The Blind Push For ENDA And Your Advocacy Dollars
Tomorrow you’ll likely to see a big push from inside the beltway “equality” organizations pushing for passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). From a recent e-mail plea: Dear United ENDA Coalition Organizational Leaders: We think you’ll agree that our community is more than ready to see ENDA passed now. So we are writing to ask your organization to sign on to a very simple statement asking Congress to PASS ENDA NOW. The statement is attached but you’ll see that it is really that simple. In reality, we have been waiting for decades to pass ENDA. More specifically, we have been waiting months for actual action by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. We believe that it is time to make a very clear ask right now: Pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act NOW. We are therefore hoping to issue this public statement signed by hundreds of LGBT and
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“The Blind Push For ENDA And Your Advocacy Dollars” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging labor, economics, and institutions. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2010 at Transadvocate.com, “The Blind Push For ENDA And Your Advocacy Dollars” provides dated evidence of how law and civil rights was being argued in relation to labor, economics, and institutions. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination and public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and labor, economics, and institutions, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life100%
- 2Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life97%
- 3Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community90%
- 4Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community31%
- 5Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication21%
- 6Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life8%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 275%
- 375%
Editorial function
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How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 3 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history468
- Community and organizing300
- Public policy and governance165
- Education and youth151
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization146
- Culture, identity, and representation145
- Labor, economics, and institutions136
- Family and relationships130
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse119
- History, archives, and memory117
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Documented circulation and reception
1 source-held reference records an early link or citation; the documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently falls in 2010. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveShow Me Da Language!!!!!! « ENDAblog
[...] Me Da Language!!!!!! In the words of Marti at TransAdvocate: I’m not saying we shouldn’t support ENDA. But before we say say “Pass ENDA NOW!”, we [...]
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Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
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