Show Me No Hate
Just another WordPress.com weblogArchive for May, 2009
MARRIAGE EQUALITY TIMELINE
Here is a great article showing the timeline for Marriage Equality:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/26/f-same-sex-timeline.html
Please pass this article to friends and family.
"FIDELITY": JOIN THE MOVEMENT TO REPEAL PROP 8
The Supreme Court upheld Prop 8. Sign the pledge to repeal Prop 8 and restore marriage equality to California:
http://www.couragecampaign.org/Equality
This provocative new TV ad was created in the spirit of Harvey Milk’s call to “come out, come out wherever you are” and proudly tell the stories of the people most affected by the passage of Prop 8 — in moving images set to the beat of Regina Spektor’s beautiful song “Fidelity”.
ST LOUIS SHOWED ME A PROTEST
To the nearly 300 protesters that attended the St. Louis Day of Decision demonstration inside St. Louis City Hall, please pat yourselves on the backs for a job well done. Not only did you show up, but many of you fought the rain, hail and terrible traffic to get downtown.
GOOD NEWS!
Not only did we make every St. Louis major television station’s news coverage; moreover, we added some new radio stations and the Associated Press ran my interview all day in some 25 regional cities.
EVEN MORE GOOD NEWS!
We made national news on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show tonight! Rachel covered the Proposition 8 rulings and she included many of the events around the United States. She highlighted St. Louis’ Day of Decision Rally and images from our City Hall.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
I would like to personally thank:
Board President of St. Louis Alderman Lewis Reed, Alderman Shane Cohn (for going above and beyond to secure City Hall), Alderman Kacie Starr Triplett, Senator Joan Bray, Rev. Carol Trissell of Metropolitan Community Church of Greater St. Louis, Rev. Dietra Wise of Liberation Christian Church, Rabbi Susan Talve of Central Reform Congregation, Rabbi James Stone Goodman Neve Shalom Congregation, Brenda Jones-Executive Director of ACLU of Eastern Missouri, A.J. Bockelman-Executive Director of PROMO, Blue Jones-Executive Director of LGBT Community Center of St. Louis, and April Breeden and Crystal L Peairs-Missouri couple both married in California in 2008.
ST. LOUIS DAY OF DECISION
The court’s voice regarding Marriage Equality in California is going to be heard this Tuesday May 26th 10:00am Pacific time and Saint Louis will gather at our City (1200 Market Street) Hall to respond at 5:30pm.
A pro-Equality court decision would help fortify our community against what could be difficult years of economic strain and scapegoating.
An anti-Equality court decision would likely fuel the heightened level of violence already recorded against the LGBTQ community across our nation. It will embolden more bigotry and homophobia.
Either way, the Tuesday results in California are a national issue—especially for us in Missouri trying to pass Anti Discrimination legislation in our Show Me State.
St. Louis has done it before and we can do it again: On November 15th you helped mobilize over 1000 people to our “Join The Impact Rally.”
St. Louis reached out during the “Freedom to Marry” vigil and most recently with the ShowMe Marriage Equality Bus where 17 Missouri couples took a bus to Iowa City to become the first Missourians to legally marry in the historic neighboring state of Iowa.
We only have a few days to get the word out about this ST. LOUIS DAY OF DECISION, at the St. Louis City Hall 5:30pm to 7:30pm this Tuesday May 26th.
PLEASE DOWNLOAD FLIERS
Here are two posters to help promote our event.
Please consider printing both of these fliers and distribute as you “Memorial Day” around town.
http://bit.ly/A2N82 and http://bit.ly/4KL3H
These are both Adobe PDF files. Let’s fill the City Hall Rotunda
ShowMeNoHate
