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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1991)
Wilson veto sparks protests (A I’) Cov. I1 n t c Wilson's I weekend veto of a •homosexual righls bill triggered violent protests hy thousands of gav activists in San Francisco on Monday and filled the streets of Los Angeles with anti Wilson protesters The San Francisco demon stration turned violent Monday night when some r>,()()() protest ors converged on two state buildings in the Civic Center and began breaking glass win (lows and doors and spray painting "Wilson is a Basher" and "Gay Rights Now" on the facades. Angry protesters threw a burning 11.ig through a broken window in one of the build ings. Police and demonstrators sprayed one another with mace. Officers ultimately doused demonstrators with a hose from inside the buildings, hut the Low-pressure spray did little to push back demonstra tors. In Los Angeles, the mood was equally confrontational "Wilson is a liar! Kqunl rights now!" shouted demonstrators outside the Federal Building in Los Angelos, condemning Wilson's veto of legislation to outlaw job discrimination against homosexuals. A second protest outside the governor's office in downtown Los Angeles drew about 300 people Monday afternoon On Monday night, thousands of protestors gathered in West Hollywood. They vented their anger at Wilson's action by blowing whistles and scream ing protest chants as they blocked several streets in the city known internationally fur ils large. gay populace Those protesters poured intti the streets surrounding the I,os Angeles (bounty Museum of Art wliere Wilson w.is meeting with the Mexico President Ar turn Salinas do Gortari In the San Francisco demon strations, protestors chased mayoral candidate Frank |or dan, who was police chief dur ing a controversial sweep oi a protest bv ACT t'i’, from the predominately gav Castro neighborhood Several hundred protesters broke away from the crowd and forced Jordan out ol the neigh borhood whore he was pick' d up by a police car. Jordan was police chief when gav protesters alleged the uii necessary use of fore e to clear a lUfl!) demonstration in the Cas tru organized hv the AIDS Goa 1 ition to Unleash Power "Gay and lesbian people are not just disappointed, they're angry Pete Wilson is going to have hell to [lay,” said Torie Osborn of the L A Gay & Leshi an Community Services Center She said Wilson proved him self a "liar and a coward" for vetoing the type uf gay rights measure he had previously in dicatod In' would support In vetoing AB101 on Sunday, Wilson said it would burden employers by adding to the "flood-tide" of litigation which he called a threat to the state's economic well-being The hill’s author. Assembly man Terry Friedman, D-Sher man Oaks, called the veto “a victory for bigotry Ho (Wilson) has caved in to the right-wing extremists and the religious fundamentalist fringe groups " ■o ESPRESSO CC/ Q"o ESPRESSO o vx^ '/> c<> tA: **ppr- M/i VAO c,d lATTE AVJ L1 ^O ESPRfl CCX You Don't Have to Go Far to Get Great Coffee and Espresso. Find the Coffee Corner's GREAT locally roasted coffee and espresso drinks on campus *ATTf Cap pu( I REGIONAL BRIEFS God Squad' may convene \Y'.\SMI\1 < TC)\ i \H| i111♦ *i*«*« rrlarv M.mih'i 1 Hi.m Jf is rVp«‘i tin) to i unvrnr thr («od S(|ua(i to drt uir if timber s.drs should (ontmu* tii• sp11r thr fhiiMt .It*. thr northern spottrd owl I br ()irut>m*in rrportrd Stiuru’s imla .itrd Lujan unuid ninhr flu* in noutH rmrnt ?odu\ 1 h*- (.mi S(|u.i«i tnimalK I hi1 I nnlampt r. 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