From someone who doesn't have an equity card. It's a card that verifies you apart of AEA and are unionized. You can get one through auditioning and obtaining roles in an equity production.
Its not really something you can get off the street.
I wish you luck!
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades