petition (fwd)

["Natalie D. Yarwood" <yarwoond@whitman.edu>]

Please sign this.  

<<I believe that the current wave of anti-gay violence and anti-gay laws
is precisely equivalent to the demonization of Jews in Germany in the
30s. I do not make this comparison lightly, but when fascist legislators
rush to forbid localities from offering full citizenship to gays and lesbians,
when the state of Nebraska forces a 14-year-old boy so often into
foster homes that beat him for being gay that he finally kills himself, and
when Salt Lake City forbids its youth to enjoy ANY extra-curricular
activities in order to forbid straight and gay youth from meeting as
respectful equals -- how can we do any less than respond to such
petitions as this?

<<If you want to end apartheid in America, please sign and forward this
petition.>>


On February 20, 1996, the Salt Lake City School Board voted to ban all
clubs in order to keep a Gay/Lesbian/Straight Alliance from forming at
East High School. Despite numerous phone calls and countless letters,
the board seems to remain recalcitrant.

Salt Lake City will host the 2002 Winter Olympics with the slogan "The
World is Welcome Here." The Salt Lake City School Board's decision calls
into question how much of the "World" is truly "Welcome" here.
The Citizens' Alliance for Hate Free Schhols, a project of the Utah
Human Rights Coalition, calls on all supporters of the rights of young
people to have equal access to educational opportunities and safe
schools to sign the following petition.

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION AND THEN FORWARD TO SOMEONE ELSE.

IF YOU ARE A TENTH PERSON TO SIGN YOUR NAME, FORWARD THE
LIST BACK TO ME: cdorchard@earthlink.net (i.e. the 10th, 20th, 30th
person will forward this message to me in progress). I will compile the
petition and send it to the board members.

Target Deadline: June 4, 1996

PETITION TO THE SALT LAKE CITY SCHOOL BOARD

"We, the undersigned, support the efforts by area high school students
to organize non-curricular clubs and alliances designed to increase
understanding and good will among the high school population and the
general public as well. We call on the Salt Lake City School Board to
resist all illegal attempts at intimidation and coercion to deprive students
of their legally guaranteed rights. We request that they take immediate
action to reverse their decision of February 20, 1996, to ban all clubs."

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Name
E-Mail Address (Not Obligatory)
Place of Residence

>--------------------------------------------------
1
Charlene Orchard
Salt Lake City, UT

2
John Spear
GLSTNJohn@aol.com
NY, NY

3
Bob Latham
BobLatham@aol.com
Richmond, CA

4
Mary L. Gray mlgray@sfsu.edu
San Francisco, CA.

5
William B. Lacy wlacy@warren-wilson.edu
Minneapolis, MN

6
Rad M. Probst rprobst@scf.usc.edu
Los Angeles, CA

7
Joshua A. Sonnen jsonnen@usc.edu
Los Angeles, CA

8
Larry Nicholas a-larryn@microsoft.com
Seattle Washington

9
Denys Howard
Seattle, Washington

10
Paul Atkinson moebius@seanet.com
Vancouver, WA

________
1
Sheridan Botts sbotts@seattleu.edu
Seattle, WA

2
Natasha Senjanovic cfoxee@seattleu.edu
Seattle, WA

3
Thomas Watson twatson@wolfenet.com
Seattle, WA

4
Jennifer Becker
Beckerjl@whitman.edu
Walla Walla, WA

5
Natalie Yarwood
yarwoond@whitman.edu
Walla Walla, WA

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