Save Shirley Tan Urgent – deportation set for 4/3/09

March 27, 2009

Help us Please – twin boys beg for Mother’s rights

 This picture was taken before Shirley Tan knew that she was in fact out of legal status in the USA. The family had requested a visit to the White House and were apparently cleared – while there was an deportation order in effect. They had no idea!  LESBIAN MOTHER FACES DEPORTATION

IMMIGRATION RIGHTS IN THE USA - Why should our Children Suffer? by Melanie Nathan - breaking news…
Shirley Tan will be deported on April 3^rd 2009.   The only way she can stay in the country is if a private bill is passed by congress or her case is adjudicated to be reopened, the latter which may not happen in time to prevent the deportation.   (see erlier post on 3.27/09) http://oblogdeeoblogda.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/family-to-be-torn-apart-due-to-failure-the-us-laws-to-protect-equally/

 http://www.advocate.com/news/

We now are hoping for the passing of a special private bill by congress.  If you are in support of this, and want to help this family,  please send a supporting letter via e-mail to Senator Feinstein c/o Melanie Nathan -at

nathan@privatecourts.com

Also please mention the name of your congressperson , your district and your Senator/s

thank you.

media picking up this heart wrenching story 

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html

SF GATE

AARP

IM.Q.US

MIKE TIDMUS

TENEMENT MUSEUM –

http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/2009/03/immigration-now-facing-deportation.html#comment-form

THE ADVOCATE

 http://fridae.com/newsfeatures/article.php?articleid=2436&pageno=1&viewarticle=1&searchtype=all&cat=&title=Filipino%20lesbian%20mother%20faces%20deportation%20from%20US

FRIDAE ASIA

 

 

 

 

Keep an eye out for new posts and press releases on Shirley Tan

Please note Shirley Tan’s status may be perceived as illegal; however it is evident  that her immigration attorney  at the time  may have failed her.  For years she was led to believe that her status was legal and when ICE showed up and arrested her, she had no idea that there was a deportation order for her.  That attorney (no longer her attorney)  has in  fact been publicly reproved by California State Bar (CalBAr) for porfessional misconduct in two other cases demonstrating the almost identical misconduct suffered by Ms. Tan.  The file reflecting the reproval in those cases is readily available for public view at the CalBar site.     In this case Ms. Molinar has stated that she did not know the case had been turned down on appeal and she believed that the information had been sent to a wrong address.  This is a difficult excuse to accept when there are others cases or reproach against Ms. Molinar evidenced by the CALBAr site.  It is also difficult to accept when there ought to be a duty for an attorney to keep a check on the status of cases in the system and to not reassure clients based on silence  and without investigation.

http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=120911

S.424 Oregon’s Merkeley added as co-sponsor of UAFA

   S . 424     

   At the request of Mr. LEAHY, the name of the Senator from Oregon (Mr. MERKLEY) was added as a cosponsor of S . 424 , a bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate discrimination in the immigration laws by permitting permanent partners of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the same manner as spouses of citizens and lawful permanent residents and to penalize immigration fraud in connection with permanent partnerships.

Its been a pleasure working with Immigration Equality

This is the Press release issued by Immigration Equality. (www.immigrationequality.org) I have worked closely with Julie Kruse and Victoria Neilson this week and they have gone to great lengths to help Shirley and Jay.  When we were reluctant for press, they reassured us and helped navigate the fears, and now Sirley and the family are hopeful that this may turn around. 

 

CALIFORNIA

– Immigration Equality today spoke out about a California family that may soon be torn apart.  Due to immigration laws that discriminate against lesbian and gay couples, Shirley Tan will likely be deported April 3, separating her from her life partner Jay Mercado, their twelve-year-old twin sons, and Jay’s mother, for whom Shirley is the primary caretaker.  The deportation will send Shirley back to the Philippines, where she was a victim of extreme violence.

“From the moment my sons were born we have never been apart.  It’s tearing me apart to have to leave without them,” said Shirley.  

Unlike married straight Americans, Jay cannot sponsor her life partner for immigration.  The Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) would remedy this discrimination against gay and lesbian Americans and allow them to sponsor their partners for immigration.  The bill, introduced by Sen. Patrick Leahy in the House and Rep. Jerrold Nadler in the Senate, has 107 additional cosponsors in the House and Senate.

Shirley and Jay are also seeking a private bill from their members of Congress, so that they can stay together in the U.S. or have time to make plans to uproot their family and move together to another country.

“Once again a family is on the verge of being torn apart because U.S. immigration laws discriminate against gays and lesbians,” said Immigration Equality Policy Director Julie Kruse.  “We hope the U.S. government takes immediate steps to keep Shirley and Jay and their children and parents together, and that Congress passes the Uniting American Families Act so the destruction of our families ends.”

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA-12) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who represent Shirley and Jay in Congress, have cosponsored the Uniting American Families Act.

“Shirley Tan’s unacceptable situation is just one example of why Congress must pass immigration equality legislation.  The Uniting American Families Act, which I co-sponsored, will allow lesbian and gay Americans to sponsor their permanent partners for residency in the United States,” said Rep. Jackie Speier.  “In the near term, I am confident that any official who examines the facts in Shirley Tan’s case will come to the conclusion that this hard-working mother of two should not be sent to a country where she has no support network and was the victim of a horrific act of violence.”

 

 

 

 

Victoria Neilson, Immigration Equality’s Legal Director, stated, “There may be no options for this family under existing law. How can they explain to their children that the U.S. Government does not consider them a family?”    

This week, the White House issued a statement about the Uniting American Families Act, saying “[President Obama] thinks Americans with partners from other countries should not be faced with a painful choice between staying with their partner or staying in their country.”

 

 

 

  37 thousand couples across the nation face similar circumstances.

  Immigration Equality is a national organization fighting for equality under U.S. immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-positive individuals.

 

 

 

 

Help us Please – twin boys beg for Mother’s rights

IMMIGRATION RIGHTS IN THE USA - Why should our Children Suffer? by Melanie Nathan - breaking news…
Shirley Tan will be deported on April 3^rd 2009.   The only way she can stay in the country is if a private bill is passed by congress or her case is adjudicated to be reopened, the latter which may not happen in time to prevent the deportation.

 Shirley is the mom of twin American boys, aged twelve, who were conceived invitro using her American partner’s eggs.   The Moms have been in a relationship in the USA for the past 23 years. This is the only home and family known to Shirley and her family.  If they had legal rights under Federal Immigration Law, this story would not be playing out in this horrific fashion. 

 Shirley has not been to the Philippines in over twenty years.  Now ICE is deporting her to a place, not only where she has no ability to support herself but also where as a teen, she suffered a brutal physical attack, witnessing the murder of her mother and sister.  in effect ICE wants to dump her in the middle of nowhere.   The person who attacked her went to prison and was released early due to political connections.  She is terrified. With her deportation imminent the offices of Congresswoman Jackie Speier and Senators Feinstein and Boxer have been notified with letters begging for their assistance.

The Department of Homeland Security, cannot grant an ‘emergency stay of deportation’ until Shirley is back in custody on 4/3, and within hours of being deported back to Philippines.  Only then can her attorney request an emergency stay. Apparently having a date a week ahead and a monitoring device is not enough to constitute an emergency – you have to be in custody…. typical of the rigidity of Immigration laws.

To stay in the US with her children and her partner, Tan needs her case re-opened because it was botched by an attorney, causing her to go out of her legal status.  She had no idea that this happened because the attorney tried to cover up the mistake. ( By the way – interesting fact – Proof of the fact that they had no idea there was a deportation order out is they were cleared by the White House for a visit which they did.  I can e-mail a picture of them with Sen. Boxer when they made the visit. They can give you these details directly.)

The way this has turned out Ms. Tan does not even have the option to go to find a country where she will be safe.  She is set to be dumped by ICE, in a place filled with terrifying memories, with no job, no source of income or place to stay. If she cannot stay in the US, the place of citizenship of her partner and children, then she would rather have the opportunity to leave on her own terms with enough time to arrange for the whole family unit to leave for exile to a country that would have them.   That means her partner giving up her career, losing their home, pensions, etc. But it is something they would rather do than split the family or have Tan sent to a place where her life is at stake.

 

Glad to see my University taking a Stand- letter to Alumni re Dalai lama

your blogger, me,  received this e-mail today –

Dear WITS Alumni;

His Holiness the Dalai Lama was scheduled to deliver a public lecture at Wits University on Saturday, 28 March 2009. This event has been cancelled due to the South African government not granting a visa to the Dalai Lama. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Loyiso Nongxa, has issued the following statement on behalf of the University.    

STATEMENT FROM WITS UNIVERSITY PERTAINING TO THE GOVERNMENT’S REJECTION OF A VISIT BY HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA TO SOUTH AFRICA

Wits University expresses its profound dismay at the decision taken by the South African government not to grant a visa to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, to attend a Peace Conference in South Africa along with other Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.

The University does not accept the rationale offered by the South African government to bar this stalwart of peace from entering the country. The decision of the government ridicules the values enshrined in our Constitution, and the freedoms for which so many South African have lived, and indeed died.

The Dalai Lama was scheduled to deliver a public address at Wits University on Saturday, 28 March 2009, following on a similar lecture that he delivered to a full capacity audience at Wits during his last visit to the country. To have the voice of the Dalai Lama silenced at both the Peace Conference and the Wits Public Lecture is a setback to the principle that rigorous intellectual debate and reflection is central to the defence of democracy. As part of its commitment to being a publicly engaged institution, Wits hosts numerous public engagement activities and provides an intellectual platform for robust debate. We believe that making differing perspectives and views accessible to our community is a vital part of sustaining and defending the constitutional values that we express as a country.

No country in the world has produced as many Peace Prize Laureates as South Africa, a testament both to the struggles that we have waged in this country for the principles of human rights, as well as to the great stature of the South Africans who have found transcendent ways of expressing the struggle for freedom. It is with this tradition in mind that we view the exclusion of the Dalai Lama from our shores with grave misgivings. This betrayal of a key constitutional value provides a clear window into the fragility of the democracy we are trying to sustain.

It is our responsibility as a University to express our concern at this development. Wits University takes this opportunity to strongly condemn the action of the South African government in denying His Holiness the Dalai Lama access to South Africa. We add our voice to that of other leaders, calling on the South African government to apologise to the nation for this oversight. It is a betrayal of everything that we, as South Africans, fought against during the apartheid regime and a gross violation of the values we espouse as a nation.   

Prof. Loyiso Nongxa

Vice-Chancellor and Principal
Wits University

25 March 2009

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Dalai Lama vs. World Cup 2010

CNN reports that Dalai Lama has been denies a visa to South Africa for the International Peace Conference in South Africa. read this article http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/23/south.africa.dalai.lama.visa/index.html

Its unbelievable…..   I mean the Dalai lama is Mr. Peace!   Then the excuse that it will derogate from the 2010 World Cup soccer?  Shows that the values are up someone’s tuchus.  Please pardon the expression. Peace Schmeace!

America can be such a sad place for so many

 

 PLEASE CONGRESS 36,000 AMERICANS AND THEIR CHILDREN DESPERATELY SEEKING UAFA…. 

Most Americans have barely any insight into immigration law and its intricacies; the rigidity of certain regulations that serve only to create extraordinary hardship – and the saddest victims are most often our American children – the very souls who we purport to protect through our laws and our Courts.   

  Much of the anti-gay marriage rhetoric has been guised in fallacious moronic (Mormonic..mmm) talking points, where the proponents insist that gay couples do not need marriage to be equal.  This in itself denotes an argument in favor of ‘special rights’ (such as UAFA) and yet the same groups oppose ‘special rights for gays,’ the latter, their coinage!  This paradox attempts to negate the de facto existence of gay relationships, regardless of marriage.  However gay relationships will always be and hence the de jure must follow.  Immigration law must change. Congress must wake up to the reality; it must acknowledge the de facto existence of these emotionally legitimate families, and that we are Americans,  for as long as it does not, American citizens and their families are being discriminated against, whichever way the opponents try to spin it.  Now is the time for every American to stand up against discrimination and suffering.  It is so important to spread these stories to the eyes and ears of those who have no clue. This is not about marriage – of course we want the right to marry and of course we want DOMA to disappear, its about one particular right that bi-national gay families do not have and that is the right of one person in love to petition for the person he/she loves to reside in his/her home country.

These stories, though briefly told reveal a measure of the hardship:- I just received a link from a new friend visiting from Netherlands.  We have never met face to face but will on Monday. My new friend is American but has been forced to leave her home because she cannot sponsor her same-sex spouse to live with her in the USA.  This is archaic.  So many countries regard this as a fundamental abuse of civil rights; personally I regard it as an abhorrent violation of basic human rights.

This is not the first taste of the sordid invalidation by my own Country. My spouse and I have suffered our own immigration hell, and thankfully with the help of an extraordinary attorney, Kip Steinberg, were able to navigate the deep tempestuous sea of immigration laws and regulations; with mere hours from the sun-setting of a law that we had relied on for 5 years to get to the point of completion. With the assistance by our Senator’s office we were able to expedite the application before the law disappeared over its seductive horizon.

Now we must all fight for the others… those who are living the hell and there are many. This month I have encountered two terrible cases- similar to the one in the Article.

In each case the same sex spouse of a US citizen was taken into custody by ICE, for deportation – treated so badly- and their lives altered forever.    My friend, a Psychiatrist who was the regional head for the California Penal system, committed suicide- could there be any relationship between that and the fact that deportation of his beloved was imminent?

 This week an associate asked for my help with a two mom family- 23 years living together- twin sons, aged 12, born through donor sperm, egg of one mom invitro and carried by the other mom who is now about to be deported – next week.     

  The family is in agony – they do not know what is going to happen – one son wrote to Senators Boxer and Feinstein stating that he cannot live without his mom.  I have not told it all, and it is bad, very bad,  If the mother returns to her country of origin, she fears the same fate as her mother and sister, brutally murdered some years ago.  This story will be highlighted in the next few weeks, but I cannot now, do to sensitive timing.

Here is a mother of two American children and the California spouse of an American citizen, who is about to be deported because there is no Federal law to protect this family of 23 years.  Unlike couples whose marriages are recognized by the Federal law, gay couples are excluded because of DOMA – and UAFA (Uniting American Families Act) is barely hobbling through congress.

ILLEGAL “FRONT GROUP”

LOS ANGELES, CA – Fred Karger, Founder of Californians Against Hate today filed a supplement to the complaint against the Utah-based the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) with the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC).

 COPY OF SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT LETTER TO FOLLOW IN NEXT EMAIL AND GO TO:  http://californiansagainsthate.blogspot.com

 In a 9 page letter, Californians Against Hate alleges that the Mormon Church established the NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MARRIAGE (NOM) as its California front group in the summer of 2007 for the sole purpose of qualifying and passing Proposition 8 in 2008.  Karger alleges that none of the costs associated with secretly establishing NOM was reported by the Mormon Church as required by California election law.

 In official, extensive and detailed Mormon Church documents, one can see how NOM was very likely modeled after the Hawaii front group — “Hawaii’s Future Today” – which the Mormon Church set up to defeat same-sex marriage in Hawaii in 1998.  Californians Against Hate submitted these official Church documents along with the complaint to the FPPC today.  All the documents as well as the complaint are posted on its new web site:  http://www.mormongate.com 

 Californians Against Hate asks the FPPC to investigate the “obvious underreporting” in the Mormon Church’s January 30, 2009 campaign report. 

 “I have carefully reviewed the late filing by the Church,” said Karger.  “It seems just to be the tip of the iceberg as far as what they spent in support of Prop 8. They have admitted errors publicly in press accounts after their filing.”

 

 

 

“The Church’s report actually raises more questions than it answers.   It is particularly odd since they (the Church) announced their active involvement to pass Proposition 8 in a letter from Church President Thomas S. Monson on June 29, 2008 read to all Church members.  Now they claim that they did not spend any money in the form of non-monetary contributions until the last two weeks of the election campaign,” Karger stated in his letter to the FPPC. 

 

 

The complaint outlines an additional 6 specific charges and substantial areas of likely Mormon Church activity that should be investigated as reportable non- monetary expenditures. 

 

 

Californians Against Hate’s original complaint to the FPPC against the Mormon Church led to the Commission’s ongoing investigation of the Church which was announced on November 21, 2008 (FPPC FILE NO. 08/735). This additional information is to help with that investigation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wisconsin man who participated in 1943 massacre of 8,000 Jews is deported to Austria

http://www.ice.gov/

Josias Kumpf, 83, served as an armed SS Death’s Head guard at the Nazi-run Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Germany and at the Trawniki Labor Camp in Poland. Kumpf also served at slave labor sites in Nazi-occupied France where prisoners under his watch built launching platforms for Germany’s V-1 and V-2 missile attacks on England. During his service at Trawniki, he participated in a mass shooting in which 8,000 men, women and children were murdered in a single day, on Nov. 3, 1943.  read on…………..

http://www.ice.gov/

Table Mountain Ablaze

 I received a surprise email (ala facebook) from a childhood friend; we share a name.  She told me that Table Mountain is ablaze.  I went online and found this link with pictures. Wow – beautiful Table Mounntain and parts of the city in danger.  Take a look, Good luck down there!!

 

 

http://imod.co.za/2009/03/18/cape-town-fire-is-too-much-to-comprehend/

Dr DEATH DIED IN AGONY – in Egypt –

I read this article (see link below) about the recent discovery that Dr. Death, the convicted Nazi war criminal, lived to his spineless end in Egypt. This purveyor of the most unimaginable and heinous torture, born Aribert Ferdinand Heim, was a member of Adolf Hitler’s elite Waffen-SS, and medical doctor at the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps, suffered an ironic and suitably karmic fate.

The perfect justice -   a fate far worse than Nuremburg could prescribe – indeed it was; dying in agony as his cancer ridden rectum, yes his butt, burnt like a furnace belying hell only to be surpassed  by his torment in donning the disguise that he thought would save his supreme white butt- that of Islam- he converted to Islam and became Tarek Hussein Farid, and trekked each and every day to a Mosque in the company of not so white people.  One wonders if he ever saw a blonde head of hair during that time. His conversion was clearly an act of cowardly defiance, rather than a true religious rally.  That said, maybe this was the only environment where he could dare fantasize about hurting more Jews; unrealized of course – while screaming on his death bed, Dr. Death probably wished he had access to a brilliant Jewish Doctor- one who might save his burnt butt.

When reading this Article I wondered why his family who continued to assist him with money and support from afar, were never pursued more vigorously or charged with aiding and abeting a war criminal.

http://www.vosizneias.com/26912/2009/02/04/egypt-report-nazi-doctor-on-the-run-converted-to-islam-and-hid-in-cairo/

Anti Semitism in South Africa

 See this blog; http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/traps/2009/03/10/cosatu%e2%80%99s-hate-speech-constitution/#comment-74068

I have to disagree on one point – Anti zionists are more often than not anti-semites; and that said the line is so fine that for the percentage that purport to not be anti semitic – well just take a hard look at who they are and what they do. Jews who were zionists were at the helm of the anti-partheid struggle; they were the defenders of human rights and injustices in South Africa during apartheid. Where was Mr. Marching Man when the rockets were being lobbed at small Israel towns. I dont recall any marches on that issue? Disrciminate marching is as loathesome as the acts of violence they protest- because it simply serves to endorse the terrorist as victim rather than adversary. Melanie Nathan on March 12th, 2009 at 7:21 pm South African Time.

Feels like my entire life depends on 4 hours of alienable argument

The Court has taken the matter, as submitted.  Prop 8 is on the decision block. It seemed to me by listening to the questions of the esteemed Justices that proposition 8 may  be adjudicated, valid. I feel despondent.    

Yet, I thought Ms. Stewart’s argument was articulate and clear and its jurisprudential profundity seemed to outweigh that of the opponent, I think his name was Star…      The inability of the opposition (my opinion) to address the harm to already married gay couples, may serve to enlighten a teetering Justice.   Their Counsel relied on semantics that did not in effect serve to answer the questions posed by the Judges.  I could not understand the difference between retroactivity as opposed to asserting that our marriages are simply invalid; but not ab initia?   What is the difference – the effect is the same and surely the Justices will see that. This is where I am proud to be one of the 18,000 and that is why it mattered so much to get married as soon as we all did.

As far as I am concerned, my marriage counts even if a mere statistic at this juncture.  But it is indeed a statistic that by virtue of its proportion engenders conscience and significance by exacerbating the potential for possible prejudicial treatment.  No group of 18,000 or more or less has ever had their valid marriage taken away from them. 

That said it is now another waiting game.  If this works we are okay if not I guess we will be back as second class citizens looking for a PROPOSITION to validate our existence.  Lets pick a number; How about PROPOSITION 3 FOR EQUALITY… whereas …. PROPOSITION 8 WAS ALL ABOUT HATE…

mmmmmmmm…

Watching the oral Argument before the Supreme Court of California

Equality and Freedom lets go back a few years ….. as mankind becomes more liberal…..

In 1790 George Washington declared, “As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”

 

Today is my daughter’s 4th Birthday and she deserves a NO on 8

Proposition 8, No on 8, No on prop 8.   Subject: Bring an umbrella! Bring a friend! Bring you: tonight!   We have signs, we have banners and we have a Chuppah!  We simply need you!  Thousands of people in support of equality are expected to gather together tonight around the state for an Eve of Justice.  In San Francisco, Supervisor Bevan Dufty is leading the way.     Tonight we are meeting at Harvey Milk Plaza at Market and Castro Street at 5pm.  The march begins at 6pm arriving at Civic Center by 6:30pm with a vigil at 6:45pm.  Please join us. Tomorrow morning at 7:30am in San Francisco, in front of the California Supreme Court Building, Rabbi Camille Shira Angel along with many other faith leaders, will lead us in an Interfaith Celebration of Hope and Justice.  Thanks to Marriage Equality USA, the Courage Campaign and Equality California, a jumbotron has been set up in Civic Center Plaza to allow an opportunity for thousands of Californians to come together and view the oral arguments at 9am. Join us under the Kol Tzedek Chuppah and we will watch the California Supreme Court oral arguments outside together.  Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof! Justice, Justice you shall pursue! Lisa Finkelstein Director, LGBT Alliance Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties   « View all web results for san francisco candlelight vigil Opponents Of Prop. 8 Organize Candlelight Vigils Across The State KEYT - ‎36 minutes ago‎ Santa Barbara, CA– Hoping to overturn Proposition 8, the Strategic Alliance for Marriage Equality are holding candlelight vigils on Wednesday evening. … Same-sex marriage supporters to hold rally San Diego Union Tribune Prop 8 battlefield: rule of the many vs. protection of the few EDGE Boston SF: STATE HIGH COURT TO HEAR PROPOSITION 8 ARGUMENTS THURSDAY CBS 5 California Chronicle  - The Santa Barbara Independent all 433 news articles » Bakersfield Now   The 50 Spot: Vigils Against H8 Change.org - ‎10 hours ago‎ A candle light vigil will then line the streets of Downtown San Diego Starting at 6pm. To join the event go to San Diego Facebook Event San Francisco: … Take Action For Marriage Equality: Eve of Justice – March Forth on … OpEdNews all 3 news articles » Queerty   Calif. Vigils Planned For Eve Of Prop. 8 Hearing CBS 5 - ‎4 hours ago‎ Dozens of candlelight vigils up and down the were planned for Wednesday night, including a march from Market and Castro to the State Supreme Court in San … Gay Rights Vigils to Dot the State KCBS all 3 news articles » KCBS   AM Alert: Candlelight vigils, confirmation and a honeymoon The Sacramento Bee’s Capital Alert - ‎7 hours ago‎ BIRTHDAY: Today’s the day to tell Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, that she doesn’t look a day over 43. FIELD POLL: President Barack Obama is having … Gay Groups Plan Events Around Prop. 8 Challenge On Top Magazine - ‎Mar 3, 2009‎ San Diego: Gather at the Hall of Justice, 330 W. Broadway, at 4PM for a downtown vigil. San Francisco: Gather at Market and Castro at 5PM for a vigil that … Gays, Allies Protest Prop 8 Daily Nexus all 2 news articles » On Top Magazine   ROADMAP FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY PROPONENTS IN WAKE OF PROP 8 … SanFranciscoSentinel.com - ‎Mar 2, 2009‎ … 25 statewide candlelight vigils planned on March 4th, the eve of the California Supreme Court hearing on Prop 8 and San Francisco speakers include Cleve … Sacramento Area Peace Action March Events Calendar Bay Area Indymedia - ‎6 hours ago‎ Thursday, Mar 19, 7 – 9pm, Candlelight Vigil! Main Hall, 2425 Sierra Blvd., Sac. Sixth anniversary, giant peace sign, sculptures, music, info tables, … Leno kicks off another try at Harvey Milk Day San Francisco Chronicle - ‎19 hours ago‎ A candlelight vigil and march against Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage is scheduled in San Francisco tonight in advance of Thursday’s state Supreme … California Vigils Set for Eve of Supreme Court Prop 8 Hearing Towleroad - ‎Feb 24, 2009‎ A candlelight vigil will then line the streets of Downtown San Diego Starting at 6pm. For more information contact Fernando Lopez, Marriage Equality USA at … Prop. 8 vigil planned for eve of oral arguments The Desert Sun - ‎Feb 25, 2009‎ The “March Forth on March 4” vigil will be held in cities across the state such as Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and San Francisco. …