On Saturday January 10th, Join the Impact & Impact Humboldt is calling on Obama to fulfill his campaign promises for LGBTQ equality. We will take to the street to once again to demand what we deserve.

People will be gathering in cities across the country to rally for the repeal of the discriminatory Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Thanks to this law, same sex married couples in California are excluded from over 1,100 federal rights.

We will not stop with marriage. Obama needs to fulfill all of his promises. We need a trans-inclusive Employee Non-Discrimination Act to ensure sure that no one is fired from their job because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. We need comprehensive hate crimes legislation, the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, and dedication to the fight against HIV/AIDS.

In an open letter to the LGBTQ community, Obama expressed his support for all of this. More recently, he has called himself a "fierce advocate" for the LGBT community. WE need to hold him to these promises. NOW is the time to push for what we deserve!

This protest will ONLY be successful if it rivals the scope and scale of the one in November. We must show lawmakers that November 15th was not a one-time-only event. This movement is not going away. We will keep fighting until there is full equality for all LGBTQ individuals in every state.

Please join us January 10th, 10:30 am, at the Federal Building/USPO/Courthouse 5th & H Sts in Eureka, CA. Sign up at the facebook page and invite all your friends. Pass out flyers everywhere. Email this information to any listserve you are on. Together, we will make this happen. If you are interested in volunteering before the event please contact us. We can use all the help we can get to make this a very successful event


The fight for equal rights never rests!

• We joined together for the November 15th National Day of Protest that shook our nation!
• We joined for a night of action that shed light on our struggle as we came together to Light Up the Night for Equal Rights...
  

Now, on Saturday January 10th, 2009
We ask you to join us in making the LARGEST IMPACT YET!
Let's take our message all the way up the ladder to President Elect Barack Obama himself!

On January 10th, we will come together as one UNITED FRONT
asking the LGBTQ community to join us in signing an Open Letter to President Barack Obama,
during a NATIONAL DOMA PROTEST.

This letter will remind President Elect Barack Obama of the promises he made to us.
It will also serve as a pledge from our community that we will hold him to his promises and help him achieve them.

We can’t just put a letter online and ask that people sign it.
We need to take to the streets. As we all know…
VISIBILITY IS THE KEY TO EQUALITY!
Outreach & Education Will End Discrimination.
We MUST Infiltrate, to Educate, and Stop Hate!

This is why we CONTINUE to come together as a community and
speak out about the injustices that exist nationally AND locally.

HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO:

• Find out who is organizing a DOMA Protest in your area. (Quick Link to State Page) If there isn't one, then volunteer to organize, or at least get signatures!
  
• Grab the Open Letter (Check back here for the letter coming soon) and take to the streets to gain signatures.
• Get one million signatures (in total) by the end of the day on January 10th! Once we have a minimum of one million signatures, we will make certain that President Elect Barack Obama receives our letter on DAY 1 of his presidency!

NOTE:
If you can't organize a protest or one is not organized in your city (understandable with the holidays and all), then don't worry, you can still participate:

• Sign up to organize a carpool in your area that gets everyone to the closest protest
• Get a group of friends together to canvas your neighborhood & streets to get signatures for the open letter.
  

The Number One Point of this event...

...is to gather at least one million signatures on a petition/letter to President Obama
to be delivered to him on his first day in office.

The event itself will vary by location depending on organizers availability and local sense of how to best do it. Please make posts below to discuss ideas...

Join Us on January 10th for 1 Million Signatures to Repeal DOMA!