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NOW-NJ is a cosponsor for these events. Please consider attending the one closest to you and PLEASE pass on to other activists.
Elizabeth
From: Steven Goldstein
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:08 AM
Subject: SPRING 2004 NJ TOWN MEETINGS:
"EQUAL PEOPLE, EQUAL MARRIAGE:
Continuing All Roads to Justice"
Lambda Legal, in conjunction with the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition, the ACLU-NJ, HRC, Jersey Pride, Inc., PFLAG, NOW-NJ and more than 100 other organizations, announces its town meetings in April, May and June 2004, all free and open to the public.
THE SCHEDULE IS BELOW.
Thanks to your activism, New Jersey has a new domestic partnership law. We now continue All Roads to Justice and will next achieve marriage equality. For further information: Steven Goldstein with Lambda Legal, cell (917) 449-8918.
Thursday, April 15, 2004 at 7:00 pm in WESTFIELD
Temple Emanu-El, 756 East Broad Street.
CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK
A New Jersey native and one of the great orators in American political history.
Be there to welcome this civil rights hero home! Congressman Frank (D-MA) will talk about developments in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. His appearance is courtesy of PFLAG, to which we extend our gratitude.
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DIRECTIONS: enter your address and also 756 East Broad Street, Westfield, NJ.
Monday, May 17, 2004 at 7:00 pm in TRENTON
Trenton War Memorial, Lower Level Meeting Room, on Memorial Drive adjacent to the State Capitol.
YOUR LEGAL OPTIONS IN A CHANGING LEGAL LANDSCAPE
Information that will change your life -- the program hundreds of you have requested
in Trenton, central to all parts of the state
At this time of whirlwind legal change for the LGBTI community, experts will guide you through it all: With New Jersey's domestic partnership law taking affect this summer, how and where do we register? If we become domestic partners, would it affect our ability to marry in New Jersey later? If we get married in Massachusetts or Canada, or civil unioned in Vermont, would this affect our ability to become domestic partners or eventually to marry in New Jersey? Lawyers will be available to meet with couples after the town meeting.
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Saturday, June 5, 2004 at 7:30 pm in ASBURY PARK
Berkeley-Carteret Hotel, 1401 Ocean Avenue.
DINNER WITH THE PLAINTIFFS
Celebrate an historic year on the Saturday night of New Jersey Pride Weekend
A light dinner -- free and no reservations necessary -- and town meeting with the seven plaintiff couples in Lambda Legal's lawsuit for marriage equality in New Jersey at the Berkeley-Carteret, the official hotel of New Jersey Pride Weekend. Note: To accommodate the Saturday observant, dinner is at 7:30 pm and the town meeting begins shortly thereafter.
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DIRECTIONS: enter your address and also 1401 Ocean Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ.
Your participation in this campaign -- 4,091 New Jerseyans attended the 13 town meetings in 2003 -- resulted in an historic domestic partnership law.
With decision-makers watching, turnout meant everything then and it means everything now.
Please attend our 2004 town meetings and send a message: WE ARE EQUAL PEOPLE.
WE DESERVE EQUAL MARRIAGE. Please forward this e-mail to your family, friends, colleagues and members of your organization and/or congregation.
Please forward this e-mail to others even if you are receiving this second-hand.
E-mail organizing has been one of our most effective tools for defeating the right-wing -- as proved to be the case in our historic domestic partnership victory.
Warmly,
Steven Goldstein
with Lambda Legal
Cell (917) 449-8918
Goldstein@AttentionAmerica.com
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