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2015 SINE DIE KS RALLY

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Listen to some of the sounds of the Topeka statehouse as it closes the longest session in Kansas history.

Also today Equality Kansas holds a morning rally on the 1st floor rotunda to 

Join us this Friday, June 26 at 10am at the Kansas State Capitol for our Dignity and Equality Rally.  Our special guest speaker will be State Representative Valdenia Winn, who is currently being persecuted for speaking her mind in a committee hearing in March.  Rep. Winn, a long-time supporter of equality for LGBT Kansans, will be subjected to an inquisition and a hearing beginning Friday morning at 8:30am, with a break at 10am for the final session (“Sine Die”).  Once the legislature adjourns, the hearing will be concluded with a vote to either reprimand, censure, or expel Rep Winn from the legislature.

Other speakers include:

State Representative John Carmichael
Civil rights attorney Pedro Irigonegaray
ACLU / Kansas executive director Micah Kubic
Planned Parentood of Kansas CEO Laura McQuade
Sunflower Community Action deputy director Reuben Eckles
Interfaith Power & Light director Rabbi Moti Rieber
Transgender activist Elle Boatman
Daily Kos writer Chris Reeves

The Kansas legislature’s final session this year will be Friday, June 26, at 10:00am. Equality Kansas has reserved the Statehouse Rotunda to rally for something that has been missing from their agenda for the past several years: Equality and dignity.

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