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chat-bounces@charlesvillage.info [mailto:chat-bounces@charlesvillage.info] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>weinsteinm@aol.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, November 14, 2008
6:38 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Chat@charlesvillage.info;
Discussion@charlesvillage.info<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Chat] Fwd: Overturn Prop
8 - local protest Saturday</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>FYI - click on the link for the local time and
location downtown tomorrow!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>-Matthew<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Wes Boyd & Joan Blades, MoveOn.org Political Action
<moveon-help@list.moveon.org><br>
To: Matthew Weinstein <weinsteinm@aol.com><br>
Sent: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 2:44 pm<br>
Subject: Overturn Prop 8<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear MoveOn member,<b><span
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Along with our tremendous excitement over Barack Obama's victory, a lot of us
are sad and angry about a different election result—the passage of California
Proposition 8, which reversed marriage equality and wrote discrimination into
the California Constitution. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Many people worked hard to defeat
this measure—including MoveOn members, who contributed over $300,000 to defeat
it. But agents of intolerance used fear-mongering to eke out a win.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>After the election, people across <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State> immediately
took to the streets, vowing to put the state on the right side of history by
overturning Prop 8.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Now folks
everywhere are coming together to add their voices. Tomorrow (Saturday) there
will be rallies in support of marriage equality in every single state.</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> If you want
to attend an event in your state, go to this pa ge and click on your state
name—you'll see the location of any rallies planned:<b><span style='font-weight:
bold'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51025&id=15119-1193638-XfZ04_x&t=1"
target="_blank">http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51025&id=15119-1193638-XfZ04_x&t=1</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>These rallies will send a strong
signal that depriving people of rights is no longer acceptable in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>—and it
will also be a first step in ongoing activism across the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>There's one other
thing you can do to support the fight for marriage equality.</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Courage Campaign (which does
MoveOn-style organizing in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>)
is working with other groups on a two-year grassroots plan to overturn Prop 8
in the 2010 election. The first step is for folks to speak out together with
one voice right away by signing a pledge to help overturn Prop 8. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Over 100,000 people have already
signed the pledge—and thousands more are signing every day. Even
non-Californians are signing the pledge in solidarity. If you'd like to sign,
click here:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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target="_blank">http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51024&id=15119-1193638-XfZ04_x&t=2</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks for all you do.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>–Wes, Joan, Carrie, Mari, and the
rest of the team<b r><span style='font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
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