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jerry brown

jerry brown must be reading my blog. his article in the los angeles times on saturday outlined my thoughts on proposition 8. he may have fleshed out the thesis a bit but nevertheless it was mine. mine mine mine. the idea that a popular vote can remove constitutional rights is unconstitutional. a basic tenet of the constitution is that the rights of minorities must be upheld. if there are two green people, you cannot by popular vote restrict their constituional rights because there are only two green people to vote for themselves. and the ignorant, self-righteous christians are legion. way unfair. but jerry will look after it all. im so glad hes come out of hibernation. now if he would only get back together with linda ronstadt. and join obama in the white house!

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best laid

well millie and dc and i didnt take public transportation into la for various reasons. but maybe we should have... the freeway traffic was slow and when we got off the freeway, the traffic on sunset was worse because of preparations for a the no on 8 rally... we ended up going round about and making it to the theater just in time for the movie.

the world we want: the movie was good. not great. i had two problems with it: the editing was too fast and there were several missed opportunities in the narrative. but it was uplifting and touch the emotions of everyone. the director was very sweet.

we didnt go the reception after the movie but chose to go to the roosevelt hotel for a drink (since we couldnt make it for one before). but the roosevelt had an event and we left there and went to a little dive called snow white. (snow whites star was not in front of the bar as one would think but across the street and up a block toward the roosevelt.) it was decorated with paintings from the disney film. and they had beers the size of your forearm.

it was a favorite place of millies friend rene who was a cool guy and we all had fun listening to the 60s-70s music. van morrison (who was performing at the hollywood bowl two blocks away while we drinking), david bowie, simon and garfunkel... and more beer than four people needed.

when we came out of the bar, the prop 8 protest had somehow followed me (according to dc) and the intersection was blocked by police in riot gear. they werent ready to arrest people and the police were only there to keep traffic ~ especially foot traffic ~ away from the protestors. i wasnt intimidated and went to talk to a couple of the police but the girls were apprehensive and dragged me away. i didnt understand how they were really afraid and i should have paid more attention to their feelings. we couldnt get through to the car parkinglot without going around another way. it wasnt bad and we were soon on the way home.

i had neglected to bring stickers etc and nothing much went as planned but we had a nice night.

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NO H8

something like proposition 8 should have never been on a ballot. the constitution of the united states upholds the equal rights of all, even minorities. while a majority of votes were not cast against proposition 8, the rights of the minority should still be upheld. this will go to the supreme court. ballot measures should be for taxes on gas or water not civil rights. equal rights for all people should never be in question.

the christian church needs to be removed from the american political system. there should be sanctions or something. they are setting us back hundreds of years. we are supposed to have a separation between church and hate.

i went to the rally for equal rights last night in long beach. it was wonderful to see the thousands of people (the los angeles times reported 2000 but it was well over 3000) marching and chanting ~ the disease of inertia lifting from the american population. gay, straight, hot, cool, short, fat, families... all were represented. a lot of young people. i thought i saw paris hilton ~ not marching, but in a car waving and taking pictures. i didnt think she could even spell "8"!

the protesters blocked traffic for miles. marching from one end of long beach to the other, several impromptu rallies developed when police in riot gear blocked the way and organizers were soft. the people took over. peaceful civil disobedience went on a couple hours longer than organizers and police wanted. and arrests were made. i was the first person arrested. (the la times reported only three arrests were made; cnn reported nine. i was one of twenty.)

before being arrested, i put up more graffiti than any other night. i also handed out ONE FOR ALL buttons which received an overwhelmingly wonderful response. and except for my tired body, it wasnt a bad night.

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new niggers

gay people are the new niggers, the less-than-human, according to the recent election. a black man is elected to the highest office in the land but gay people are not afforded the same civil liberties or constitutional rights as any other american citizen, any human being. every gay person should wear a t-shirt that says "nigger" to jump start the civil rights movement.

note: tonight, thousands of protesters blocked the streets in los angeles (west hollywood) and san francisco (the castro) protesting the passage of proposition 8. i am happy to see this civil disobedience. it gives me hope that the disease of inertia plaguing this country may be receding. i hope the protesters dont burn the arrogant, self-righteous, christian (especially mormon) churches in their path. that would be a tragedy. but you cannot expect humanity from the less-than-human.

while i dont advocate violence, in such circumstances, i understand it. remember the great movie, ragtime?

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