{"id":12609,"date":"2010-09-29T04:25:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T04:25:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-29T04:26:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T04:26:25","slug":"video-first-coffee-party-held-this-past-weekend-featured-lt-dan-choi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/29\/video-first-coffee-party-held-this-past-weekend-featured-lt-dan-choi\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: First Coffee Party Held This Past Weekend Featured Lt. Dan Choi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Convention Builds Relationships &#8211; Equality is NON-Partisa<\/b>n <\/p>\n<p>(LOUISVILLE, KY) Sept. 28, 2010 &#8211; Participants in the first Coffee Party Convention arrived home to 40 different states on Sunday and Monday, energized and determined to pursue electoral and legislative goals outlined during the three-day event. <\/p>\n<p>The most emotional speech at the convention came from Lt. Dan Choi. In his first public remarks since last week&#8217;s filibuster of a Defense Authorization Bill that included a conditional repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell, Choi spoke of love, equality, and determination, bringing listeners to tears. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Love is non-partisan,&#8221; Choi said. &#8220;Love does not belong to any specific group. And the equality of love is also non-partisan. &#8230; Equality is non-partisan because the priority of our rights and our liberties, as if freedom is some kind of finite resource, is most anti-American.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I present to you, Lt Choi, via YOUTUBE: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P7YSeitwGKs&#038;feature=player_embedded\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOTE: I cannot get the code to embed (I am sure it is me, not problems with the code) so here is a link to get you to the 18 minute presentation (from an attendee&#8211; &#8220;Clearly the most emotional&#8230;.&#8221;). I am sure the fine folks here at Calitics can get it to embed (please?).<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P7YSeitwGKs&#038;feature=player_embedded\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>You MAY need to copy and paste the link.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Cross Posted at FreeFlightNewMedia.TypePad.Com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Convention Builds Relationships &#8211; Equality is NON-Partisa<\/b>n <\/p>\n<p>(LOUISVILLE, KY) Sept. 28, 2010 &#8211; Participants in the first Coffee Party Convention arrived home to 40 different states on Sunday and Monday, energized and determined to pursue electoral and legislative goals outlined during the three-day event. <\/p>\n<p>The most emotional speech at the convention came from Lt. Dan Choi. In his first public remarks since last week&#8217;s filibuster of a Defense Authorization Bill that included a conditional repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell, Choi spoke of love, equality, and determination, bringing listeners to tears. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Love is non-partisan,&#8221; Choi said. &#8220;Love does not belong to any specific group. And the equality of love is also non-partisan. &#8230; Equality is non-partisan because the priority of our rights and our liberties, as if freedom is some kind of finite resource, is most anti-American.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I present to you, Lt Choi, via YOUTUBE: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P7YSeitwGKs&#038;feature=player_embedded\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[9342,215,9341],"class_list":["post-12609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-9342","tag-215","tag-9341"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3hn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}