Sudden impact
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=features&sc3=&id=83957Ethan Jacobs
11/29/2008
The afternoon of Nov. 23 was bitterly cold, with temperatures in the 20s and steady, biting winds, but that didn't dissuade a crowd of about 60 people from assembling in front of Cambridge City Hall for the latest local Join The Impact rally against California's Proposition 8.
As in the two previous Boston-area rallies - one in Cambridge Nov. 9 that drew about 80 people, and a massive Nov. 15 rally on Boston City Hall Plaza that drew about 4000 - a parade of speakers exhorted the crowd to stand up for justice, and people in the audience cheered and brandished homemade signs. But one speaker, MassEquality Executive Director Marc Solomon, told the crowd that it was time to move beyond protesting the passage of California's anti-gay amendment and to start directing their energy to creating real political change. Join The Impact, an online LGBT activist network launched by two activists in their 20s after the passage of Prop 8, organized a series of rallies in cities across the country Nov. 15 that brought out thousands of people to protest against Prop 8.
