Espaillat to Celebrate Women’s History Month
Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-Washington Heights) will be hosting a Women’s History Month celebration this Wednesday.
The celebration will focus on women’s contributions to the labor movement. Among the honorees who will receive awards at the ceremony are CWA Local 1180 President Gloria Middleton, Local 372 Political Director Jacquelin Josefa Febrillet, and HTC Deputy Political Director Katie Moore.
The event is slated for Wednesday, Mar. 20, at 6 p.m. at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building at 163 West 125th St.
Levine, Rosenthal to Hold Public Town Hall Meeting on Congestion Pricing
City Council Members Mark Levine (D-Manhattan Valley, Manhattanville) and Helen Rosenthal (D-Central Park, Lincoln Square) will be holding a town hall meeting on congestion pricing tonight.
The meeting was scheduled on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) recent announcement that he intends to implement congestion pricing in Manhattan – after years of denouncing the idea. The meeting will consist of a discussion and an audience Q&A session.
The event is slated for 6 – 8 p.m. at John Jay College, located at 524 West 59th St.
Maloney Writes Op-Ed on ERA
Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-Upper East Side) wrote an op-ed piece for Bustle last Friday about her attempts to get the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratified.
As she explained, the ERA was first passed 47 years ago, but it failed to secure ratification from 38 states before the deadline passed. Since then, Maloney has made twelve attempts to reintroduce the ERA in Congress, claiming that the message it would send is just as relevant today as it was back then.
“We must seize this moment because we may not get this chance for change again,” said Maloney. “We can advocate for policies and laws that combat discrimination against women, including pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment and assault, and the gender pay gap. But with an ERA, we get the legal bedrock we need to enforce these laws. A constitutional amendment protects women from the whims of who controls Congress, a statehouse, or the White House. It can change the document that Supreme Court justices use to interpret and decide cases.”
The full piece can be read here.
