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Persons with disabilities in North Macedonia have never been represented by an MP or another elected official with a disability, even though they constitute a significant part of the population. When opportunities for political participation arise, it seems that persons with disabilities are the ones most deprived of possibilities to engage. To support their empowerment, WFD organised the first Political Academy for Equal Participation this weekend, giving space to engaged activists and individuals in the field to further develop their skills for political participation. The academy was organised in cooperation with Polio Plus and funded by the UK Government. We look forward to see more activists present in the political and public space advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities.
The Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services' 2015 Equal Access to Justice Award Luncheon, honoring Anne Pramaggiore. Photography by LeVern A. Danley III
It turns out that for every 10 pictures one takes of Finn, at least 2 must be taken of Ingrid. I wan't aware of the contractual obligation until it was pointed out to me.
Commuting Dittos
Leicester By Night, look at the light,
Captured for you, & for your delight.
Beams of light, racing Pluton,
Circling willfully, at Red Hill Tron.
Driving to comfort, a happier place,
Equal Opportunities & decisions to face.
Turn left, turn right, stop, wait GO!
Anticipating choice in my Peugeot.
Freedom to choose, freedom to move,
Freedom to speed & eat fast food.
People like you, commuting dittos,
People like me, capturing photo’s.
The leaves are more oval than on P. aviculare (Knotgrass) and, unlike P. aviculare the leaves of P. arenastrum are equal in size on the main stem and the side branches.
Growing on waste ground at Yeovil, Somerset, England.
Photographed 30 July 2009.
I couldn't get the lighting just right. The cardigan is more of a lilac color and the color and texture of the embellishment looks much softer in person.
Who had thought that Roos is an equal opportunity cat. At night she graced me with a visit, the next evening it was Lies' turn.
We start wondering if she's getting worse.
la sessione plenaria del mamboday 2007 a reggio calabria organizzato in collaborazione con equal
la sessione plenaria del mamboday 2007 a reggio calabria organizzato in collaborazione con equal
Marriage Equality Rally in advance of SCOTUS cases on DOMA and Prop 8.
Washington Square Park, March 24, 2013
10 November is Equal Pay Day, the day from which women effectively stop earning relative to men. The day is promoted annually by The Fawcett Society - Official, the UK’s leading charity campaigning for gender equality and women’s rights.
The gender pay gap for 2017 on Fawcett’s measure – the mean average for full-time work - was found to be at 14.1%. Figures from 2016 were revised up from 13.9% to 14.1% - meaning that the gap has now been static at that figure for the last three years. The gender pay gap in East Lothian is 11.30%.
The Fawcett Society are asking policymakers, employers, and individuals to make a ‘Pay Gap Pledge’ – a simple action individuals or organisations can take to help close the gender pay gap for good. I have pledged to help challenge the idea that there are ‘boy jobs and girl jobs’.
Find out more about Equal Pay Day and the Fawcett Society's campaign at www.fawcettsociety.org.uk
Equal-Leaved Knotgrass, very common on pavements, trackways, bare ground etc. More often prostrate than P. aviculare.
This is a strip I was hired to do for Micheal Osborn is Los Angeles. Art and layout is by me, Jesse Haller. Concept by Micheal Osborne.
Him and I both have the right to use this strip in any medium we wish.
3,000 people marched through Melbourne today, in a typically young and high-spirited marriage equality demonstration.
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The Amalgamated Meat Cutters local unions in Virginia issue an 8 ½ x 11, single-sided flyer for an October 30, 1977 Richmond, VA conference on “Pass ERA in Virginia Now!”
The handout called for all labor and all other organizations supporting the Equal Rights Amendment to attend the conference where Addie Wyatt, International Vice President and Director of Women’s Affairs at the meat cutters union, would be the key note speaker.
The Virginia meat cutters local unions were subsequently absorbed by United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 400, which continues to represent the workers today.
The campaign to pass the ERA in Virginia began shortly after Congress passed the 1972 constitutional amendment that provided for equal rights for women under the law. Congress also put a seven-year limit on obtaining ratification by the states.
Virginia’s politics at the time was very conservative and ratifying the ERA in the state was an uphill climb.
Pro-ERA activists at first eschewed militant tactics and concentrate on electing pro-ERA legislators and lobbying the state House and Senate. Silent vigils at the state capitol in Richmond were the main form of public demonstration.
A 2020 post by CNN’s Veronica Stracqualursi described the later campaign:
“Tensions rose as the deadline approached and Virginia still hadn’t ratified. Two NOW leaders, Marianne Fowler and Jean Marshall Clarke, were arrested at the Virginia state Capitol, protesting after a House committee voted to kill the ERA, according to a 1978 Washington Post report. Fowler refused to leave the Capitol and in frustration spat on the officer who dragged her out.
“Efforts became even more aggressive after Congress voted to extend the ratification deadline to 1982.
“A number of pro-ERA female activists, mostly from Virginia, formed “A Group of Women” and began organizing public acts of civil disobedience to draw attention to the ERA, including chaining themselves to the White House in 1981, according to Megan Taylor Shockley’s book, “Creating a Progressive Commonwealth.” A year later, on Susan B. Anthony’s birthday, 10 of the group’s women scaled the White House fence – attempting to deliver an ERA petition to President Ronald Reagan – and were arrested, Shockley wrote.
“In February 1982, Virginia fell a vote short in the state Senate of passing the ERA after a Republican senator, Nathan Miller, took a business trip to avoid voting on the amendment, Shockley wrote.
“The world doesn’t stop because the General Assembly starts,” Miller told the Post at the time.
“Fowler and another activist, Pat Winton, chased Miller down at the Richmond airport to try to prevent him from leaving, according to Shockley.
“A news report quoted Fowler as saying the senator had looked “sheepish” when they caught up with him, and he avoided them by ducking into the men’s room, Shockley wrote. Miller didn’t respond to a CNN request for an interview.
“Falling one vote short was a feeling of “intense disappointment,” McCoy told CNN, adding that they had been let down when some candidates promised support for the ERA, only to change their minds once elected.
“’We all kept up a strong front and kept our emotions in check. There had been a number of disappointments before then. There was no demonstration as a group or as individuals to show our disgust,’ she recalled.
“Activists tried to keep the ERA alive by filing suit in the Virginia Supreme Court, which did not take up the matter, according to Shockley. By the June 1982 deadline, only 35 states had ratified the ERA – three shy of the threshold needed to add it to the Constitution – and five that had previously passed it by then had rescinded their support, throwing its future into serious doubt.”
The campaign was renewed in the 21st century and after a more progressive Democratic Party took control of both Virginia legislative bodies in 2017, the ERA was passed in 2018. The ERA has now been passed by 38 states and activists are demanding that it be recognized as a valid amendment to the Constitution.
The effort now lies before the courts.
For a PDF of this single sided, 8 ½ x 11 flyer, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1977-1...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsjDVEVCy
Original held in the Elizabeth Smith collection of Virginia ERA Ratification Council Records, Virginia Commonwealth University, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections.