Garden State Equality is going to Washington, DC -- want to join us?

[JackBeck]

On Monday, March 15th and Tuesday, March 16th, Garden State Equality is sending a delegation to Washington to participate in lobby days on Capitol Hill to tell the U.S. Congress to pass the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

Would you like to join us?

First, some background: We in New Jersey are fortunate to live in a state that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Thanks go to so many of you who worked with us and many other organizations to get those landmark laws enacted.

But New Jersey is just one of 12 states with anti-discrimination statutes that protect all LGBT people from being fired on the job just because of who they are. We've got to change that. So several national organizations, led by our friends at the National Center for Transgender Equality, are holding these lobby days for ENDA on Monday, March 15th and Tuesday, March 16th.

Here's how Garden State Equality will proudly participate:

We're doing a car caravan to Washington DC on Monday morning, March 15th. We'll have signs on each car calling for equality. The caravan will start in North Jersey, make a stop in Central Jersey to meet more cars, and make another stop in South Jersey to meet still more cars on our way to Washington on I-95.

On Monday night, March 15th, we will put you up in the home of a supporter in the Washington, DC area. Don't worry about that; we'll have plenty of supporters lined up. And we'll come back on Tuesday night, March 16th.

If you'd like to join us - it does involve taking time off from work or school - kindly email us back at [e-mail] with the following information... and please, please, please include all this information:

1. Your name

2. Your hometown

3. Your cell phone number

4. The names of who would be joining you, if anyone, such as your spouse, partner, other family or friends

5. Whether you have a car and are willing to drive it to and from Washington

6. If you can drive your car to and from, would you have space in your car to fit others - and if so, how many others? We would fill up all the cars.

7. And let us know if you don't have a car and would need a ride. Note that if you don't have a car, we would not pick you up. You would have to get to and from our caravan stops in North, Central and South Jersey on Monday morning March 15th and Tuesday night March 16.

Again, if you'd like to join us, please email all this information to [e-mail]

Thanks so much from all of us at Garden State Equality.

http://eqfed.org/gse/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=38020989