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NATIONWIDE DOMA PROTEST | JANUARY 10, 2009
ORGANIZER CONTACT INFO
 TIME & LOCATION EVENT DETAILS
<Organizer: Add your contact info here. If this cell isn't filled in, we still need an organizer. If you're interested in organizing this event, add your contact information to this page. Questions about organizing? Contact the previous organizer (below) for tips, contacts and to make sure they haven't already gotten started.> <Organizer: Add time and location details here> Even if there's no rally organized you can still contribute to our goal of obtaining 1 MILLION SIGNATURES on the Open Letter to Obama (linked and explained here) asking him to keep his promises to the LGBTQ community. Some easy ways to get signatures on this letter are:
1. Take them to ally rich places such as gay bars, allied church and organization mtgs, college campuses
2. Print a copy and carry it wherever you go (work, class, meeting friends, family gatherings, etc)
3. Send the letter to everyone you know by email asking them to print it and get signatures and forward your email
4. Make sure you're using the official signature page please. It's important for legal and continuity reasons.


You can start collecting signatures today! They must be mailed by 1/12 for us to take them to Barack Obama. Adding your contact info is a great way to get volunteers to help you.







LIGHT UP THE NIGHT FOR EQUALITY | DECEMBER 20, 2008 | 5PM
WHAT IS IT?
On December 20th, we ask that you join us again for a nation-wide demonstration that will make an impact on the private sector. Candlelight vigils will be held at commercial centers in cities across the country in remembrance of the rights that once were for 18,000 marriages, and in honor of the rights that one day will be again - for EVERYONE.
HOW DOES IT WORK?

  • Please take to your local commercial district at 5PM--be it a shopping mall, outdoor financial center, you name it.
  • This will be a peaceful demonstration in the spirit of the holidays.
  • We'll dress alike: make or buy a "Second Class Citizen" t-shirt.
  • This will be the culmination of our National Food Drive for Equality event (see below for details)
 WHAT WILL WE BE DOING?

  • Hosting peaceful candlelight vigils
  • We will stay silent unless asked a question, we will not yell, instigate, or bare signs. Instead, we will let our shirts do the talking and our candles pay our respects.Bring candles (battery powered if you'll be huddling inside).
  • Singing and/or silence encouraged...chanting is not....keep it peaceful and in the holiday spirit.

 FIND YOUR NEAREST LIGHT UP THE NIGHT LOCATION
LOCATION (mall, shopping area, etc.) Organizer Contact Info Event Details
STILL NEED AN ORGANIZER?
Organizing is easy, but if you don't have an organizer in your city, get a group of 5-10 friends together, print out the Light Up the Night Holiday Cards, and head to your local mall and start passing them out. Don't forget to keep count of how many cards you passed out. There will be a place to report the numbers soon!













GOT PHOTOS TO SHARE? GOT VIDEOS TO SHARE? GOT STORIES TO SHARE?

OUR CITY'S FOOD DRIVE
The Organization that we are going to support with donations <insert name of organization(s) here>

Organizer contact info <add your info here if you are interested in coordinating the food drive>


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~~Archive of Past Events~~

11/15 Protest Info
 Address & Map* Notes & Updates
City: Baltimore

Time: 1:30pm-4:30pm

Organizer: Joe & Makemie

Contact info: Joe -Makemie
jointheimpactmd@gmail.com

Supporting Organizations:
Grateful Dread Public Radio- info on Prop 8 at our blog, All Facts & Opinions

Baltimore Activists Coalition

Baltimore - Join the Impact: Find Your City		 City Hall: 100 Holliday St, Baltimore, MD 21202

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For more information please go to the following sites and let us know if you're planning to attend! Don't forget to make your signs and forward the information to everyone you know!

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raawwritsjamie God Hates Fags Counter-Protest 4/24/09 1 Jun 4 2009, 10:34 PM EDT by sliquecallahan
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nevermind. theres already an event.. how resourceful i am. anyways!
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mmhoover1 Maryland not part of the National DOMA Protest Day on 1/10/2009? 1 Dec 15 2008, 11:45 AM EST by MiDerecho!
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Maryland is like and not like Massachusetts. Largely Democrat state, Gay marriage rights struggle, gay marriage rallies, talks with legislators about gay marriage, gay marriage hearings in state capital, previous GOP Gov hankering after antigay marriage constitutional amendment.
Similarity ends there. Massachusetts has attained and retained gay marriage, Maryland gay community lost its gay marriage battle in 2007 court case, rallies for gay marriage still a once a year event each February in Annapolis.
Unlike Massachusetts and MassEquality, Maryland and Equatity Maryland has no plans for National DOMA Protest Day which I find disturbing as gay marriage would lose a major impediment if the Federal level DOMA or Defense of Marriage Act (making a mockery at our national entry points including US Customs booths in Canadiian airports on Canadian soil of legal MA and CT gay marriages and of gay marriages legal in Spain, Canada, South Africa, Netherlands, Belgium and Norway (gay marriage law there passed in 2008 and in effect in 2009, prohibiting social security benefits for suriving spouse of gay marriage, etc)
were to be repealed.If Federal level DOMA were to repealed, gay marriage would likely spread more rapidly throught the USA and the full faith and credi clause in US Constitution stating that marriage and other laws legal in one state need to recognized in other states
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lmpolyak Call the Governor -- All families deserve equal rights !! 0 Nov 15 2008, 5:19 PM EST by lmpolyak
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Call Gov Martin O'Malley's office and tell him that Maryland needs to treat all families equally under the law.
Call at 410-974-3901 -- sample script:
This is Maggie, I live in Baltimore. My family deserves the same rights as your family. Support civil marriage for ALL families.
This is Don, I live in Anne Arundel County. State employees deserve equal pay for equal work. Authorize partner benefits for same-sex families.
This is Nancy, I live in Harford County. My religious rights should never dictate others' civil rights. Support civil marriage for all families
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