Turns out that Paul Stock, the CEO of Cinemark, which owns the popular Century Theatre chain, as well as CinéArts and Tinseltown, donated $9,999 to the Yes on 8 campaign. This is an example of more out-of-state money (in this case, Plano, Texas) being used to promote hate and discrimination against gays and lesbians in California. Please do not patronize these businesses. Although Century Theatres are especially widely known here in the Santa Clara Valley, and CinéArts is the movie theater complex at the popular Santana Row, there are many other choices for movie viewing. I urge you to consider these other options, especially Camera Cinema, which has always shown many gay-themed movies. Especially audacious is the fact that Cinemark Theaters plan on showing Milk, a movie documentary about San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was slain at San Francisco City Hall on November 27, 1978. The film commemorates the 30th year of the openly gay supervisor's death. Cinemark is willing to take your money and use it to force some of us into second-class citizenship.
Please spread the word to your friends and family that buying tickets at Century Theatres is putting their money into the hands of those who preach family values but do not practice them.
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There's been a lot of calls to boycott many companies for their contributions to Yes on 8 - personally, I'd prefer to just blow them up and be done with it... but those damn moral values the right-wing says I don't have keep me from it. ;)
Yes, I know what you mean. Actually, I think we have to be very careful about the whole boycott thing. I mean, I completely support boycotts of companies that donated significant amounts to the Yes on 8 campaign. But we must also be judicious about whom to include in our lists. I do not think we should boycott companies whose employees made donations (e.g., an engineer at Sun Microsystems, or a salesperson at Google). And we certainly do not have a right to attack private individuals based on what political campaigns they donated to. But we should by all means make sure that people are aware of donations that were made in companies' names, like the Camden Pet Hospital in San Jose ($3,000), or individuals associated with companies and who have significant influence over the management and/or operations of that company, such as a member of the board of directors, or one of the executive officers. (For example, White Blossom Care Facility in San Jose, whose administrator made a large contribution.) Naturally, the boycott should extend to sole proprietorships as well. We can speak with our dollars!
If you're curious, here's a site where you can easily search, by name or by location, for contributors to either the YES or the NO side.
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