The Times reported 10,000-12,000 supporters who marched on downtown L.A. in opposition of Prop 8 last Saturday; and it was pretty fucking amazing.
Speakers included Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, openly gay LA City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, LA City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center Chief Executive Officer Lorri Jean, West Hollywood City Councilman John Duran, civil rights lawyer Connie Rice, actor and F.A.I.R. member Darryl Stephens, and actresses Ricki Lake and Xena: Warrior Princess (Lucy Lawless) who gave her warcry and said she rode the “soul train” to the protest.
Most of us of course took our neglected subway to the protest which made for an awesome photo of thousands of people coming out of the tunnel and into the blazing hot NOVEMBER sun.
We were hoping there would be a riot, Justin wanted a photo of himself being blasted by a firehose atop an overturned police car. Unfortunately Homelard Security was there to keep us civil with the friendly reminder of waterboarding.
It looks like Prop 8 is on its way to the state supreme court where it will hopefully be told to fuck off and die like any god that ever existed would have wanted it to do. So hopefully we won’t have to burn down all the mormon churches. But we should probably do that anyway.
Now enjoy some photos of the 1st Amendment in action.
via UCB: Prop 8 passed. Are you gonna sit around and sulk or are you gonna do something about it? Come learn what you can do next at this comedy show filled with sketches, stand-up, and videos inspired by the insipid Prop 8.
Informative. Hilarious. Cathartic.
Hosted by: James Adomian
Featuring:
Steve Agee (Sara Silverman Program), Heather Campbell, Jackie Clarke, Convoy, Drew Droege, Colton Dunn, Janeane Garofalo, A Kiss From Daddy, Nicol Paone, Ryan Perez, Jennie Pierson, Amy Rhodes, Mike Rose, Bryan Safi, Ben Siemon, Chris Farah, Amanda Sitko, A video by Jonathan Smith, Pete Zias, and more!
via Facebook Event: This is a nation wide event. Every major city in America (and some around the world) will be protesting on 11/15 10:30 PST (or 1:30 EST). http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/
Locally we will be gathering at LA city hall 200 N. Spring St at 10:30am on 11/15. All the latest information on the LA event can be found at http://protest8la.wordpress.com/
Just think, in just One Week we will have elected the first African-American as President! And we will put a dirty old, out-of-touch shitbag in the toilet of failure for hopefully the last time! And with any luck California will have the wisdom to vote in the interest of HUMAN RIGHTS and these religious psychos will fuck off with their ban on gay marriage! Vote No On Prop 8 and Hell Yeah on Barack Obama for President! Now enjoy this presidential dance-off video (the production quality is actually very good):
There is a lot to love about Tegan And Sara, pretty much everything in fact. They’re adorable Canadian twins that write the best indie-pop out there, what more do you want? But the best part about a Tegan and Sara crowd is that being predominantly younger girls, anyone over 5′7″ has an AMAZING, unobstructed view of the show! Ok, don’t get me wrong, the crowd was great. Sara herself exclaimed that the audience was the best out of the 4 at Hollywood’s Music Box @ The Fonda Theatre. This being the last stop of a pretty solid year and a half of touring behind 2007’s The Con they played a pretty tight set with plenty of evidence of change since the album’s release. Tempo, Tone and Instrumentation seemed to differ slightly from record; It could be that reproducing what The Sisters Quin and Chris Walla created in the studio would be nearly impossible or because after their journey around the world they, themselves and their songs had changed. This is starting to sound like fan fiction, so I might as well you about this dream I had about them the other night… ok I’ll save that one, because I should probably tell you that they had some decent support on this tour with Girl In A Coma and City And Colour.
The Times reported 10,000-12,000 supporters who marched on downtown L.A. in opposition of Prop 8 last Saturday; and it was pretty fucking amazing.
