Courage Campaign

The Courage Campaign is a California-based human rights campaign and progressive advocacy organization^[1] with more than 700,000 followers, working on a variety of causes,^[2] including the repeal of Proposition 8, California budget reforms,^{[3][dead link]},^[4][5] and ballot procedures.^[6][7] The chair and founder of the campaign is Rick Jacobs.^[8]

The campaign relies heavily on online and grassroots contact methods, and in early February released a four-minute online advertising film featuring same-sex couples, each making the same request: "Don't divorce us." It was viewed more than 500,000 times in a week.^[2] The video is accompanied by the song Fidelity by Regina Spektor.^[9]

Organs

• Courage Campaign Institute—educational arm for volunteer activist members.
• Courage Campaign Civic Action—"works to influence the nomination, election, appointment, or defeat of candidates for public office."
• Courage Campaign Issues Committee—active on statewide ballot campaigns, registered with the California Fair Political Practices Commission.

Projects

• Prop 8 Trial Tracker—a blog which covers proceedings of the Perry v. Schwarzenegger.
  • NOM Tour Tracker—a video blog covering the National Organization for Marriage's Summer for Marriage Tour and interviews with attendees.
• No More Dirty Tricks—campaign against state-wide right-wing movement for electoral college vote-counting in presidential elections.
• Block Blackwater—campaign against establishment of Blackwater mercenary base near Potrero.
• Camp Courage—year-long series of local two-day conferences for both new and seasoned activists. Operated by the CCI, and inspired by the "Camp Obama" series of activist-training conferences during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

References

1. ^ About the. Courage Campaign. Retrieved on 2010-11-16.
2. ^ ^{a b} Same-sex marriage movement looks to 'Obamify', San Francisco Chronicle, February 16, 2009,
3. ^ Feb. 11: The Courage Campaign, Alameda Times-Star, February 11, 2009
4. ^ Courage Campaign. Courage Campaign. Retrieved on 2010-11-16.
5. ^ Courage Campaign. Courage Campaign. Retrieved on 2010-11-16.
6. ^ Courage Campaign. Courage Campaign (2008-02-18). Retrieved on 2010-11-16.
7. ^ Courage Campaign. Courage Campaign. Retrieved on 2010-11-16.
8. ^ Focus on the Family vastly outpaced Mormon spending on Proposition 8, The Colorado Independent, February 11, 2009
9. ^ Don't divorce us video, the Courage Campaign website, with acknowledgement to Regina Spektor

External links

• Courage Campaign website
• Courage Campaign on Twitter
• Prop 8 Trial Tracker