November 2, 2024 Dear Friends and Family, An essential element of progress is accountability. So, as to my stance on not having the Kayla’s full name, the Amazon Executive HR Investigator assigned to address numerous concerns, such as: health and safety issues; pay discrepancies; prior incidents; harassment; and retaliation for union organising. All of which…
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Sent via email and available on the Dreamscape Blog January 1, 2023 Dearest Friends and Family – Everyone, Everywhere, It is that time of the year in the Winter Season that many take stock of where they are and what they will set themselves to the task of making the necessary moves to achieve ambitious personal,…
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20th of January in the Year of Our Lord 2022 Dear Friends and Family President Joseph Robinette Biden this past January 14th, 2022, issued a Proclamation on Religious Freedom Day stating, “In my life, faith has always been a beacon of hope and a calling to purpose, as it is for so many Americans, and I…
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21st of December in the Year of Our Lord 2021 Dear Friends and Family, God gives women unique dreams and purposes, like men, they too are uniquely called by God. Just as in the Holy Bible those purposes may not always look like what society expects them to look. For example, Eve the first Woman,…
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September 27, 2021 sent via email Dear Friends and Family, I am most delighted to announce that this coming October 5, 2021, at 5:00 pm PT The Queen’s Bench Bar Association and Marin County Women Lawyers present The Equal Rights Amendment: A Panel Presentation. I invite you to join the event, G-d willing, as well…
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September 7, 2021 sent out via email Greetings Friends and Family, The other day The Call program, co-host Tammy Simkins of the Ross Valley Chillicothe Ohio League of Women Voters and ERA Action co-director and I were chatting. Preparing for this week’s Wednesday program. As we discussed the state of affairs facing this nation, from…
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 WASHINGTON, April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Having successfully shepherded the Equal Rights Amendment through ratification by the remaining three states and approval of House Joint Resolution 17 by the U.S. House of Representatives on March 17, 2021, ERA supporters have now adopted a strategic pivot to surmount the final hurdle approval by the U.S. Senate….
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Since 2004, I have been working on the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)Â 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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“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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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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My dear friends and colleagues at ERA Action have been working very hard at moving the Great State of Illinois to Ratify the ERA for several years. We at Katrina’s Dream applaud their efforts and are calling on you and asking that you take a few moments of your time to add your name and…
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I hear a lot about people wanting change, but what can one person do.  Well, each of us count so folks it’s time to pick up the folks.  Women have been waiting close to a century since Alice Paul wrote the Lucretia Mott Amendment, back in the 1920’s which called for all to be…
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