Since 2004, I have been working on the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) into the United States Constitution. At the time I viewed myself as fortunate and hardworking. I had thought then that passing the ERA would be easy when my mother-in-law the Rev. Katrina Martha Van Alstyne Welles Swanson asked that I…
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I was most fortunate to have met Lan Zhang when she put together a showing of the brilliant work of many Asian artists including our IT Tech and Social Media Consultant Longfei Zhang. She was an amazing woman whose love for her homeland China never diminished as she worked diligently towards bring the best of…
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Please do excuse the typos… but do make calls to your US Congress Elected Officials – Not One More Day Will We Wait… November 1, 2019 Dear Family & Friends, Addition’s to the Katrina’s Dream Team This has been an amazing year. So many wonderful things taking place with the ministry of Katrina’s Dream. We…
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By Rebecca McHood – ERA Task Force ERA Friday, October 18th an atheist and an ex-Mormon (Dianne Post and Rebecca McHood) walked into the Arizona Episcopal Diocese Convention and were greeted by the most accepting, kind, authentic gathering of kind-hearted people you could ever imagine! Before I (Rebecca) even got to the table my spirit…
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“The world will not survive religion based on tribal consciousness. It will destroy the world. But if those who arrive at what is truest from their own tradition, which transcends their own tradition, they recognize each other. And if they would speak up, religious people could be a source for world unity and world peace.”…
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Listen to the recording of the program Click Here Thank you Everyone Everywhere for your tireless work nationwide on behalf of the #EqualRightsAmendment and #women for this week’s victory in Illinois in Ratifying the ERA. The Call – To Pass the Equal Rights Amendment A Non-Partisan Weekly National Program Join The Call: Sunday, June 3, 2018 4:00 pm ET…
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Good Day! This year’s 3rd Annual 2017 DC Women’s Equality Day Advocacy Action and Celebration was a huge success! While the group that attended the Advocacy Action was small, it gave a powerful voice to the reinvigorated efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. To watch local news coverage of the Advocacy Action Click Here….
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ATLANTA, GA, JULY 1, 2017 – Katrina’s Dream, ERA Action and a roster of national leaders and advocates from across the United States will gather, Friday, August 25 – 27, 2017 in Washington, DC, in the fashion of Women’s Equality Day founder, the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug; insisting on hearings for the current Equal Rights Amendment, ERA…
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PRESS RELEASE What: Empowering Women Why: To Promote the Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment When: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Where: Nevada State Legislature Foyer – 101 S. Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701-4747 Contact: Ms. Helene de Boissiere Swanson, Co-Founder – Katrina’s Dream <415-233-2048> mailto:deboissiere@gmail.com…
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By Betty Folliard The policy superhighway to equality in the U.S. is to remove the artificial deadline on the ERA, known as the 3-State Strategy, providing the path to eliminating discrimination on the basis of gender in our Constitution, ensuring equal access to justice for women and men. Ninety-five percent of people in the…
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By IVANA MASSETTI Founder of Women Occupy Hollywood “… In some cases, such as in the DGA (Directors Guild of America), DIVERSITY and MINORITY programs have been created to counter discriminatory practices against minorities and other disenfranchised people, and to fill the quotas that TITLE VII requires. But such programs pool ALL WOMEN together with MINORITY MEN (men…
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By: Bishop Joe Morris Doss What will be taught in history classes about the election of 2016? It will be about the equality of women. But the campaign also has clarified the negative perspective: it is about the death spiral of society as patriarchal. This campaign – as dreadful as it has been – may…
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By Helene de Boissiere – Swanson This morning, I woke to the television blaring and barraging viewers with messages promoting fear in the wake of this week’s violent aftermath of police officers killing black men in the South and in the North and a person who felt their only course of action was retaliation towards…
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by Helene de Boissiere – Swanson The American Revolution took place after Britain put in place the Intolerable Acts, in the American colonies. The Americans responded by forming the Continental Congress. The war would not have been able to progress as it did without the widespread ideological and material support, of both men and women….
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WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have come out in support of Women’s Rights. Unfortunately, Donald Trump hasn’t. The ERA is a US Constitutional Amendment that would empower all women no matter their color and provide for gender equality. The ERA is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement. At the rally…
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By Dorie Goehring, MDiv. Science and religion are often seen as opposites, or, at the very least, incompatible. The Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard University is looking to change that. Headed by Prof. Ahmed Ragab, who teaches in the Divinity School and the Department of History of Science, the SRC held their annual…
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If You Choose to Support Trump in Part, You Are Choosing to Support “The Full Catastrophe” Written by: Joe Morris Doss David Duke was running hard for the Senate. The Louisiana media was following his every move, reporting all the juicy controversies that popped up on a daily basis, and making him the center of attention…
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By Longfei Zhang and Helene de Boissiere – Swanson Saturday, May 7th, 2016 NEW YORK CITY – The Right to be Forgotten which was approved by the European Union has had a global impact on blocking information and expression online across the across the globe. On 13 May 2014, the European Court of Justice (ECJ)…
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As an Eco-Theological when I received the below alert I felt called to share this. Please take a gander and see how you can be involved. [Episcopal Public Policy Network policy alert] This Friday, April 22 is Earth Day! Earth Day was first celebrated in 1970 as a day to build awareness, understanding, and support for…
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