SAVE Dade - News

TRAINING AND EDUCATION

SAVE Dade collaborates with Organizations United Together (OUT) to bring an intensive campaign training

We have come up with a plan, but it requires hard work by people committed to equality. Because of your dedication to equality for our community, we knew you needed to know about it

Number one, we have to get the Florida legislature to pass a statewide civil rights law that will protect gay and transgender people from discrimination. That is going to require teams of grassroots volunteers in every part of the state trained on how to effectively lobby their own legislator.

Number two, the ACLU is challenging the gay adoption ban in court and we are helping them. We think they have a good shot at winning the case, but we expect the opposition to try to pass another constitutional amendment, this time on gay adoption, to undo our hard won victory in court. So we need teams of grassroots volunteers to talk to voters about the adoption issue to build a big database of supporters before the vote comes up.

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CALL TO ACTION

SAVE Dade needs you to volunteer!

With both Halloween and Election Day quickly approaching, now more than ever SAVE Dade needs you to get committed --both figuratively and literally.

Our 15th annual Halloween event, Asylum, still needs dedicated volunteers to sign up to help ensure the success of this event. This year is shaping up to be our biggest and best ever event

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We have several very important elections coming up and will conduct phone banks in support of our endorsed candidates. We will be also be holding a satellite phone bank to help Equality Maine identify pro-marriage equality voters and urge them to get out and vote.

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	COMMUNITY EVENTS
	Roc Out Loud Music, Spoken Word, Community Speakers & More October 23, 2009 at 8:00pm The Wallfllower Gallery

	FAIR VISITATION COMMITTEE
	SAVE Dade continues to work with Jackson Health Systems to ensure patient visitation rights for LBGT families Despite the recent United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruling that Jackson Memorial Hospital had no obligation to allow visitors to see patients, and that that there was no obligation to provide patients' families, healthcare surrogates, or visitors with access to patients in their trauma unit, SAVE Dade continues to work with the hospital to review and enhance its visitation policies. Beth Littrell, staff attorney at Lambda Legal's Southern Regional Office in Atlanta, who has handled the case for the Langbehn-Pond family, said: "The court's decision paints a tragically stark picture of how vulnerable same-sex couples and their families really are during times of crisis." The court has given the Langbehn-Pond family until October 16th to review the ruling and consider all legal options. click here for full story

CALL TO ACTION

Share your outrage against anti-gay group

By now you may have already learned of the forthcoming performance of a Reggae musician by the name of Buju Banton. Mr Banton is booked at Miami's James L. Knight Center, a City of Miami owned property in Downtown Miami.

His alleged "hit song" is titled "boom bye bye" which as difficult as it has been to listen clearly sings the praises and formulated the manner of killing our gay brothers and sisters.

A despicable outrage would be an appropriate description of this outlandish song and the song writer. That in this day and age such an appalling performance be permitted on the City of Miami property makes one ponder yet how far we in our community must suffer such insults.

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	SECTION

POLITICAL

Endorsements for
November 3rd

City of Miami Beach
-Matti Bower
-Jerry Libbin
-Sherry Roberts

City of Miami
-Joe Sanchez Mayor
-Pedro R. Diaz
-Michelle Spence-Jones

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	MIAMI BEACH
	City of Miami Beach passes first reading of improved Human Rights Ordinance, 7-0 Miami Beach, October 14, 2009 - The City of Miami Beach today unanimously passed the first reading of a Human Rights Ordinance revision designed to strengthen and improve its original Human Rights Ordinance, first passed in 1992. While the City of Miami Beach was the very first in South Florida to adopt such an Ordinance 17 years ago, other municipalities have passed even stronger and better laws in the intervening years. Therefore, SAVE Dade has worked in collaboration with Commissioner Victor Diaz and the City Attorney's office to draft revisions that mirror the language in the proposed Florida Civil Rights Bill. "We are very pleased by the unanimous vote on the first reading of this revised ordinance," said CJ Ortuno, Executive Director of SAVE Dade. click here for full story