Don’t forget:
Co-Organizer Lindsey Asher, who lives in NW Portland with her partner, just returned from a spontaneous trip to California to join in the rallies and protests against Prop 8’s passage just over a week ago. “It’s extremely personal,” says Asher, who decided she “can’t sit at home anymore and watch this on the news.”
She’ll be speaking during the rally in Portland this Saturday, and she says she hopes she’ll “be able to bring some of the energy” from the protests in California.
See you there!
My comment is that this isn’t any more our business than if voters in Virginia decided to protest our death with dignity law. Getting in the public’s face about this will drive voters away, not win them. Get a brain.
Of course, that address isn’t actually the Park Blocks, despite the protest supposedly being at the Park Blocks.
That doesn’t inspire confidence. Heh.
Saturday’s event is not a protest AGAINST a particular measure or group of people. It has been inspired in response to the measures that passed last week. My first comment is that there is a major difference between reacting to a law prohibiting a single act, and one that literally takes away equal rights. Do not for a moment think that the events of last week will not motivate opponents to LGBTQ rights here in Oregon to regroup. Indeed it already has. Which is why it is important for our community to come together and unite NOW. We cannot afford to be on the defensive anymore.
And yes, actually, the gathering/rally IS in the South Park Blocks, south of the Farmer’s Market.
For more details and specifics on our intentions and goals, visit:
pdxjointheimpact.wordpress.com
Thank you,
Debra Porta, Event Co-Organizer
If your event is about HERE, swell. If it’s about something that happened in California, like I said, it’s not our business or problem any more than some out-of-staters who don’t like our legislation poking their nose in our business. You run the risk of being seen as fighting hate with more hate as some of the protesters in California are now perceived (reference to a beat-down of an old lady). I suspect the electorate was simply caught off-guard. Don’t drive them into the wrong camp. Nobody is such an ASS that they are going to change their mind about the bill because of a protest in the park blocks of Portland. Get real.
amanda
if you payed attention to the post you would see that this is a multi city united protest against all the anti gay measures that passed. not just california.. guess what, we are pissed and we are tired of being second class citizens!!
Amanda,
You’re wrong. It’s a protest about anywhere in America voting against civil rights. It’s a civil rights protest and if Alabama decides they want to tell an African American man he has no right to marry a Caucasian woman you bet your ass I’d take to the streets in protest just as I will against Prop. 8.