[Seattle-editorial] Article: An Aisle Seat - Same Sex Partnerships and America

Sat Sep 27 17:28:35 PDT 2003

Thanks.  I liked this piece as well but felt it needed some kind of Seattle angle to make it good for the feature page.  (Not that everything is local; it seems to be Seattle or some general theme.) Actually we could use a place for local and national/international news.  You'll find that there are a lot of frustrations in the current web site--we're extremely limited in how we can manipulate it-- and update it!

One note I went to a friends and we looked at the Seattle site and it looked awful -- none of the graphics came up!  I was showing him how to post to the newswire and the link for publishing didn't show up!  I just had to point "well it should be there."  It did link to the publishing site.  So we badly need to update the site and ensure that it's not too high end but assessible to all computers.  

As far as hiding, with whatever new system; it would definitely be great to have a place for it to be known which editor hid an article and a comment on why.  For me it's just too time consuming to hid something and have to post it to the group; we are not cleaning up the newswire fast enough and in my opinion that extra step is why.  If we all had the luxury to sit around and debate and discuss posts that would be grand; but we don't.  That said I'll step aside on this issue.  But I think it's a shame that we weren't able to move forward on this.  Bascally we have just reaffirmed a policy and practice that hasn't worked in the past and that will likely continue to break down and not work in the future.

Judy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheelanagig at juno.com [mailto:sheelanagig at juno.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 12:30 PM
> To: vsea75 at hotmail.com
> Cc: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Seattle-editorial] Article: An Aisle Seat - Same Sex	Partnerships and America
> 
> This is such a weird article for the IMC, I would ask it go far down the
> list of features if posted as it is not that important. It actually Is
> important, but there are other things more pressing going on in my
> opinion. I am writing a piece on practical protesting, in conjunction
> with an announcement of Oct 22 protests coming up and the StolenLives
> Project. I will send that down in a day or two....Anyway, I am not
> attached to this gay marriage article being posted. I just thought it is
> so rare the IMC addresses gay news issues, even tho Seattle has a huge
> gay populace....the AB205 story is, of course, posted on the San Fran
> IMC...it seems Seattle and San Fran both have large gay populations, so
> it is relevant, but again, it is not one of my more pressing
> stories....also, that story is already in print in a Monterey/SCruz
> newspaper, The Manifesto News. But I think most folks up here do not know
> it just happened! Anyway, I do not care re this article either way.
> 
> kirst
> 
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 02:40:29 -0700 "nathaniel t" <vsea75 at hotmail.com>
> writes:
> > "Approve," I guess.  Does it need a title & sub?
> > 
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: sheelanagig at juno.com
> > To: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
> > Subject: [Seattle-editorial] Article: An Aisle Seat - Same Sex 
> > Partnerships 
> > and America
> > Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:46:12 -0700
> > 
> > I have also posted this article to the free posting area and am
> > submitting it for review for the features part of the front page...
> > kirsten
> > 
> > <P>What are the differences between registered same-sex domestic
> > partnerships, and legally married couples, in California? The major 
> > areas
> > of inequity, and concern, to same-sex partners include those of 
> > child
> > custody and child/spousal support, rights to make funeral 
> > arrangements,
> > community property rights, mutual responsibility for debts. And 
> > those
> > civil rights will finally be accessible to registered same-sex 
> > domestic
> > partners now that Measure AB 205 (Goldberg, Los Angeles) passed in 
> > the
> > California legislature (<a
> >
> href="http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html">www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.
> > html</A>).
> > 
> > <P>Measure AB 205, the Domestic Partnership Rights and 
> > Responsibilities
> > Act of 2003, was first proposed by Equality California, (<a
> > href="http://www.eqca.org">www.eqca.org</A>), a grassroots 
> > organization
> > with offices in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Equality
> > California says that one in every six same-sex couples reside in
> > California, and promoted this as an issue of importance to the 
> > populace
> > and legislature of California. But this legislation will also be a
> > landmark regarding equal rights for same-sex couples in the US. The
> > Massachusetts Supreme Court is also handing down a decision on Same 
> > Sex
> > Marriage very shortly. This is quickly spreading to become a 
> > national
> > issue, and California is leading the way. Since the inception of the
> > same-sex and senior opposite-sex couples registry in California 
> > three
> > years ago, 20,000 couples have registered. AB 205 will give that 
> > registry
> > some backbone. Unfortunately, these changes will only affect 
> > California
> > state benefits. Federal benefits for same-sex partners are still not
> > recognized. Click here for the <a
> > href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33679">full
> > story</A>...
> > 
> > 
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