Dear MoveOn member,
Along with our tremendous excitement over Barack Obama's victory, a
lot of us are sad and angry about a different election result—the
passage of California Proposition 8, which reversed marriage equality
and wrote discrimination into the California Constitution.
Many people worked hard to defeat this measure—including MoveOn
members, who contributed over $300,000 to defeat it. But agents of
intolerance used fear-mongering to eke out a win.
After the election, people across California immediately took to the
streets, vowing to put the state on the right side of history by
overturning Prop 8.
Now folks everywhere are coming together to add their voices. Tomorrow
(Saturday) there will be rallies in support of marriage equality in
every single state. If you want to attend an event in your state, go
to this page and click on your state name—you'll see the location of
any rallies planned:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51025&id=15119-6376293-r4bCK1x&t=1
These rallies will send a strong signal that depriving people of
rights is no longer acceptable in America—and it will also be a first
step in ongoing activism across the nation.
There's one other thing you can do to support the fight for marriage
equality.
The Courage Campaign (which does MoveOn-style organizing in
California) is working with other groups on a two-year grassroots plan
to overturn Prop 8 in the 2010 election. The first step is for folks
to speak out together with one voice right away by signing a pledge to
help overturn Prop 8.
Over 100,000 people have already signed the pledge—and thousands more
are signing every day. Even non-Californians are signing the pledge in
solidarity. If you'd like to sign, click here:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51024&id=15119-6376293-r4bCK1x&t=2
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