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page;mso-element-left:37.25pt;mso-element-top:129.25pt;mso-height-rule:exactly"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Supreme Court will hear challenges to a
California law and the federal Defense of Marriage Act which both deny the
right of civil marriage to gays. </span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 17px; font-family: garamond,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">As the public debate has sharpened, especially
around repeated campaigns on ballot measures over the past few years, workers
support for ending anti-gay discrimination has grown. “Civil marriage is a
civil right,” Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, told a May 2012 press conference. “We will
oppose threats to the 14th Amendment guarantees of equal rights under the law
in any state where this issue is raised.”</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Join a discussion on why this fight is important
for the political rights of the working class as well. </span></span></span><br></div><div id="yiv944297908yui_3_7_2_18_1354919279244_71" class="yiv944297908MsoNormal yiv944297908yui_3_7_2_15_1354929029045_73" style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div class="yiv944297908DefaultText" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial;"><br>Friday, December 21, </span></b><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial;" lang="ES-MX">7:30</span></b><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial;"> pm</span><i><span style="font-size:4.0pt;font-family:Arial;"> <br></span></i></b></span></div>
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Boston</span></b></span><b style=""><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></b></div>
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<div class="yiv944297908DefaultText" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Arial;">T
Blue Line to Maverick Station, bus or walk five blocks down Meridian to
Bennington at Liberty Plaza traffic circle.</span></div><div class="yiv944297908DefaultText" style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;" align="center"><br><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-size:18px;">The Militant Labor Forum is a free speech event sponsored by distributors of the weekly newspaper The Militant.<br><br>___________________________<br><br></span></span></span></span>
<div style="text-align: left;" class="yiv944297908MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;">El Foro Militante (Militant Labor Forum) presenta:</span></u></i></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;" class="yiv944297908MsoNormal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:21.3333px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;text-decoration:underline;" class="yiv944297908MsoNormal">
</div><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:18px;"></span></span><b><span style="font-family:Arial;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"></span></b></span>
<div style="text-align:center;" class="yiv944297908MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><b><span class="yui_3_7_2_16_1355703038172_220" style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"> </span></b></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Igual Ante la Ley, Derechos de <br>los Homosexuales y Matrimonio</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:24px;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"><span style=""> </span></span></b><b><span class="yui_3_7_2_16_1355703038172_225" style="font-family:Arial;"><br></span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br><span><b><span class="yui_3_7_2_16_1355703038172_225" style="font-family:Arial;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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mso-height-rule:exactly"><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-MX">La Corte Suprema escuchará </span>desafíos a una ley <span lang="ES-MX">de California y la Ley de Defensa
del Matrimonio (DOMA) que ambos niegan el derecho de matrimonio civil a los gays. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 17px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-MX">Como el debate público se ha agudizado,
especialmente con varios campañas para medidas en las urnas en los últimos
años, apoyo de los trabajadores para acabar discriminación anti-gay ha
crecido. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“El matrimonio civil
es un derecho civil”, declaro en mayo de 2012 en una conferencia de prensa
Benjamin Jealous, presidente del NAACP, un grupo de derechos civiles.
“Estamos en contra de leyes en cualquier estado que amenazan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>la Enmienda 14 que garantiza igualdad de
derechos bajo la ley”.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Únete a una discusión sobre
por qué esta lucha es importante para los derechos políticos de la clase obrera
también.</span></span><span><b><span class="yui_3_7_2_16_1355703038172_225" style="font-family:Arial;"></span></b></span></span><br><span style="font-size:24px;"><b><span class="yui_3_7_2_16_1355703038172_225" style="font-family:Arial;"></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size:24px;"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br>Venga a una presentación y
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