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 Out4Immigration is an all grassroots organization and our letter writing campaign is now in its 63rd week. Recently, we saw Congressman John Sarbanes co-sponsor UAFA and a few weeks ago, the Democrats in the Senate leadership unveiled a framework for comprehensive immigration reform, and UAFA’s language was included. We must continue to keep this issue out front and make sure UAFA’s language is included in any bill that moves forward. Our efforts have gained us a LOT of co-sponsors in both the House (23) and Senate (5), and it’s important to remember the impact that continued, consistent grass roots efforts have. WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE! This week, we are focusing on five more members of the House –
– Let’s finally hit our goal of 500 signatures! Click this link to send an e-mail to all of these members of Congress, and please also forward this on to as many family and friends, and share on Facebook, Twitter, etc… We need as many people to sign this each week as possible, and the change.org link makes doing this quick and easy! If you have not participated in our previous week’s letter writing campaign, you can still sign those letters, just click through to the link, here. We are also working on getting UAFA-supportive resolutions passed by city councils all around the country, and getting State, County and City elected officials to send letters to members of Congress urging them to support UAFA. Please contact Tom Tierney – [email protected] – if you can help (it’s very easy!!).
cross posted at out4immigration’s blog Watch this powerful short video of Britta and Carla, a married same-sex binational couple living in New York City fighting to stay together in the United States. The video was put together by New York Civil Liberties Union in collaboration with Rep Jerrold Nadler and the NYC LGBT Center. Watch it, share it, tweet it… and let's make sure that congress knows about this injustice and addresses it by passing an INCLUSIVE Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill, ie. one that includes LGBT Families! Many thanks also go to Melanie Nathan who represented them (as well as Ms Shirley Tan) and worked tirelessly to get Britta out of detention and deportation. You can read more about their story on Melanie's blog.
 (No Ratings Yet) ENDA ACTION ON TUESDAY in San Francisco! The Employment Non-Discrimination Act will ban employment discrimination against LGBT people across the United States – BUT ONLY IF IT PASSES CONGRESS! Why won’t Congress vote on this fundamental civil rights bill for LGBT people? ENDA is stuck – and ONLY YOU can help get it moving again. We need as many people as possible to show up in front of Speaker Pelosi’s office – will you come? Will you bring friends? Tuesday, May 18 We know that Speaker Pelosi supports ENDA. We want her to know that this legislation is a community priority – and we support her efforts to move this bill through Congress. She needs to hear from her constituents. She needs our support and we need her leadership. We need to send a LOUD MESSAGE to Congress: PASS ENDA NOW! We have been waiting for decades to pass a simple law that would ban discrimination against LGBT people at work. We were asked to be patient for more than a year while Congress focused on the financial crisis and health care. We were patient. We were told to lobby our representatives in Congress to get the votes necessary to pass the bill. We did the work. Now we need to tell Congress: STOP STALLING! We are ready. We have the support. We want a vote on ENDA now. If we don’t get a vote in the House very soon, we will have no time at all to get ENDA passed in the Senate. The President will sign ENDA into law – but only if it passes Congress. It could be years before we have another chance to enact this most basic civil rights law. PLEASE TAKE ACTION! JOIN US ON TUESDAY! Equality Federation
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