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Equality - I spoke that word as if a Wedding Vow... Anti-Proposition 8 Rally in Colorado Springs!
Posted: 17 years ago - Dec 21, 2008My Back Pages Revisited - November 16, 2008
Equality - I spoke that word as if a Wedding Vow...
Anti-Proposition 8 Rally in Colorado Springs!
Bob Dylan ranted about Equality (or rather, the lack thereof) over 40 years ago. Yet here we are once again having to reckon with it in a slightly different way within this Cultural War right now!
And the sad thing is that many of the very Racial Minorities whom Dylan openly advocated for in his once highly controversial Political Statement songs of the 60s, somehow deemed it necessary to vote against Equality for yet another set of Minorities over one of the very Issues and Rights that they themselves had been so wrongfully denied of, back in those bad old days!
How pathetically hypocritical !!! ...
Here are the links to some selected video clips from the Protest and Call to Action of The Impact Anti-H8 Rally here in Colorado Springs, Colorado between 11:30 am and 12:15 pm on Saturday, November 15, 2008
Proposition 8 was the Amendment to the California State Constitution that repealed Gay Marriage over there on November 4th - and many across America view that legislation as an illegitimate act of Discrimination, wrong-headed incompassion, rank Bigotry and straight-out elitist hate!
Although our Rally wasn't huge like Woodstock or anything, it was historic, in that such a thing could take place at all, in a city where 58 Far Right religious organizations (including the International Headquarters of Focus on the Family) are located!
The vids were recorded by a local member of the ACLU, I believe - and all are very short segments (shorter than your favorite song, I'm sure of it!)
The second of two speeches that I gave there (yes - I'm not afraid of Ultra-Conservative Colorado Springs) appears in Link 2 of the first 4 listed below.
~ Nancy-Jo Morris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqpBqDtLR7c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_JTCD9oSm8
(the Nancy-Jo Speech)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onVHXy7TDik&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBMZxNVFKKM&feature=related
More from the
Anti-Proposition 8 Rally in Colorado Springs!
Here are some additional video links from the Protest and Call to Action of The Impact Anti-H8 Rally here in Colorado Springs, Colorado between 11:30 am and 12:15 pm on Saturday, November 15, 2008.
The first clip is a very professionally-done piece produced by CSaction which features powerful testimonials by concerned citizens and a Representative of the ACLU; the second is where Peterson Tuscano, an activist and performer from Connecticut spoke; and the third is of Argiope, a local Trans-girl who rose up to tell her story.
Who's that Blonde in purple who is almost in the way of the camera during that last speech??
It's me -
Nancy-Jo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwGrg9k9i7c&feature=related