News Update                                                                        Contact:  Fred Karger

July 17, 2008                                                                                     619-592-2008

March on Manchester Set for Tomorrow Friday, July 18^th at 1:00 pm

Just wanted to send out a reminder to you about our kickoff Demonstration and Rally Against Hate tomorrow in front of the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel  www.marchonmanchester.com   We will officially announce a boycott of Doug Manchester’s San Diego Hotels.

www.boycottmanchesterhotels.com

Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel

One Market Place @ Harbor Drive

San Diego 92101

Friday, July 18^th, 1:00 pm

Doug Manchester, CEO of the Manchester Financial Group of San Diego dougmanchester.com contributed $125,000 to qualify an Initiative Constitutional Amendment, Proposition 8 for the November 4^th ballot which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman.

“We feel that if Mr. Manchester and any other individuals give huge amounts of money to take away our freedom to marry, then the LGBT community, our families and our friends should fight back against these purveyors of hate,” said Fred Karger, Campaign Manager of the newly formed Californians Against Hate.

We have already received a tremendous amount of new coverage from all over the globe.  Below is a partial list of coverage since I last sent out an update including a story by Rebecca Cathcart in today’s New York Times: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/us/17gay.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

More News Coverage

New York Times – http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/us/17gay.html?ref=us

Los Angeles Times –  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-boycott16-2008jul16,0,7045685.story

NBC 7/39 – http://www.nbcsandiego.com/politics/16888205/detail.html

The Advocate – http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2008/07/11/1

Blogs

Gay. com July 11 – http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2008/07/11/1

Gay.com July 16– http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2008/07/16/5

Bay Area Blogger – http://www.baybigr.com/?p=382

S D Urban –

http://sdurban.com/blog/2008/07/protest-against-papa-bigot.html

Pink News – United Kingdom – http://www.pinknews.co.uk/aroundtheworld/2008/07/gay-boycott-urged-of-2-san-diego-hotels/

American Family News – http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=177340

Shallow Legal Scholar – http://shallowlegalscholar.blogspot.com/2008/07/hyatt-is-homophobe.html

Ravenhurst – http://ravenhurst-ravenhurst.blogspot.com/2008/07/doug-manchester-owns-san-diegos-hyatt.html

Beyond Chron, San Francisco – http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Gay_Labor_Coalition_Boycotts_Manchester_Hyatt_5862.html

DesertGay Speak – http://desertspeak.blogspot.com/2008/07/boycott-of-san-diego-hyatt-called-for.html

OB Rag – http://obrag.org/?p=1277

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