title: EQUAL MEANS EQUAL - Free Film Screening!
start: 2016-10-10
start time: 19:00
end time: 21:00
venue: Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
city: New Orleans (LA)
country: US
coordinates: 29.9399, -90.0798
tags: LouisianaNOW NOW NationalWomenOrganization feminism feminismo feminismus womenrights
links:
Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1782811205267620/
description:
EQUAL MEANS EQUAL offers an unflinching look at how women are treated in the United States today.
Examining both real-life stories and precedent-setting legal cases, director Kamala Lopez uncovers how outdated and discriminatory attitudes inform and influence seemingly disparate issues, from workplace harassment to domestic violence, rape and sexual assault to the foster care system, and the healthcare conglomerate to the judicial system.
Along the way, she reveals the inadequacy of present laws that claim to protect women, ultimately presenting a compelling and persuasive argument for the urgency of ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment.
We should thank the following Legislative Agenda for Women (LAW) organizations for their joint sponsorship in bringing this film to Louisiana:
* AAUW of Lousiana
* Independent Women's Organization - New Orleans
* League of Women Voters
* Lift Louisiana
* New Orleans Business & Professional Women's Club, Inc.
* Louisiana NOW
* National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Greater New Orleans Chapter, Inc.
* National Council of Jewish Women- Greater New Orleans Section
* Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast
Please invite your friends and family to this educational and enlightening program!
P.S. Even the late Justice Antonin Scalia claimed that the Constitution, specifically the 14th Amendment, does NOT protect against sex discrimination (reported in California Lawyer, January 2011).