SAME sees attacks on any oppressed class of people as part of a ingrained system that works to divide and conquer working class people--lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people, people of color, immigrants, women, people of minority faith, people with disabilities--who otherwise could and often do naturally find solidarity among one-another, and who with the right level of consciousness can learn to act in unison for the social justice of all people against the forces that try to oppress us.

Pastor Jim Garlow is hosting a major anti-gay event on March 6th at his Rancho San Diego Skyline Mega-Church! Garlow is widely understood to have driven the Prop 8 campaing locally, and promotes the idea that homosexuality is a "sin" and that a person can be "cured" by embracing his doctrine of Christianity. The "Ex-Gay Ministry" parades around a tiny handful of speakers who claim to have been "cured", but it is widely known that people who undergo these browbeatings more often than not end up feeling more depressed, more conflicted, and more self hating.

Join us February 4th for a protest action to spread the word about the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that has been introduced in Uganda.We will meet around 4:50 pm to bullhorn and wave signs and let the people know about this horrible legislation. This event is also running in conjunction with Equality Across America's protest of the "Family's" ( a U.S.-led right wing group with more than 10,000 cells worldwide) National Prayer Breakfast.

“Americans who believe in the words of the Declaration of Independence, in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in the 14th Amendment, and in the Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and equal dignity before the law cannot sit by while this wrong continues. This is not a conservative or liberal issue; it is an American one, and it is time that we, as Americans, embraced it.”- Theodore B. Olson, Co-Council to the plaintiff’s in the federal challenge to Proposition 8. 

WHERAS SAME unequivocally supports the cause of organized Labor, and the right of workers to unite to resist attacks by often exploitative and discriminatory employers
 
WHERAS 10 News has been known, in its effort to deny its workforce a fair contract, to bait and intimidate employees on the basis of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, (as well as race, gender and age)
 
WHERAS a local of the Communication Workers of America, NABET-CWA Local 54, is building a campaign to direct consumers away from businesses who advertise with 10 News.  They have also called upon the activist community to no longer issue press releases or grant interviews to 10 News
 
WHERAS SAME wants to be a leader in the community in winning support for this boycott and for the Labor movement as a whole