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DESCRIPTION:\nLatina/o, Black, Native American, Asian, Arab, White, Immigrants With and 
 Without Papers, LGBT—\nWE ARE ALL CALIFORNIANS!\n\nRALLY & MARCH 
 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10:\n"DAY WITHOUT A GAY"\n\n\nUndo Prop 8Pass the Dream 
 Act\nMake UC-Berkeley, UCLA, and All Our Colleges Diverse, Integrated, 
 Affordable Sanctuary Campuses—Centers of Critical Thought and 
 ProgressCheck BAMN.COM/UndoProp8 for an updated list of local 
 eventsBERKELEY: 12PM - RALLY & MARCH at UC-Berkeley's Sproul Plaza 
 (Bancroft + Telegraph) ... 1:30PM - RALLY at Berkeley City Hall (Milvia + 
 Addison)OAKLAND: 4PM - PRESS CONFERENCE  at City Hall/Frank Ogawa Plaza 
 (14th St. + Broadway)Endorsed by (partial list): BAMN, UCB Queer Alliance & 
 Resource Center (QARC), Queer Straight Alliance (QSA), Berkeley Stop the 
 War, Oakland Tech HS Gay Straight Alliance (GSA)\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin and invite 
 your Facebook friends to the DEC. 10 FACEBOOK GROUP\nGo to BAMN.COM for 
 more info on the DREAM ACT and the fight to UNDO PROP 8\n\n\nThe election 
 of Barack Obama changed our beliefs about the potential of our lives, our 
 nation, and of the people who are America. President-elect Obama’s 
 victory was not just the victory of a gifted politician. It was a victory 
 for the movement that was determined to see America elect its first black 
 president. A victory for the millions of white people who put aside their 
 irrational prejudices and voted in their self-interest and against this 
 nation’s long legacy of racism. A victory for the millions of Latina/o 
 and immigrant people, with and without papers, who opened up this whole era 
 of hope and progress in 2006 when the huge civil rights marches for 
 immigrant rights swept across America and handed the conservatives and 
 racists their first defeat. \n\nIt was a victory for the black communities 
 of this nation who have never stopped seeking equality and dignity for all. 
 And most of all, a victory for the young people who ignored the cynicism 
 and despair of the older generations and seized their chance to make 
 America a nation imbued with optimism and won. The battle cry of the great 
 immigrant rights movement of 2006 "Sí Se Puede/Yes We Can" became the 
 rallying cry of the Obama campaign. The campaign unified and moved millions 
 of Americans to make the impossible or at best unlikely, a 
 certainty.\n\nBuilding a new America created in the image of what we were 
 on election night, a people bound together by the joy and exhilaration of 
 real brotherhood and sisterhood, will require the young people who worked 
 so hard for the Obama victory to stay mobilized and politically active. 
 With the election behind us, we must turn our attention to making sure that 
 the progressive political program of change we want implemented is put into 
 effect. No one man can realize the vision of change by himself—building 
 the power of the new civil rights movement is absolutely vital if we are to 
 realize the changes we want and need. \n\nWe have a lot of work to do. On 
 the same night that Senator Obama was elected President, the right to gay 
 marriage was struck down in California with the passage of Proposition 8. 
 Our movement must overturn Prop 8 and defend the civil rights of lesbians, 
 gay men, bisexual, and transgender people. The LGBT community and the 
 immigrant communities are both gripped in the struggle to end their 
 second-class treatment and to defeat irrational prejudices and 
 discrimination. One of the central aims of the new civil rights movement 
 must be to unite these two struggles into a single movement inexorably 
 bound together by their shared fight for equality. \n\nWinning passage of 
 the federal Dream Act to give undocumented immigrant students the ability 
 to obtain financial aid and a pathway to citizenship is a key demand of 
 Latina/o and immigrant students and youth. Our struggle to overturn Prop 8 
 will be immeasurably strengthened if the leaders of the campaign to 
 overturn Prop 8 take up the struggle to attain the immediate passage of the 
 Dream Act. Our struggle to win the Dream Act will also be strengthened if 
 we make the concerted effort that the mainstream leaders of the opposition 
 to Prop 8 failed to make, of winning Latina/o, immigrant and black 
 community support for equal rights for the LGBT 
 community.\n\nReestablishing our national commitment to equal educational 
 opportunities through the restoration of affirmative action and integration 
 programs is vitally needed to end the discrimination in admissions of 
 Latina/o, black, Native American and other underrepresented students within 
 the UC system. Returning UC Berkeley, UCLA, and other public universities 
 into centers of critical thought and progressive initiative requires 
 transforming our campuses into diverse, integrated, affordable, sanctuary 
 campuses. Ending the unconscionable Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
 (ICE) policy of raids and deportations, including at schoolhouse doors and 
 on college campuses, is something President Obama can achieve by a simple 
 stroke of the pen the minute he takes office and assumes control of 
 ICE.\n\nWinning new and expanded financial aid programs in addition to the 
 new loan and federal income tax programs which are being discussed, would 
 give poor, working-class and middle-class students struggling to stay in 
 school the ability to do so. It's clear that there are resources available 
 to expand opportunities if the political will exists. \n\nWe worked so hard 
 for and are so hopeful that the new era we opened up can make America a 
 nation resting on our shared commitment to equality and democracy, rather 
 than a nation weakened by longstanding fears and prejudice. We have made 
 some progress, but cannot rest because our vision will not be realized 
 without our vigilant struggle. America has never made progress on 
 fundamental civil rights questions without mass action. Building the new 
 civil rights movement on an independent basis is both our biggest challenge 
 and our real hope for victory.\n\nDecember 10, 2008 has been called as a 
 day of protest to overturn Prop 8, the recently passed ban on gay marriage. 
 This day of action provides progressive students and others with the 
 opportunity to come together on these campuses, rally and march for all our 
 demands. Our efforts have already successfully provided leadership to the 
 nation. We must continue the fight that has just begun.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/12/06/18553824.php
SUMMARY:"Day Without a Gay" Day of Action
LOCATION:UC-Berkeley's Sproul Plaza (Bancroft + Telegraph)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/12/06/18553824.php
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