Greetings,

On Thursday, November 5^th at 10 a.m. EST, the Senate will hold a hearing on ENDA in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

We promised you action alert language, and here it is.  Can you please send it on Wednesday (tomorrow)?  That would be ideal!

If you are on facebook, twitter, etc., use these links to connect with the United ENDA efforts.

• Follow www.twitter.com/endaNOW, retweet our tweets, and send content to us that you would like to see us tweet, or send folks to our blog, www.endanow.com.
• Join the facebook group: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5065064220&ref=ts, update your facebook status, and send action alerts through facebook.

Yours in solidarity,

Mara Keisling and Rea Carey, United ENDA Steering Committee Co-Chairs

*Note: This message, like all messages from the United ENDA Steering Committee, is a confidential communication intended for the leaders of United ENDA's nearly 400 coalition organizations.  As such it should not be posted on websites, forwarded to listservs, or shared with the media. Please send e-mail address updates for your organization's leaders to laura.hart@unitedenda.org.

SUGGESTED ALERT LANGUAGE

Senate Hearing on ENDA, Contact Your Legislators

This Thursday, November 5, a Senate Committee will hold a hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (S. 1584). Key witnesses will testify about how vital this legislation is for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers and their families. But we know that the most important voices to these Senators are the voices of people who live back home.

We have made it easy to call or send an email, below.  Senators and Representatives and their staffs tell us that calls and emails make all the difference!

So CALL the U.S. Capitol switchboard at: (202) 224-3121. Give your zip code and ask to be connected to your Senators, and then your Representative.

Use this message: My name is _____ and I am a proud resident of (your city, state). I am calling in support of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 3017/S. 1584), to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from job discrimination. Please take action to pass ENDA now. I can be reached at _______ (give your phone number). Thank you.

Or EMAIL by clicking here.

The President supports ENDA, he needs us to push Congress to send the bill to his desk to sign.  We can see House action in next two weeks, Senate action soon after.

Let’s do all we can to pass ENDA, today!