Revoked

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Make sure you watch The Ellen DeGeneres show on Friday, October 9th.
Judy Shepard will be dropping by to chat with Ellen about her NY Times best-selling book, The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed.

A Message fromEli Pariser, MoveOn.org

In a chilling echo of California's Proposition 8, marriage equality is under attack again right now.

In my home state of Maine, the people behind Prop 8 are trying to overturn our new same-sex marriage law with a ballot initiative. They're running the same deceptive TV ads they used to scare voters in California. We can't afford another Prop 8.

If Maine turns back this attack, it will be a historic victory with national repercussions—the first time voters approved a gay marriage law at the polls. A defeat will set back the cause of civil rights for all Americans, including many of my friends and neighbors.

I'm donating to Maine's "No on 1" campaign to defend marriage equality in our country. Can you join me by contributing $20 today? Click here to donate via ActBlue:

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/noon1

The polls in Maine are too close to call. Voting by mail just started, and early voting begins next week.

To keep up with the other side's onslaught of misleading ads, the No on 1 campaign needs to raise $164,000 more by next week. Maine is a small state, so your donation will go a long way—but if they don't make their fundraising goals, they may not have the resources to counter the lies.

I believe we can win this campaign with some help from the rest of the country. Click here to contribute to the most important marriage equality fight of the year:

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/noon1

Thank you for all you do.

–Eli, Noah, Ilya, Kat, and the rest of the team

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"One Year Ago – A Day of Smiles - A Day of Tears – A Day of Action" on Wednesday, November 4 at 5:00pm.

Ken invited you to "One Year Ago – A Day of Smiles - A Day of Tears – A Day of Action" on Wednesday, November 4 at 5:00pm.

Ken says, "We need to send a message that the same-sex marriage issue is not dead. Next week the message will be placed on the doorsteps of the President. On November 4th, make your voice heard here in Sacramento. Please spread the word and invite your friends. ".

Event: One Year Ago – A Day of Smiles - A Day of Tears – A Day of Action
What: Rally
Start Time: Wednesday, November 4 at 5:00pm
End Time: Wednesday, November 4 at 7:00pm
Where: California State Capitol Building

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=300761960346&mid=137937aG2c4faed8G2c01d0aG7

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

A double morning Buzz

Good Billions After Bad "As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial system—without restrictions, accountability, or even common sense. The authors reveal how much of it ended up in the wrong hands, doing the opposite of what was needed."

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

WHEREVER THERE'S A FIGHT: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California

Hate Crimes Bill On Verge Of Passage

Barney Frank defends attaching hate crimes act to defense bill (10/06/2009)

This from JMG:

Last night the House of Representatives voted down a GOP motion to strip the hate crimes act from the defense authorization bill to which it's attached. The vote was 234-178, virtually exactly along party lines. Tomorrow the House will see a final conference vote on the bill, after which the Senate will see a conference vote before the bill lands on Obama's desk. That may not happen until next week, but there appears to be a chance that President Obama may have something very nice in his pocket when he appears at the HRC dinner on Saturday. Below, Barney Frank defends attaching the hate crimes act to the DOD authorization.

Two interesting links re: Cultural Studies from my son

http://chronicle.com/article/Whats-the-Matter-With/48334/

and the reaction:

http://crookedtimber.org/2009/09/28/they-call-it-theory-monday/

Obama's Big Gay Speech

If I were advising President Barack Obama, I would tell him to pay as much attention to the ornery jeers from protesters outside the Human Rights Campaign's October 10th Washington dinner as the cheers coming from inside the ornate ballroom.

ABC7 on Rev. Eric Lee

Quote of the Day

"Or consider the Bahá’ís who assert as a central tenet of their religion the interanimating harmony of religion and science comparing them to the two wings of a bird, each essential if the bird is to take to the air the Bahá’ís explicitly reject as any religious teachings that are at odds with the scientific revelation of God's truth. Surely the Bahá’ís have something here; science ought to be regarded as the close friend of true theology, for it is enormously helpful in ridding of superstition."

- Mark Johnston