Not the ENDA the Road
Four arrested as Get Equal stages protest in Speaker Pelosi's office to highlight need for employment protections for LGBT workers
by Chris Geidner
Published on March 19, 2010, 6:00pm
http://www.metroweekly.com/news/?ak=5008With high-profile arrests in front of the White House, a sit-in at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's offices in Washington, D.C., and a coordinated sit-in at her San Francisco offices that both led to arrests and citations, Thursday, March 18, saw some of the most significant direct actions from LGBT activists in recent years.
Get Equal, a group whose Web site was only launched in the past week and whose leadership is unclear, was behind the actions urging action on repealing the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy and enacting the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA). Robin McGehee and Kip Williams, the former co-directors of the National Equality March, signed an email sent from Get Equal on Friday afternoon, March 19, discussing the actions.
