Burnt Orange Report

Fighting Prop 2 in Houston and Austin

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

From a comment left on a post of Kuff's about a previous BOR post.

The Houston Equal Rights Alliance (currently the Houston arm of the No Nonsense in November grassroots campaign) is having a blockwalk this Saturday morning to recruit volunteers and talk to people about why they should vote against Constitutional Amendment 2.

We're meeting at 10 am this Saturday, August 27th, at the GLBT Community Center at 3400 Montrose in Suite 207. We're in the building across from Kroger and in the same building as the SkyBar.

If you support equality for everybody in Texas, call 713-522-4372 to sign up for the block walk this Saturday, or e-mail me at goodland@rice.edu.

PinkDome also has some humorous analysis of other analysis on Prop 2.

A report from here in Austin...

Thanks to everybody who attended the joint meeting last Sat. w/ the Austin Association of Social Justice and the No Nonsense in November campaign. We had 100 people sign in, we jived as a group and we continued to gain ground and momentum to fight this crazy measure. How do we know?

We signed up 43 NEW volunteers in these areas: blockwalkers, phone bankers, houseparties, faith outreach, vigils, AASJ website, and campus organizing.

We gathered tons of new pledges, distributed even more blank pledge cards and instructed everyone on the use of these simple but powerful weapons of goodwill.

We deputized 49 new registrars so that’s a bunch of us now able to target and register new friends to vote! Thank you Bruce Elfant for your grace and generosity.

And, drumroll, please, with a simple ask at the meeting we raised $4,888 for the NNN campaign! With Mother Eagan sponsorships, that’s almost $10,000 raised in Austin before we’ve even had a fundraiser!