If we can't have weddings, at least we can have cake.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
What's the difference between Domestic Partner Registration Cake and Wedding Cake?
You are invited to join OUTLaw today, February 14 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Student Lounge for Domestic Partner Registration Cake.
This March, the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the same-sex marriage cases. People around the state are urging the Governor to take a stand against the legal distinction between marriage for opposite-sex couples and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples. Come by the lounge today for a piece of Domestic Partner Registration Cake and more information regarding the differences between marriage and domestic partnerships. You can also send a Valentine to the Governor, encouraging him to support same-sex marriage.
Sponsored by OUTLaw, with support from UCLA Student Coalition for Marriage Equality
This March, the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the same-sex marriage cases. People around the state are urging the Governor to take a stand against the legal distinction between marriage for opposite-sex couples and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples. Come by the lounge today for a piece of Domestic Partner Registration Cake and more information regarding the differences between marriage and domestic partnerships. You can also send a Valentine to the Governor, encouraging him to support same-sex marriage.
Sponsored by OUTLaw, with support from UCLA Student Coalition for Marriage Equality
APILSA Speaker Series: Mia Yamamoto
Co-Sponsored by the Critical Race Studies Program, OUTLaw, BLSA, La Raza, NALSA, SALSA, and APALJ
Wednesday, February 13th, 12:15 p.m -1:30 p.m.
Room 1420
Food will be served
Previously named Criminal Defense Attorney of the Year by the Los Angeles County Bar Association and one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in California by the California Daily Journal, this well-known UCLA School of Law alum has tried over 150 jury trials including 2 death penalty trials.
In addition to being a star criminal defender, she has also been an influential community advocate, a Court TV commentator, winner of various lifetime achievement awards including the 2008 ABA Spirit of Excellence Award, and a mentor to many in the legal profession who have made local, and global impacts in criminal defense, human rights, and diversity. Among them is UCLA Alum Karen Tse, who created International Bridges to Justice to bring human rights to criminal defendants in China and other developing legal systems.
Ms. Yamamoto founded APILSA while at UCLA Law before her career as a poverty lawyer for the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, a Deputy Los Angeles County Public Defender, a California State Public Defender, and in private practice.
Wednesday, February 13th, 12:15 p.m -1:30 p.m.
Room 1420
Food will be served
Previously named Criminal Defense Attorney of the Year by the Los Angeles County Bar Association and one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in California by the California Daily Journal, this well-known UCLA School of Law alum has tried over 150 jury trials including 2 death penalty trials.
In addition to being a star criminal defender, she has also been an influential community advocate, a Court TV commentator, winner of various lifetime achievement awards including the 2008 ABA Spirit of Excellence Award, and a mentor to many in the legal profession who have made local, and global impacts in criminal defense, human rights, and diversity. Among them is UCLA Alum Karen Tse, who created International Bridges to Justice to bring human rights to criminal defendants in China and other developing legal systems.
Ms. Yamamoto founded APILSA while at UCLA Law before her career as a poverty lawyer for the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, a Deputy Los Angeles County Public Defender, a California State Public Defender, and in private practice.
Congratulations to UCLA Law’s Sexual Orientation Moot Court Competition Team and Competition Board!
Congratulations to Kevin Minnick and Meehan Rasch, UCLA Law’s own SO Moot Court Competition team, who took home the prize for Best Brief and made it to the semi-finals!
Congratulations also to OUTLaw’s own Shawn Kravich, Executive Director, and Jordan Woods, Problem Developer, who made this year’s competition a rousing success, and reflected oh so well on our school and community.
Congratulations also to OUTLaw’s own Shawn Kravich, Executive Director, and Jordan Woods, Problem Developer, who made this year’s competition a rousing success, and reflected oh so well on our school and community.
Sexual Orientation Moot Court Competition!
http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/programs/FourthAnnualWilliamsInstituteMootCourtCompetition.html
One of These Recruiters is Not Like the Others
During this season of job-hunting and on-campus interviewing, OUTLaw wants to remind you that one of the recruiters interviewing today is not like the others. Unlike every other recruiter who comes on campus, the U.S. Military is exempted from following the school’s anti-discrimination policy. The US Military openly discriminates in its hiring, and more importantly, in its firing practices. Under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people are allowed to and even encouraged to serve, but only in silence and always with the fear that they will be expelled if they are outed.
There are an estimated 65,000 LGBT service members on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. They serve in every branch, are stationed at every installation. If you put them together in a unit, they would make up over half the ground troops in Iraq. They serve willingly and ably. Yet every day they face not only the threat of being killed in combat, but also the threat of being kicked out for being gay. And they are kicked out, at a rate of two a day since Congress passed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in 1993.
LGBT service members risk their lives in exchange for unequal treatment, unequal compensation, and the constant threat of discharge. Most don’t date, find partners, start families. If they do, their families are denied recognition and every benefit, ranging from healthcare to death benefits. Under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell our Armed Forces are filled with soldiers who are serving in silence.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell violates the school’s anti-discrimination policy, but in 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that denies funding to schools that refuse military recruiters access to campus.
We can’t change the UCLA policy that grants military recruiters access to the school, but we can encourage Congress to end the discriminatory ban on LGBT people in the military. Stop by OUTLaw’s table in the courtyard today from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. and sign a petition encouraging Congress to end the ban or go to http://www.sldn.org/ to sign it today. The petitions are also available on OUTLaw’s board in the hallway.
There are an estimated 65,000 LGBT service members on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. They serve in every branch, are stationed at every installation. If you put them together in a unit, they would make up over half the ground troops in Iraq. They serve willingly and ably. Yet every day they face not only the threat of being killed in combat, but also the threat of being kicked out for being gay. And they are kicked out, at a rate of two a day since Congress passed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in 1993.
LGBT service members risk their lives in exchange for unequal treatment, unequal compensation, and the constant threat of discharge. Most don’t date, find partners, start families. If they do, their families are denied recognition and every benefit, ranging from healthcare to death benefits. Under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell our Armed Forces are filled with soldiers who are serving in silence.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell violates the school’s anti-discrimination policy, but in 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that denies funding to schools that refuse military recruiters access to campus.
We can’t change the UCLA policy that grants military recruiters access to the school, but we can encourage Congress to end the discriminatory ban on LGBT people in the military. Stop by OUTLaw’s table in the courtyard today from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. and sign a petition encouraging Congress to end the ban or go to http://www.sldn.org/ to sign it today. The petitions are also available on OUTLaw’s board in the hallway.
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