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Life After Knight: A Call for Direct Action and Civil Disobedience

By Eric Rofes, AlterNet. Posted April 1, 2000.


The passage of the anti-same sex marriage Knight Initiative by 62 percent of the California voters may come to be seen as a turning point for igniting intense queer activism. It may be time to take up the tactics most necessary for social change but largely absent from a contemporary queer movement: direct action and mass civil disobedience.

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