Last night I was on KPFA (about 72 minutes into the show) with Josie Lehrer discussing the Men’s Story Project. I hope to see you there. I will be readiing a letter to my father and performing with 16 other men discussing masculinity.
August 2008
Monthly Archive
The Men’s Story Project this Sunday at La Pena
Is this an ENDA we can be proud of?
Marc Solomon’s argument against a United ENDA is right on one point: legislative politics is often about achieving compromise. It’s understandable that this would be the case since multiple facets of an issue are involved. It’s hard to accommodate each group whose opposition might be based on any number of financial, ethical, policy, or hundreds of other considerations. Plus, getting Congress to pass anything remotely protecting queer rights is incredibly difficult. Still, I steadfastly agree that a United ENDA is the only acceptable choice.
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
Harvey Milk Club PAC takes no position on Runner Initiative
Dear friends,
I am writing to you to ask you to vote no on Prop 6, the Runner Initiative on Tuesday at the Harvey Milk Club. The PAC took no position, and I feel it is vitally important that we fight this hateful, racist initiative with vigor. Please attend the membership vote Tuesday night between 7-9PM and vote no. The meeting is at the LGBT center. I suspect that it got lost in the shuffle as there are so many initiatives on the ballot, but this is a one of the most important issues for progressives and for the club on the ballot. If it passes, it is an unfunded mandate that would pour billions of state dollars into more prisons and more police and away from schools, hospitals, and other programs we care about. Prop 6 would:
SF Politics and LGBTPosted by Robert at 10 Aug 2008 08:40 pm
Harvey Milk Club Pac Recommendations
Here are the PAC’s recommendations for the state and local propositions as well as Community College Board. The General Membership meeting to vote on the endorsements will be Tuesday, August 12th, from 7-9pm at the LGBT Center.
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.
War and PeacePosted by sasha at 06 Aug 2008 01:36 pm
There’s a memorial that appears every Sunday on the beach in Santa Monica to acknowledge some portion of the human cost of the Iraq Occupation.
photo by flickr user Brooklyn Hillary
SF Politics and HousingPosted by sasha at 04 Aug 2008 08:20 pm
D9 Coalition on Homelessness Forum
On Sunday, there was a District 9 Supervisoral Candidate forum at the Secret Garden, sponsored by the Coalition on Homelessness.
The event, attended by a couple dozen people, featured three of the leading candidates for District 9, and I managed to take an unflattering picture of each of them.
Eric Quezada
David Campos
Mark Sanchez
Jennifer Friedenbach wrapped up the speaking portion of the event with a description of the Coalition’s activities.
I got an unflattering picture of her, too.
LGBTPosted by sasha at 03 Aug 2008 10:10 am
I started to write a quick post about a good op-ed in today’s New York Times about a good op-ed in the New York Times today about gender and the Olympics. Apparently, the Chinese Olympic Host Committee is planning on instituting gender testing for female athletes.
The Olympic hosts seem to want to impose a binary order upon the messy continuum of gender. They are searching for concreteness and certainty in a world that contains neither.
SF PoliticsPosted by Robert at 02 Aug 2008 12:29 pm
McGoldrick and the Mayor break up
Today’s Chron suggests that the recent alliance between McGoldrick and the Mayor is on the rocks. At least for now.
