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BLOG for equality now, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, TAKE ACTION for equality now
 
The most effective way to promote equality is to show legislators that their constituents care about what bills get passed or defeated. Nothing speaks to them louder than an in person meeting. Below are face-to-face lobby days scheduled by national and state LGBT organizations to make it easy for you to do that. In almost every case, you should register in advance with the organization and attend their training sessions. They will walk you through what to expect, how to effectively tell your own personal story, and provide a supportive environment. Afterwords, they may de-brief you to try to understand how much progress was achieved. If you are speaking members of the US Senate and House, Act On Principles provides you with a mechanism to report back what they told you about how they intend to vote. We provide handy forms for both the House and the Senate (http://www.actonprinciples.org/?s=form) that they can help you fill out at the end of the meeting, so that their opinions on all the relevant LGBT bills are recorded accurately. Then report back to the world via our Public Whip Count, so that those who come after you will know which legislators to push harder to solidify their support for LGBT equality. Check Out the following website for the lobbying grid. http://www.actonprinciples.org/lobbydays/ If you know of additional lobby days, please Submit an Action (http://www.actonprinciples.org/add-actions/) so that everyone can know that it has been scheduled. If you find errors in this post, please email editors at actonprinciples dot org .
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, TAKE ACTION for equality now, Tennessee, Texas
From SoulForce… Hailing from across the country, and one from Cyprus, the 2010 team brings a multitude of unique experiences and backgrounds, bound by a common desire to make campuses and communities safe, welcoming and affirming for people of all identities. The Riders will board the bus on March 4th to begin their two-month long journey – stopping at 16 campuses in the Northeast, South, and Midwest – all with policies that are discriminatory to LGBTQ students. Soulforce is placing a special focus on community work this year, and are hoping to engage not just with the campuses we visit, but with the communities they live in. This means partnering with communities in volunteer work, hosting activism/organizing forums, linking students with community members, and offering our support for the justice work that is already happening in the places we are visiting. Check out where the 2010 Equality Ride is heading, and find out how YOU can get involved! Stop Date School Location http://www.soulforce.org/equalityride
Arizona, Caifornia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, TAKE ACTION for equality now, Texas, Washington
Hello all, Tom Tierney (an activist with Out4Immigration) and I have put together a plan (C=IIR) for grassroots activists to promote UAFA and to rally support for its inclusion in Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR). UAFA (The Uniting American Families Act) will allow Americans with foreign-born partners to sponsor them for a green card, essentially creating an “immigration domestic partnership” status. CIR will correct an inhumane immigration system for all. Together they will end suffering for millions. We are working in close coordination with both Out4Immigration and Immigration Equality, as well as other groups. Now all we need is a groundswell of activists. It’s all described in detail in this document: READ PLAN at: http://tinyurl.com/CIIR2010-TenStatePlan If you live in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Illinois OR New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas, Washington – you’re in one of the 10 target states (there’s lots of info here for you). If you are involved in the marriage equality struggle – this has the same opposition (and we’re focusing on that on page 6). If you are an activist – we have roughly 600,000 LGBT youth and adult immigrants harshly affected by the current system, and over 36,000 LGBT Americans in bi-national couples who live in great uncertainty, most afraid to even speak up for fear of arrest or forced separation. If you have a voice – these are our voiceless and our minorities – and they need one. With this plan, activists anywhere can act individually, with local groups, or in coordination with us. However you choose, please let us know of your success (and any resistance you encounter). Please take a look at the plan, share this, and Join us on facebook at: http://tinyurl.com/CIIRonFB The Immigration Community has declared that 2010 is their year. We plan to arrive together. Rising UP! Tif p.s. Monitor and report OUR progress on UAFA with ActonPriniciples at: http://tinyurl.com/CIIR2010-TenStatePlan
(No Ratings Yet) Ohio is a key state in the fight for ENDA. Senator Voinovich is a fair-minded Republican who seems to be leaning yes on ENDA. He voted for the hate crimes bill on several occasions, and was one of five Republican Senators who voted last week to stop the Republican filibuster on that bill. That’s key in terms of bringing ENDA to an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor, where we only need 50 votes (which we now have). Please call Senator Voinovich today to ask for his support of ENDA. Facts and contact info available in the link at the bottom. By the way, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) Committee has announced that it will be holding a hearing on ENDA on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10 a.m. Please join us as I liveblog the event from Bilerico.com, as we did for the House hearing. I will be posting informational items about the points made by Committee members and witnesses as they occur, and you can also post your comments and questions during the hearing for me and other participants to respond. During the House hearing, we had almost 300 people join us. Click here for more comments and contact info: http://www.bilerico.com/2009/10/ohio_senator_george_voinovich_legislator_of_the_da.php
Caifornia, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin
In an Act On Principles blog post, I made the case that both LGBT AND immigrant rights are civil rights and that we ought to support both the UAFA (HR.1024) and RFA (HR.2709) immigration bills. At last count, there are 116 co-sponsors of the LGBT immigration bill UAFA. Slightly less than half of them have signed on to co-sponsor the broader family immigration bill RFA, which includes all the provisions of UAFA. We should thank all the co- sponsors of UAFA and now ask them to also co-sponsor RFA. I have used the AOP Whip Count data to generate the list below of the UAFA co-sponsors who have yet to co-sponsor RFA. The list also includes the phone number of each member and a link to their website.
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