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NATIONWIDE DOMA PROTEST | JANUARY 10, 2009 | ||
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| <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.
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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.
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| STILL NEED AN ORGANIZER, SIGN UP HERE IF YOU CAN HELP | 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! | ||||
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| 11/15 Protest Info | Address & Map* | Notes & Updates |
| City: Detroit Time: 1:30pm Organizer: Bashar Contact info: BMakhay@goaffirmations.org 248-677-7228 Detroit Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=34032808298&ref=mf Supporting Organizations: Affirmations: GoAffirmations.org/JoinTheImpact Triangle | City Hall: 2 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48226 | RSVP on Facebook: Detroit Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=34032808298&ref=mf For more information: GoAffirmations.org/JoinTheImpact Meet at Affirmations at 12:30 pm if you want to carpool |
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| UMLawGirl07 | It rained in Detroit. | 0 | Nov 15 2008, 6:22 PM EST by UMLawGirl07 | ||
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We had our Prop 8 rally in Detroit today. Brett Beckerson, Youth Initiatives Coordinator with Triangle Foudation, and Bashar Makhay, from Affirmations, were the local organizers. They did an amazing job.
We had approximately 150 people show up. This is significant primarily because it was cold. And windy. And raining. A steady rain fell during the entire 90 minute march, demonstration, and speechifying. Still, people stayed. After we marched -- to chants of "2 4 6 8 Love does not discriminate!"; "Gay Straight Black White - Marriage is a CIVIL right"; and "What do we want? EQUALITY When do we want it? NOW!" -- we held a rally in front of the "Spirit of Detroit" statue at City Hall. Everyone that wanted to speak got a chance. Jan and Susan were there -- 14 years together, and owners/publishers of Between the Lines, our LGBT friendly newspaper; Leslie Ann Thompson, Exec. Director of Affirmations, and her wife were there and eloquently reminded us of the money that Michigan is losing to Canada (just across the river from where we stood) as we trek across the border to exchange our vows. She called on those that were married in Canada (such as Mary and me) or elsewhere to come forward and put a face on the discrimination. Many more people spoke. Veterans spoke, ministers and preachers spoke, straight allies spoke. Partners that had been together for decades spoke. And we stood there in the rain, wind, and cold and cheered. We cheered for the love we have for each other, we cheered for the community we developed, we cheered for the possibility that one day our opposition would see that they had nothing to fear in granting us our civil rights. We cheered for the courage each person showed. Our time will come. |
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| croy1ae | Organizing the Detroit Protest - Help???? | 7 | Nov 14 2008, 12:58 AM EST by Anonymous | ||
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Thread started: Nov 11 2008, 11:16 PM EST
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Someone needs to be the point person for the Detroit rally. I am considering it. However, I am a 20-year-old full-time pre-veterinary student 3 hours away from Detroit. I am not LGBTQ, just a very strong ally, so I don't have a lot of LGBT connections in the area. Would someone be willing to help me find organizations...? Apparently.. I need to do these two things if I take this on.. and I'm not sure how.
1. Get a permit. The best way to do this is to contact Detroit's LGBTQ organizations and get them on board. One of them will help you get a permit. 2. Get speakers. Again, this is something best delegated to the LGBTQ organizations - they are just waiting for a point person to ask them to do it. Does anyone have contacts or know of organizations that would help? I'm not sure if I can do this.. but I want this protest in Detroit to happen. So if someone wants to take the lead here I am willing to help out a lot... |
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| CaitW | Contact? | 3 | Nov 12 2008, 4:33 PM EST by staugust1 | ||
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Thread started: Nov 11 2008, 5:56 PM EST
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Hi, is there someone organizing the Detroit protest? I'd offer to, but I live about an hour away. I'd be willing to help with whatever I can online. Thanks!
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