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SF Politics and LaborPosted by Robert at 11 Aug 2008 01:16 am

Support the right of workers to organize!

Come to a Community Briefing

August 28, 5pm @ Local 2
209 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco

Learn more about the current campaigns at Le Meridien Hotel
and Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel. Hear the stories of
workers who are seeking a fair process to form a union.

CONTACT:
Rev. Israel I. Alvaran
209 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415.863.1142 Fax: 415.864.4158
Email: ialvaran@clueca.org

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Labor and LGBTPosted by Robert at 07 Aug 2008 11:17 am

Apartheid: The Least Worst Choice

The Debate on ENDA continues.

Guest Editorial: The Least Worst Choice
by Marc Salomon‚ Aug. 01‚ 2008

It’s always difficult to lose a political contest. Sometimes it takes a while to mourn that loss and move on, adapt and face the new political reality. Such is the case with the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and the fiction crafted by United ENDA to justify their politically untenable position.

First off, nobody is saying that transgenders were not active in the 1960s. What is empirically true is that transgenders did not do the political work to build a majority in Congress to pass an inclusive ENDA, otherwise the votes would have been there.
more here.

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Labor and National PoliticsPosted by Robert at 02 Aug 2008 12:21 pm

Protest of HRC Dinner in Boston

Boston – QueerToday.com activists and allies will protest the annual Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Dinner at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston on October 25 at 5pm.

The group is working to build a coalition of trans and queer activists, anti-war activists, and women’s rights activists to protest HRC’s lack of grassroots coalition building, support for pro-war and anti-choice candidates, and support of a non-inclusive version of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA).

“It’s time to show HRC what real solidarity looks like,” said Trevor Wright of QueerToday.com, “transgender and labor activists united in San Francisco to build the largest protest ever of HRC, and we plan to show the country Boston can too!”

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SF Politics and SF Life and Labor and LGBTPosted by Robert at 30 Jul 2008 09:10 am

Queer Youth Organizing Project is picked for Local Hero Award by SF Bay Guardian

Local hero
Queer Youth Organizing Project

photos by Terrrie Frye at the Left Out Party

The queer-labor alliance Pride at Work, a constituent group of the AFL-CIO, added a youth brigade last year, and it’s been doing some of the most inspired organizing and advocacy in San Francisco. The Queer Youth Organizing Project can marshal dozens of teen and twentysomething activists with a strong sense of both style and social justice for its events and causes.

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SF Politics and Labor and LGBTPosted by Robert at 29 Jul 2008 02:22 pm

Great video of leftout

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SF Politics and Labor and LGBT and National PoliticsPosted by Robert at 27 Jul 2008 04:23 pm

Great video by Kip Williams

Check out Kip’s website here.

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SF Politics and Labor and LGBT and National PoliticsPosted by Robert at 26 Jul 2008 01:15 am

Channel 5 Story on HRC Boycott

http://cbs5.com/local/human.rights.campaign.2.780492.html

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SF Politics and Labor and LGBT and National PoliticsPosted by Robert at 26 Jul 2008 12:19 am

ELECTED OFFICIALS, INCLUDING FORMER KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND L.A. MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA, BOYCOTT HRC GALA AND SUPPORT INCLUSIVE ENDA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

COALITION THROWS THE ‘LEFT OUT PARTY: A GENDERFUL GAYLA’ ACROSS THE STREET FROM HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DINNER

ELECTED OFFICIALS, INCLUDING FORMER KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND L.A. MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA, BOYCOTT HRC GALA AND SUPPORT INCLUSIVE ENDA

July 26, 2008

Today, a coalition of queer progressive organizations will hold “The Left OUT Party: A Genderful Gayla,” an alternative to the Human Rights Campaign’s annual fundraising dinner in San Francisco. The Left OUT Party will be held outside of the Westin St. Francis hotel on the west side of Union Square, and will feature performers, live bands, speakers, and “Human Rights Heroes” award recipients all showing their support for federal non-discrimination legislation including protections for both gender identity and sexual orientation.

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SF Politics and SF Life and Labor and LGBTPosted by Robert at 23 Jul 2008 05:10 pm

SIGN THE PETITION: SUPPORT THE HRC SF GALA DINNER BOYCOTT

On Saturday, July 26th, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is hosting its annual San Francisco gala dinner and fund raiser at the Westin St. Francis hotel. They’ll raise money, cheer and applaud their apparent successes in Washington DC, announce a sudden, renewed interest in marriage, and claim that they are advancing the nation’s LGBT agenda.

But we in San Francisco’s LGBT community are preparing our OWN July 26th party in the streets, outside of the Westin St. Francis. We also encourage others in the LGBT community and our allies to boycott HRC’s gala event, due to HRC’s ongoing refusal to advocate for federal legislation that protects all Americans from discrimination based on gender identity and expression.

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SF Politics and Labor and LGBT and National PoliticsPosted by Robert at 23 Jul 2008 09:29 am

Outside the HRC dinner

Published in today’s SF Bay Guardian

HRC’s failed strategy on ENDA has needlessly divided our community at a time when we are poised to make great gains in civil rights

By SF Pride at Work

OPINION On July 26, the Bay Area’s gay and lesbian elite will gather at the posh Westin St. Francis to raise money for the Human Rights Campaign in the name of securing and protecting LGB rights. Despite flip-flopping its position on a federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which should include protections for gender identity as well as sexual orientation, HRC will rake in money to further advance a version of human rights in the political world of Washington, DC in which transgender and gender-non-conforming people are apparently less than human.

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