At a demonstration yesterday in Boulder, more than fifty gay-rights advocates, joined by newly elected Congressman Jared Polis, raised their voices in protest against the Cinemark movie-theater chain, whose owner, Alan Stock, donated $9,999 to a California campaign to outlaw gay marriage. But the timing of the event made more sense nationally than locally. A boycott by an organization called No Milk for Cinemark! timed the rallies in Colorado and beyond to the November 26 opening of Milk, a Gu
The December 1 blog "Boulder's Milk Boycott Missing One Thing: Milk" tells of a protest against the Cinemark movie-theater chain, whose head man, Alan Stock, donated $9,999 to the California campaign to outlaw gay marriage. Locals activists inspired by a campaign headquartered on the web at NoMILKforCinemark.com are expressing their disapproval by urging filmgoers to see Milk, an acclaimed Harvey Milk biopic starring Sean Penn, at venues not owned by Cinemark.
Now, another point of view. Boulde