Video, Photos: GetEQUAL Disrupts House Education and Labor Committee Meeting, Delivers Markers for Mark-up of ENDA
UPDATE: Here's a photo of the GetEQUAL ENDA action that happened today.
Video of the protest, AFTER THE JUMP...
Activist group GetEQUAL has disrupted a meeting of the House Education and Labor Committee and delivered a set of markers to Chairman Miller, urging mark-up and vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).
And a report from the Dallas Voice, which caught the livestream:
"The activists approached Chairman George Mitchell, D-California, and attempted to hand him a marker. Mitchell refused to take the marker but told the activist that the committee plans to take action on ENDA soon. 'We’re working on it as expeditiously as we can,' Miller said. The audio on a live stream of the committee hearing then cut out for a few minutes. When it returned, Mitchell explained to the audience that the interruption was related to ENDA. 'It’s not an easy piece. of legislation,' Miller said. 'It’s a really complicated piece of legislation. We want to get it right, but we expect to have it before this committee in the very near future.'"
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) has offered to bail the group out if needed, reports McGehee.
Robin McGehee (above), and below with other activists from GetEQUAL outside the Rayburn House Office building at the U.S. Capitol.
Video of the protest, AFTER THE JUMP...
(photos via donald hitchcock)
"What a stupid thing to do .. immature and tacky."
– Barney Frank (Regarding GetEqual's stunts)
Posted by: AndrewW | Apr 22, 2010 12:22:23 PM
Bravo! This is how we win equality! Not by voting for Democrats, not by "being patient"!
A HUGE "Fuck you" to self-loathing queers like DOUGCHGO and J.R. who are ready to make excuses for every homophobic anti-gay Democrat in Congress, but attack every gay activist who takes a stand!
This is what democracy looks like! This is what gay activism looks like! It's new and it's not familiar to most of the old farts here, but get used to it.
Posted by: Norm D PLume | Apr 22, 2010 8:00:24 PM
Fringe radicals make the left of center look more appealing. It also makes the larger point to the mainstream that we're pissed and not going to keep waiting.
Posted by: David R. | Apr 23, 2010 9:39:57 PM