EPCC News

May 28, 2008

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Contact person: Jerry Esguerra

ALL OUT TO THE STREETS TO PROTEST BIGOTRY AND HATE!

Los Angeles- Acting in unison people in more than 100 cities all over the United States went out to the streets to protest the conservative California Supreme Court decision that upheld the bigoted Prop. 8 in an overwhelming vote of 6-1 last May 26.

In Los Angeles, the epicenter of the right to marriage movement in the nation, more than 10,000 people marched from Westwood to Hollywood/Highland intersection and held a peaceful but boisterous rally there until 11:00 in the evening.

Led by ANSWER Coalition LA, different groups marched from different points of the city. Westwood was again a focus when more than 100 students from UCLA marched from their campus to do a sit –in at the Westwood/ Wilshire intersection.

At the Highland/Hollywood intersection, tourists and protestors holding signs and banners mixed together as early as 7:00 PM and then occupied the intersection at around 8: 00 PM waiting from the marchers from Westwood/San Vicente to arrive.

At around 9:30 the protestors after briefly occupying the corner of Sunset Ave. arrived at the Highland intersection. Its vanguard ran towards the intersection and joined with more than a thousand people at the area since 7:00 in the evening.

Meanwhile the AJLPP condemns the decision as “ oppressive and tyrannical law that upholds the status quo attacks the principle of human rights and civil rights. It is turning back the hands of time and all the gains that we have fought for decades.

The AJLPP asked all freedom living individuals and organizations to come out to the streets and protests such onerous and tyrannical decision. Let us show these small group of bigoted people cannot decide for the people. The AJLPP called on all to go out to the streets and protest. “

An injury to one is an injury to all. Defend civil rights and individual freedom Marriage equality, now!