Cleve Jones served as the historical consultant for the Focus Features film, Milk, and was portrayed in the movie by actor Emile Hirsch. Cleve’s career as an activist began in San Francisco during the turbulent 1970s when he was befriended by pioneer gay rights leader Harvey Milk. In 1987, he founded the NAMES Project/AIDS Memorial Quilt, which became the world’s largest community arts project. Today, Cleve works as an organizer with the hotel workers’ union, UNITE HERE, building coalitions with the gay community and leading an internal education campaign on LGBT issues with the union’s rank and file members. www.moveclintonspeech.info; www.clevejones.com; www.sleepwiththerightpeople.org

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What Would Harvey Milk Say About President Clinton's Speech at the Manchester Hyatt?

Posted February 12, 2009 | 03:55 PM (EST)


This Sunday, President Clinton is scheduled to give a paid speech at the Manchester Hyatt in San Diego to the annual convention of a major political action committee, the International Franchise Association.

To give this speech, President Clinton will have to violate a union boycott and labor dispute - the...

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