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August 7, 2023 Original Radio Show ID:
Duration 57 minutes
--- Featuring Click the Name to access the Segment below 1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces 2. Guest: Zakiya Thomas, President and CEO, ERA Coalition, and the Fund for Women's Equality ---- ---- 1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz: I have a special guest for this show, joining me on the phone from Washington DC will be Zakiya Thomas is President and CEO of the ERA Coalition and Fund for Women’s Equality. Announcement: Happy 75th Birthday KBBF and a special thank you to all who attended the successful celebration held at the Luther Burbank Center. It was amazing. It was so amazing that I could not sleep Saturday night just thinking about the event. Senator McGuire presented KBBF’s President Alicia Sanchez with a special proclamation honoring the fifty years of service provided by the station to the community. It was an amazing experience watching Senator McGuire help raise 66,000 dollars for the station which will help its equipment to enable it to survive for another fifty years. A special thanks to all the sponsors and those who donated to the station. Special Happy Birthday to Kens sister Janet Navarra, an amazing woman. Wishing her only the best life has to offer, and it was wonderful celebrating with her. Got to spend time with our niece Alicia and our great niece Ila Blue, what a joy it was. We are going to take a musical break and the song I will be playing is Ain t Gonne Let Nobody Turn Me Around, sung by Lydia Violet and time has demonstrated we are not going to let anyone turn us around, we are going forward with the Equal Rights Amendment. It’s a long time coming. A bit of history:
Alice
Paul and the Eual Rights
Amendment (ERA) While women across the United States gained the right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, many feminists believed the fight for equal gender rights was just beginning. Alice Paul, the leader of the National Woman’s Party, immediately began to lobby for an addition to the Constitution that would provide for the protection of women’s rights in general. Beginning in 1923, Paul and her supporters submitted the Lucretia Mott Amendment to Congress yearly until 1942. In 1943, Paul reworded the amendment, which became known as the Alice Paul Amendment. Paul continued to submit it to Congress every year. In 1972, the U.S. Congress rewrote the amendment once again and passed it. The amendment, now known as the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), then went to the state legislatures to acquire ratification. The ERA failed to be ratified—only thirty-seven of the necessary thirty-eight state legislatures voted to pass the amendment within the seven-year deadline. Source: https://billofrightsinstitute.org/activities/alice-paul-and-the-equal-rights-amendment-lucretia-mott-amendment-1923
2. Our Guest,
Zakiya Thomas, is the
President
Above: Sakiya Thomas
Equal Rights Amendment
Section 1: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Section 2: The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3: This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.” Source: https://www.eracoalition.org/the-amendment
Zakiya notes that the ERA does
not state "gender" but "sex" as
the defining attribute, so it
would include rights for
LGBTQI+. Our US Constitution was
written mainly by white men who
owned slaves. The ERA is for
everyone. 80% of poled Americans
support the ERA. The 20% who
oppose have used their finances
to obstruct it. The filibuster
rule in the Senate also prevents
it, even though there are bills
in the House of Representatives
and the Senate. Zakiya believes
that since people know already
of the benefit of ERA, we just
need to motivate people. About our Guest: Zakiya Thomas is President and CEO of the ERA Coalition and Fund for Women’s Equality. Zakiya is a change agent, working to make equality a reality for all people. Using her experiences as a political strategist and nonprofit manager, Zakiya leads a diverse coalition of three hundred organizations representing eighty million people. This community of activists advocates for gender, racial, and reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ rights, and more under the unifying goal of sex equality. Zakiya is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law teaching a nonpartisan course on how to run for political office and volunteers on several nonprofit boards. ---- Guest Links: The ERA Coalition with over 320 partner and supporting organizations: https://www.eracoalition.org/ Fund for Women's Equality - a 501c(3) charitable organization: https://fundforwomensequality.org/ ---- Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance,, where the date descriptions were sourced unless otherwise indicated.
Herstory's Event: August 6, 1965 – The Voting Rights Act outlaws the discriminatory literacy tests that had been used to prevent African Americans from voting. Suffrage is finally fully extended to African American women. August 8, 1969 – Executive order 11478 issued by President Nixon requires each federal department and agency to establish and maintain an affirmative action program of equal employment opportunity for civilian employees and applicants. August 10, 1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as the second woman and 107th Justice to serve on the US Supreme Court. Herstory Birthdays: August 6, 1911 (1989) – Lucille Ball, comedian, actress, and television executive, starred in TV series I Love Lucy from 1950 to 1960, first woman to own a major television studio, Desilu Productions. August 11, 1941 – Elizabeth Holtzman, youngest woman elected to U.S. Congress, (D-NY, 1973-81), first woman District Attorney in New York City (1981), August 12, 1889 (1981) – Zerna Sharp, author, called the “Mother of Dick and Jane,” helped create the popular reading series with bright action picture stories and one new word on each page. ----
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Music Selections The Opening and Closing Theme song The Woman in Your Life is You is done with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin ((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021) Alix Dobkin death was just announced - Thank you for all you did for Lesbians to be recognized and Women to be honored. May you rest in peace. See our Interview with Alix Dobkin on 12/1/2014 and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 5/24/2021 The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (2010 Women's Wax Works) - www.alixdobkin.com Ain t Gonne Let Nobody Turn Me Around, sung by Lydia Violet from the album Already Free (@2016 Lydia Violet). Made For These Times, sung by Earth Mama from the album Herstory (Rhm). Standing on the Shoulders, sung by Earth Mama from the album Love Large (Rouse House, LLC) ----- For music purchasing opportunity, supporting the artists:Link: Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show
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and CEO of the ERA
Coalition, which with its 320
coalition partners represent
over 80 million people. She is a
black woman who nows the value
of rights. The Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA) states: