Non-profit organization EQUAL MEANS EQUAL has launched the FINAL IMPACT for the ERA Campaign: a national multi-media effort to pressure the Biden administration to publish the Equal Rights Amendment before the November elections.
The EME team, headed by President Kamala Lopez, Lead Advisor Sonja Nuttall, VP Natalie White, and Executive Director Angela de Silva, is gearing up for a once-in-a-lifetime push to get equality for all Americans, regardless of sex, into the U.S. Constitution after over a hundred-year civil rights struggle.
96% of Americans believe that men and women are equal but over 85% believe this equality is already explicit in our Constitution. It is not. Informing the public of this legal injustice is critical to ending the discrimination and post-Dobbs rollbacks of our rights, presently increasing every day. Although the thirty-eight states needed have ratified the ERA, it still has not been published as the 28thAmendment so the courts and the country are put on notice that it is part of the U.S. Constitution. The goal of the FINAL IMPACT campaign is to educate 200M+ Americans about what the ERA is; why we need it; and its present status – focusing on the ability for President Biden to simply pick up the phone and publish the ERA immediately.
The ERA is a gamechanger for American women, girls and LGBTQ people. In fact, it makes anydiscrimination based on sex or gender illegal. This includes discrimination in pay, gender-based violence, pregnancy discrimination, reproductive rights & bodily autonomy, and so much more.
The FINAL IMPACT Campaign kicks off in Manhattan from May 9th to 12th at the FOCUS Art Fair which is highlighting the work of EQUAL MEANS EQUAL as their main non-profit partner. EME has curated a top-tier art exhibition with world renown artists inc luding Shepard Fairey, Spencer Tunick, Henri Reed, Natalie White, John Marshall, Gavin Bond, Katarina Benzova and many more contributing their art to raise funds for the initiative.
The Inside Out Project, a community art project created by French artist JR, will be at FOCUS, working with EQUAL MEANS EQUAL to photograph and install large-scale portraits of attendees and passersby. The Nationwide Action “Inside Out – Publish the ERA” aims to bring the history and conversation about the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to streets across the USA. Participants of all ages, backgrounds, and identities are encouraged to express the change they want to see in their country and uphold shared values of liberty, equality, and justice for all regardless of sex or gender. Through this Action, EQUAL MEANS EQUAL invites the public to participate in a countrywide call for equality. EQUAL MEANS EQUAL encourages all equality supporters to upload their photo to be a part of this community art activation and see themselves writ large, installed in public spaces across the country.
May 9th FOCUS VIP PREVIEW NIGHT in NEW YORK CITY
6:00pm – 9:00pm
$100 to attend the Opening Night Party
If you can’t be in New York, please consider making a donation to help us fund our nation-wide cross-country campaign to urge President Biden to Publish the ERA.
