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Effective action falls into four phases:
Activate, Demonstrate,
Affiliate,
Legislate
1. First, activate your network of allies, information, and strategies.
Subscribe to our RSS feed or email updates.
Visit our Friends and Allies (in the sidebar) and subscribe to their updates, too.
Get an account with JoinTheImpact on Wetpaint.
Check Twitter for keywords "Prop 8" and "noonprop8"
Follow NoOnProp8 and EqualityNowSF on Twitter.
On Facebook, join WiGayPedia, No on 8, Californians Ready to Repeal Prop 8, 1,000,000 Strong to Repeal Prop 8, Repeal the CA Ban on Marriage Equality, and No Milk for Cinemark.
Subscribe on YouTube to NoOnProp8CA, NoOnProp8dotcom, API Equality, and LoveHonorCherish. Provide comments and ratings on videos to keep the conversation in the spotlight.
Friend EqualityNowSF and VowToVoteNo and WiGayPedia on MySpace.
Join Vote No On Prop 8 on LinkedIn
Friend OverTurnProp8 on Flickr.
Join the Flickr groups Join the Impact and Californians Against 8 and No On 8 and JoinTheImpact - Pam's House Blend.
Skim through this "it wasn't our fault" essay that the LA Gay & Lesbian Center posted.
Consult the Marriage Equality Resources wiki.
Join Keep Fighting Prop 8 and Marriage Forward and 8 Accountability Project.
Join Equality California, NCLR, Lambda Legal, Marriage Equality USA, Invalidate Prop 8, API Equality, and the ACLU. And donate if you can.
Read Why We Lost in California: An Analysis of "No on 8" Field Strategies and Harvey Milk's Ten Ways to Win an Election.
Embed the national protest widget on your social networking profiles.
Check out the Prop 8 Supreme Court filings on the court's website.
2. Next, demonstrate what you're fighting for, and why.
- Check JoinTheImpact for info, and learn more about their plans for the next few months.
- Send Obama a postcard reminding him to repeal DOMA.
- Here are some more sites with information about events:
- Join the Impact National Events
- Join the Impact Local Events
- Equality California
- NoOnProp8
- Equality Action Now
- Queers United
- Protest 8 in SF
- Californians for Fairness
- OverTurnProp8
- Million Gay March
- Protest Prop 8
- LA Prop 8 Protes
- California Outreach
- Keep Fighting Prop 8
- Jordan Rustin Coalition
- Overturn Prop 8 calendar
- The Smoking Cocktail
- No On Prop 8 Events
- GayChurch events
- Marriage Equality Wiki
- Redondo Beach protest
- Volunteer to flyer neighborhoods in whatever town you live in.
- Write a letter to your local newspaper, or submit comments to blogs. The NCLR has tips for letter-writing and blog posts here.
- Send a press release about your local protests to the media.
- Participate in the protest in Sacramento on November 22.
- Participate in Day Without a Gay - RSVP on Myspace or Facebook.
- Volunteer to help with Day Without a Gay.
- Participate in the anti-DOMA protests on January 10.
- Put a blue light in your front porch, window, or storefront.
- Posters and fliers can be downloaded from MagikJar, Join the Impact, Against8, Stop8, Itch Publishing, You Can't Hide Your Hate, and Protest8SF. Get inspiration from WiGayPedia.
- Volunteer with Marriage Equality USA.
- Make a No On 8 Button.
- Wear a white knot.
- Search for local businesses who supported Prop 8, and boycott them. Consult the HRC's list, or this one at the Mercury News, or this list of Mormon businesses or Mormons for Prop 8. There are list of San Francisco businesses to avoid and Santa Rosa. And join GayWallet to support gay-friendly businesses. Also check out the fliers by You Can't Hide Your Hate -- they have ones customized for numerous geographical regions; perfect for hanging up around town.
- Take a photo and send it to Shame On LDS.
- Buy merch from Against 8 or Stop the H8 or NoMoreH8 or Honk Against Hate or Stop the Mormons and the No On Prop 8 Store and wear it to a rally. Or to church.
- Sign the Anger into Action declaration.
- Read Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College Students.
- Mormons are required to tithe money that they earn to the church, so if you find yourself in Utah, don't spend any money.
3. Then affiliate with new allies to swell your numbers, win new supporters, and make inroads into new communities.
- The California Council of Churches has a bunch of fantastic resources for promoting marriage equality in communities of faith.
- Soulforce, GayChurch.org, and Reconciling Ministries Network promote equality in religious communities. Check out GayChurch's events.
- API Equality and API Equality LA reach out to Asian and Pacific Islander communities -- check their site for ways you can help in SFand in LA.
- The Jordan Rustin Foundation reaches out to the black community in LA; in San Francisco, there's And Marriage for All.
- United Lesbians of African Heritage is exactly that.
- MissionGathering is an inclusive church in San Diego.
- Atticus Circle reaches out to straight allies.
- Read Harvey Milk's Ten Ways to Win an Election.
- Check out the "Start a Conversation" clips from Unlearning Homophobia. Straight From the Heart appeals to religious communities; All God's Children addresses African-Americans; and De Colores focusses on Latino families.
- This list is way too short. Please let us know about more outreach efforts -- contact at stop8 dot org.
3. Finally, legislate protection for freedom and equality.
- Sign Equality California's Equality California's petition and the Courage Campaign's and Equality Washington's. Then tell everyone you know to sign them, too.
- Participate in Join the Impact's legislative goals.
- Stop the Mormon Church from hurting us further by signing the petition to revoke their tax exemption.
- File a complaint with the IRS against the Mormon Church.
- Sign this repeal-prop-8 petition.
- CA: Write a letter of thanks to San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who filed a lawsuit challenging Prop 8.
- CA: Write to the Governor to demand that he protect our freedom to marry.
- NY: Urge Senator Diaz to support marriage equality for his constituents.
- UT: Support Equality Utah by urge Utah lawmakers to support civil union legislation.
- VT: Urge the governor of Vermont to support marriage equality.
- Check this list of states that may equalize marriage in 2009.
Also, please be nice when you protest. Go ahead and lead boycotts, challenge tax exemptions, and protest outside of businesses and churches. But never cause physical harm, and never lose sight of what we're about: live and let live, not destroying our enemies.
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