October's just-announced $11.5 million take for the Democratic National Committee brings the party's year-to-date collection plate to a nice score of $66.3 million — all in a non-presidential election year. But how will the gay community's boycott impact things? CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Boycotts, Democrats, DNC, fundraising, Politics
Whether it's cute young gentleman claiming to be from HRC begging for our credit card number outside a grocery store or a gal standing outside Starbucks hoping we'll sign her petition to legalize marijuana, there's a reason we don't sign our names to documents thrust in front of our faces: Because we never know what, [...]
What, you thought we'd be on the cover? "A recently released guidebook for new immigrants, Discover Canada, is a mixed bag of trivia and ideology. The handbook has an explicit section on gender equality, where it condemns the "barbaric cultural practices" of spousal abuse, honour killings and female genital mutilation. There is a section on [...]
We want to take a moment to recognize everyone who participated in making this year's Southern Oregon Garden Party a tremendous success! On October 24th, our friends down in the Rogue Valley area helped to raise well over $5,000 to support the work of Basic Rights Oregon, which is double our original goal for the event! A special thanks needs to be extended to Senator Alan Bates for helping out with the special appeal, to Tammy Marston (and her friend Mark) for providing fantastic entertainment for the event, and to everyone who gave of their time and money to support fairness and equality in our state! Thank you all so mupport fairness and equality in our state! Thank you all so much and we look forward to our next trip down to the Rogue Valley very soon!
Joyce Liljeholm is a board member and co-founder of the Oregon Safe Schools and communities Coalition. She is also a retired school counselor who works with the Oregon GSA network. Before Basic Rights Oregon decided to endorse the Vote Yes for Oregon / Yes on 66 and 67 campaign, we asked Joyce what would decided to endorse the Vote Yes for Oregon / Yes on 66 and 67 campaign, we asked Joyce what would happen if Oregon's education budget was cut further next year. Here's what she told us…
In the days leading up to my departure for Maine, I wasn't sure what to expect from the people I'd meet here. I'm no stranger to ballot campaigns; we've had our share of those in Oregon. I rode on Tuesday to a suburb outside of Portland, Maine with another volunteer staff to meet with nine high school students about their interest to get involved with the No On 1 campaign. Our goal was to start a “Friends and Family†Volunteer Recruitment Phone Bank with them on the spot, and to organize a few times when they and their friends could volunteer together, canvassing door-to-door the weekend before Election Day. We rolled up to their neighborhood Starbucks at about 3 o'clock and met the students inside. They'd come straight after school, and had heard about the campaign at an all-ages concert, where they'd been watching their favorite local band. Three of the youth were band members! A few of them had worn their No On 1 buttons to school that day, ool that day, and mentioned that they'd started conversations with other students about the issue, and what it meant to them. After introducing ourselves and briefly describing the state of the campaign, we read through a script and role-played it, making sure to arm the students with the facts needed to express to their friends and family members how much this means to them and why we need their help in the last two weeks of the campaign. When we asked the students to get out their mobile phones and start calling to sign their friends up for volunteer shifts with the campaign, they excelled at the task! After about a half hour, the students made a plan to gather together with their newly signed up volunteers for a morning canvass on Halloween, knocking on doors to get out the vote. None of the nine students were affiliated with the Gay Straight Alliance at their school, (and none mentioned that they identified as LGBT,) but all shared a sense that whoever you are and whomever you love, couples deserve to be recognized equally under the law.
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