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'Equal Rights Amendment'

Bid to ratify Equal Rights Amendment fails

A proposal to ratify the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution failed in a Senate committee Thursday morning. The ERA would establish an explicit guarantee for equal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. The resolution failed to receive a second to a "do-pass" motion, effectively killing it.
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Sen. Joyce Elliott to propose resolution for state to ratify Equal Rights Amendment

The Progressive Arkansas Women PAC sends word that Sen. Joyce Elliott will file a resolution today to for Arkansas to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment, which seeks to establish an explicit guarantee in the U.S. Constitution for equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex.
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The case for the ERA, plus oyster suppers that welcome women

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican, joins Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, in a Washington Post op-ed urging adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment. As luck would have it their timing was perfect: It coincided with the Slovak Oyster Supper.

The Nobel's year of the woman

New York Times The Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 was awarded on Friday to three campaigning women from Africa and the Arab world in acknowledgment of their nonviolent role in promoting peace, democracy and gender equality.
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A call for equal rights for women

MIA in legislature so far: A resolution calling for Arkansas ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

You think we don't need the ERA?

Think again. Justice Antonin Scalia (no longer a right-wing outlier on the Supreme Court but now a frequent part of a ruling majority) thinks the Constitution's equal protection clause does not prohibit discrimination against women (or, by extension, any number of other abused classes to which it has been applied.)
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The latest scare tactic

The right-wingers are working on a new script — President Obama wants to give the US of A back to the Indians.
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