From owner-amend2-info@bruno.cs.colorado.edu Wed May 26 13:39:21 1993 Return-Path: Received: from bruno.cs.colorado.edu by mail1.its.rpi.edu (4.1/SMHUB41); id AA24382; Wed, 26 May 93 13:39:16 EDT for buckmr Received: by bruno.cs.colorado.edu id AA06382 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for amend2-info-list); Tue, 25 May 1993 23:55:34 -0600 Received: from ucsu.Colorado.EDU by bruno.cs.colorado.edu with SMTP id AA06377 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Tue, 25 May 1993 23:55:31 -0600 Received: by ucsu.Colorado.EDU id AA15350 (5.65c+/IDA-1.4.4/CNS-2.1 for amend2-info-real@cs.colorado.edu); Tue, 25 May 1993 23:55:08 -0600 Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 23:55:08 -0600 Message-Id: <199305260555.AA15350@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> From: "M.A. WAND, OFFICE OF FOREIGN ADMISSIONS, 492-2446"@ucsu.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: doherty@ucsu.colorado.edu To: amend2-info@cs.colorado.edu Subject: Colorado products dumped in protest Status: U Gazette Telegraph, Colorado Springs May 15, 1993, pg B13 Gay activists march in East Associated Press NEW YORK--To protest Colorado's anti-gay amendment, a group of gay activists marched through Greenwich Village on Thursday and dumped boxes of Colorado products into the Hudson River. It was a symbolic dumping, however, and the boxes were quickly retrieved so as not to add to the pollution. Chanting "We're here, we're queer, we won't drink Coors beer," a band of about 150 protesters held a rally in Sheridan Square, near the site of the famous Stonewall riots that heralded the start of the gay movement in the late 1960s. Colorado's Amendment 2, passed by voters in the state in November, voided existing civil rights protection in jobs and housing for gay men and lesbians in Denver, Aspen and Boulder. It also bars other towns from passing ordinances that provide civil rights protection. New York City Councilman Tom Duane, City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman and Terry Schleder, director and founder of Boycott Colorado Inc, were among the speakers who urged a boycott of Colorado products. Boxes of Coors beer, Celestial Seasonings tea and Holly Sugar were held up at the rally, called the Colorado Tea Party, as three products made by the state's biggest companies. Schleder thanked New Yorkers for their support of the Colorado boycott. She pointed out a list of 107 restaurants in the city that no longer sell Colorado products. "It is a black issue, a feminist issue, a civil rights issue," she said. "Now it's spreading." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corrections, new info, and requests for info: amend2-info@cs.colorado.edu Administrative comments : amend2-mod@cs.colorado.edu General Discussion : amend2-discuss@cs.colorado.edu Boulder/Denver area local meetings/events : amend2-local@cs.colorado.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to a list, send mail to Majordomo@cs.colorado.edu, with subscribe in the BODY of the message. For multiple lists, use multiple lines.