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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SOCIAL JUSTICE, ANTI-WAR AND PRO-QUEER RIGHTS MOVEMENTS IT IS TIME TO STAND WITH SF AND BAY AREA IMMIGRANTS!

After staging a powerful pro-immigrant rights rally in city hall today where more than 400 turned out with 2 days notice, the Minutemen want to counter and pressure our city to end Sanctuary City protections for local families. WE NEED OUR ANTI-RACISTS – SOCIAL JUSTICE ALLIES TO STAND WITH US TOMORROW and have a strong turn out to stand against the Minutemen. WE CAN NOT ALLOW OUR CITY TO BE BULLIED BY THE MINUTEMEN’S AGGRESSIVE TACTICS.

EDIT: Since Robert has in fact already posted these (note to self, coffee, then post), I will add links to Brian Leubitz’s videos:

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From Terrrie Frye

Check out Kip’s website here.

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

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.

The Examiner wrote a little blurb about the HRC event. They didn’t mention that the HRC is being roundly condemned for its abandonment of rights for transgender folks.

You can comment on the article. I think the Examiner’s readers need to know the story, don’t you?

Thursday marked the deadline for turning in in-lieu petitions. The petitions are nominally a way to avoid paying the filing fee to run for office, but at 50 cents a signature, they aren’t a very efficient way of doing that. They are, however, a pretty good gauge of which campaigns have broad enough support to get over 1000 signatures of voters in their district.

It looks like John Avalos in District 11 turned in 2,000 signatures, which is a pretty impressive number. David Chiu in D3 submitted 1,900. Eric Quezada in District 9 hit 1,500 (of which I collected something like 75), while David Campos edged him out with 1,600. No word on how many Mark Sanchez or Eric Storey were able to come up with.

San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee Vote Tally

Issue: Election of Chair
Candidate

Peskin
Michael Bornstein X
David Campos X
David Chiu X
Chris Daly X
Michael Goldstein X
Robert Haaland X
Joe Julian X
Hene Kelly X
Rafael Mandelman X
Eric Mar X
Jake McGoldrick X
Aaron Peskin X
Debra Walker X
Betty Yee X
Carole Migden X
Leland Yee X
Fiona Ma X
Tom Ammiano X

TOTAL: 18

Weiner

Tom Hsieh X
Mary Jung X
Leslie Katz X
Meagan Levitan X
Jane Morrison X
Melanie Nutter X
Connie O’Connor X
Arlo Hale Smith X
Laura Spanjian X
Matt Tuchow X
Scott Wiener X
Dianne Feinstein X
Nancy Pelosi X
Jackie Speier X
Mark Leno X
August Longo X