Posted on Advocate.com June 01, 2010
The Rise of GetEqual
Whatever you may think of it, the new grassroots direct action group GetEqual has the ambition — and the funding — to further agitate the political establishment.
By Andrew Harmon and Kerry Eleveld
http://www.advocate.com/Politics/Military/The_Rise_of_GetEqual/Even civil disobedience sometimes requires a dress rehearsal. On an April night before the new direct action group GetEqual staged one of its attention-grabbing protests, a small number of activists practiced handcuffing themselves to a backyard canopy outside a large red brick home in Washington, D.C.'s Columbia Heights neighborhood.
Three of them had done this before, attracting both fanfare and criticism. One was a West Point graduate whose coming-out story during an appearance last year on The Rachel Maddow Show precipitated his ongoing discharge proceedings from the National Guard.
