News Update Contact: Fred Karger
July 17, 2008 619-592-2008
March on
Just wanted to send out a reminder to you about our kickoff Demonstration and Rally Against Hate tomorrow in front of the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel www.marchonmanchester.com We will officially announce a boycott of Doug Manchester’s San Diego Hotels.
www.boycottmanchesterhotels.com
Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel
Friday, July 18th, 1:00 pm
Doug Manchester, CEO of the Manchester Financial Group of
“We feel that if Mr. Manchester and any other individuals give huge amounts of money to take away our freedom to marry, then the LGBT community, our families and our friends should fight back against these purveyors of hate,” said Fred Karger, Campaign Manager of the newly formed Californians Against Hate.
We have already received a tremendous amount of new coverage from all over the globe. Below is a partial list of coverage since I last sent out an update including a story by Rebecca Cathcart in today’s New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/us/17gay.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
More News Coverage
New York Times — http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/us/17gay.html?ref=us
NBC 7/39 — http://www.nbcsandiego.com/politics/16888205/detail.html
The Advocate — http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2008/07/11/1
Blogs
Gay. com July 11 — http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2008/07/11/1
Gay.com July 16– http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2008/07/16/5
Bay Area Blogger — http://www.baybigr.com/?p=382
S D Urban —
http://sdurban.com/blog/2008/07/protest-against-papa-bigot.html
Pink News –
American Family News — http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=177340
Shallow Legal Scholar — http://shallowlegalscholar.blogspot.com/2008/07/hyatt-is-homophobe.html
Ravenhurst — http://ravenhurst-ravenhurst.blogspot.com/2008/07/doug-manchester-owns-san-diegos-hyatt.html
Beyond Chron, San Francisco — http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Gay_Labor_Coalition_Boycotts_Manchester_Hyatt_5862.html
DesertGay Speak — http://desertspeak.blogspot.com/2008/07/boycott-of-san-diego-hyatt-called-for.html
added you to our blogroll!
The Irvine PR company that runs the “Yes on 8” media campaign is holding an Open House on:
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
5:30 p.m – 8:30 p.m.
2020 Main Street
Irvine, CA 92614
All those opposed to Prop 8 are invited to attend and/or rally at 2020 Main on August 14th.
Details here:
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6364
Or here:
http://www.calitics.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6587
And here:
http://chinoblanco.blogspot.com/
Cheers,
Chino