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SAN FRANCISCO -- On Saturday, August 29, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) grassroots activists will reconvene to discuss the next steps to win back marriage equality. This will be the continuation of a previous meeting that was held in Los Angeles on August 9th where Steve Hildebrand, deputy campaign manager for Barack Obama urged the attendees to quickly establish a structure for the campaign.
This Saturday's meeting will be at San Francisco State University and will focus on creating an Interim Organizational Structure & creating a Signature Gathering process. The following three key goals have been established for the meeting:
- Establish an interim administrative body, elected by the attendees, which will form the political action committee (PAC) necessary to raise funds for the upcoming campaign
- Develop a statewide leadership and organizational structure for grassroots communication and decision-making, for the purposes of the signature gathering effort
- Continue the important work of building bridges across the entire statewide community of LGBT & allied activists who are committed to overturning Proposition 8.
The website states that "the decision-making method for this meeting will be to recognize one vote for each organization or local chapter of an organization, but all organizations are welcome (and encouraged!) to send observers to caucus with their chosen delegate and network with the other community organizers who are present. You do not have to be affiliated with a group to attend."
Many grassroots organizations have come together to get the ball rolling including:
- Courage Campaign
- Stonewall Democratic Club
- Stonewall Democrats - L.A.
- Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (LGLA)
- Love Honor Cherish
- Marriage Equality USA -San Mateo County
- One Struggle One Fight
- Yes! On Equality
- DOD FED GLOBE
- HealthCare for All (HCA)
- OneCareNow.org
- Long Beach, CA Chair
- Gay-Straight Alliance for Equality (GSAFE)
- RENWL
- San Diego Equality Campaign
- Equality Network
- Equal Roots
- Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles
- Democratic State Central Committee Delegate
- Boyle Heights Stakeholders Association
- Equal Rights Initiative
- Rainbow Knights Coalition
- Sacramento LGBT Center/Pride
If you would like to attend this event, you will need to register by going to http://coalitiontorepeal8.eventbrite.com. There is a suggested donation of $15 to attend the event.
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Comments
Even old homophobic me understands this! Now is the time, that and the Olson&Boies go at the federal level will fall into place hopefully b4 the 2010 elections and shortly SSM will be history and time to move on the new freedoms.
Think of it this way prop8 was a blessing (I always thought so) and you didn't have to pay for it.
The way I would say it would full of expletives and derogatory adjectives, so I'll only say FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT right now not 2012 2050. We all want equality and freedom yesterday.
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