You and I and a whole lot of other folks have serious questions about what went wrong and why. Let’s hope we finally get some answers tonight.
Tonight, Tuesday 25 November 6-7:30 pm, a virtual town hall meeting will take place online. You’re invited to tune in for and participate in Prop. 8: The Facts and Future.
The 90-minute online forum will be hosted by Karen Ocamb, news editor at Frontiers and IN Los Angeles. It will be broadcast live via streaming audio. Anyone wishing to participate can email questions to the moderator in advance at: TownHallModerator@gmail.com or questions and comments can be sent to her during the broadcast.
Panelists:
- Amy Balliett:Â Founder, Join the Impact
- Lorri L Jean: CEO, LA Gay & Lesbian Center
- Geoff Kors:Â Executive Director, Equality California
- Rev. Eric Lee: President/CEO, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Los Angeles
- Shannon Minter:Â Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
- John A. Pérez: Assembly Member-elect, California’s 46th District
- Steve Smith:Â No on 8 Senior Campaign Consultant, Dewey Square
Visit this web page after 5 pm on Tuesday to access the webcast of the discussion (must have speakers on your computer) and to submit live questions. A recording of the town hall meeting will be available here within 24 hours.
For a little advance reading check out:
- LA Gay & Lesbian Center:Â No on Proposition 8 FAQs
- Good As You:Â No on Prop: Do you give them props or no?
- Queerty:Â No on 8 Leaders Scramble to Save Face Amidst Revelations of Month-Long Vacations, Minority Leaders Ignored and Incompetence
UPDATE: (11-25, 05:24 pm)Â It looks like Amy Balliett is not taking part. Her name was on a release I received in an email earlier today.
Also, it appears this dog and pony requires Windows console version of Live Meeting. Mac users are advised to use the web client version, but a pop-up message appears and says “This meeting uses computer audio (VoIP). Computer audio is not available with this console, which is web-based. To get computer audio, please install the Microsoft Office Live Meeting client.”
Switching to Firefox on the Mac brings up this message: “Live Meeting Web Access does not support your current Internet browser on this platform. Please try using a supported browser.”
UPDATE: (11-25, 06:10 pm)Â It looks like Amy Balliett is taking part.
Mac users can dial in: 877 270 9470, pin: 1831
UPDATE: (11-25, 07:00 pm) Queerty is live-blogging this event for anyone who is interested or anyone wants to read about this event in the future.
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What astonishes me is the number of queers who say the passage of Prop 8 is our fault.
We’re to blame. We’re to blame? WTF?
We were out spent and out spun by diseased, lying, hypocritical, religious lunatics who benefit from Federal tax exemption.
It’s time to boycott:
Utah
Priceline
Marriott
Park City
Sundance
And pressure the IRS to revisit the cult of Mormonism’s tax exempt status.
Yeah, we blew it, Christopher. We took all that money and squandered it and … oh wait … that was the No on 8 campaign.
The people are still speaking … on blogs and social networking sites and in the streets and in boycotts and whatever it takes short of violence to get our fundamental rights.