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Cinemark CEO Alan Stock donated $9,999 to Yes on 8 campaign, yet is "milking" money out of movie-goers hurt by the passage of that shameful proposition.
Photo: Demonstrators in front of CineArts on Santana Row (San Jose) on December 20, by Gloria Nieto....
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2008 10:00pm PST
Lights! Camera! National Action!
Large gatherings in San Francisco and at least 7 other locations in the greater Bay Area lit up the night for Marriage Equality on December 20.
San Francisco photos including top photo by Steve Rhodes under Creative Commons License....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2008 10:40pm PST
NOT in just the usual locations of San Franicsco and Oakland but ALSO in Sacramento, Davis, Corte Madera, San Jose, Napa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, Monterey more! If you are in the greater SF Bay Area (or elsewhere in the US) you can support marriage equality now! Find a location at website posted here. Most rallies start at 5pm or later. Check for details.
Photo by Justin Miel of Raging Grannies in Mountain View, CA. For permission to reprint: justin@gotmiel.com....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2008 5:36am PST
COUPLE MARCHING THROUGH CALIFORNIA TO REVOKE PROP 8
Arrives at San Francisco's Supreme Court...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2008 3:53am PST
Walk starts at Castro and Market (near Castro Muni station);
ends at SF City Hall (near Civic Center BART/Muni station)....
Event Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2008 11:00am PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2008 7:04pm PST
As if one reactionary appiontment after another were not enough, Milliionaire, Warmongering, Death Penalty Promoter, faith-based welfare supporter, Democrat Barack Obama has chosen an anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion preacher, Rick Warren, to deliver the illegal invocation at his Roman empire bash, the inauguaration. Are you sorry you did not vote for Cynthia McKinney or Ralph Nader? If not, will it take no food in your stomach, no roof over your head and the Gestapo at your door for critic...
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2008 7:46am PST
Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 :* Prop. 8 might have been a crushing blow in a victorious year, but it did activate young people of color who care about gay rights to come out and make a change. Jazmyne Young, 20, is a content producer for YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia....
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2008 8:41am PST
Tracie and Val made their way through the rain up the historic El Camino Real, walking from Sunnyvale this morning. By the time they got to Palo Alto the weather was clear and beautiful. The sun shines on those who rally for justice!
The marching duo started in LA on November 17. They have been housed and greeted by many supporters along their way. Today's rally near Stanford U. was sponsored by the Raging Grannies. The couple, married in Canada last April, plans to arrive in San Franci...
Posted: Mon, Dec 15, 2008 8:56pm PST
Corner of Embarcadero and El Camino Real in Palo Alto
In front of Town and Country Shopping center
across from Stanford and Palo ALto High School...
Event Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2008 3:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 12, 2008 2:13am PST
A comic about the Nov 15th Anti-Prop 8 Protest in Mountain View, hosted by the Raging Grannies....
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2008 10:43am PST
Demo and march from UC Berkeley to Berkeley City Hall against Prop. 8....
Posted: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 7:01pm PST
every where...
Event Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 9:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 8:00am PST
Milk is a must-see film about the life of Harvey Milk, a leader of the gay community in San Francisco’s Castro District in the 1970s, and the first openly gay person elected to public office in the United States. In 1979, less than one year after his election, Milk, and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, were gunned down by former SF Supervisor and ex-police officer Dan White, a representative of traditional values, who ran for office on a campaign denouncing “splinter groups of radicals, so...
Posted: Tue, Dec 9, 2008 10:10am PST
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 :Directed by Gus Van Sant, screenplay by Dustin Lance Black The subject of Gus Van Sant's new movie is Harvey Milk, a 1970s liberal activist and the first major openly gay politician to be elected in the US....
Posted: Tue, Dec 9, 2008 7:37am PST
Valerie Paget and Tracie Jones, a Los Angeles couple affected by the passage of Proposition 8, will arrive in Santa Cruz Tuesday on a march through California to demonstrate their conviction that the California Supreme Court should revoke Prop 8. They are marching from West Hollywood Park to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. In coordination with Rick Jacobs of the Courage Campaign, they will deliver a petition to revoke Prop 8 that has been signed by over 250,000 people....
Posted: Mon, Dec 8, 2008 8:52pm PST
The Women’s Building, 3543 18th St., between Valencia and Guerrero in San Francisco (3 blocks from the 16th St. BART station)....
Event Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2008 7:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 8, 2008 12:47pm PST
Day 21 of Tracie and Val's sojourn that started in West Hollywood is today December 8. Find them on Main, John, or Abbott St. in Salinas!
Day 22, Tuesday December 9, will find the pair walking from Salinas to Watsonville.
Later this week their route is scheduled to take them from Watsonville to the Aptos area. After that they are headed through Santa Cruz and northward bound.
Their ultimate destination? The steps of the California Supreme Court in San Francisco to deliver their message:...
Posted: Mon, Dec 8, 2008 1:29am PST
* The Youth (dis-)Empowerment Summit...
Posted: Sun, Dec 7, 2008 10:32pm PST
In solidarity with the national boycott to protest the gay marriage ban Proposition 8, rallies will be held in the Bay Area to publicly demonstrate our power. We will also build unity in the new civil rights movement by calling on Obama to pass the Federal Dream Act so undocumented immigrant students are no longer discriminated against in college financial aid and can get a path to citizenship. "We Are All Californians!" Click for more info....
Posted: Sat, Dec 6, 2008 1:16pm PST










