elsewhere on the internets: celebrating stuff
June 20th, 2008 4:43 pm by Kelly GarbatoI’ve been alternating between busy and lazy (and more than a few fits of blubbery sentimentality); consequently, I almost missed these June celebrations:
Over at their Blog of Rights, the ACLU has been hosting a week-long symposium on LGBT rights. Melissa links to her favorites; though I haven’t been able to read ‘em all yet, I loved Bitch Ph.D.’s How the Gays Taught Me to Stop Worrying and Love Marriage. You can find all the entires filed under LGBT Symposium.
Also via Shakesville, Happy Juneteenth! As only 29 states recognize the holiday, Melissa offers a fine suggestion for belated Juneteenth celebrations. Hint: it involves chastising your state legislators.
Finally, a little ghost reminds us that today is the National Fourth Amendment Defense Day. May I direct you to this post at the ACLU Blog for further “celebrating”?
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Tagged: link love aclu fourth amendment juneteenth slavery holidays observances glbt
June 21st, 2008 at 12:07 am
Hey Kelly. Thanks for the link love and giving props to Juneteenth.
That LGBT Symposium is amazing! I hope you get the chance to read everything.
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Thanks for stopping by, Kevin!
I’m slowly making my way through the Symposium posts. I have to stop for a “blub break” between each of them
November 17th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Juneteenth is America’s 2nd Independence Day celebration. Americans of African descent were trapped in the tyranny of enslavement on the country’s first “4th of July”, 1776, Independence Day. We honor our ancestors, Americans of African descent, who heard the news of freedom and celebrated with great joy and jubilation, on the “19th of June”, Juneteenth, 1865.
It took over 88 years for the news of freedom to be announced in Southwest Texas, over two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln.
The National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign has worked diligently for several years to establish legislation in 29 states to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday or state holiday observance, the District of Columbia, as well as the Congress of the United States. This has been a great accomplishment for the “Modern Juneteenth Movement” in America, reaching far beyond the establishment of Juneteenth as a state holiday in the place were it all began, in Texas, first celebrated in 1980.
Together we will see Juneteenth become a National Holiday in America!
“DOC”
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.
Chairman
National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign
National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF)
National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC)
http://www.Juneteenth.us
http://www.19thofJune.com
http://www.njclc.com
http://www.JuneteenthJazz.com