Join the Impact Massachusetts, a Cambridge-based grassroots LGBT rights group that coalesced in the aftermath of passage of California’s Proposition 8 last year, is offering travel packages for the National Equality March set to occur in Washington on Columbus Day weekend. Buses will be leaving from Boston’s Copley Square for two-day excursions on Friday, October 9 at 10 PM, and one-day trips on Saturday, October 10 at 10 PM.
Like past LGBT marches on Washington in 1979, 1987, 1993, and 2000, the event aims to regenerate the nationwide movement for LGBT equality begun at Stonewall 40 years ago. The National Equality March is less intended to move Congress on October 11 than to cultivate new grassroots lobbying capacity in all 435 congressional districts to influence individual members from back home. JTIMA is energetically reaching out to college and high school LGBT groups in particular, to attract new energy into the fight for full equality in all 50 states.
Commented JTIMA Board member Don Gorton, “Each march in the past has brought many thousands of new stakeholders into the epic struggle begun at the Stonewall Inn in New York in 1969. There’s something about coming together with large numbers of LGBT people from across the country that fires activist passions for the realization of full equality.” Gorton noted that the decentralized Join the Impact network had made LGBT history on November 15, 2008 by organizing synchronized demonstrations in hundreds of cities and towns nationwide at 1:30 PM that Saturday, led by the Millennial Generation “We’ve got to build on the historic wave of community organizing some have called Stonewall 2.0 begun last November with Proposition 8 and the film Milk. Activists inspired by this March will bring the dream of full equality in all 50 states to fruition in this century”
Travel packages and further details are available at Join the Impact MA
