RENWL.org is gettin’ a little touch up work done on Friday. But we’ll be back on Saturday:)
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Weekend plans: hangin’ out with that crazy Kiefer ‘n’gettin’ into all kinds of unspeakable trouble.
RENWL is taking the weekend off but will be back Monday. Have a great weekend and we look forward to seeing you here next week!
Best,
RENWL:)
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Going to San Francisco’s Pride fest this summer? Fabulous. Just whatever you do don’t stay at the St. Francis Hotel. The iconic lodging spot is being boycotted by Sleep With The Right People—-a coalition LGBT orgs, LGBT community members and UNITE HERE, a union representing over 300,000 hospitality and manufacturing workers across North America.
UNITE HERE and Sleep With The Right People began a boycott of seven hotels, including the Westin St. Francis, the Grand Hyatt, and the Hilton, just before August 2009 when the union began renegotiations for expiring contracts between 61 hotels and 9,000 Local 2 members, according to the KTVU.com Website.
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Photo courtesy of New Organizing Institute
Here’s the 411 straight from the press release:
60 champions of equality
This summer, the New Organizing Institute is teaming up with the Gill Foundation to put a spin on its signature BootCamp training series to bring LGBT equality activists from around the country to Washington DC for an intensive, six-day new media training.
NOI’s BootCamps are well known for their innovative style, integrating cutting-edge online organizing techniques, political technology, and field leadership. LGBT BootCamp is no different, and will have a focus on building new media skills to help these organizers move LGBT issues forward and achieve unprecedented progressive change.
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Miss that C.D. Kirven (Get Equal) interview with Genia Stevens on the absence of LGBT leadership of color? How about that lovable Luan Legacy’s chat with SistersTalk last week? Not a prob. Now you can come to RENWL and listen to any of the SistersTalk podcasts right in our sidebar whenever you want. That’s right. We’re such big fans of SistersTalk that we’ve permanently installed a SistersTalk player into our sidebar.
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Folks we’ve been wrestling with this for awhile now. RENWL as an organization has been non-active since the end of last year. There are many factors that contributed to this but the main one being there really just isn’t enough interest or support in the Los Angeles African American community for marriage equality—and that includes African American LGBT/SGL folks.
However even with the lack of enthusiasm on the issue we felt that there needed to be a voice from the LGBT African American community that at least had some opinion (whether others agreed with it or not) addressing, reporting on and affirming LGBT rights.
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