RATIFIED – Urgent Call to Publish the ERA Now!
Screening and Panel Discussion w/ Mobilization Tools
Sunday, December 15th at 3pm
$7 Members | $12 Public
Co-Presented by Girls Empowerment Movement, League of Women Voters Huntington, InjoyInjoy!, Rivkin Radler, LLP, and Dawn Thode Cola
CLCIK HERE for info on our event-day raffle sponsored by InjoyInjoy, benefiting CAC and ERA Project.
Did you know that the
Equal Rights Amendment has met all constitutional requirements, according to
the American Bar Association?
President Biden has one
last chance to stand for the equity and equality this amendment would provide
all Americans, especially women and the LGBTQIA+ community. President Biden
simply has to tell the Archivist to PUBLISH EQUALITY in the Constitution. That's
it.
Join us on Sunday,
December 15 at 3pm for a screening of the documentary RATIFIED followed
by a panel discussion, an opportunity to ask questions, and mobilization tools
so you can get involved and make your voice heard.
RATIFIED is a feature
documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality, an
inspiring story of a multi-racial, multi-generational, bi-partisan effort to
make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. It's also a story of how bureaucracy is used
to stifle progress, and it takes a close look at the incredible perseverance of
women - specifically, the Black women leaders who have taken their rightful
place at the front of the movement for gender equality. Our impact campaign
will activate 15,000,000 Americans on the issue of gender equality. ( USA, 2024, 83 mins, English | Deborah Riley
Draper, Sabaah Folayan)
This screening will be immediately
followed by a panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Emily Best,
co-creator of the film RATIFIED.
Panelists include:
Ting Ting Cheng -
Exec Director of ERA Project at Columbia Law School (and featured in RATIFIED.)
Susan Cushman, Ph.D.,
Director of Advocacy and Issues for the League of Women Voters-Central Nassau
Juli Grey-Owens,
Executive Director Gender Equality New York
Dianna Pearlmann, Founder
of Girls Empowerment Movement
About Our Panel:
Emily Best is the
founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, a
platform that makes entertainment more diverse, inclusive, connected and
essential. Seed&Spark’s platform and national education program have helped
thousands of bold storytellers raise millions to bring to life entirely new
stories, and Seed&Spark delivers those stories into workplaces for employee
training, engagement, and intelligence through an enterprise SaaS platform Film Forward. In 2023, CNBC named
Seed&Spark one of the top 200 fintech companies in the
world. She serves on the Advisory Board for a variety of early
stages startups and the Board of Film Impact Georgia. In
2024, alongside Christie Marchese at Kinema, Emily spearheaded an effort to
launch The Distribution Playbook,
a free and open- sourced field guide for independent filmmakers to succeed in
distribution. She has produced films, VR, shorts and series that have
premiered at Sundance, SXSW, Slamdance, Tribeca and more. She is currently
touring with a feature documentary she produced called RATIFIED about the 100+
year struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Ting Ting Cheng is
civil rights attorney and gender justice activist, with a background in
criminal and immigration defense, and international human rights law. Before
joining Legal Momentum, she was an attorney at the New York City Commission for
Human Rights where she investigated and prosecuted discrimination claims in the
areas of employment, housing and public accommodations. Earlier, she was a
public defender and immigrant defense attorney at Brooklyn Defender Services. Ting
Ting was the Legal Director of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington and served
on the National Organizing Committee. From 2009 to 2010, she served as a
foreign law clerk to Justice Albie Sachs and Justice Edwin Cameron of the
Constitutional Court of South Africa. In addition, Ting Ting was a Fulbright
Scholar to South Africa where she received the Amy Biehl Award.
Susan Cushman, Ph.D. is a Professor of English at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY, where she teaches courses in literature, writing, and women's studies. Susan also serves as Director of Advocacy and Issues for the League of Women Voters-Central Nassau, where her focus has been on passing Prop 1, publishing the federal ERA in the U.S. Constitution, and working on criminal justice reform.
Juli
Grey-Owens is a Long Island and New York State Transgender Community
Advocate. She regularly speaks at
churches and public forums about the need for statewide Transgender Civil
Rights and gave a key address at the 2012 New York State LGBT Equality and
Justice Day held in Albany. Juli is the Executive Director of Trans PAC, New
York’s first Political Action Committee totally focused on Transgender Rights. In
addition, she is the Executive Director of the Long Island Transgender Advocacy
Coalition and the Coordinating Committee Facilitator for the New York State
Transgender Rights Coalition. She is
also the Chair of the GLBT Democrats of Long Island, and a member of the
Suffolk County Democratic Party Executive Committee. She recently completed six years on the
Empire State Pride Agenda Board of Directors, the New York statewide LGBT
advocacy organization. She was a Long
Island Pride Parade Marshal in 2009, was the recipient of the Empire State
Pride Agenda Star Award in 2007, the 2008 Auntie M’s Helping Hands Humanitarian
Award, and Outlook-Long Island’s Activist of the Year Award in 2009, and the
2013 Long Island Crisis Center Groundbreaker Award.
Dainna Pearlmann is
a Functional Medicine Consultant and Global Development Strategist. Through
those ventures, she supports humans and corporations to become genuinely
healthier and happier. She’s worked in several startups with like-minded
individuals and sees a worldwide evolution in what it means to be female, both
now and in the near future. As the co-founder of Girls Empowerment
Movement and Boys UP! (GEM), Dainna has shared, “After we formally created GEM,
we quickly realized that for true change and empowerment of girls and women, we
must include boys, men and all humans into the cause. In fact, our young boys
in the program refer to themselves as “BUPs” and our name has evolved into
Girls Empowerment Movement and Boys UP!, as a result. While we can TALK about
empowerment, we must also bring awareness, education and action to create those
changes in the world.
Dainna has always
believed in treating all humans as that; humans. No barriers, no limiters. But
the current reality is the entire world doesn’t. GEM is about supporting young
girls to believe in themselves and their self-determined paths, not following an
outdated script of who they’re expected to be, but instead to live their own,
self- defined life. GEM creates the connections, communications, actions and
opportunities for that to happen.” And welcomes ALL HUMANS who support this
mission.
More information on
the film and the call to publish the ERA to the Constitution:
www.ratifythefilm.com/
www.mobilize.us/youngfeministparty/event/743160/
www.voteequality.us/
www.lwv.org/take-action/president-must-immediately-publish-equal-rights-amendment
www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/3/22/why-passing-era-critical-lgbtq-folks-equality-act