Owner of Cinemark gives $9,999 to Prop 8, and now stands to profit from 'Milk'
by: Pam Spaulding
Sun Nov 16, 2008 at 16:35:41 PM EST
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How many ways of wrong is this? CEO of Cinemark, Alan Stock, who gave $9999 to Yes on 8, be allowed to earn one dime on the back of Harvey Milk's legacy by runningGus Van Sant's "Milk" in his theaters (it opens wide on Nov. 26)?
If 1,000 of us commit to see MILK at a competitor's theater instead of Cinemark, at an average cost of $10 per ticket, that's $10,000 of lost revenue.
Boycotts work. A boycott of a Sacramento theatre company resulted not only in the resignation of a Yes on 8 contributor, but a public apology and donation to Human Rights Campaign! We can do this again.