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I’m inviting all of you to come to our office at MassEquality and get on the phones and talk to voters and tell them why they need to talk to their legislators about transgender equality. And get on the phones and also join us and take busses up to Vermont and talk to people in Vermont about why we need marriage equality up there ... There’s a lot of hard work that needs to be done, and it’s time to get on the bus, get on the phone, and do the truly hard work of winning equality legislator by legislator, state by state.
It’s a neutral sign unless people give them something useful to do. Now in New York they can lobby state senators. There’s a real chance now with what happened with the state Senate in New York to get a marriage bill through the New York legislature. There should be an intense campaign of constituent lobbying there
We would not have won on June 14, 2007, without the kind of grassroots energy and support that came from people who stood in front of the State House, who visited their legislators, who wrote letters to their community newspapers, and who spoke about it with their family and their coworkers
The inside work of politics must be supported by a strong grassroots movement on the outside, and those two dynamics can work together to ensure that we achieve our political goals
It highlights for a non-LGBT population that our folks are concerned with aspects of quality-of-life in communities that goes beyond LGBT issues. I thought it was a wonderful community service idea
I feel like what our group, Join The Impact, will be good at, is mobilizing people ... We are in tune with the Facebook generation and know how to get people motivated. And MassEquality can put in place specific places for us to drive people to. They can have a phone bank where they have 25 phone lines to fill for transgender rights, and we can be the organization that gets people there.