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rhythmia ([personal profile] rhythmia) wrote2010-01-20 01:22 am
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Re-enactment of the Prop 8 Trial coming to a youtube page near you!

For those of you who haven't heard yet, last November California put civil rights up for a vote. Marriage equality. And it lost. Yeah, I know, and this is my home. >.<

This January, Proposition 8 was taken before a Ninth Circuit (Federal) judge to challenge it's constitutionality. Judge Walker took public comment and was going to allow the trial to be publicly televised and also broadcast on Youtube. Defendants (pro-8) appealed to the Supreme Court, who said nope, can't do it.

So! There are transcripts at a variety of wonderful places, such as http://prop8trialtracker.com, www.firedoglake.com (there's a few people writing there in several different posts, but there's always someone at trialtracker linking to the relevant posts in the comments), the San Jose Mercury News (My home newspaper! The link is to day 6, but just check out the sidebars), and the ever informative KQED public tv station.

And from the transcripts, the awesome people at http://marriagetrial.com/ will be putting up a re-enactment of the courtroom. Starting Wednesday, I believe. An article about what they're doing can be found here!

[identity profile] flange5.livejournal.com 2010-01-20 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That is *awesome* Do they have access to the transcripts, or will they be following one of the blogs.

. . . Oh hell, Or you know, I could actually click on the helpfully provided link ORZ

&hearts

Huh, so it looks like they're aggregating some of the blog reports. This is awesome ^_^
Edited 2010-01-20 21:16 (UTC)