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miustiout AUGUST 1,2008 iPod Integration $14995 * iPhone Integration from $199.95 • Take your music on the road! Our friendly expert techs will guide you through all your car audio upgrade options. • We are your local authority in car electronics including audio, bluetooth integration, GPS systems and mobile video. 'I world AMERICAS of eggs and stones was poured on us,” said activist Singer: No Gays in Cuban Communist Party Gabor Kuszing. “I was lucky to have a placard in my hand, and others used umbrellas.” Famous Cuban singer Pablo Milanés has told Spain’s El Mundo newspaper that there are no gay carrying Hungarian Euro MP Katalin Levai. “It is unacceptable in our democracies that people in the Cuban Communist Party. J A rock crashed through the window of a car Asked if things are improving for Cuban gays, microscopic groups of the extreme right may Milanés said: “I don’t know what to tell you. I have threaten and attack an important minority while 140 NE Broadway many homosexual friends who still complain that it practices the universal right to freedom,” Levai 503-257-0488 www.mobilewestpdx.com they are discriminated against, that they lack op said. “We must step up against groups advocating portunities. There are no queers in the party. And hatred and violence.” Car Audio/Visual • Navigation • Security • Remote Start • Wireless Solutions • iPod • Factory Integration those are signs that they are still alienated. To the The European Parliament’s Intergroup on Gay best of our knowledge, none of the rulers have and Lesbian Rights denounced the violence and come out of the closet yet.” the fact that it was allowed to occur. “I am deeply disap pointed and concerned of Hungary’s inability C ome G et Y ours . T hey G ot T heirs . to deal with extrem ists,” said Intergroup President Michael Cashman. “This must be the to referred European Commission and the commission’s president.” Intergroup H elping P eople B uy H omes President everyday . Vice Sirpa Pietikainen said: “Police forces again, like last year, failed to protect citizens exer cising their fundamen tal rights to peaceful ■■■■■■"D avid W. O wens ■■■■■■“ P. C. & serving ASSOCIATES the community since 1975 A ttorneys at L aw Serving Oregon & Washington 503°224°3100 DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS ADOPTIONS • ESTATE PLANNING WILLS • TRUSTS • ADVANCE DIRECTIVES POWER OF ATTORNEY GUARDIANSHIPS AND CONSERVATORSHIPS assembly, probably o due to inadequate re Cuban singer Pablo Milanés claims gays are not Communists. sources. 1 will demand an explanation from The translation of Mi lanes’ remarks was done by The Miami Herald. the Hungarian government, and I will raise this issue with the European Commission.” Milanes also said things haven’t really changed in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down as president. “What I don’t understand is how everything Wowereit Welcomes Obama to Berlin stays the same,” he said. “The government said a Openly gay Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said year ago that many things were going to change, July 9 he would be “delighted” for Barack Obama but we stayed the same and the people are very to speak at the city’s famed Brandenburg Gate. desperate. Raul Castro still has not had an oppor Obama, however, addressed an estimated tunity to demonstrate what he thinks, because his crowd of 200,000 July 25 in Tiergarten Park dur brother Fidel is there and still emits his opinions. ing a European trip by the Democratic U.S. presi Owning a [mobile] telephone and being allowed dential candidate. to enter a [tourist] hotel is not reform. When it German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she doubted it would be appropriate to use the gate as comes to freedoms, we’re going backward.” a campaign backdrop. vAwowens-law com »101 SW TWAIN, SUITE 700 • Portland, Oregon 97204 • Parking Validated EUROPE Moscow Officials Ban Gay Picket at Iranian Embassy Large, Violent Attack on Budapest Pride Right-wing extremists attacked the 1,500 marchers in Budapest’s Gay Pride parade and fought with police for several hours afterward July 5. Moscow city officials banned a planned gay picket July 14 in front of the Iranian Embassy. The protest, which was allowed the past two years, was to target Iran’s treatment of gays. Hundreds of counterdemonstrators reportedly Iran has the death penalty on the books for threw rocks, eggs, bottles, firecrackers, feces, acid, sodomy and is believed to have used it somewhere paint and Molotov cocktails at the marchers and between a few and thousands of times since the the police. They also set a police van on fire and Islamic revolution, although no accurate informa damaged three media trucks. tion is available. Human Rights Watch has “docu At least 45 of the attackers were arrested. mented brutal floggings imposed by courts as pun Riot police unleashed tear gas and water cannons ishment, and torture and ill treatment, including on the protesters at points during the mile-long sexual abuse, in police custody.” march down Andrissy Road. At least 25 people were injured, including 17 of the 2,100 police officers protecting the event. A post-parade concert was canceled. Protest organizer Nikolai Alekseev said one word in the picket notification led authorities to ban the event: “We applied to the prefecture with the identical notification to the ones we used in “There was one street where literally a shower I the last two years, adding one word. Before, we
