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Title: The Rise of GetEqual
Post by: Shana A on June 02, 2010, 10:20:56 AM
Post by: Shana A on June 02, 2010, 10:20:56 AM
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/ (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.
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/ (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.