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West Adams/South LA Equality Team Presents: The Country Club Park Friendship Walk (Canvass) (Equality Team Event)
Hi, Everyone -

Earlier this month on April 3, Iowa legalized gay marriage. On April 7, Vermont legalized it - over the governor's threatened veto - and Washington, DC voted to recognize gay marriages from other states as they prepare their own marriage equality proposal to Congress.

Now is the time, with so much support and momentum, for us to double our efforts to restore marriage equality in California. Will you please walk with us the afternoon of April 25 to talk about marriage equality with our neighbors in Country Club Park?

We are the West Adams/South Los Angeles Neighborhood Equality Team and we're doing outreach to put real human faces and stories behind this movement. We're particularly excited about working with such a multicultural mix of gay and straight activists who have come from all over the city to join our neighborhood team.

We believe the hands that shake our hands today will soon punch ballots in support of marriage equality - or in support of our state judges if they rule on the side of justice and then are targeted for removal from their seats.

Dr. King said,"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice." We WILL win this fight. In our lifetimes. Because we believed, we united, and we took action!

* Country Club Park Friendship Walk *
A door-to-door day for marriage equality
Saturday, April 25th, 2009

11:30am-1:00pm Gathering and Training (attendance optional)

1:00pm-3:00pm DOOR-TO-DOOR CANVASSING
3:00pm-4:00pm Dialogue & Refreshments
Time:
Host: Derrick Mathis
Contact Phone: 323-362-8572
Location:
Jewel's Catch One (Los Angeles, CA)
4067 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
Maps:
Directions: Jewel's Catch One is 2 blocks east of Crenshaw Blvd. on the north side of the street between Norton Ave. and 12th Ave. Ample parking on the Pico Blvd. or you can park in Catch One's parking lot located at the back of the club. Just enter the driveway that's adjacent left of the club entrance.
About County Equality Teams
  • Based on the volunteer-driven Neighborhood Team model that proved successful during the Obama campaign, our Neighborhood Equality Teams provide the opportunity for people to be involved at a local level in this important movement for equality.
  • The mission of our Equality Teams is as follows:
    • Establish an active and visible presence in the community for marriage equality.
    • Develop relationships with local elected officials and supportive organizations to create an opportunity for sharing resources and building local power.
    • Coordinate regular voter contact actions - including canvasses, phone-banks, tabling at community events, and registering new voters.
    • Represent the community in important state-wide actions, trainings, and conference calls focused on marriage equality.
  • Over the past six months, local activists have established 44 Equality Teams in 23 counties.  Those teams have hosted more than 140 events, knocked on thousands of doors and have held countless successful and moving conversations with undecided California voters.

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