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The Equal Rights Amendment in Minnesota
​Presented by Heather Allison, President, ERA Minnesota
9:30-11:00AM, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020
Hopkins Fire Station Classroom
101 17th Ave. S., Hopkins, MN 55343
(Parking available at Public Works building to the south.)

"Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged or denied on the account of gender."

Efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution have been underway nationally since 1923, when it was first proposed in Congress by the National Women's Party. Many of us remember the nearly successful push in the 1970's. Why is this so difficult? What are we doing in Minnesota to pass the ERA in our state?

Heather Allison, President of ERA Minnesota, will present the initiative to put the ERA on the November 3, 2020 Minnesota Ballot for addition to the Minnesota Constitution.

Heather Allison is President of ERA Minnesota – an organization dedicated to passing the Equal Rights Amendment into our state and national constitutions in order to ensure equal justice in our courts for women and men. Heather comes to us a Jill of all trades whose career spans Animal Welfare, Business Management, Attorney Recruitment & Development, and Paralegal work in several markets from Washington to New York and across the pond in the United Kingdom. She has spent her life advocating for women, seniors, youth and animals. Ms. Allison is on the board of MNxMN, a social justice collaborative, Vice President of the Groveland Park Elementary PTO with additional volunteer work with the St. Paul Federation of Teachers TIGER Program, CAIR Minnesota, the Animal Humane Society, and Olivet Congregational Church in St. Paul. She lives in St Paul with her husband Graham and son, Benjamin.

​Free and open to the public. Hosted by LWV Minnetonka, Eden Prairie, Hopkins.

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Above; LWV MEPH Members gather for our annual holiday party, Dec. 7, 2019.

Citizenship Ceremony Voter Registration Drives

Volunteers from the League of Women Voters can be a welcoming presence at Naturalization Ceremonies as we register new citizens to vote. For the past 20 years, our volunteers (many of whom are new members!) have:

  • Collected forms from nearly 7,000 new citizens in 2017 alone, spread across 80 ceremonies.
  • Carried in over 80,000 registration forms to the Secretary of State’s office since 2007.
  • Increased the percentage of new citizens registering to vote (it is now about 90-95%).
 If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Judy Stuthman at jastuthman@aol.com.
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Board of Directors

  • President: P. Kvam
  • Treasurer: B. Link
  • Secretary: S. Borine
  • Voter Service: N. Gooch & B. Westmoreland
  • Membership:  S. Brandt & J. Rush
  • Action: Open
  • Programs: A. Nystuen & H. Sears
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  • W. Metro Rep: S. Goldstein
  • UMRR ILO Rep: G. MacMillan
  • CMAL Rep: B. Sears