ERA in the News: DEC 20 2024 - JAN 3 2025

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Dec. 20 SUFFS – THE MUSICAL – PRO-SHOT ANNOUNCED FOR PBS GREAT PERFORMANCES – Theatre Fan “The Tony Award-winning musical will be taped this weekend for future broadcast on PBS’s Great Performances, a production spokesperson has confirmed. An air date has not yet been announced.” Theatre Fan

Dec. 20 Why the ERA Needs Congressional Action—And How We Can Win - Ms. Magazine “As the 118th Congress concludes in early January, we must honor those who stood for equality: the 214 House Democrats who signed the ERA discharge petition. Only four Republicans were needed to bring the ERA to the floor for a vote. We were closer than at any time in the past to enshrining the ERA into the Constitution, and I believe failure is impossible.” Ms. Magazine

Dec. 24 Women demand “deeds not words”: Joe Biden must enshrine the ERA in the Constitution | Salon.com “In an interview with MeidasTouch on Thursday the host Ben Meiselas asked President Joe Biden what he is working on right now and what he hopes to accomplish before the end of his term. President Biden responded, “There's a couple things I want to get done. Women's issues, for example... We should be passing the ERA. There's a consensus for it.” Salon

Dec. 26 President Biden: Why Are Women Waiting for Equality? | League of Women Voters “President Biden, with the weeks that remain of your presidency, the mission that began a century ago is now on you. Enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment into the Constitution. The time could not be more urgent. It must be done now." League of Women Voters

Dec. 28 Ms. Magazine’s Top Feminists of 2024 - Ms. Magazine “In January of last year, Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) began their work to remove the arbitrary deadline for the ERA’s ratification. Pressley and Bush launched the Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment, the first of its kind, in March of last year.” Ms. Magazine

Dec. 31 Letter to the editor: ERA needs to be enacted as constitutional amendment | The Reflector "I encourage all the men who love the women in their lives to contact their representatives in favor of this amendment. It will bless these women, their daughters and their daughter’s daughters in unforeseeable future ways." The Reflector