August 4, 2021

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15,000 ERA Supporters Urge Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to End the Filibuster
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BY AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN | In the sweltering heat of a midday desert sun, a delegation of women’s rights activists and leaders gathered in front of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s Phoenix field office. Their goal? To deliver thousands of letters, postcards and petitions from Arizona and across the country imploring the senator to align with her fellow progressives and help end or reform the filibuster—a necessary step so the Senate can move forward on a vote to remove the time limit on the Equal Rights Amendment.

All told, 15,000 letters and postcards gathered by Feminist Majority and the Women’s March Foundation will be delivered to Sinema.
To underscore the importance of this request, longtime civil rights, labor and feminist leader Dolores Huerta, traveled all the way from California—joining local ERA activists—to personally knock on Sinema’s office door and speak to the gathered delegation about the urgency of this moment.

“Senator Kyrsten Sinema was once a clear progressive voice for equal rights,” said Huerta, a founding board member of Feminist Majority, “but now, she 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.”

“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 Ms., “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.”

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