Protest Poster: 2010 EQUAL RIGHTS AGAIN

In 2010 we demand our Equal Rights Again. Here's a new Protest Poster for the fight!

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Protest Poster & Sign Favorites

Prop 8 Protest Posters, Signs and Flyers by against8.blogspot.com at this archive. Below you will finding all images to date for you to download and create your own protest posters! Protest Prop 8 and stand up for Marriage Equality! Stop H8!

Signs have been provided in COLOR and BLACK & WHITE for your convenience. Signs are high enough resolution to blowup into posters. Click the sign you like to see the larger preview and then save it to your computer!

SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE

One of our most popular Protest Posters is "SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE" graphic. This typographic treatment simply and directly delivers the message. This sign was seen used at many protests.
You can buy the original Separation of Church ans State T-Shirt here.

LOVE IS LOVE

Another crowd pleaser at rallies is the sign and universal message of
"LOVE IS LOVE".

MARRIED WITH PRIDE

If you are a gay married couple, show your pride with this poster...
"MARRIED WITH PRIDE".

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March 4th - EVE OF JUSTICE PROTEST

Get ready for the Rally! Download and Print your Protest Posters NOW!

Wednesday, March 4 is the day before the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the validity of Prop 8. That evening, we’ll stand together and send a unified message to our fellow Californians, including the Supreme Court Justices, that individual liberties like the right to marry are guaranteed by the Constitution to everyone and cannot be stripped away at the ballot box by a bare majority. Just as important, we will give our love and support to all the families headed by same-sex couples who are threatened by the recent electoral outcome, as well as same-sex couples whose hopes and dreams of marriage and family have been frustrated by enactment of Prop 8.

To read the parties' filings and the dozens of amicus 'friend of the court' briefs filed on behalf of Civil Rights Organizations, Bar Associations, Academics, Women's Groups, Faith and Religious Groups, and many others go to http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/highprofile/prop8.htm

March 5th - Supreme Court Oral Argument Hearing 9am to noon.

Television viewing: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/highprofile/prop8viewing.htm

Local Public Viewings: Check your local city for viewing locations as they become available.

Equality should not be put up for a popular vote.

• Prop 8 is a radical and unprecedented change to the California Constitution that puts all Californians at risk.
• Prop 8 defeats the very purpose of our constitution, which is to protect minorities and to make sure the law treats everyone equally.
• This is the first time the initiative process has successfully been used to change the California Constitution to take away a fundamental freedom from a particular group and to mandate government discrimination against a minority.
• If prop 8 is upheld, the courts will no longer have a meaningful role in protecting minority groups or women, since any decision prohibiting discrimination could be reversed by a simple majority.

From the EVE OF JUSTICE.

Fidelity - Please Don't Divorce Us

Here is the video by the Courage Campaign with the "PLEASE DON'T DIVORCE ..." photo series. The photo montage of gay and lesbian couples and their supporters is set to Regina Spektor's "Fidelity" ... Enjoy!

Freedom to Marry Day - February 12

Join the Impact and Marriage Equality USA will be hosting FREEDOM TO MARRY DAY in San Diego. See the flyer I designed for them for more details.
Same-sex couples will request marriage licenses to raise awareness of the harms and impact that the inability to marry causes on their families, When denied a license and marriage rights by the state.

Leaders of the faith community will be available to preform marriage rites. We still have our freedom of religion!

February 12, 2009
7:30am to 9:00am
on the West Steps of the
County Administration Building
1600 Pacific Highway
San Diego, CA

SUPPORTERS, FAMILY & FRIENDS -- PLEASE ATTEND!

Couples -- same-sex and opposite sex -- who are interested in being married or in having their vows renewed on Freedom to Marry Day,  contact Fernando Lopez at ca-sandiego@marriageequality.org or Sara Beth Brooks at sarabrooks@gmail.com.

Freedom to Marry Day - February 12

On National Freedom to Marry Day, Thursday, February 12, 2009, at local marriage counters in cities all over the country, same-sex couples will request marriage licenses at their local County Clerk's Offices to raise awareness of the harms and impact that the inability to marry causes on their families. This national event is hosted yearly by Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA) and this year they have asked Join the Impact for our help to make this their largest Marriage Counter Action yet!

"Marriage Equality USA started the Marriage Counter Action/Get Engaged for Marriage Equality in 2001. This year, we invited Join the Impact to join us, and we are very excited to be working with them and look forward to a large turnout. We do this annual direct action during Freedom to Marry week to make marriage discrimination visible, it forces our local clerks to have to look us in the eye, see our children, and enforce a discriminatory and unjust law at their counter – it moves everyone who witnesses this sad, but powerful event and gives us the opportunity to tell our stories and show that we live in every community and want to honor and protect our families like everyone else." - Jordan Palmer, Vice President of Development & Organizational Relationships for Marriage Equality USA.

Learn more about how you can be involved in Marriage Equality for All!

Open Letter to Barak Obama - 1 MILLION Signatures Needed!

In protest of DOMA (Defense of Marraige Act), we are coming together as a community asking the supporters of the LGBT community and marriage equality to help us gather 1 million signatures to deliver to President Barak Obama his first day in office. We want him to know that we will not wait for equality!

We need you to help. It's easy and every signature represents a supporter helping us get closer to our goal. Reach out to the largest group of people you know that support you and your right for Marriage Equality and for your love to be recognized equally under the law. Think of all the people you know - friends, family, co-workers, church members, neighbors, business owners - and ask them to support YOU.

Step 1:  READ the Open Letter to Obama
Step 2:  PRINT out the Letter and Signature Pages
Step 3:  COLLECT signatures from people who support you

Step 4:  MAIL your pages in by January 12, 2009.

OPEN LETTER TO OBAMA
> Print the Open Letter to Obama and Signature Forms

January 21, 2009

Dear President Obama,

Congratulations on your historic and inspiring victory. Your lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender citizens, along with families, friends, and heterosexual allies, would like to welcome you to the White House. We are thrilled to see that true change has come to this country.

During your election campaign you wrote an open letter to us, making it clear that you were committed to gaining ‘full equality for the millions of LGBT people in this country.’ In that letter you asked for our vote and promised to:

• Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and ensure that states treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws

• Enact a fully inclusive Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to outlaw workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity

• Repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

• Enact the Matthew Shepard Act to outlaw hate crimes against our community

• Confront the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the stigma surrounding it

• Amend the Uniting American Families Act to afford same-sex couples the same rights and obligations as married couples in our immigration system 

We come to you as esteemed citizens of the United States of America in need of equal protections under the law for all families. The LGBT community is part of this diverse country, but do not share the same rights as their heterosexual brothers and sisters. In the spirit of family, respect, and of course, hope, we will work with you to make these promises become a reality.

We paid attention to the statements you made during your campaign, and we voted for you. Now, as you take office, we ask something in return. Please keep your promises to the LGBT community and provide the leadership needed to achieve true equality for all Americans.

Sincerely, Your Fellow Americans

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Now, PRINT out the Open Letter to Obama and Signature Forms. 

Collect Signatures and Mail them in! The deadline for mailing the signature pages is January 12 for us to get them to Barack Obama on his first day in office.

MAIL SIGNATURES TO:

JOIN THE IMPACT
PO Box 141491
Columbus, OH 43214

PROTEST DOMA JANUARY 10

Join your friends and family of the LGBT Community and Protest DOMA on January 10th. We need to collect 1 Million signatures from across the country to President Obama on his Inauguration Day. We will not wait for him to act on his promises to our community.

Marriage Equality Workshop - Oregon Jan 10th

For those of you living in the Oregon area, there will be an MARRIAGE EQUALITY WORKSHOP hosted on January 10th. Take the day to meet people of like minds, fighting for the same cause as you. Meet new friends and make the impact united.

[  Portland Photo Courtesy: fillingthevOid  ]

Marriage Equality Education - Workshop

Saturday, January 10, 2009
11:00am - 12:30pm

Q Center
69 S.E. Taylor St.
Portland, Oregon

Description

Do you want to talk to your family about marriage equality but don't know how to begin?

Are you speechless when people say homosexuals are going to hell?

Come join us then at the Q Center, Jan. 10 starting at 11:00 a.m. till 12:30 p.m.

Training will be taught with Basic Rights Oregon and touch base on how you can start the conversation of Marriage Equality and how to respond effectively to the opposition.

The workshop is free but donations are being asked from the Q Center in order to cover the expenses of having the building open.

Click here to RSVP on the Facebook page.

Blue 4 Equality - Jan 10th

This is an easy way to show your support. You don't have to even leave your home or work... just put in a Blue Light!

Display a BLUE BULB on January 10th and show your support for Equality for All. Light up your front porch, window or store front. Just put a blue bulb in and you'll be one of thousands lighting up the night for Equality!

Tell your friends, local merchants and businesses you support, to show their support for you and your community by lighting up blue on January 1oth!

Blue4Equality is trying to organize the City Halls of eight major cities to light up blue. Miami Beach has already agreed! They are still waiting for feedback from Camarillo, Los Angeles, Oxnard, Pasadena, Sacramento, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Ventura.

For more information on Blue For Equality and how you can help, check out Blue4Equality.org.

January 10th is also the NATIONAL PROTEST OF DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). Join thousands across the country to get 1 Million Marriage Equality Supporters to sign an Open Letter to President Obama and deliver it to him on his first day in office. We will not wait for equality!

National Protest of D.O.M.A. - January 10th

Join the Nation on January 10th and Protest Against DOMA! DOMA is the "Defense of Marriage Act". Protest for the Repeal of this Act that eliminates Marriage Equality for All.

We need to gather 1 Million Signatures on an Open Letter to Barak Obama. This will be delivered to President Obama on his first day in office. We want him to know that we will not wait for Equality. Get the Open Letter to Obama and Signature Forms.

----- SAN FRANCISCO, CA -----

RALLY 11AM
Castro & Market Streets
(NOT at City Hall!)

PETITION FOR SIGNATURES
Time: After Rally is Over
Place: Over 20 Neighborhoods in San Francisco, Oakland, Marin and North Peninsula
Join the group on Facebook.

----- SAN DIEGO, CA -----

10AM: WARM UP RALLY
11AM: MARCH
1PM: MAIN RALLY

San Diego County Admin Building
1600 Pacific Hwy
San Diego, CA

Complete details at SD Equality Now.


----- LOS ANGELES / WeHo, CA -----

2pm-10pm

RALLY @ 6pm

Corner of Santa Monica & San Vicente Boulevards

West Hollywood, CA
Contact: david.comfort@mindspring.com

Event on Facebook.

----- SAN JOSE, CA -----

Noon - 2 p.m.

San Jose City Hall
200 E. Santa Clara Street
San Jose, CA

More information at Join the Impact San Jose.

----- REDLANDS, CA -----

2pm 

Redlands City Hall

35 Cajon Street, Redlands, CA
We will meet near the Redlands City Hall and march toward Redlands Blvd & Orange Street.

----- WASHINGTON, D.C. -----

1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

March For Equal Rights

Washington, D.C.

Join the group on Facebook.

----- DALLAS, TEXAS -----

11:30 am

Historical Plaza behind Records Building

509 Main Street

Downtown - Dallas, Texas

Read Article on Dallas Protest 

----- BLUE 4 EQUALITY -----

Across the nation, Light up your night with BLUE! Put a blue bulb in your window, on your porch light, or store front to show support for Equality. Read more at Blue 4 Equality.

Equality Camp - January 3rd!

Join us next weekend in San Francisco for Equality Camp.

Sign up now for Equality Camp!

EqualityCamp
San Francisco
January 3, 2009

Get your ticket today!

Equality Camp is day to meet others, share ideas and develop ways to help the movement for Marriage Equality for ALL Americans. Equality Camp will take place in San Francisco on January 3, 2009.

If you are a member or supporter of the LGBT community and Marrigae Equality, please join us on this day! It's only $20 and you get a shirt, all day of excitement and snacks!

EVENT DETAILS:

Goals:
* An inclusive, inspiring, integrated (web and on-the-ground) movement…
* with a clear, central gathering place online…
* with feedback loops to empower a grassroots movement that integrate with any formal campaign.

For this BarCamp, we are charging $20 for registration, but it includes a cool t-shirt and your food all day. For students and the “underemployed” we have a discounted rate of $5. Be sure to sign up at EventBrite!

When?
January 3rd, 2009
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Where?
Citizen Space
425 2nd Street (at Harrison), 3rd floor
San Francisco, CA

Nighttime Entertainment
Drinks, Snacks & Comedy
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm at a venue nearby
Featuring intelligent hillarity from comics Julia Jackson, Aundre the Wonderwoman and Heather Gold. A guaranteed good time for all.

*Note: Graphic for Equality Camp by Shepard Fairey for Obey.

Separate Church & State T-Shirts!

If you believe in Separation of Church and State, this is the t-shirt for you! It's a great shirt to wear to a rally and conversation starter.

Show your support for marriage equality and our blog! Only $20! American Apparel Unisex tees. Get one today for a Christmas gift or Upcoming Protests! Be a walking poster!



Click here to download "SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE" Protest Posters.

Light Up the Night SF! Dec 20

Come join us this Saturday, December 20th, in Union Square, San Francisco for LIGHT UP THE NIGHT. This is a silent candle light vigil for Marriage Equality and the Repeal of Prop 8.



Light Up The Night • SF is a candlelight vigil for marriage equality, for the repeal of Prop 8, and for LGBT rights across the nation. We welcome all individuals and families who support these causes. The passage of Prop 8 and similar measures around the country has recreated second-class citizenship in the United States. It is a broad civil-rights issue which has implications for all Americans, regardless of race, creed, color, or orientation.

Please join with us, and stand up against injustice.

Light Up The Night • SF is a positive, holiday event that will be coordinated with similar vigils happening at the same time in hundreds of cities across the country. In San Francisco, Light Up The Night takes place at Union Square, on Saturday, 20 December 2008, from 5:00 - 6:00 PM. Please bring your own candles!

Light Up The Night • SF is sponsored by Join the Impact, supported by Equality California, the HRC, Marriage Equality USA, and many other nationwide LGBT rights organizations. For this event to succeed, and send a positive, unified image, we need you. Please RSVP to let us know you are coming. Print out flyers and help spread the word (in Spanish, too!)

Light Up The Night • SF welcomes you to join a movement for change, invites you to become a part of history, and asks you to stand united for one hour of your holiday season with thousands of others who share your views.

Nationwide School Walkout!

Here are some signs for anyone protesting at schools. Print these Protest Posters out and let your voice be heard!

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WEDNESDAY - DECEMBER 3rd, 2008

NATIONWIDE STUDENT PROTEST FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY

Walk out of class at 9 am in your own time zone.
When you leave, please leave a note on your desk or chair that says, "SCHOOL TAUGHT ME NOT TO DISCRIMINATE. SAY NO TO H8. SAY YES TO EQUALITY".

New Tee! SEPAR8 IS NOT EQUAL

New T-Shirt hot off the press!

Beautifully designed oversized print of the popular protest poster, "SEPAR8 IS NOT EQUAL". Show your support for Marriage Equality. Printed on ultrasoft American Apparel T Shirts.

Order your Shirt today! Get your shirt in time for Day Without A Gay on December 10th, 2008.

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