Petition Union Scioto Local Schools To Stop Hate Crimes

Sign the Petition:

Greetings,
I just signed the following petition addressed to: Union-Scioto Local Schools District Administration and School Board.

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I would like you to take a closer look at your policies as they relate to hate crimes. Work with experts on creating safe schools for students no matter who they are. Everyone should have an opportunity to get educated without emotional or physical harm.

Union-Scioto Local Schools should protect kids and teens from assaults based on color, creed, religion, abilities, sexual orientation and gender identity.

This should never happen again on a Union-Scioto Local Schools campus: http://youtu.be/gPyyqISm8eg
It should never happen anywhere, please help me make that a reality.

http://www.change.org/petitions/union-scioto-district-superintendent-dont-tolerate-hate-crimes-at-union-scioto-local-schools-in-ohio

MyLatinoVoice.com supports Alisa Valdes-Rodriquez in her fight to keep Dirty Girls Social Club colored and queered

From Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Challenges Adaptation of The Dirty Girls Social Club:
I have seen both excellent and mediocre adaptations of favorite novels to TV and film.  It is in the nature of the business and I suppose both experience and sound legal advice have much to do with how projects evolve. "Trust" is clearly a bad word when it comes to preserving the rights to our work, perhaps a lesson for all of us.  But from where we stand, this "Dirty Girls" adaptation appears to be an effort to use the brand name of a bestselling novel as cover for a completely different story.  A such, Ms. Valdés has every right to be angry and we trust she will, indeed, have legal recourse.  We support you, Alisa.

There is, however, a greater message here.  As women, as Latinas, as Latinos, we must stop perpetuating stereotypes ourselves if we are to effect change (the producer and script writer of this TV production are both Latinas).  The buck stops here, chicas.  Mrs. Lopez, Ms. Leschin, how do you respond?

BLACK LGBT MARCH IN HISTORIC MLK PARADE,
JAN 19th 2009!

Join The Jordan/Rustin Coalition, the National Black Justice
Coalition (NBJC) and Here To Stay at LA's Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kingdom Day Parade & Festival at Leimert Park Village on Monday
January 19th 2009

http://www.heretostaycoalition.org

The Martin Luther King Kingdom
Day Parade has been celebrated for the last 20 years and over a
million people take to the streets of Los Angeles to remember the
life and works of the great man.

The parade commences on Martin Luther King Blvd at Crenshaw and lasts
for two miles until Western. It includes more than 150 floats, 20
drill teams, ten dance groups, celebrities aplenty and the bombastic
tunes of a military marching band. Local vendors and restaurants
spill out onto the street in the carnival atmosphere.

LIVE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S DREAM: MARCH FOR YOUR RIGHTS!
PROP 8 IS NOT OVER!
END HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM!

January 19th 2009 at 10:30am is the parade time. Come to the Parade
and March With Us or participate in "Keep The Dream Alive and Bring
Five To The Parade" by bringing 5 Friends to Celebrate and Cheer Us!
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LGBT CHEERING STATIONS:
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd/Arlington Ave. AND Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd/Crenshaw Blvd. Please come and cheer on your brothers and sisters marching in the parade.
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AFTER PARADE PARTY AT Lucy Florence Coffee House, located at 3351 West 43rd Street, Los Angeles,
CA 90008, (323) 293-1356.
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FACEBOOK GROUP!
For more info and the latest updates, please join the "We Have A Dream Too! Facebook
Group"
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40044397394

and also to PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ON to ALL your friends.

***MLK Day Sign-Making Party/Meeting***
Saturday, January 17, 2009
At 1:00pm
Location:
Jewel's Catch One
4067 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019

http://www.heretostaycoalition.org