{"id":319,"date":"2009-01-10T14:20:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=319"},"modified":"2009-01-10T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T21:20:51","slug":"push-to-repeal-doma-ways-to-take-action-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2009\/01\/10\/push-to-repeal-doma-ways-to-take-action-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Stonewall 2.0: Repeal DOMA!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/em>The vibe under the sunshine at the corner of Castro and Market was positive and determined — a few hundred people maybe (I’m horrible at estimating), just the right size for the location.\u00c2\u00a0 The immediate purpose was to organize for signature-gathering for the Open Letter to President Obama<\/a>, with people fanning out afterwards to BART stops, busy street-corners, the Gaza protest<\/a> … in the broader context, it’s another building block in the “Stonewall 2.0” wave of activism catalyzed by groups like Join the Impact<\/strong> and Courage Campaign<\/strong> that I’ve blogged about in Petitions are soooooo 20th century<\/a> and Taking social network activism (and LGBTQ rights) to the next level<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One way to take action now: gather signatures for the open letter<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a very short deadline of Monday but that’s still plenty of time to help — even “just” hitting the friends-and-family circuit the way we are can make a big difference.\u00c2\u00a0 And of course help get the word out about the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another way you can help: vote in change.org’s Idea for Change in America competition. Jen Nedeau’s idea Pass Marriage Equality Rights for LGBT Couples Nationwide<\/a> is in fifth place so far.\u00c2\u00a0 The top 10 ideas when voting ends on January 15 will be presented to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day and will be supported by a national lobbying campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and some great non-profit partners.\u00c2\u00a0 There are a lot of other great ideas there being promoted very effectively* so any assistance here would be greatly appreciated.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

At the rally, Stuart Gaffney of Marriage Equality<\/a> laid out the political landscape: the steadily-increasing strength of support for repealing DOMA (Bob Barr!) and the need to keep it a priority for President-elect Obama, Speaker Pelosi (who’s also the Castro’s representative) and the new Congress.\u00c2\u00a0 Heather Gold<\/a> talked about “we have the internet now — we don’t need to wait for big slow organizations with letters in their name decide to act”, and also the importance of reaching out directly to other people face-to-face.\u00c2\u00a0 Caitlin of Courage Campaign<\/a> gave a quick “know your rights” tutorial for signature gatherers, and then folks got organized and fanned out.\u00c2\u00a0 Very impressive organizing.<\/p>\n

Especially with the optimistic and resulote mood at the historic corner, a few short weeks after seeing Milk at the Castro theater … y’know, it was one of those moments where I just feel lucky to be part of it.<\/p>\n

And now off to gather signatures, something I really hate doing.\u00c2\u00a0 Sigh.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well, if changing the world were easy everybody would do it.<\/p>\n

jon<\/p>\n

* including Work with Congress to Pass the Matthew Shepard Act<\/a>, Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students<\/a> — and my own Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties<\/a> hanging tough at #7.\u00c2\u00a0 Please consider voting for all of them too!<\/p>\n

All images copyright Jon Pincus, signs photographed and posted with permission of the owners, and licensed under creative commons attribution (“by”) license –share and remix, with attribution <\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Please attribute it to Jon Pincus and Liminal States <\/em>if space permits, otherwise just my name is fine.<\/em><\/p>\n

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