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NOW-PAC Squanders Political Capital
Undermines Own Mission, Opportunity to Demand Equality for Women
Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights organizes for an independent politics
As primary opponent Marianne Williamson used her keynote address on Friday to the Georgia chapter of NOW to pledge day one action to instruct the National Archivist to publish the Equal Rights Amendment, the “political action committee of the National Organization for Women (NOW), announced . . . it is endorsing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for reelection in 2024.”
In their announcement, NOW’s National President sought to deceive her own membership and the voting public, claiming “This is our earliest endorsement for a presidential re-election campaign because the Biden-Harris administration has and continues to place women’s issues at the forefront, not through words but through actions.”
Yet, the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights has repeatedly pointed out that both the actions and the inactions of the Biden Administration have created a Constitutional Crisis, and are evidence of President Biden’s failure in his Constitutional duty to see that the laws of the nation are faithfully executed.
“Women have been betrayed long enough by operatives in the non-profit sector who have prioritized their own partisan loyalties over their organization’s stated missions to work for the interests of women,” said Carol Bouldin of California, a co-chair of the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights. The Alliance exists to “organiz(e) political action independent of the corporate parties”.
Although he campaigned for women’s votes in 2020 promising to support the Equal Rights Amendment, which achieved final ratification in January of that year, President Biden has failed to instruct the National Archivists to fulfill their statutory obligation to “publish . . . forthwith” the duly ratified Equal Rights Amendment. Biden appointed Dr. Colleen Shogan as our 11th National Archivist. Dr. Shogan at her Senate confirmation hearing committed to demur to judicial authorities over whether to fulfill her statutory duty to publish a finding that the Equal Rights Amendment has been ratified.
In oral arguments last fall before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice opposed litigation seeking to compel the National Archivist to perform her duty (Title 1 US Code Section 106b) to “publish . . . forthwith” a Constitutional Amendment which has met the requirements of Article V., of the U.S. Constitution for the amendment of our nation’s governing charter. Those conditions have been met with the 1973 action by a two-thirds majority of each chamber of the U.S. Congress to submit the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification; and by the subsequent ratification between 1973 and 2020, by 38 states, constituting three-fourths of the states, to ratify the ERA.
At the state conference in Stockbridge Georgia of the Georgia Chapter of the National Organization for Women, held Friday, August 25th, 2023, the same date on which the NOW-PAC announced its “earliest endorsement for a presidential reelection campaign”, Marianne Williamson, a candidate for the Democratic Party’s 2024 Presidential nomination, told attendees: “I will say it directly. On day one of my Presidency, I will call the archivist and command the publication of the Equal Rights Amendment.” We call on all the other 2024 presidential candidates, regardless of political affiliation, to follow her lead and pledge to fulfill their constitutional duty and direct the Archivist to publish the ERA.
The ERA achieved final ratification in January 2020 and enjoys the support of 75% to 94% of the public, while 80% would be surprised to learn it is not already enforceable.
The Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights is a pro-feminist, gender-critical, women-led membership organization, independent of corporate parties and influence, seeking to engage in elections and other political activities.
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President Biden to Instruct Archivist to Publish the ERA
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US Court of Appeals for District of Columbia,
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