ERA News: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly

ERA Bill Update; New Scrutiny of US Progress on Issues including Women's Status

Florida's monolithic House Leadership once again refuses to hold fair hearings on the Equal Rights Amendment ratification bill, thus stalling it in the Senate, too. This, for the EIGHTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
After working 7a to 7p for so long in preparation for each of Alliance's annual grueling assaults on the Florida capitol's inhabitants, legislators as mostly Republicans, I have this to say.

THIS IS NOTHING SHORT OF A CLASS WAR! Forget the smokescreen claims of Daffy Schlafly's subscribers that it will make all of us become lesbians and run for abortions, or go to war, or attack men, or become prostitutes...

It is but a monolithic campaign to "save" Big Business from having to pay women equal wages. Leaders are Big Insurance, which pays into politicians' coffers like no other Big Business. No amount of logic, calls for compassion for those who have their babies, provide home services, and pay taxes, etcetera, will work. We must regroup and recoup for a different kind of war for the freedoms and liberties and equalities that SHOULD BE OUR BIRTHRIGHT.

We'll be calling on all nurses, teachers, librarians and EVERYONE, male and female alike, to become armed with our Talking Points, and TO COME WITH US TO TALLAHASSEE NEXT YEAR TO HELP US LOBBY. No longer can we do it without a massive turnout.

PLEASE ANSWER THE CALL WHEN WE ASK YOU EARLY NEXT YEAR. Women and men alike cannot continue to "Wait" for a propitious time and committee for ERA to be heard. We must DEMAND it. There is power in numbers and in your voices. UNLEASH THEM FOR THE ERA!

Sandyo, ERA Inc

NOW, THE GOOD NEWS: HILLARY TO THE RESCUE ONCE AGAIN!


Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that, for the first
time, the United States will participate in what's called the
"universal periodic review" process, run by the U.N. Human
Rights Council, The Washington Post reported March 18. The United
States will submit itself to the process this fall, in which the
nation's record, including that on women's rights issues, might be
judged.

"Human rights are universal, but their experience is local. This
is why we are committed to holding everyone to the same standard,
including ourselves," Clinton said in the article.

The 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council was established in March 2006
to replace the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. George W. Bush's
administration refused to join the council, citing its nondemocratic
makeup and its frequent criticisms of Israel, the article reported,
but the Obama administration reversed that decision last spring.



Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that, for the first
time, the United States will participate in what's called the
"universal periodic review" process, run by the U.N. Human
Rights Council, The Washington Post reported March 18. The United
States will submit itself to the process this fall, in which the
nation's record, including that on women's rights issues, might be
judged.

"Human rights are universal, but their experience is local. This
is why we are committed to holding everyone to the same standard,
including ourselves," Clinton said in the article.

The 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council was established in March 2006
to replace the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. George W. Bush's
administration refused to join the council, citing its nondemocratic
makeup and its frequent criticisms of Israel, the article reported,
but the Obama administration reversed that decision last spring.

Says Sandy: YAAaaaaaaaayyy for us from Hillary !