What do African American Lesbians, Rev. Amos Brown, the SF Tenants Union and Sup. Chris Daly have in common?

Again. Not much. But they will be together at Badlands on Saturday night picketing.

The NIA Collective has endorsed the boycott and will be picketing on Saturday night. My co-worker, Faye Roe, is the President of NIA and will be on the picket line with us...



The NIA Collective was created by and for lesbians of African descent. The organization was founded in 1987 during the Black Caucus at the Lesbian of Color Conference in San Francisco.

The "purpose" of NIA is to collectively build a network through self-definition, self-acceptance and acceptance of each other as lesbians, as people of African descent and as women.
www.niacollective.org

Why has NIA and 30 other civil rights, community, and labor groups endorsed the boycott? Because

-Natali enforced a door policy illegally requiring multiple forms of I.D. from some African Americans
-Natali referred to African Americans as "non-Badlands customers" to be discouraged from patronage
-Natali denied entry to African Americans "through the use of a ‘No Bag' policy that was rarely enforced against white patrons"
-Natali selectively applied a dress code to African American patrons
-Natali's "hiring practices . . . were discriminatory towards African Americans"
-Natali "discriminated against an African American woman when she was ejected for the bar for pretextual and unjustified reasons"


Join us!

9pm: The Rev. Dr. Amos Brown and Supervisor Chris Daly speak at LYRIC (127 Collingwood Street @ 18th/Castro)
10pm: Protest outside of Badlands (18th & Castro)

For more information about the Badlands case and boycott, please visit www.andcastroforall.org



Badlands Boycott Co-Sponsors: ANSWER, Equality California, The National Association of Black and White Men Together, The National Black Justice Coalition, The National Center for Lesbian Rights,...And Castro For All, The Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Trans Coalition (APIQWTC), Bay Area American Indian Twin Spirit BAAITS, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (SF’s LGBT legal association), Community United Against Violence (CUAV), The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, Lesbians and Gays of African Descent for Democratic Action, LGBT Black Rap, LYRIC, Mission Agenda, NIA, Pride at Work, AFL-CIO, The A. Philip Randolph Institute, SEIU Local 790, The San Francisco Green Party, The San Francisco Labor Council, The San Francisco LGBT Community Center, The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, The San Francisco People’s Organization, The San Francisco Young Democrats, The Stop AIDS Project, Transcendence Gospel Choir