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Video: ENDA Protest Shuts Down Strip



GetEqual provided The Advocate with exclusive video Thursday chronicling the protests that shut down traffic on the Las Vegas strip in order to call attention to Sen. Harry Reid's inaction on pending legislation that would prohibit employment discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

Eight protesters stopped traffic on the Las Vegas strip for at least 10 minutes before police officers on bicycles arrived. The protesters were carrying a sign with a message to Senate majority leader Harry Reid that spanned half the length of the street, reading, “Reid: No One Can Do More? GetEqual.org."

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Reader Comments
  • Name: roy
    Date posted: 7/23/2010 3:11:59 PM
    Hometown: L.A.

    Comment:

    While I completely agree with this I do think it adds amo to the nut case running against Reid. Trust me it won't be pretty for any of us if she wins. Last I heard she had pulled even with him again.

  • Name: Julie Marin
    Date posted: 7/23/2010 4:47:54 AM
    Hometown: San Jose, CA.

    Comment:

    Was that DADT Activist Dan Choi specking at the end? ENDA is a natural extension for his voice.

  • Name: doug
    Date posted: 7/22/2010 10:44:42 PM
    Hometown: vb

    Comment:

    has Reid made any statement....in a tight race- he'll probably keep quiet. I wish the Advocate did a better job- I always have questions after I read their pieces.

  • Name: Frederick Douglass
    Date posted: 7/22/2010 9:01:35 PM
    Hometown: 1857

    Comment:

    Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of struggle...If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  • Name: Ben
    Date posted: 7/22/2010 8:54:40 PM
    Hometown: NY

    Comment:

    I have more respect for Get Equal than all our other so-called leaders put together.

  • Name: Roy
    Date posted: 7/22/2010 6:05:53 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    Great Job to the Protesters. As a victim of discrimination from a former employer with no legal recourse to address the travesty, I have also coordinated protests in Atlanta (although not as dramatic as the Las Vegas Protest) and have gathered 5,000 signatures in support of ENDA Legislation.......MORE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY NEED TO STAND UP FOR THE RIGHT TO WORK IN AN ENVIRONMENT FREE OF DISCRIMINATION AND BIGOTRY. Great Job!!!!!

  • Name: jer
    Date posted: 7/22/2010 4:01:15 PM
    Hometown: LA

    Comment:

    great job...thank you all.

  • Name: JustanPeterson
    Date posted: 7/22/2010 2:30:04 PM
    Hometown: Lehi

    Comment:

    Wonderful! Thank you GetEqual for bringing this personal issue to the public eye. I'm sure those people that were held up enjoyed air conditioning and radio top 40's. Keep up the great work!



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