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You Can’t Turn the Lights Off
December 25, 2010
We at P8TT are taking Christmas through New Year’s off. Golden Oldies will run in the place of regular posts. Regularly scheduled programming will resume on January 3rd–Adam Bink
From January 31st, 2010. Original here.
By Julia Rosen
A lot of people have been moved by the Prop 8 Trial and this little website. Count the actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (3rd Rock from the Sun and 500 Days of Summer) and his production company HitRECord among them. They were so inspired that they created this Schoolhouse Rock’ish animated video nearly overnight and premiered it at Sundance.
We just aired it here at Camp Courage Central Coast in Santa Barbara to nearly 200 people who are all here for an intensive two-day training designed to teach the principles and skills of community organizing to activists working on marriage equality. People were tapping their feet and singing along to it.
Hopefully you will enjoy it as much as they did.
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15 Comments Leave a Comment
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Gregory in Salt Lake | December 25, 2010 at 1:11 am
Hi Julia! Thank you for taking a moment to post this upbeat video. As I reviewed I tried to see it though NOM's perspective…..doesn't seem to matter with the Nombies…they would prob find this video as exploiting children as much as they did with the FCKH8 one…
Cheers to all who watch this video and the most important messages it relays! subs
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Mandi | December 25, 2010 at 1:13 am
Subsribing )0(
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Gregory in Salt Lake | December 25, 2010 at 1:22 am
WOOT! –to Mandi and her day w/OUT relatives!!
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Mandi | December 25, 2010 at 1:24 am
Thank you gregory!
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elliom | December 25, 2010 at 1:25 am
Awesome! Great work Joseph and Gang!
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elliom | December 25, 2010 at 1:35 am
Oh, and Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Kate | December 25, 2010 at 1:59 am
OT again …. I made a couple of printing changes in my Tanzania book, so the new link is now attached to my name, for anyone interested. Haven't figured out how to also have it point to my Yellowstone book…..
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Kathleen | December 25, 2010 at 2:03 am
It's almost like having Julia back here, seeing this old post of hers.
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Richard A. Jernigan | December 25, 2010 at 2:26 am
That is so true! YOU CANNOT turn the light off once it has been turned on. You can ignore it, you can look away from it, you can put your sunglasses on, you can try to hide from it, but you cannot turn it off. And eventually, the light will come on for you, you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. And once the truth has set you free, you will no longer be able to deny that two people who love each other and are of age can legally get married and have their marriage recognized in court and other legal jurisdictions.
Once that light comes on for you, you will rejoice at EVERY wedding, not only those of heterosexual couples.
Once that light comes on, you will celebrate EVERY family, and you will fight to protect ALL children.
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Richard A. Jernigan | December 25, 2010 at 2:26 am
Forgot to click the box–AGAIN!
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Gregory in Salt Lake | December 25, 2010 at 3:47 am
aaaawwwww…somehow I thought she WAS the one who posted it… Positive thoughts to you Julia wherever you are!
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Sagesse | December 25, 2010 at 3:54 am
An oldie but goodie
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Rhie | December 25, 2010 at 5:51 am
Watching
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Ronnie | December 26, 2010 at 12:08 am
I love living in the future…this video never gets old for me…..<3…Ronnie
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LostBoyJim | December 26, 2010 at 3:10 am
Cute video, nice message, but I don't like that the facts are not really clear in the video. The *state* didn't try to stop broadcast of the trial. The *STATE* didn't want to interveine. It was NOM and the other proponents that interviened.
The reason this is important is that this video makes the "biz-as-usual" government look like the bad guys from start to finish: Prop 8, protesting, and then SCOTUS holding up the show. But the state didn't care, and the state government shouldn't had to shoulder the blame with NOM.
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