The ACT Legislative Assembly has passed a Greens bill allowing same-sex couples to recognise their relationships with a legal ceremony...The bill will become law in about two weeks.
Also: ABC poll
Should the Federal Government overturn the ACT same-sex legal ceremony bill?
Yes 28%
No 72%
764 votes counted
*happy little smile*
It only seems applicable to a narrow band of workers at the moment, but as a "breaking down the divide between the domestic and the workplace" concept, I really like it.
(Rick) Warren called, and Lowery answered.
And Lowery’s response was not an AMEN...
Joseph Lowery didn’t offer Rick Warren an AMEN; he repudiated the hatred that Rick Warren stands for. Lowery stood up for justice, and for peace, and for solidarity.
And the crowd shouted AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!...
There's a beautiful video, transcript and more commentary through the link. Just...yes. Yes.
ETA: Also, Gene Robinson's awesome speech can be found here.
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akire_yta)This one in particular just... keep fighting. We'll get there eventually.
And because I think it should be linked to on a semi-regular basis: A Photographic Remembrance of San Francisco's Same-Sex Marriage Revolt by David Steinberg
Happy Pride everyone!
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RALLY - NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Saturday 9 August 2008
The University Cross-campus Queer Network is organising a Rally demanding:
- Marriage & Civil Unions Now
- Repeal 100+ laws that discriminate against same-sex couples
- Stop Queerphobia in our Education System
Giz Watson MLC will be speaking. The Rally and the Speakers start at 12noon at Kings Square, Fremantle which will then be followed by a March on the streets.
For further details please contact:
Emma Kingdon
Queer Co- Officer
NUSWEST
Murdoch University Guild of Students
Tel: 9360 1292
Mob: 0416 436 399
Email: queer@guild.murdoch.edu.au
The 9/11 terrorists didn’t photograph anything. Nor did the London transport bombers, the Madrid subway bombers, or the liquid bombers arrested in 2006. Timothy McVeigh didn’t photograph the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The Unabomber didn’t photograph anything; neither did shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Photographs aren’t being found amongst the papers of Palestinian suicide bombers. The IRA wasn’t known for its photography.
The reason we're so hung on up on 'suspicious' people 'taking photographs'?
... “we’re a species of storytellers,” and thus persistently vulnerable to a particular variety of logic failure, the movie-plot threat.
From the Making Light post The power of storytelling…to make us stupid and crazy, educating and making me fear for humanity, all at once...
A south-west Sydney council has denied suggestions religious intolerance was behind its rejection of a controversial plan to build an Islamic school.
Bits that made me incoherent while reading this at work:
The proposal had divided the community and sparked fierce opposition from locals. Some protesters left pigs heads draped in the Australian flag at the site last year.
So, not only have you gone out of your way to offend Jewish and Muslim people, you've defiled your own country's flag. Well done. What was your point again?
Outside the meeting, some residents expressed relief there would not be an influx of Muslims in the area, including a woman wearing an akubra hat decorated with Australian flags.
"We just don't want Muslim people in Camden," she said.
"We don't want them not only here, we don't want them in Australia. They're an oppressive society, they're a dictatorship."
Another resident said: "It's not for racist [reasons], just all the crime and stuff that other foreign people bring into the town."
I console myself with the idea that the ABC staffers were probably laughing their arses off at you while they were putting this together. It's helping. Sort of.
- Mood:
aggravated
Western Australia Community Gathering - How non-Aboriginal women can stand in solidarity with Aboriginal women and communities
The rights of Aboriginal peoples in Australia have been denied for too long. Non-Aboriginal women standing in solidarity with Aboriginal women and communities can make a difference.
This is the beginning of a conversation for women in Western Australia.
Join a diverse range of women from across West Australia in a day-long conversation, sharing and learning about how and where women in Australia can stand in solidarity with Aboriginal women. Explore how non-Aboriginal women in Australia remain in a privileged position, learn about the issues affecting Aboriginal women, and discuss how you can make changes.
( Details... )
An angry and sobbing Ms Lyman told ABC Radio: "He took my story from Many Voices oral history out of context."
Dr Nelson rang Ms Lyman on Thursday night and promised to ring her again next week to find out if she was still angry and upset, she said.
"He said: `I just wanted people to know your story'," she said.
"I asked him why he didn't ring me, and he couldn't answer that.
"How dare he use my story for his political career.
"He told me he read this three years ago so he had plenty of time to get in contact with me."
- Mood:
There's a bit of disconnect there, between "I met with a single person from the stolen generation one afternoon, and then sat down and wrote" compared to what I remember reading in the lead up which was along the lines of "many of us are consulting with many people/groups" but still...
- Mood:impressed
