Resolution in Support of Justice for Eliana Lopez, Ross Mirkarimi, and Theo Mirkarimi by the Harvey Milk LGBT Dem Club

Resolution in Support of Justice for Eliana Lopez, Ross Mirkarimi, and Theo Mirkarimi by the Harvey Milk Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club

Passed 7/17/12

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s removal from office has triggered a serious discussion on issues ranging from a political figure’s legal accountability for his or her transgressions, to unscrupulous dismissals, political opportunism, and female disempowerment. We at the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club are committed to justice for Eliana Lopez, Ross Mirkarimi, and their son Theo Mirkarimi. The current process as it stands now gives us no confidence that this will take place: Over the past several months, Eliana Lopez’s wishes have been blatantly disregarded, and opportunities for Ross Mirkarimi to come to terms with his behavior and the after-effects of his actions have been compromised at the altar of political spectacle.

The legal process governing domestic violence aims to hold the abuser accountable for his or her acts of violence, requiring, among other things, classes in violence reduction and anger management. We believe that this process has been deliberately misused in the case of Ross Mirkarimi and Eliana Lopez. District Attorney George Gascón has piled on inappropriate charges, evidence was made public against the will and without the consent of Eliana Lopez in a wide variety of media outlets, and Sheriff Mirkarimi was wrongfully suspended from his job without pay.

Eliana Lopez may have had marital problems in her life, but this does not give the Mayor, the courts, prosecutors, the media, or a handful of anti-domestic violence advocates the power to erase her agency as a human being. What started out as a domestic dispute has devolved into a raw attempt to unseat an independent political figure, resulting in a sustained campaign to humiliate Eliana and her family.

The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club strongly opposes domestic violence of any kind and firmly believes in honoring women’s rights and voices. We believe the circumstances surrounding Sherriff Mirkarimi and his family were appropriately addressed in the courts. And Mayor Lee’s egregious politicization and fiscal irresponsibility on this issue diminishes the seriousness of domestic violence and disrespects the expressed wishes of Eliana.

Ross Mirkarimi has consistently advocated for funding domestic violence response programs, programs protecting the rights of women, services for the homeless and other vulnerable populations, and demonstrated a commitment to serving his community. In this light, we feel he has been unjustly targeted. We also believe it is critical that he be given the opportunity to serve as Sheriff, per the will of the voters who elected him in November of 2011.

Therefore, the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club strongly supports the opportunity for Ross Mirkarimi to demonstrate accountability for his actions and for his family to receive restorative justice, something which they have been denied up to this point.

Furthermore, Mayor Lee and all associated parties must offer a public apology to Eliana Lopez for her systematic disempowerment and for nullifying her rights as an individual.

We call on the members of the Ethics Commission and the Board of Supervisors to oppose the removal of the duly-elected Sheriff of San Francisco.

We demand that Mayor Lee reinstate Sheriff Mirkarimi and restore his full back pay. And in order for Eliana to once again regain her voice, the Mayor’s Office must reimburse her travel back to San Francisco so that she can testify in her own right before the Ethics Commission.

We demand that the District Attorney rigorously investigate the possibility that Mayor Lee has committed perjury in this matter, with the same amount of vigor shown in his investigation of Sheriff Mirkarimi.

We urge all parties involved in this situation to reflect on the current state of advocacy for the victims of domestic violence and to improve the system so that meaningful justice can be sought by all survivors (regardless of immigration status, economic disadvantages, gender, or political affiliation) without fear that political opportunism, media exploitation, or a hijacked legal process will jeopardize their rights.

This resolution is put forth by longtime LGBT activists, feminists, social justice advocates, survivors of domestic violence, and members of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club of San Francisco.

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Shouts against the racist on the radio Michael Savage: ¡GO AWAY ANIMAL!

Voices of our people inflamed against the enemy #1 of the immigrant: Michael Savage

Edgard E. Martínez
AQUI NICARAGUA
Septiembre 23, 2008

Dozens of demonstrators in their majority Hispanic, congregated in front of the building of Clear Channel Radio, in the 340 of Townsend street, in San Francisco, California, to protest the radial station that allows the transmission in national chain to the United States, of a program of commentaries with an issue that has gained the repudiation of the immigrants generally, but very particularly of the Hispanics, to those who it attacks with excessive viciousness and which shows a shameless racism, this reason is why it is catalogued as the enemy number one of the immigrant community, the controvertial 'personality' is Michael Alan Weiner, that as the delinquents, is AKA " Michael Savage" , as proclaimed by himself with this apparent 'pseudonim.'

A people united, will never be defeated

The demonstrators arrived from all the points in Northern California, many of them in a train originating from San Jose, in the South Bay of San Francisco, which was boarded by dozens of Hispanos in the several stations of the line and arrived at 4 of afternoon, the precise hour programmed to start the demonstration and that was baptized as " The Hispanic Dignity Train".

The event was led by the conductor of radio, the colleague, Marcos Gutiérrez, who from his program "Made in California" that is transmitted from 1010 A.M. in San Francisco and 990 A.M. in Sacramento, and who made the call for the second consecutive year to protest against the pseudo commentator, with the support of his faithful radio listeners, several organizations and unions from NorCal.

Gutiérrez, in one of his interventions placed emphasis on the injurious and detrimental effects resulting from the attacks against the immigrants, from racists like Michael Savage, which have increased the attacks of hatred against them, according to statistical reports from the police and a recent FBI report.

The demonstrators delivered speeches of denunciation against Savage for the string of insults and calumnies that pour out everyday against the immigrants. Once more they demanded to the radio station the cancellation of this program and threatened an economic boicott against the sponsoring companies of the program.

Amongst the protesters, there were also Anglos-Saxons who also support the immigrants, specially our undocumented people, who as some speakers said " They break lomo" (Lomo=Back) - working hard to give growth to this nation which is also ours by adoption. Among the present of all the ages and sexes, transgender people (transsexuals) who also are victims, repudiated the intolerance and scorn held in the soul of this mental patient.

Shouts of GO AWAY ANIMAL were heard. An adolescent, Sean Griffin, shouted in English and Spanish, " I am son of an Anglo-Saxon father and proudly with a Mexican mother, and I say to you Michael Savage, lárgate" (lárgate=go away). Other children also came out in defense of their parents without legal documents in the nation and some of these interventions were transmitted live by radios 1010 and 990.

Of colleagues of the radios, Hispanic television outlets, and written press, fierce defenders of the immigrants from its spaces, we had the short-sightedness of NOT seeing anybody/anything… would have they been on special assignments somewhere out there?

This protest, to say that it was successful, exceptionally pacific and orderly, is saying too little and, supported by the sounds of the horns of the very many cars that circulate around that busy street, but for it's organizers, we will say that they must throw in more desire to the issue, because once per year it is like what the saying and the song of the Puma say: " One swallow doesn't make spring and a gull loses itself in the sea".

THE PROFILE OF THE SAVAGE

So that you know who this old poisonous old man is, we will tell you that he was born of a father with the same name, Michael Alan Weiner, of a Jewish family of Russian origins that lived in the Bronx and died to the 50 years of a heart attack. When Savage (Salvaje el equivalente en Español) writes or comments on his childhood he describes as "diffícult" started working from early age and blames his father to whom he describes as " Rude and with a profane personality" , as to the "profane" the way Michael judges his ancestor means he is telling him a lot: "disrespectful of the sacred, ignorant of everything, dishonest, bold, libertine and he only left out describing his father as a son of a b… "

I take the opportunity here to tell you dear Michael, that you give feelings of pity that you have been an abused boy, that you give feelings of pity that you keep such trauma that will accompany you to the grave and that this follows the abominable hatred that you feel for your fellow human beings, but, Why with our children? Since you remember that you said that children of undocumented parents were faking suffering of autism for gain. In the Bible, dear Michael, says that " With the stick that you measure, you shall be measured" and as you judge without reserve the damage that you can do and not moved by anything, I do the same with you, but without lowering at your levels nor to your condition of chronic congenital psychopath, gotten worse now at your 66 years by a galloping senile dementia.

Michael Savage, I share with the shout that people gave in front of the building of the radio chain from which they allow relief to your necrotic spirit and your nauseous morality, definitively YOU ARE an ANIMAL, because you do not meet the qualities to catalog you to be a human being, and to qualify you as a jerk, would take away dimension to the barbarities that you think and say.

To those at Clear Channel Radio, what a shame gentlemen to allow a " Yerbero" (This is what the Savage studied, ah and anthropology, but it did not serve him well because he didn't discovered himself in his own reality "not human nor social"), I was saying that they allow him to spit his microphones in total unawareness of even a minimum of ethical behavior with his audience, and if they boast that this individual has an audience from coast to coast of 8 million and sell a few dollars more, I will be denouncing their "Star" through the radio and television stations in which I work and that covers all of the Mexican Republic and 16 states in the United States with a modest audience of 86 million people. Be worthy gentlemen and not accomplices to this racist, unless you are one also. Have a good day gentlemen, and may God bless and forgive you.

Gritos contra el racista de la radio Michael Savage: ¡VETE ANIMAL!

Voces de nuestra gente enardecidas contra el enemigo #1 del inmigrante Michael Savage

Edgard E. Martínez
AQUI NICARAGUA
Septiembre 23, 2008

Docenas de manifestantes en su mayoría hispanos se congregaron frente al edificio de Clear Channel Radio, en el 340 de la calle Townsend, en San Francisco, California, para protestar con la estacion radial que permite la transmisión en cadena nacional a Estados Unidos, de un programa de comentarios que hace un sujeto que se ha ganado el repudio de los inmigrantes en general, pero muy particularmente de los hispanos, a quienes ataca con saña desmedida y haciendo gala de un racismo descarado, por lo que lo califican como el enemigo numero uno de la comunidad inmigrante, el controvertido personaje es Michael Alan Weiner, ALIAS como los delincuentes "Michael Savage" y a como el mismo se apodó, dizque pseudónimo.

Un pueblo unido, jamas será vencido

Los manifestantes llegaron desde todos los puntos del norte de California, muchos de ellos en un tren que proveniente de San José, sur de la bahía de San Francisco, que fue abordado por decenas de hispanos en las varias estaciones del trayecto y arribó a las 4 de la tarde, la hora precisa en que se habia programado la demostración y que bautizaron como "El Tren de la Dignidad".

El evento fue liderado por el conductor de radio, el colega, Marcos Gutiérrez, quien desde sus programas "Hecho en California" que se emiten por la 1010 AM en San Francisco y 990 AM en Sacramento, e hizo por segundo año seguido la convocatoria para protestar contra el pseudo comentarista y con apoyo de sus fieles radios escuchas y varias organizaciones comunitarias y sindicatos del norte del estado.

Gutiérrez, en una de sus intervenciones puso énfasis en lo nocivo y perjudicial que han resultado los ataques contra los inmigrantes de parte de racistas como Michael Savage, y que ha acrecentado los ataques de odio contra ellos y conforme reportes estadísticos de la policía y un reciente informe del FBI.

Los manifestantes pronunciaron discursos de denuncia contra Savage, por la sarta de injurias y calumnias que verte todos los dias contra los inmigrantes. Exigieron una vez más a la cadena radial la cancelacion de este programa y amenazan con causarles un boicott economico contra las empresas patrocinadoras de la radio.

Entre los que protestaron hubo también anglos que apoyan a los inmigrantes en especial a nuestros indocumentados, que como algunos oradores dijeron "Se rompen el lomo" trabajando fuerte para darle crecimiento a esta nacion y que es nuestra por adopción. Entre los presentes de todas las edades y sexos, repudiaron personas transgéneros (transexuales) quienes también son víctimas de la intolerancia y desprecio que almacena el alma de este enfermo mental.

Se escucharon gritos de VETE ANIMAL. Un adolescente Sean Griffin, gritó en inglés y español, "soy hijo de un padre anglosajon y orgullosamente con una madre mexicana, y te digo Michael Savage, lárgate" . Otros niños también salieron en defensa de sus padres sin documentos legales en la nación y algunas de estas intervenciones fueron transmitidas en vivo por las radios 1010 y 990.

De colegas de las radios, medios escritos y televisivos hispanos, fieros defensores de los inmigrantes desde sus espacios, tuvimos la miopia de NO ver a ninguno…estarian en algunas asignaciones especiales por ahí?

Esta protesta, de mas esta decir que fue exitosa y excepcionalmente ordenada y pacífica, apoyada por el sonar de los claxon de muchisimos autos que circulan por esa traficada calle, pero para sus organizadores diremos que le echen más gana al asunto, pues una vez por año es como el dicho y canción del Puma de que "Una golondrina no hace verano y una gaviota se pierde en el mar".

EL PERFIL DEL SALVAJE

Para que usted sepa quien es este anciano venenoso les referimos que nacio de un padre con su mismo nombre, Michael Alan Weiner, de una familia judía con los orígenes rusos que vivía en el Bronx y murió a los 50 años de un ataque al corazón. Cuando Savage (Salvaje equivalente en español) escribe o comenta sobre su niñez, la describe como "difícil" que trabajo desde corta edad y culpa a su padre al que califica de "Rudo y personalidad profana", en lo de "profano" como juzga Michael a su progenitor le quiere decir mucho: "irrespetuoso de lo sagrado, ignorante de todo, deshonesto, atrevido, libertino y solo le faltó calificar a su padre de hijo de p…"

Aprovecho aquí para decirte querido Michael, que das lastima que hayas sido un niño abusado, que das lastima que conserves semejante trauma que te acompañará hasta la tumba y que de esto se desprende el abominable odio que sientes por tus semejantes, pero, ¿Por qué con nuestros niños? Ya que recuerdas que dijiste que niños de padres de indocumentados fingian padecer de audismo para sacar provecho. En la Biblia, querido Michael, dice que "Con la vara que mides, sereis medido" y como tu juzgas sin reparo al daño que puedas hacer y sin inmutarte por nada, yo hago lo mismo contigo, pero sin bajarme a tus niveles ni a tu condición de psicopata congénito crónico, empeorado ahora a tus 66 años por una demencia senil cabalgante.

Michael Savage, comparto con el grito que la gente dió frente al edificio de la cadena de radio en que te permiten el desahogo de tu espíritu necrótico y nauseabunda moral, definitivamente ERES UN ANIMAL, pues no reunes las cualidades para catalogarte de ser humano y calificarte de patán sería quitarle dimensión a las barbaridades que piensas y dices.

A los de Clear Channel Radio, qué vergüenza señores permitir a un "Yerbero" (Eso estudió El Salvaje, ah y antropología, pero no le sirvió porque no se descubre asi mismo en su realidad "humana ni social"), le permiten, decia, a escupir sus micrófonos a total desconocedor del mínimo comportamiento con ética para su audiencia, y si alardean que este individuo tiene una audiencia de costa a costa de 8 millones y venden unos cuantos dolares más, yo estaré denunciando a su "estrella" por la cadena radial y televisiva en que trabajo y que cubre toda la república mexicana y 16 estados en Estados Unidos con una modesta audiencia de 86 millones de personas. Sean dignos señores y no complices a este racista, a menos que ustedes lo sean también. Pasen buen día señores, que Dios los bendiga y los perdone.