Prop 8 The Musical

What are you doing right now? Yes, right now! Right this very second, what is the activity in which you are currently engaged?

Don't tell me what it is!!!

I want you to STOP doing whatever it is you are doing just for four minutes and watch this video!

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WeHo Prop 8 Protest 11/12/08

I got to the rally a little early this time. Crowds started forming at the corners of Santa Monica/San Vicente. I chatted with a nice couple and we waved peace signs at honking cars. As more and more people arrived we started chanting, trying to sync ourselves up with the street corner diagonal to us but we couldn't hear each other so one of the guys leading the chant started doing sign language. You're awesome, sign language guy!



Then we noticed one car with a mother and two little boys that kept circling the block over and over honking and cheering for us. I wanted so badly to give her gas money but I didn't have any cash. During the march, they kept showing up on the sidewalk cheering us on and we would give them high fives and cheer back at them. I am in awe of this wonderful family. While so many parents are teaching hate to their kids, here is a woman who is teaching her boys to love and support their fellow man in times of injustice and hardship. Whoever you are, Ma'am I applaud you. You are wonderful and made of epic awesome which is the highest compliment you can receive from a Nerdfighter <3.


My signs started bending and got a bit tattered and ripped so I had to do some duct tape damage repair. I need to find some better support for them for Saturday's rally. For those who don't know, there will be a nationwide protest rally at L.A City Hall (200 N. Spring St.) from 10:30am to 2:30pm. If you don't live in Los Angeles, go HERE to find the location for your city!



Highlights of the march itself:
- People cheering us on from sidewalks, balconies, windows, cafes, restaurants and cars.
- A Chinese restaurant employee running into the crowd with a huge pot of fortune cookies for us!
- The "epic family of awesome" as I have now dubbed them.
- The awesome protesters surrounding me.
- This sign that said "I pity tha fool! Who voted yes on 8!"


- Standing outside of El Coyote Mexican restaurant (the owner/manager's daughter donated $100 to the "yes on prop 8" campaign) and chanting "shame on you!"

I was up in front when the march started and somehow ended up in the very back. After the march, I headed to a cafe for a nice chicken cesar salad and a Mr. Pibb. A night well spent.

President Obama

I am overjoyed that Barack Obama is our new President. As a Japanese female who was born and raised in Hawaii, my expectations regarding my future were changed Tuesday night. I mean, it isn't as though I thought I would never amount to anything. It's just that seeing Barack Obama make it all the way to the white house has convinced me that I can be anything I want to be.

Unfortunately, when I was in high school, I slacked on applying for scholarships. I watched as all of my friends went off to college and I moved to California to take an 8 week film course. Now that my career goal has changed from being a filmmaker to being an author/screenwriter, I find myself wishing I had attended a college like Sarah Lawrence. In high school, I was an officer of a community service club. If President Obama's plans for education had been in order back in 2004, I'd be a college graduate today. My immediate future plans include moving back to Hawaii and working as a bartender so that I can save up enough to maybe enroll in a writer's workshop at Sarah Lawrence.

But this year's election ended up being bittersweet for me when I learned that Prop 8 had passed in California. It amazes and angers me greatly that such a high sum of money had been put into the proposition of hate when that money could have gone to people in Bangladesh or to higher pay for teachers or the many other issues in this world worthy of support. It saddens me that even in 2008, human beings are still having their rights stripped away. Even worse, our GLBT brothers, sisters, friends, and family members had their right to marry stripped away after it had finally been granted to them. I am ashamed of the state of California as I should be and as everyone living in California should be. Florida also passed "amendment 2" which also takes the right to marry away from human beings! For the love of Buddha! It makes me want to cry and I have! I cannot fully celebrate this election until everyone has the right to marry the person they love.