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(By guest blogger – Shanesmom) Polyamory is a growing social phenomenon that is becoming more visible and whose members seek to challenge discriminatory laws and policies that would criminalize their families. This was a main theme of the April 11 Panel Discussion hosted by the Vancouver Polyamory Group (Vanpoly) at The Junction House Pub in Vancouver that drew about 150 supporters. The panel coincided with the closing arguments of the
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The CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has obtained the right (a first in BC) to video tape court proceedings of the closing arguments and is webcasting live only (video and sound) here: Starts March 28, at 10 am Pacific Standard Time Here
Wait for the commercial and the video is there when court is in session.
Schedule of presentation of closing arguments are here:

Among those affected by the “polygamy law”, polyamorists are the ones with the numbers.

So who chose Bountiful to be the public face?

Most polyamorists don’t think of ourselves as “polygamous”, but the law does. The “polygamy law” says modern, secular, egalitarian conjugal polyamorists should go to prison.

For every polygynous family in Bountiful, Canada has dozens, maybe hundreds, of polyamorous families. At a minimum, there are about as many of us as there are Muslim polygynists… who also vastly outnumber Bountiful. We may outnumber even Muslims… by as much as 15 to 1. Invisibility hurts us… and it’s not deserved.

Click the headline for details.

This essay by the Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness, with several chapters in the United States,  has an excellent discussion of the nature of the separate polyamorist and polygamy communities. http://uupa.org/Literature/PolygamyComparison.htm

Oral arguments are beginning. We’re celebrating the first live action in the reference case by opening up our internal archive of court documents. This includes practically every court document filed by every party to the case.

Here’s the Google Docs folder.

As far as we know, this is the only complete and unbiased collection of these documents available to the public, short of going down to the courthouse.

[2010-12-08: Archive now maintained by the AGBC]

The Paypal donation system is now operational.  Thank you for your patience in waiting and for those who have already donated, thank you very much.  Your support is much appreciated.

Upcoming still:
November 25 Vancouver Women’s Poly Meet
November 27 Ottawa-Polyamory Meet
November 29 Vancouver Men’s Poly Meet

Have a meet & greet, polyamory awareness event, house party, or whatever suits your community!!

Talk about the November 22nd BC Supreme court case referencing section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada (the polygamy law).

View our presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/polychickbc/cpaa-presentation10-23-2010.

At your event, please consider “passing the hat” or encouraging some pre-holiday season giving to the CPAA.

Forward details of when and where your November events are being held to support@polyadvocacy.ca and we will list them on www.polyadvocacy.ca and dearpollyamorie.blogspot.com. Polychickbc will tweet about it too.

The CPAA attended the American Poly Living 2010 conference in Seattle (organized by Loving More, the leading national polyamory organization in the US) . And not only did we attend lots of great workshops, but Zoe and I (Carole) presented a workshop on our Canadian court case! (here at http://www.slideshare.net/polychickbc/cpaa-presentation10-23-2010).