We are just 2 days away from another NATIONAL event that will take us one step closer toward achieving full equality! On January 10th, our voices will be heard around the nation as we shed light on DOMA and get 1 Million Signatures on our Open Letter to Barack Obama, reminding him of his promise to REPEAL DOMA! This event is one that comes in many forms with rallies in almost every major city mixed with signature drives throughout the nation. This Saturday, hundreds of cities around the nation will participate in one of our 4 fantastic options to get involved that include outreach, canvasing, and protests! This will be a National Day of Impact!
It’s not too late to get involved. Find an event near you today! If there is not an event in your area, it is not too late to put something together. Take a que from Julie Phineas of LezGetReal.com – She has planned an entire day of signature gathering!
Check out her video encouraging people to attend her event!
There are 10 Ways to Help us reach 1 Million Signatures – Real People, Real Signatures, Real Change*:
- Gather signatures at your place of work (make sure it doesn’t hinder your HR policy)
- Go out to the bars on Friday and Saturday nights and get signatures
- Go to your local screening of MILK and get signatures from individuals in line or as they are leaving
- Go to local stores and ask that they put the signature pages at the counter
- Grab a friend and canvas your neighborhood asking for signatures
- Go to a local event to gain signatures (Art Walks, Concerts, etc)
- Email this blog post to friends and family, ask them to print out the signature page and mail it to Join the Impact
- Attend one of the 100 National Rallies on January 10th to gain signatures
- Go to church on Sunday and ask for signatures
- Use the power of the internet: Blog about it, ping all your friends on Facebook/MySpace, send this message to EVERYONE
*Many have asked why this is not an online petition. Simply put, we want this to be as real as possible. Online petitions have less validity and less impact. We want to show Obama that we can mobilize 1 million people and we need to do this in the most organic way possible. It’s easy to get 1 million signatures in an online petition. It takes time, commitment, and energy to get 1 million physical signatures though. Let’s show Obama just how committed we are to this cause!
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I want to move home, back to the US, but I am in exile until I am given equal
Rights to immigrate my EU partner to the US!
Posted on January 9th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
[...] United States – Nationwide protests to repeal Defense of Marriage Act this Saturday. [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Equal rights are equal rights. Stop discrimination!
Posted on January 10th, 2009 at 12:09 am
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Posted on January 10th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Protesting using ANY OTHER MEANS is a waste of time – IT IS MONEY that universally GETS NOTICED BIG TIME. Remember Alexander Haig? “Let Them March All They Want, As Long As They Pay Their Taxes”.
I.E. – Bitch and whine all you want, just don’t affect my wallet.
Queers? Let’s AFFECT WALLETS. BIG TIME.
Individual boycotts. Business Boycotts. Public Shaming (what….it’s not like WE started this trend), and Tax Revolt for those fed up ENOUGH.
“If you’re EQUAL and you know it pay your taxes” (clap-clap)
Posted on January 10th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
[...] right size for the location. The immediate purpose was to organize for signature-gathering for the Open Letter to President Obama, with people fanning out afterwards to BART stops, busy street-corners, the Gaza protest … in [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
This disregard for everyone to be treated as equals in this great country we live in is beyond my understanding!We should be past all this by now!Why do people feel they should have the right to tell others,who they can love!Love crosses all boundries!Embrace it,don’t discriminate against it,because you don’t understand it or simply disagree!Love thy nieghbor!
Posted on January 10th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
http://picasaweb.google.com/sickntired08/NCDOMAProtestGreenvilleNC#
This is the album for the Doma Protest in Greenville, NC
Posted on January 10th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I am not American, nor do i live actually in America, but, My dad married his partner of 5 years, 2 years back in a civil ceremony in London, it was a beautiful service, I hadn’t seen my dad as happy before he actually met Rich. We were all sat watching TV when we heard about Prop 8, and i find it appauling, how can someone say that certain people havent the right to marry the one they love?! Everyone IS equal, no matter creed, colour or sexual orientation!
Posted on January 10th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
I wrote something up with a few pictures of the SF rally at Castro and Market at http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8986
Posted on January 11th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
[...] Join The Impact has posted an info piece about the DOMA protest and signature drive. [...]
Posted on January 11th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Marchers in Chicago had to brave a cold, snowy mess of weather on Saturday as they joined over 100 other cities around the country demanding that President-elect Obama fulfill his pledge to repeal the anti-gay “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA).
See pics and a story about the protest at:
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/85431/index.php
Posted on January 12th, 2009 at 3:19 am
I am American. My companion is French. We can never be together all of the time in one country because of this. Our relatiuonship has endured 7 years of many flights, hellos and goodbyes. I asked him to marry me last December. He said yes. Now, we have the difficult task of searching for a place where we can be together. America is not possible because of DOMA. France offers a “pact” (not marriage) but I still have to endure an ongoing lengthy process for VISAS year after year if I stay in France. We just want to be together. I hope America truly shines and Obama comes through or I have to leave. I’m American – the land of the free. How about pursuit of happiness? – like marrying the one you love.
Posted on January 19th, 2009 at 11:22 am
I am unable to understand this post. But well some points are useful for me.
Posted on January 20th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
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