Dear Dustin Lance Black and Rob Reiner,
Thank you for writing and directing a play called 8 about the fight for marriage equality in California. Now that a reading of the play is available for viewing online,…
California
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Molly’sBlog 2011-03-06 15:54:00
AMERICAN LABOUR CALIFORNIA: WHAT IS A LIFE WORTH ?:The following appeal is from the American United Farm Workers, and it's about the excessively lenient sentence for the contractor responsible for…