On Thursday afternoon, around 150 activists and women’s rights leaders from across the country gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, across from the U.S. Senate, to rally for removal of the arbitrary timeline placed in the preamble of the ERA.
“Take the Shackles off my Feet”: 150 Activists Rally for the Equal Rights Amendment on Women’s Equality Day“Our fate should not be dependent on who is in office, and our freedom should not be dependent on an election.”
#Rally4ERA was co-sponsored by the Feminist Majority and the ERA Coalition, along with coalition partners The National Organization for Women , The League of Women Voters, The Women’s March, The National Congress of Black Women, The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, The Transformative Justice Coalition, MANA, Generation Ratify, and many others.
Vice President of the National Organization for Women Bear Atwood highlighted the need to abolish the Senate filibuster to finish the fight to pass the ERA saying, “Opponents of equality know they can’t win their argument based on merit. So they try to game the system, and there’s no better example of this than the“Breaking the logjam of the filibuster will open the doors to democracy.