AMERICAblog: Prop 8 protests tomorrow all across America
Indigo
· 1 year ago
1:30 pm in front of city hall, Orlando, Florida
RitornaVincitor
· 1 year ago
Stuart Gaffney, a plaintiff in the case that led to the California Supreme Court's May ruling legalizing gay marriage, will be attending the rally tomorrow in San Francisco. I was very proud of the huge and peaceful march in San Francisco a week ago, and I fully expect tomorrow's rally to be even bigger. Tomorrow morning - Saturday, 10:30 - 1:30 in the park in front of San Francisco City Hall.
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Oh you mean last Friday when "several hundred" people marched up Market Street?
RitornaVincitor
· 1 year ago
Lol. Yup. "Several hundred", or "a thousand" or "twenty thousand", depending on which mainstream media source you followed. (But I was there, and it had to be many thousands.)
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
You know, I think the local news outlets were pissed off because they each spent THOUSANDS of dollars to keep those helicopters up there for almost six hours and didn't get any footage of riots.
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
1:30 PM, Broad and Market, Philadelphia. Rain expected :(
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
1:30 p.m. at Charlotte (NC) Government Center (lovely Marshall Park close by).
Meanwhile, Debbie Stabenow defending her marriage to Big Auto on Tweety. But she did bring up a good point: 10% of Americans work either directly or indirectly for the auto industry. 10% unemployment there, plus the "official" 6.7% unemployment--you got a major depression, folks.
The corporatocracy has everyone by the short hairs...
dad
· 1 year ago
Thanks Robert.
Found one in New Haven and one in Hartford.
freestate
· 1 year ago
There was also a call for 7 weeks of protest today by Clive Owens and Black (writer of Milk)
We call on all supporters of equality to sustain and intensify the nationwide campaign of mass protests and non-violent civil disobedience, for seven weeks, starting on November 27, 2008, the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Milk, and to then gather together in mass, from all corners of our country, in Washington, DC on the morning of Tuesday, January 20, 2009, to honor the inauguration of our President, Barack Obama.
Please get out there folks and be seen. This is about so much more than prop 8. This is about our entire civil rights fight. It is so important right now to stand up and be heard and to say: enough! These protests are all pretty much at city halls and not in front of temples and churches. Most mormon temples in California have already had one big protest and that's all well and done. Now is the time to stand up at your civic center. It is crucial that we are seen by the politicians and the judges that will decide our near-term fate. Be lawful and respectful, make a sign, and show up.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Amen! (or preferably the pagan equivalent thereof.)
JointheImpact.org is very, very well run. Too bad the No to Prop 8 wasn't as well done; we wouldn't be in this shit storm. As in everything, pick your leaders wisely.
bozemanmontana
· 1 year ago
We're having a poster making party tonight for a rally tomorrow on Main Street...in Bozeman, Montana. I think mine's going to read: FIRE ME, I'M GAY, MONTANA SAYS IT'S OK
bozemanmontana
· 1 year ago
from Towleroad.com: EXCLUSIVE: Shepard Fairey, creator of the iconic Obama "Hope" image, has designed a poster for Prop 8 and the LGBT campaign for equal rights. High-res versions now available HERE.
Get everyone you know out there! The rally this Wednesday in NYC was amazing. I'm hoping there will be even more people there tomorrow! This is a critical time for the gay rights movement. We are in the most unfortunate of circumstances to protest the REMOVAL of our rights, but I think the sheer un-American nature of Prop 8 is resonating with the majority of Americans. Stand up now!!!
TampaZeke
· 1 year ago
It's not JUST a Prop 8 protest.
It's a protest against ALL of the anti-gay initiatives that passed on November 4th.
We here in Florida are certainly standing with our brothers and sisters in California, but no more or less than we are standing with our brothers and sisters in Arizona, Arkansas and right here in Florida.
In fact, let's keep in mind that we have brothers and sisters in 29 states OTHER than California who are living under anti-gay marriage amendments and many of these states' amendments are considerably worse than the one in California.
Please, please, please don't forget those of us outside the state of California. We certainly didn't forget you when we sent our checks and support to Equality CA and No on 8.
TampaZeke
· 1 year ago
The rally in Tampa will be at Joe Chillura Courthouse Square in the heart of Downtown (610 E. Kennedy Blvd.)
Hope to see my fellow "Tampons" (I know, right?) there!
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Hence my last post that this was about our entire civil rights movement. As in all of us across the country. Not even just LGBT but straight people in every state that don't think discrimination should be the rule of law. Sorry if I came across as Californiacentric.
HillbillyTN
· 1 year ago
I live in rural Appalachia. I have searched the database and found several donors from Knoxville, TN. I sent an e-mail to the local TV stations and asked them to please contact the donors and get their side of the story while reporting on the local protest.
Let them be known.
lisainWA
· 1 year ago
10:30AM Volunteer Park in Seattle.
I plan on being there with a sign with a picture of a rainbow flag and the statement "Not a White Flag".
Upland_Oddball
· 1 year ago
All in all, It would have been better if Prop 8 had failed and gay marriage in Callifornia had remained on the books. But, the haters, especially the LDS had to spew their rancid bile all over the legal framework of my home state. They just HAD to, and now they are in a position to wish they had just accepted the thing. If Prop 8 had failed, several hundred thousand gay Californians would have remained in the prolonged apathetic slumber they've been in since AIDS activism died out in the early 1990s. And the new generation, in their teens and up through their thirties would have never known what direct action and political mobilization was about personally. Many would have remained commited to living life devoted to private domestic concerns, and many have not only married, but have become virtually indistinquishable from their heterosexual and, EGADS, Republican neighbors. .But now they have been aroused,into anger and action by a public repudiation of their authenticiity as full and loving human beings. Even if this new activism pursues counterproductive dead-ends, which is what much of the talk over boycotts may devolve into, I am thrilled to know that the benefits in the short and long run will be very apparent soon. We're back, we'tre more powerful and you'd had better get used to it!
Catman51
· 1 year ago
I will be at the L.A. one tomorrow!
fostert
· 1 year ago
I'll be there. Not because I want to, but because I have to. As a straight, I just wished this issue would resolve itself without my help. But any minority that wants its rights needs the help of the majority to make it happen. I have always supported gay rights, but now it seems I must do more than just voting. So I will march with you. Or, more precisely, I will march with us.
TampaZeke
· 1 year ago
Thank you fostert.
Very well said.
Left of the Hill
· 1 year ago
I'm going to be at the one in DC tomorrow. It starts at 1:30 at the US Capitol.
gwyneth
· 1 year ago
Well I'm standing with you in Salt Lake City, Utah tomorrow. Hey, if I turn up dead in a ditch somewhere, look at the mormons!! lol.
chimpyissatan
· 1 year ago
Someone please explain this to me. There is a constant barrage of prototypical weak-kneed "the Mormons aren't our enemies" pleading coming from tomorrows "protest" organizers. What the hell is that all about? I have to ask, JTI. Have you learned NOTHING from history? As the past eight years have proven, nobody in this country respects or supports a victim who doesn't fight back, who doesn't confront his/her attacker in some way. And sure as hell, nobody's getting any rights back until we have RESPECT.
The Dems rolled over EVERY time since 1994, and where are we? Deep, deep in a hole, with our very survival endangered, our rights decimated, and thanks to years of capitulation on judges, we'll be supplicating to the Mormons and their God Squad fellow travelers for a generation. Not once has being Mr. Nice Guy helped us advance a progressive agenda. Roberts, Alito, Iraq, the Patriot Act, Kerry 2004, the DOJ scandal... the list of the consequences of acquiescence is almost endless.
Yeah, we just "won" a landslide. B...F...D... we were left table scraps and sewage by people who took us on headlong and got theirs while the getting was good. Prop 8 is the logical conclusion of their assault. We were sunk by the avaricious, unyielding Right wing and will be lucky if we recover in our lifetimes. ...and now? There's already talk of bipartisanship and forgiving Joe Lieberman. I call bullshit.
And don't give me Ghandi. Nonviolence is not a suicide pact. Placating Nazis is.
The Great Society was created through bare-knuckles political demands, not kowtowing to the racists to spare their feelings and bring them into the tent. ACTUP got squat until they got rough (politically). Meanwhile, because of inaction, thousands, maybe millions ultimately died. So tell me, why the hell should't I show up tomorrow with my "Got LDS?" poster? Why shouldn't I get all uppity and organize boycotts of Mormon businesses like Mariott? To spare some f*cking feelings and maybe, maybe win equl rights one day? They and the other fundie freaks ARE the enemy who want gays (and atheists, and Muslims, and Wiccans...) eliminated from the earth.
Mormons spearheaded this hate, Mormons should pay. Rights AND reparations are in order Taking them on directly and immediately is a moral imperative. I say we squeeze them until they sponsor a pro-human rights campaign with their friggin' tithes. Bastards.
cilidog
· 1 year ago
On the eve of battle-- "Lift as you climb"--Mary Bethune. This fight is something deep, profound and transformative. Let us not waste these moments.
chimpyissatan
· 1 year ago
Are you saying it's not been deep, profound, and transformative all these years? Please explain exactly why this time is different and warrants another episode of "play nice and the other boys will like you."
cilidog
· 1 year ago
This is about more than marriage equality, this "movement" is about Stonewall, all of our friends lost to AIDS, Mathew Shephard, all those who came before and the generation that will come after us. Don't get me wrong, I could just as easily follow the Marine Corps. sargent (from the early 1900's) exhorting his troops on into battle--"Come on you bastards, do you want to live forever?"
SF City Hall 10:30AM Sat. 11/15/08
chimpyissatan
· 1 year ago
Sigh. I'm planning to be in Escondido tomorrow for what I predict will be another lame demonstration of flamboyant irrelevance, where fierce will only mean"fashionable" and we'll prance through town like a traveling sideshow, saying little of substance and winningno new hearts and minds. Been there, done that, seen the result.
Confrontation, sit-ins and boycots, traffic stoppages, flash mobs at the LDS Temple and Mariott lobby, that's the ticket to have. Nonviolent protest must cofront a wrong directly, otherwhise it's just screaming at the wind,
cilidog
· 1 year ago
LOL!
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
will be at the one in San Antonio with two good friends and fellow humans...
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Meanwhile, Debbie Stabenow defending her marriage to Big Auto on Tweety. But she did bring up a good point: 10% of Americans work either directly or indirectly for the auto industry. 10% unemployment there, plus the "official" 6.7% unemployment--you got a major depression, folks.
The corporatocracy has everyone by the short hairs...
Found one in New Haven and one in Hartford.
We call on all supporters of equality to sustain and intensify the nationwide campaign of mass protests and non-violent civil disobedience, for seven weeks, starting on November 27, 2008, the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Milk, and to then gather together in mass, from all corners of our country, in Washington, DC on the morning of Tuesday, January 20, 2009, to honor the inauguration of our President, Barack Obama.
http://sevenweekstoequality.com/
Ill be at the protest in San Diego tomarrow
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...
EXCLUSIVE: Shepard Fairey, creator of the iconic Obama "Hope" image, has designed a poster for Prop 8 and the LGBT campaign for equal rights. High-res versions now available HERE.
This might get you there:
http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/page/National...
It's a protest against ALL of the anti-gay initiatives that passed on November 4th.
We here in Florida are certainly standing with our brothers and sisters in California, but no more or less than we are standing with our brothers and sisters in Arizona, Arkansas and right here in Florida.
In fact, let's keep in mind that we have brothers and sisters in 29 states OTHER than California who are living under anti-gay marriage amendments and many of these states' amendments are considerably worse than the one in California.
Please, please, please don't forget those of us outside the state of California. We certainly didn't forget you when we sent our checks and support to Equality CA and No on 8.
Hope to see my fellow "Tampons" (I know, right?) there!
Let them be known.
I plan on being there with a sign with a picture of a rainbow flag and the statement "Not a White Flag".
Very well said.
The Dems rolled over EVERY time since 1994, and where are we? Deep, deep in a hole, with our very survival endangered, our rights decimated, and thanks to years of capitulation on judges, we'll be supplicating to the Mormons and their God Squad fellow travelers for a generation. Not once has being Mr. Nice Guy helped us advance a progressive agenda. Roberts, Alito, Iraq, the Patriot Act, Kerry 2004, the DOJ scandal... the list of the consequences of acquiescence is almost endless.
Yeah, we just "won" a landslide. B...F...D... we were left table scraps and sewage by people who took us on headlong and got theirs while the getting was good. Prop 8 is the logical conclusion of their assault. We were sunk by the avaricious, unyielding Right wing and will be lucky if we recover in our lifetimes. ...and now? There's already talk of bipartisanship and forgiving Joe Lieberman. I call bullshit.
And don't give me Ghandi. Nonviolence is not a suicide pact. Placating Nazis is.
The Great Society was created through bare-knuckles political demands, not kowtowing to the racists to spare their feelings and bring them into the tent. ACTUP got squat until they got rough (politically). Meanwhile, because of inaction, thousands, maybe millions ultimately died. So tell me, why the hell should't I show up tomorrow with my "Got LDS?" poster? Why shouldn't I get all uppity and organize boycotts of Mormon businesses like Mariott? To spare some f*cking feelings and maybe, maybe win equl rights one day? They and the other fundie freaks ARE the enemy who want gays (and atheists, and Muslims, and Wiccans...) eliminated from the earth.
Mormons spearheaded this hate, Mormons should pay. Rights AND reparations are in order Taking them on directly and immediately is a moral imperative. I say we squeeze them until they sponsor a pro-human rights campaign with their friggin' tithes. Bastards.
This fight is something deep, profound and transformative. Let us not waste these moments.
SF City Hall 10:30AM Sat. 11/15/08
Confrontation, sit-ins and boycots, traffic stoppages, flash mobs at the LDS Temple and Mariott lobby, that's the ticket to have. Nonviolent protest must cofront a wrong directly, otherwhise it's just screaming at the wind,