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15 . 2003 Continued from Page 9 percentage hacking the next most popular candidate, U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachu setts, who had the support of 10 percent of respondents. To sign up for the rally visit www.deanfnramenca.com. B aird P resses P entagon to C urb A nti *G ay H arassment U .S. Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., is one of 22 members of Congress who have asked the Defense Department to implement a 3-year-old action plan that includes steps to curb anti-gay harassment. In a July 23 letter to Defense Secretary Don ald Rumsfeld, the politicians conclude “that the services are not in full compliance” with the plan. They also ask that the Pentagon “evaluate the plan’s implementation" and report on its progress within six months. The Anti-Harassment Action Plan was adopted in July 2000, in the wake of Pfc. Barry Winchell’s murder at Fort Campbell, Ky. Creat ed by a Defense Department working group, it includes 13 steps to curb harassment, including annual education and training, accountability for those who harass or condone harassment, and measurement of each services compliance with the plan. The plan “will serve to better our forces by ensuring a harassment-free climate that fos ters unit cohesion and good order and disci pline,” the congressional leaders wrote. How ever, “nearly three years later, we are still concerned about this directive’s state of implementation.” Servicemembers Legal Defense Network reported on the services’ failure to implement the plan in March’s Conduct Unbecoming, its annual report on “don’t ask, don’t tell." It found that the Defense Department “has failed to issue a sin gle directive on harassment as required by the AHAP.” The report urged the Pentagon to fully imple ment the plan and critiqued each service’s progress in complying with it. C. Dixon Osbum, SLDN execu tive director, hailed the letter Aug. 4 as an indication that congressional leaders take the issue of anti-gay harassment seriously. “This letter sends an important mes sage to Pentagon leaders that they mast do more to implement the Anti-Harass ment Action Plan,” he said. “Past verbal commitments by military leaders have proven to be empty promises. The Pen tagon must take its responsibility to end Todd Brown is actively involved with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which displayed an harassment and protect service mem eye-catching series of panels Aug. 7 in downtown Portland bers more seriously.” panels, each showing photographs of factory “In some ways it’s kind of another coming farm scenes side by side with images from Nazi out,” he said of his decision to go vegan. “For a For more information visit wuHV.sldn.org. death camps. The idea is to draw a parallel lot of gay people, 1 think the coming-out process between the Holocaust’s victimization of Jews, of relearning all of those attitudes about yourself homosexuals and others characterized as "life and about life and about your environment is PETA D isplays unworthy of life" with the way modem society very difficult to digest.” G raphic P roject During his “slow and constant evolution," abuses animals. Gay Portlander Todd Brown has been Brown began to examine his consumption eople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals brought its controversial “Holocaust tin involved with PETA for about three years. He choices. After learning what occurs in slaugh- sees similarities between the queer and animal Your Plate" project to Portland on Aug. 7. The display consists of eight 60-square-foot rights movements. Continued on Page 13 P A member of the com m unity that you can trust LGBT Pride is a celebration of community, and com m unity is all about trust. 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