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decemßer 3 .2ÛQ4 • | M * t W it; ■5 N ew G roup F orms to A dvance M arriage quality Portland Community College Cascade Cam pus’ queer group, United Sexualities, held a meeting Nov. 20 to discuss the continuing strug gle for marriage equality in Oregon. A coalition of individuals and organizations was launched to pursue actions in favor of mar riage equality. As its first project, the newly formed “Equality Coalition” will partner with a group at Oregon State University on their “Yes on Section 20” campaign. The coalition’s next meeting will he held • 4 p m. Dec. 4 in Room 104 of Jackson Hall at 705 N. Killingsworth St. For more informa tion contact Chelsia Rice at 503-756-1456 or chelsiaarice@hotmail.com. O regon S enators S ecure M oney for AIDS O rganizations U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Gor don Smith, R-Ore., announced Nov. 21 that Oregon will receive several hundred million dollars in federal funding for key projects throughout the state. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., scored pork for three AIDS organizations in Portland Wyden and Smith secured this funding in the fiscal year 2005 omnibus spending hill, which has passed the Senate and the House of Representatives and expected to move shortly to the White House for signature into law. The measure will fund numerous Oregon agriculture, energy, water, natural resources, transportation, infrastructure, community development, health education and. job training programs. Three A ID S organizations in Portland will receive funding. Cascade A ID S Project will receive $50,000. Esther’s Pantry will receive $30,000 to provide food and supplies to people living with AIDS. Our House of Portland will receive $30,000 for Medicare and Medicaid services. C A P executive director Thomas Bruner says the money for his organization will help fund its Working Choices program, which helps men and women with HIV/AIDS re-enter the work force. “C A P first identified the need for hack-to- work services in its 1999 Strategic Plan as a response to people with H IV/AIDS living longer and healthier lives, and created Working Choices three years ago,” says Bniner. “Over 50 percent of program participants are now either hack at work, enrolled in work training pro grams or hack in schcx>l completing degrees.” L ambda L egal P uts I ts F oot D own in W ashington Same-sex couples must he allowed to marry, according to a brief filed Nov. 24 by Lambda Legal and the Northwest Women’s Law Center at the Washington Supreme Court. “Our clients pay all the same taxes as their neighbors and co-workers, and they deserve all the same legal protections,” said Jennifer C. Pizer, senior counsel in Lambda Legal’s Western Regional Office. The brief asks the state’s high court to uphold a niling earlier this year that said the state’s prohibition on same-sex couples marrying is a violation of the Washington Constitution. The lawsuit was filed in March on behalf of same-sex couples who were denied marriage licenses in King County, arguing that the state constitution had been violated. In a historic rul ing Aug. 4, King County Superior Court Judge William Downing said that the state constitu tion guarantees basic rights to gay and lesbian people and that those rights are violated by a state law prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying. 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