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Online activism in response to anti-LGBTQ propositions

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There’s a huge amount of activism going on in response to Prop 8 in California and the other anti-LGBTQ state propositions that passed.  A few I know about:

I have no idea whether these groups are working together yet, at least at the level of coordinating strategy and avoiding duplication of effort … hopefully they will be soon.

Please get involved with the ones you find most promising — and invite your friends!

Also, I’m sure there are a ton of other efforts out there … if you know of others, please add them in comments.

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4 responses to “Online activism in response to anti-LGBTQ propositions”

  1. jon Avatar
    jon

    I cross-posted the original version on Pam’s, where unsurprisingly I got some great feedback, including a link by mattymatt to his http://stop8.org/ which has the best overall collection of links, Brock Vergakis’ AP article about the Boycott Utah campaign, Ray’s proposal for sit-in campaign in a comment on Boxturtlebulletin, and more. Since then …

    Join the Impact now has a Wetpaint wiki, and it’s impressive (pages for all 50 states) and gorgeous (check out celebrities getting involved). I read somewhere that Join the Impact’s web site got overwhelmed yesterday; the wiki should be much more scalable.

    There’s also a national Facebook event and individual city FB groups or events, e.g. Seattle. Dominic Holden had a nice article in the Stranger (link no longer works), about the Saturday rally here and Kyler, the local organizer. He’s 21 years old (kids today!) and a Mormon. Worth reading!

    The Courage Campaign petition is now up to 71,000 signatures (as of 11 PM last night).

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  2. jon Avatar
    jon

    Stephanie Geffeller’s Re-open Prop 8 petition is the largest one I’ve found yet, up to 260,000 signatures.

    There’s also a 200,000-person Repeal the CA Ban on Marriage Equality Facebook group.

    David Sarno’s Prop. 8 wars rage on Facebook has excellent context and some additional links, including 1,000,000 Million Strong Against Newly Passed Prop 8.

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  3. jon Avatar
    jon

    From the 47,000-member Vote NO on Prop 8 Facebook Cause last night.

    http://www.jointheimpact.com is overwhelmed due to high volume of visitors. For information on Saturdays nation-wide protests, including one near you, http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=45356108205

    Andy, one of the administrators of the Cause, sent out an update yesterday afternoon. Our experience with No blank check for Wall Street was that roughly 5% of people would respond to updates … with numbers like that here, join the impact would be adding 2000+ members at a time — and of course this is potentially being replicated by a dozen other equally large groups. So it’s no surprise their site had problems. Very cool that they could use Facebook as a backup; and they made a good decision moving a lot of the load to something like Wetpaint which has been designed with scalability in mind.

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  4. jon Avatar
    jon

    Meanwhile, the Join the Impact Seattle event is up to almost 3000 people — despite some confusion. San Francisco’s over 4000; New York’s over 4600; Charlotte’s close to 250 and is just one of six sites in North Carolina.

    The What’s new page gives a sense of how rapidly things are proceeding in parallel, and threads like Anybody in Seattle? are great examples of the importance of allowing peer-to-peer discussions (as opposed to the power dynamics of a blog, where only certain people can start threads).

    Very impressive.

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