Students, Get Your National Equality March On

by Michael Jones · 2009-09-18 09:00:00 UTC
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Students for the National Equality March

Student movements have helped topple military dictatorships, shed light on brutal human rights atrocities, and uncovered gross inequities and conviction errors in criminal justice systems. Can they also help make full and equal rights for LGBT people a reality in the U.S.?

That's what one new student group is hoping, as it organizes like hell in advance of the National Equality March, October 10-11 in Washington, D.C. Their new campaign, Students for the National Equality March, spells it all out.

"As student leaders we refuse to remain silent in the face of what we know is the greatest civil rights movement of our generation. We must speak out and be among those who express outrage at the hatred and discrimination that is inflicted upon our fellow citizens. To remain silent is to endorse hatred," the students write.

That comment right there echoes what Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said about the issue of marriage equality earlier this summer. NY's Junior Senator, in championing her support for marriage equality, said, "Marriage equality is the equal rights battle of our generation, and we should all be strongly united in our efforts to make progress."

More than 100 universities are participating in Students for the National Equality March, organizing on campuses from Tulane to UCLA to Princeton, and everywhere in between.  Facebook 'em here. Twitter 'em here.

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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