Wednesday, August 4, 2010
TODAY: Proposition 8 Day Of Decision Rallies Planned Nationwide
45 Cities and Growing!
Veteran reporter Rex Wockner has compiled a growing list of rallies (and hopefully, celebrations) to take place around the nation today shortly after the release of the Prop 8 decision. A sampling: LOS ANGELES: 6 p.m. | West Hollywood Park | 647 N. San VicenteNew York City's event will take place in downtown Manhattan at the New York Supreme Court, 60 Centre Street, at 7pm. I hope to see all of you there! Hit Wockner's link for an event in your hometown. And below is a great advance video about today's rallies from JMG reader Sean Chapin.
SAN DIEGO: March: 6 p.m. @ 6th & University | Rally: 7 p.m. @ LGBT Community Center | 3909 Centre St
SAN FRANCISCO: 5 p.m. | Castro & Market
LONG BEACH: 6 p.m. | Bixby Park | Junipero & Cherry @ Broadway
SACRAMENTO: 6 p.m. | Party | K & 21st | In the unlikely event Judge Walker rules against teh gay, there will be a march to the Capitol
SAN JOSE: 6 p.m. | Billy DeFrank Center | 983 the Alameda
Labels: activism, California, LGBT rights, marriage equality, Perry v Schwarzenengger, Proposition 8
From the Courage Campaign:
Dear Daniel --
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Judge Vaughn Walker has just announced that he will release his federal court decision on Proposition 8 on Wednesday (August 4)!
While the decision will very likely be immediately appealed -- eventually winding up in the U.S. Supreme Court -- this will be a moment that you and your friends will remember for the rest of your lives.
You can be the first to know Judge Walker's ruling by following Testimony: Equality On Trial on Facebook and sharing the news with your friends. We will be providing live updates, including Judge Walker's ruling, actions you can take, and how to plug in to local Day of Decision rallies in your community.
Just click here to get the decision first on Facebook. All you have to do is "like" the Testimony: Equality on Trial fanpage to show your support for marriage equality. Then click on "Suggest to Friends" and ask your friends to stand with us in this historic moment:
http://www.facebook.com/EqualityOnTrial
No matter how Judge Walker rules, we must be ready as a community to show our continuing support for equality. If you know people who want to hear about Judge Walker's decision the moment it breaks, please forward this message to your friends right now and ask them to join you.
Thank you for standing up for equality on this historic day.
Andy Kelley
New Media Organizer, Courage Campaign
P.S. You can also find in-depth coverage and live discussions before and after Judge Walker's ruling at our Prop 8 Trial Tracker web site, which now has garnered more than 2.5 million views and 44,016 comments:
http://prop8trialtracker.com
Courage Campaign Institute is a part of the Courage Campaign's multi-issue online organizing network that empowers more than 700,000 grassroots and netroots supporters to push for progressive change and full equality in California and across the country. To get involved in the Courage Campaign Institute, visit "Testimony: Equality on Trial" -- our year-long campaign to bring the Prop 8 trial into the lives of Americans.
To power our campaign for equality, please chip in what you can today:
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Via JMG: Prop 8 Decision Due Tomorrow
This is it. The decision of Perry Vs. Schwarzenegger will be issued by Judge Vaughn Walker tomorrow (Wednesday).
The federal court announced today that it will release its decision in the American Foundation for Equal Right’s landmark case, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, on Wednesday. Text “EQUAL” to 69866 to get a text message with the official decision on your mobile phone the moment the court releases its decision, or sign-up for an email alert at equalrightsfoundation.org. Join AFER on its Web site to watch a live press conference with our plaintiffs and co-counsels Ted Olson and David Boies following the release of the decision. As we receive news about the details of the release, AFER will update our Facebook and Twitter profiles, along with our Web site.While most on our side are confident the decision will go our way, the result will likely be appealed immediately.
reposted from Joe
via SacBee: Federal judge to issue Proposition 8 decision Wednesday
U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker will issue a decision Wednesday on the constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage, according to a court announcement today. Read more.
Via Autostraddle: Surprise! White Democrats With Kids Are Responsible for Passing Prop 8!
Via JMG: NOM: We Don't Support The Murder Of Gay People (Even If Our Followers Do!)
NOM is EVER so pissed that people are calling them out for holding anti-gay rallies in which supporters freely wave signs calling for the murder of LGBT people. “The New Hampshire Democratic Party has slurred NOM’s good name and the good people of New Hampshire who rightly believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman,” said Brian Brown, NOM’s president. “They’ve escalated their inflammatory rhetoric beyond their customary insulting charge of bigotry and discrimination, and now are actually saying that NOM and supporters of traditional marriage want to murder gays. It’s totally outrageous and should be condemned, as should all violence and threats of violence.”Miss Brown, we ALL saw the video. Your loyal devoted fan most definitely did NOT take his sign down, in fact he happily and proudly brandished it for the cameras of the Courage Campaign. Actually, since your Babble clearly DOES call for every homosexual to be put to death, (Glory! Praise His Name!), it's shocking that you are denouncing the Word Of The Lord! "Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." - Ecclesiastes 12:13.
“First of all, the lone sign that the NHDP mentions was not a NOM sign, but something briefly displayed by a single individual at a rally,” Brown said. “Secondly, NOM immediately told the individual to take the sign down because it was disgusting and not reflective of NOM’s message or mission: we love marriage and call on all our supporters to respond to incivility and threats with love and respect. NOM immediately issued both nationwide emails and a nationwide press release condemning the sign, as well as threats mounted by gay marriage radicals against NOM. What’s particularly interesting about the press release with its murder slur is that in their zeal to score political points, the Democratic Party has shown itself to be nothing more than a tool of national gay marriage groups.”
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