Courage Campaign
Encyclopedia
The Courage Campaign is a California
-based human rights campaign and progressive
advocacy organization with more than 700,000 followers, working on a variety of causes, including the repeal of Proposition 8
, California budget reforms,, and ballot procedures. The chair and founder of the campaign is Rick Jacobs.
The campaign relies heavily on online and grassroots contact methods, and in early February released a four-minute online advertising film featuring same-sex couples, each making the same request: "Don't divorce us." It was viewed more than 500,000 times in a week. The video is accompanied by the song Fidelity
by Regina Spektor
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California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
-based human rights campaign and progressive
Progressivism in the United States
Progressivism in the United States is a broadly based reform movement that reached its height early in the 20th century and is generally considered to be middle class and reformist in nature. It arose as a response to the vast changes brought by modernization, such as the growth of large...
advocacy organization with more than 700,000 followers, working on a variety of causes, including the repeal of Proposition 8
California Proposition 8 (2008)
Proposition 8 was a ballot proposition and constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 state elections...
, California budget reforms,, and ballot procedures. The chair and founder of the campaign is Rick Jacobs.
The campaign relies heavily on online and grassroots contact methods, and in early February released a four-minute online advertising film featuring same-sex couples, each making the same request: "Don't divorce us." It was viewed more than 500,000 times in a week. The video is accompanied by the song Fidelity
Fidelity (song)
"Fidelity" is an Anti-folk song from singer-songwriter Regina Spektor released in 2006 in the album Begin to Hope. The song marked Spektor's first Billboard 100 entry and is her most successful track to date. Despite a release date of September 25 , the song did not hit the charts until December...
by Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor
Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered in New York City's East Village.-Early life:...
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Organs
- Courage Campaign Institute—educational arm for volunteer activist members.
- Courage Campaign Civic Action—"works to influence the nomination, election, appointment, or defeat of candidates for public office."
- Courage Campaign Issues Committee—active on statewide ballot campaigns, registered with the California Fair Political Practices CommissionCalifornia Fair Political Practices CommissionSUMMARYThe California Fair Political Practices Commission is the government body that enforces political campaign, lobbying, and conflict of interest laws in the state of California, similar to what the Federal Elections Commission does at the federal level...
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Projects
- Prop 8 Trial Tracker—a blog which covers proceedings of the Perry v. SchwarzeneggerPerry v. SchwarzeneggerPerry v. Schwarzenegger is a federal lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California challenging the federal constitutionality of Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot initiative that amended the California Constitution to restrict marriage to opposite-sex couples,...
.- NOM Tour Tracker—a video blog covering the National Organization for MarriageNational Organization for MarriageThe National Organization for Marriage is a nonprofit political association established in 2007 to work against legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States, specifically to pass California Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California...
's Summer for Marriage Tour and interviews with attendees.
- NOM Tour Tracker—a video blog covering the National Organization for Marriage
- No More Dirty Tricks—campaign against state-wide right-wing movement for electoral college vote-counting in presidential elections.
- Block Blackwater—campaign against establishment of BlackwaterBlackwater WorldwideXe Services LLC, better known by its former names, Blackwater USA and Blackwater Worldwide, is a private military company founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark.. Xe is currently the largest of the U.S. State Department's three private security contractors...
mercenary base near PotreroPotrero, CaliforniaPotrero is a census-designated place in the Mountain Empire area of southeastern San Diego County, California.-Location:State Route 94 connects Potrero by road west to San Diego and east to Campo. Potrero is Spanish for 'pasture land'...
. - Camp Courage—year-long series of local two-day conferences for both new and seasoned activists. Operated by the CCI, and inspired by the "Camp Obama" series of activist-training conferences during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaignBarack Obama presidential campaign, 2008Barack Obama, then junior United States Senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007. On August 27, 2008, he was declared nominee of the Democratic Party for the 2008 presidential election...
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