[Viva] Fwd: Eighty-five world leaders agree with us

Thu Jun 16 19:10:12 PDT 2011

I emailed them !

Missed your message.
Talk tonight?

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On 2011-06-16, at 6:54 PM, Margarite Sanchez <margaritesanchez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Done!
> I sent an email. I copied and pasted the info from the script on the website. First I tried calling the number they give at  www.allout.org/call_UN but it was after hours and a bit confusing which extension to press. Has anyone else successfully called?
> margarite
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> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Tami Starlight <tamistarlight at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Andre and Jeremy, AllOut.org <info at allout.org>
> Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:26 AM
> Subject: Eighty-five world leaders agree with us
> To: Natalie Hill <nhill10 at gmail.com>
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> This Friday, the United Nations will vote on an historic resolution to protect LGBT rights. Call your ministry of foreign affairs and ask them to
> Vote YES
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> Dear Friend,
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> From social exclusion, to “corrective rape” of lesbians, to transphobic murders around the world, LGBT people are disproportionate victims of discrimination, violence and criminalization. It’s not right, but it’s also far from inevitable. We have a chance to change this story—if we act together in the next 24 hours.
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> On Friday, the United Nations will vote on an historic resolution to protect LGBT rights, sending a message at the highest level to countries that refuse to protect our ability to live and love freely. If it passes, it will commit the U.N. to present concrete steps to stop violence, torture, stigmatisation and abuse against people because of their sexuality or gender identity. 
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> The vote will come down to the wire and many nations are undecided.  It’s critical that the foreign office in your country hears from you right now. Will you call your ministry of foreign affairs and ask them to Vote YES on Friday?
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> It’s really easy to make a call and only takes 2 minutes.  You can find the number and a quick script, here:
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> www.allout.org/call_UN
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> This resolution won't end violence against LGBT people overnight, but it will send a forceful and long overdue message. The recognition of the right of all people to live and love freely by an organization as influential and powerful as the United Nations will create a shared global responsibility to eliminate state sanctioned violence and discrimination in every corner of the world.
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> There are many people who deny that violence against LGBT people is even a problem. This resolution will prove that this is a problem that cannot be ignored, and will compel the High Commissioner for Human Rights to run a comprehensive study exposing abuses against LGBT people around the world that are too often hidden from view. This landmark study will pave the way for the U.N to push for concrete steps that protect LGBT people.
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> We have less than 24 hours to make sure that countries vote YES to this historic resolution.  Will you take a minute to make a call to your foreign office? 
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> www.allout.org/call_UN
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> All the best and All Out,
> Andre, Erika, Guillaume, Jeremy, Joseph, Nita, Prerna, Oli, Tile, Wesley and the rest of the team at All Out
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> PS - We'd love to know how your call went. Reply to this email and let us know.
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> SOURCES:
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> UN Human Rights Council: A Stunning Development Against Violence
> http://act.allout.org/go/103?akid=118.212440.VNlTpM&t=7
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> AFP - More countries accepting homosexuality
> news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110530/sc_afp/ussocietygaystudyworld_20110530072555
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> Special Report. A better understanding of the struggle for gay rights around the world
> www.globalpost.com/international-gay-rights-movement
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> ILGA 2011 Report on State Sponsored Homophobia: Homo & Transphobia will soon be rejected just like sexism and racism
> www.ilga.org/ilga/en/article/mZ9yrEp19R
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> All Out is bringing people together in every corner of the planet and of every identity - lesbian, gay, straight, transgender and all that’s between and beyond - to build a world in which everyone can live freely and be embraced for who they are.
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