth.”
But it’s not enough to be elected, Guereca said, or to be a woman in office. Sinema needs to demonstrate “the democratic values that we elected her on. … She ran as a progressive, so we are holding her accountable to that.” “Women who fought for the right to own property, to go to school, to vote, to keep our own earnings, to get a credit card, to control our own bodies, and even to wear pants. She sits where she is today because of those women and these women,” said Post, gesturing at the gathered supporters.
“I have been fighting for this since it first tried to pass,” she said. “We’ve got to get this done in my lifetime. My daughter is now older than I was when this was passed in Massachusetts [where I grew up], and I’m infuriated. Our lives would be different now. Her future would be different if we’d passed this when we should have, but we’re still here, we’re not going away, and we’re not going to stop.
As these supporters, ranging in age from 7 to Huerta’s 91, brought the 15,000 letters and postcards to Sinema’s office, both an urgency and a sense of hope settled over the delegation.
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