Entries from SFist tagged with 'rights'
October 8, 2008
Leah and Barb from Stop8.org on Vimeo. This news is, of course, insane, but a new poll indicates that Prop 8 is pulling ahead. If it wins, then a group of Utah Mormons will have seized control of the California Constitution, giving themselves the power to veto any California marriage they want. Like we said: it's insane. So, what can you do? Plenty. Start by calling everyone you know RIGHT NOW to tell them......
Continue Reading "Prop 8 Numbers Flip: Now the Marriage Ban is Winning"September 11, 2008
Prop 8 would stop healthy, committed couples from marrying, and it sucks. Fortunately, everyone knows that it sucks -- its opponents include the Governor, various mayors, elected judges, school boards, Democrats and Republicans, city councils, Jews, Mormons, Anglicans, oh and also a majority of Californians. So where are the yes-on-8 people getting their money? From out-of-state interlopers. A group called "Californians Against Hate" released a list of the major donors to the "Yes on......
Continue Reading "Foreigners Attempting to Seize Control of California Constitution"August 9, 2008
"Simon Blint, Director of Visitor Relations at the SFMOMA is a first rate asshole." And so begins Bay Area photographer and blogger Thomas Hawk's most recent entry about being physically thrown out of SF MOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) for having the unmitigated gall to snap this image within the touristy downtown museum. It seems SF MOMA has, or had, a strict no-photography policy. Hawk goes on to say that said ban......
Continue Reading "SF MOMA's Director of Visitor Relations Has Vistor/Blogger Physically Ejected"