Student Coalition for Marriage Equality was started in January, 2005 at UCLA. Its goal is to become a statewide, grassroots, student run organization, focused solely on the issue of marriage equality. We believe that college students have amazing potential to do amazing things, if only they could become organized and mobilized around this issue. We recognize the fight for same-sex marriage as the great civil rights fight of our generation. Forty years ago, another civil rights battle consumed the country, and it was the support and dedication of students that helped win the day, and made African-Americans equal members of our society under the law. We have been giving our great battle, one that has the chance to almost eliminate legal discrimination against LGBT peoples once and for all in California. We will not stand by and watch our state pass the same anti-gay constitutional amendments that other states have passed. California has always been on the forefront of societal reforms and equal rights, and by becoming the second state to legalize same-sex marriage, we will continue that tradition. SCME is going to get thousands of students across the state involved in this fight, and show the great political power that young people still wield.