No Snow Day For College
Posted by Laura Calvo on 15th December 2008
Oregon’s Electoral College met today in Salem.
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The New Politics of Yes: Yes We Can… Overturn Prop 8
Posted by Laura Calvo on 2nd December 2008
The following article has been reposted in it’s entirety and with permission from the Bilerico Project Blog
Editors’ Note: Guest blogger Torie Osborn has been a social activist for 40 years; She is former Executive Director of the LA Gay and Lesbian Center, NGLTF, and the LIberty HIll Foundation. She is currently Senior Advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and a Durfee Foundation Stanton Fellow.
A Prayer
Thursday was the 30th anniversary of Harvey Milk’s assassination. In his honor, I write this to help move forward the conversation in the wake of Prop 8. It is a loving work in progress. I dedicate it also to my friends who died of AIDS and who are shouting from The Beyond: Do not miss this opportunity to forge transformation from this defeat. Do not forget us!
In particular, I honor Ken Dawson, Connie Norman, Marlon Riggs, Rand Schrader, Mark Kostopolous, Paul Monette, Tom Stoddard, and Gabe Kruks. They never forgot what really matters: love and justice.
Defeat Requires Honesty, Humility and a Longterm Movement Building Strategy
Learning from others
When the devastating violence of 1992′s civil unrest scorched communities of color in Los Angeles, a phoenix rose up from those ashes. Even with formidable external forces tearing them apart, forward-looking Asian, African-American and Latino leaders showed extraordinary leadership: rather than devolve into infighting or finger-pointing, they took a clear-eyed look at their own failures and vowed to do things completely differently. “We have an urgent need to think long-term,” were the words that reverberated, and a fundamental paradigm shift took place. Vowing to move beyond short term and fragmented efforts, diverse leaders in diverse neighborhoods made an intentional, coordinated plan: to retool existing groups or found brand new organizations dedicated to long-term community organizing for real power in their respective neighborhoods and to forge an ongoing multi-ethnic network of trusting relationships.
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