Nonviolence 4 Equality

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• The Degree to Which you Resist is the Degree to Which You Are Free!

  “It’s easy for many queer people to shrug off the idea of civil disobedience… Civil disobedience has been called naïve by those who have turned cynical by the lack of progress made after years of struggle. It has been called reckless by those who believe the path to full equality is good behavior. There are those who believe that at the end of the day civil disobedience won’t really change anything, so why bother? It’s true; Civil disobedience isn’t going to change the minds of the Supreme Court justices or convince the bigots to join PFLAG. It’s going to change us.” from The Degree to Which you Resist is the Degree to Which You Are Free! — May 7th, 2009 by David McElhatton, One Struggle One Fight blog (http://onestruggleonefight.com/)

  Arrests follow Proposition 8 Decision*

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB1SzihxCRY

  *Video produced by Karl Mondon.

  Watch a news report from the morning of May 26 here: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=6832888

• Soulforce Colorado - Day of Decision - Prop 8 - Direct Action

  On May 26, 2009 the California Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding the constitutionality of Prop 8 which bans gay marriages in the state. Soulforce of Colorado staged a nonviolent direct action that same afternoon to protest the ruling and also remind Colorado that marriage equality does not exist here either. The direct action had two parts. First, there was a traditional picket along Colfax in front of the Webb Administration Building. Second Soulforce volunteers staged a sit-in at the clerk and recorder’s office where marriage licenses are issued.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpsIPMdvHfA

  Video by Daniel Gonzales. Soundtrack is “Revolve” by hisboyelroy. Available at ccmixter.org. This video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/

• An Open Letter to My White Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Sisters and Brothers

  An Open Letter to My White Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Sisters and Brothers by Diane Finnerty

  http://www.tolerance.org/images/teach/current/Open_Letter.pdf

• For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend

  For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend by Pat Parker

  http://www.neiu.edu/~lsfuller/Poems/white.htm

• Dealing with Everyday Racism

  Dealing with Everyday Racism by Katrina C. Hopkins

  http://www.katrinamessenger.com/book/export/html/22