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NYC, Nov. 21: “Red Dawn” is RACIST War Propaganda; Korea Wants Peace!

Wed., Nov. 21, 5:00 PM, Times Square

We will assemble in front of :

Regal Stadium 13 Movie Theater
 247 West 42nd Street, New York, NY
  
ON NOV. 21st the film “Red Dawn” will be released in theaters throughout the United States. This film is vile, racist, war propaganda and must be opposed by all progressive minded people.

THE FILM IS A REMAKE of a 1980s movie of the same name, made to justify U.S. murder in Latin America. While the U.S. funded death squads in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and elsewhere, this Hollywood fantasy portrayed the U.S. as being in danger of invasion by Cuba and the Soviet Union. The original film was the favorite of fascists like Timothy McVeigh and David Duke.

THIS NEW VERSION of the film has chosen the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a target. It portrays the Koreans are brutal invaders of the U.S., and people in the U.S. fighting them. The exact opposite is the reality.

DURING THE KOREAN WAR, millions of Korean people were murdered by U.S. imperialism. In the North, every building above one story in height was bombed. The U.S. military committed horrific atrocities, burning people alive, as well as raping and slaughtering civilians. The U.S. even threatened to drop five atomic bombs on China because they dared come to the aid of the Korean people.

FOR DECADES THE U.S. supported the brutal dictatorship of Syngman Rhee in South Korea who murdered his people en masse, backed up by U.S. troops and millions of dollars in foreign aid. U.S. troops still occupy South Korea. There have been mass protests against the U.S. military bases, but still they remain. Labor unions in South Korea are violently suppressed. Many people in South Korea are in prison simply for advocating peace with their northern countryfolk.

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTHERN HALF of the Korean Peninsula has no desire to invade the United States. They are seeking to re-unite their country and remove the foreign invaders. The Korean Workers Party, a revolutionary communist organization, leads the country, and it has ensured housing and jobs for all the people. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, its major trading partner, it had a booming socialist economy with a higher standard of living than most Asian countries. The Workers’ Party adheres to the principles of anti-imperialism, socialism and independence laid down by its founder, Kim Il Sung. Kim is still revered by the Korean people for leading the struggles against Japanese colonial occupation and U.S. imperialism.

FILMS SUCH AS RED DAWN are designed to justify U.S. military spending. While schools, food stamps, financial aid, and other programs people depend on are being cut, the U.S. has the largest military budget of any country on earth. Military corporations make trillions of dollars from manufacturing the tanks, fighter planes, and drones used to threaten and murder people around the world.
Join us in making clear: “RED DAWN IS WAR PROPAGANDA! KOREA WANTS PEACE!”
we-wretched-shall-rise: SIGNAL BOOST! PLEASE SUPPORT HOUSELESS DISABLED QUEER BLACK ORGANIZER FROM POLICE TERRORISM! Tequilah is my friend and comrade, who I first met in Occupy Portland. They’re black, queer, and houseless, and their partner Joel was just brutalized and jailed with a phony felony charge (assaulting a police officer) by the Portland Police Bureau. Joel is queer, black, houseless, autistic, and also an organizer. Tequilah is an amazing leader and organizer in the houseless community, and is well known and loved throughout the QPOC/houseless community in Portland. This is another case of white supremacy terrorizing houseless queer people of color through the police. In Portland, the houseless community has been engaged in a tense multi-year land struggle with the city. They have self-organized free shelters, and the city has been trying to evict them. This struggle has been engaged through marches, protests, vigils, sleep-ins, and even a 55-day hunger strike by local houseless queer black activist Cameron Whitten. Tequilah has always been an unstoppable force for justice in the houseless community, and the police are clearly targeting him and his partner to shut them down. He’s been there for me when I needed an emotional lift so many times, we can’t let the pigs attack him and his partner this way! It’s time to escalate the fight in this war for housing and against the police. QPOC FIGHT BACK, FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! SUPPORT THE HOUSELESS COMMUNITY IN PORTLAND @ RIGHT 2 DREAM TOO (R2D2), TELL THE CITY TO BACK OFF! Please spread the word. ——————————————— Update: It has now been five days, and Joel is still in custody. They have not been heard from and PPB has not released a visitor list. The last time Joel was arrested, PPB knocked out several of his teeth. EMERGENCY RALLY on SUNDAY at the MULTNOMAH COUNTY JUSTICE CENTER at NOON
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we-wretched-shall-rise:

SIGNAL BOOST!

PLEASE SUPPORT HOUSELESS DISABLED QUEER BLACK ORGANIZER FROM POLICE TERRORISM!

Tequilah is my friend and comrade, who I first met in Occupy Portland. They’re black, queer, and houseless, and their partner Joel was just brutalized and jailed with a phony felony charge (assaulting a police officer) by the Portland Police Bureau. Joel is queer, black, houseless, autistic, and also an organizer.

Tequilah is an amazing leader and organizer in the houseless community, and is well known and loved throughout the QPOC/houseless community in Portland.

This is another case of white supremacy terrorizing houseless queer people of color through the police. In Portland, the houseless community has been engaged in a tense multi-year land struggle with the city. They have self-organized free shelters, and the city has been trying to evict them. This struggle has been engaged through marches, protests, vigils, sleep-ins, and even a 55-day hunger strike by local houseless queer black activist Cameron Whitten.

Tequilah has always been an unstoppable force for justice in the houseless community, and the police are clearly targeting him and his partner to shut them down. He’s been there for me when I needed an emotional lift so many times, we can’t let the pigs attack him and his partner this way! It’s time to escalate the fight in this war for housing and against the police.

QPOC FIGHT BACK, FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!

SUPPORT THE HOUSELESS COMMUNITY IN PORTLAND @ RIGHT 2 DREAM TOO (R2D2), TELL THE CITY TO BACK OFF!

Please spread the word.

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Update: It has now been five days, and Joel is still in custody. They have not been heard from and PPB has not released a visitor list. The last time Joel was arrested, PPB knocked out several of his teeth.

EMERGENCY RALLY on SUNDAY at the MULTNOMAH COUNTY JUSTICE CENTER at NOON

(Source: dancepunksnotdead)

thepeoplesrecord: Jamel Mims on facing two years in prison for protesting Stop & FriskOctober 23, 2012 New York City teacher Jamel Mims faces up to two years in prison for nonviolently protesting the most controversial racial profiling policy in America today. Last year, he was one of the key members of a civil disobedience campaign to stop Stop-and-Frisk that boasted the iconic academic Cornel West as one of its leading advocates. Today, he stands on trial along with 12 other campaigners. As discussed in last week’s State of the Left, the NYPD policy involves 1,800 instances of stopping and frisking citizens every day; in the last decade, 87% of people who are stopped are black or Latino; and about 9 of 10 are innocent of any wrongdoing. There is not even a hint of exaggeration in saying that certain sections of New York City are turned into police states for minority youth. Enter Jamel Mims: On Tuesday October 23, I will be on trial along with Carl Dix, who, with Cornel West, initiated the 2011 campaign of nonviolent protest to stop Stop-and-Frisk. We are facing up to two years in jail for non-violent protest at the NYPD 103rd precinct in Jamaica, Queens last year. The stakes are undoubtedly high: this is the second stop-and-frisk protest mass trial resulting from the culminating action of the civil disobedience campaign that sparked citywide resistance to the policy.  The Queens District Attorney added a serious misdemeanor charge on us last month, and re-wrote our charges last week so that we’re charged with ‘acting in concert’ rather than as individuals. The action last November  was the third such protest at New York City precincts with the most stop-and-frisks, this one taking place in the borough of Queens. We held a community rally and march through Jamaica, Queens, which ended at the 103rd Precinct.  As our march arrived at the precinct, it was completely barricaded on all sides – on lock-down in anticipation of the protest.  An officer slides open one of the metal grates and motions us inward so that we may protest at the precinct doors.  After minutes of chanting and singing outside of the precinct steps, 20 of us were arrested, quite quickly, but held for hours late into the next day.  For less than ten minutes of protesting stop-and-frisk outside of the doors 103rd precinct, which houses the NYPD officers who put fifty shots into Sean Bell, 12 co-defendants and I now find ourselves facing two years of jail time. If anyone think this is just an empty threat, and they won’t convict or send us to jail, let me reiterate—the DA has twice bumped up the charges in the last month, and has made it very clear that the prosecutorial apparatus intends to place us behind bars. A year ago, those who had no first-hand experience of the humiliation of being illegally searched barely knew the practice occurred.  Those who got stopped and frisked thought there was nothing one could do about it. Now, the stop-and-frisk policy and the horrors it inflicts are going viral in mainstream society. Copwatch and videos of NYPD stops garner thousands of views, and nearly every day there are articles or opinion pieces about stop-and-frisk.  Potential mayoral candidates have even had to confront this, as politicians line up to claim their opposition to the policy, or express their desire to reform or modify it in the ongoing pursuit of public opinion. In this watershed moment, when stop-and-frisk is opening a window into the daily plight of thousands, the very people who put their bodies on the line to put this issue into the spotlight and openly call out for its abolition are vigorously prosecuted and threatened with incarceration.  I refuse to accept this.  It’s unthinkable that the Queens District Attorney, who couldn’t make a case against the cops who murdered Sean Bell, is now throwing the book at nonviolent civil disobedience protesters.  In this light, the intended effect of this prosecution is insidiously transparent: to send a chilling effect through the movement against mass incarceration, and dampen the spirit of resistance it has ignited.  To put it quite simply: don’t speak up, and certainly don’t fight back. Well, I’m speaking up.  And not just as someone who is passionate about the issue.  I speak as a target of police abuse, as a Fulbright Scholar whose scholarship was almost denied after being assaulted by Boston police while trying to leave a party. I speak to you as an artist and teacher whose work in New York City public schools has me witness the humiliation and degradation of the youth by the NYPD on a daily basis.  I speak to you as a committed opponent of the New Jim Crow, a system of mass incarceration that has 2.4 million mostly black and Latino men warehoused in prisons across the nation, with stop-and-frisk as a major pipeline into that system. Most of all, I speak to you as someone who has cast their lot with those at the bottom of society: with those thousands of youth who are brutalized, targeted, harassed, and shuffled off behind bars — and is now facing years in prison for standing with them. We fully intend to stop this railroading by bringing the political battle into the courtroom and putting Stop and Frisk on trial.  If we are allowed to be convicted and jailed without a massive fight, then the battle against stop-and-frisk and the spirit of resistance it has engendered will be seriously dampened. On the other hand, if people stand with us in this legal battle–if we meet and defeat their attempts to silence and punish us–then the movement will gain further initiative and pull many more people into the struggle against mass incarceration. SourcePhoto 1, 2 The United States police state imprisons all dissidents, from police brutality activists to government whistleblowers. 
thepeoplesrecord: Jamel Mims on facing two years in prison for protesting Stop & FriskOctober 23, 2012 New York City teacher Jamel Mims faces up to two years in prison for nonviolently protesting the most controversial racial profiling policy in America today. Last year, he was one of the key members of a civil disobedience campaign to stop Stop-and-Frisk that boasted the iconic academic Cornel West as one of its leading advocates. Today, he stands on trial along with 12 other campaigners. As discussed in last week’s State of the Left, the NYPD policy involves 1,800 instances of stopping and frisking citizens every day; in the last decade, 87% of people who are stopped are black or Latino; and about 9 of 10 are innocent of any wrongdoing. There is not even a hint of exaggeration in saying that certain sections of New York City are turned into police states for minority youth. Enter Jamel Mims: On Tuesday October 23, I will be on trial along with Carl Dix, who, with Cornel West, initiated the 2011 campaign of nonviolent protest to stop Stop-and-Frisk. We are facing up to two years in jail for non-violent protest at the NYPD 103rd precinct in Jamaica, Queens last year. The stakes are undoubtedly high: this is the second stop-and-frisk protest mass trial resulting from the culminating action of the civil disobedience campaign that sparked citywide resistance to the policy.  The Queens District Attorney added a serious misdemeanor charge on us last month, and re-wrote our charges last week so that we’re charged with ‘acting in concert’ rather than as individuals. The action last November  was the third such protest at New York City precincts with the most stop-and-frisks, this one taking place in the borough of Queens. We held a community rally and march through Jamaica, Queens, which ended at the 103rd Precinct.  As our march arrived at the precinct, it was completely barricaded on all sides – on lock-down in anticipation of the protest.  An officer slides open one of the metal grates and motions us inward so that we may protest at the precinct doors.  After minutes of chanting and singing outside of the precinct steps, 20 of us were arrested, quite quickly, but held for hours late into the next day.  For less than ten minutes of protesting stop-and-frisk outside of the doors 103rd precinct, which houses the NYPD officers who put fifty shots into Sean Bell, 12 co-defendants and I now find ourselves facing two years of jail time. If anyone think this is just an empty threat, and they won’t convict or send us to jail, let me reiterate—the DA has twice bumped up the charges in the last month, and has made it very clear that the prosecutorial apparatus intends to place us behind bars. A year ago, those who had no first-hand experience of the humiliation of being illegally searched barely knew the practice occurred.  Those who got stopped and frisked thought there was nothing one could do about it. Now, the stop-and-frisk policy and the horrors it inflicts are going viral in mainstream society. Copwatch and videos of NYPD stops garner thousands of views, and nearly every day there are articles or opinion pieces about stop-and-frisk.  Potential mayoral candidates have even had to confront this, as politicians line up to claim their opposition to the policy, or express their desire to reform or modify it in the ongoing pursuit of public opinion. In this watershed moment, when stop-and-frisk is opening a window into the daily plight of thousands, the very people who put their bodies on the line to put this issue into the spotlight and openly call out for its abolition are vigorously prosecuted and threatened with incarceration.  I refuse to accept this.  It’s unthinkable that the Queens District Attorney, who couldn’t make a case against the cops who murdered Sean Bell, is now throwing the book at nonviolent civil disobedience protesters.  In this light, the intended effect of this prosecution is insidiously transparent: to send a chilling effect through the movement against mass incarceration, and dampen the spirit of resistance it has ignited.  To put it quite simply: don’t speak up, and certainly don’t fight back. Well, I’m speaking up.  And not just as someone who is passionate about the issue.  I speak as a target of police abuse, as a Fulbright Scholar whose scholarship was almost denied after being assaulted by Boston police while trying to leave a party. I speak to you as an artist and teacher whose work in New York City public schools has me witness the humiliation and degradation of the youth by the NYPD on a daily basis.  I speak to you as a committed opponent of the New Jim Crow, a system of mass incarceration that has 2.4 million mostly black and Latino men warehoused in prisons across the nation, with stop-and-frisk as a major pipeline into that system. Most of all, I speak to you as someone who has cast their lot with those at the bottom of society: with those thousands of youth who are brutalized, targeted, harassed, and shuffled off behind bars — and is now facing years in prison for standing with them. We fully intend to stop this railroading by bringing the political battle into the courtroom and putting Stop and Frisk on trial.  If we are allowed to be convicted and jailed without a massive fight, then the battle against stop-and-frisk and the spirit of resistance it has engendered will be seriously dampened. On the other hand, if people stand with us in this legal battle–if we meet and defeat their attempts to silence and punish us–then the movement will gain further initiative and pull many more people into the struggle against mass incarceration. SourcePhoto 1, 2 The United States police state imprisons all dissidents, from police brutality activists to government whistleblowers. 

thepeoplesrecord:

Jamel Mims on facing two years in prison for protesting Stop & Frisk
October 23, 2012

New York City teacher Jamel Mims faces up to two years in prison for nonviolently protesting the most controversial racial profiling policy in America today. Last year, he was one of the key members of a civil disobedience campaign to stop Stop-and-Frisk that boasted the iconic academic Cornel West as one of its leading advocates. Today, he stands on trial along with 12 other campaigners.

As discussed in last week’s State of the Left, the NYPD policy involves 1,800 instances of stopping and frisking citizens every day; in the last decade, 87% of people who are stopped are black or Latino; and about 9 of 10 are innocent of any wrongdoing. There is not even a hint of exaggeration in saying that certain sections of New York City are turned into police states for minority youth.

Enter Jamel Mims:

On Tuesday October 23, I will be on trial along with Carl Dix, who, with Cornel West, initiated the 2011 campaign of nonviolent protest to stop Stop-and-Frisk. We are facing up to two years in jail for non-violent protest at the NYPD 103rd precinct in Jamaica, Queens last year.

The stakes are undoubtedly high: this is the second stop-and-frisk protest mass trial resulting from the culminating action of the civil disobedience campaign that sparked citywide resistance to the policy.  The Queens District Attorney added a serious misdemeanor charge on us last month, and re-wrote our charges last week so that we’re charged with ‘acting in concert’ rather than as individuals.

The action last November  was the third such protest at New York City precincts with the most stop-and-frisks, this one taking place in the borough of Queens. We held a community rally and march through Jamaica, Queens, which ended at the 103rd Precinct.  As our march arrived at the precinct, it was completely barricaded on all sides – on lock-down in anticipation of the protest.  An officer slides open one of the metal grates and motions us inward so that we may protest at the precinct doors.  After minutes of chanting and singing outside of the precinct steps, 20 of us were arrested, quite quickly, but held for hours late into the next day.  For less than ten minutes of protesting stop-and-frisk outside of the doors 103rd precinct, which houses the NYPD officers who put fifty shots into Sean Bell, 12 co-defendants and I now find ourselves facing two years of jail time.

If anyone think this is just an empty threat, and they won’t convict or send us to jail, let me reiterate—the DA has twice bumped up the charges in the last month, and has made it very clear that the prosecutorial apparatus intends to place us behind bars. A year ago, those who had no first-hand experience of the humiliation of being illegally searched barely knew the practice occurred.  Those who got stopped and frisked thought there was nothing one could do about it. Now, the stop-and-frisk policy and the horrors it inflicts are going viral in mainstream society. Copwatch and videos of NYPD stops garner thousands of views, and nearly every day there are articles or opinion pieces about stop-and-frisk.  Potential mayoral candidates have even had to confront this, as politicians line up to claim their opposition to the policy, or express their desire to reform or modify it in the ongoing pursuit of public opinion.

In this watershed moment, when stop-and-frisk is opening a window into the daily plight of thousands, the very people who put their bodies on the line to put this issue into the spotlight and openly call out for its abolition are vigorously prosecuted and threatened with incarceration.  I refuse to accept this.  It’s unthinkable that the Queens District Attorney, who couldn’t make a case against the cops who murdered Sean Bell, is now throwing the book at nonviolent civil disobedience protesters.  In this light, the intended effect of this prosecution is insidiously transparent: to send a chilling effect through the movement against mass incarceration, and dampen the spirit of resistance it has ignited.  To put it quite simply: don’t speak up, and certainly don’t fight back.

Well, I’m speaking up.  And not just as someone who is passionate about the issue.  I speak as a target of police abuse, as a Fulbright Scholar whose scholarship was almost denied after being assaulted by Boston police while trying to leave a party. I speak to you as an artist and teacher whose work in New York City public schools has me witness the humiliation and degradation of the youth by the NYPD on a daily basis.  I speak to you as a committed opponent of the New Jim Crow, a system of mass incarceration that has 2.4 million mostly black and Latino men warehoused in prisons across the nation, with stop-and-frisk as a major pipeline into that system.

Most of all, I speak to you as someone who has cast their lot with those at the bottom of society: with those thousands of youth who are brutalized, targeted, harassed, and shuffled off behind bars — and is now facing years in prison for standing with them.

We fully intend to stop this railroading by bringing the political battle into the courtroom and putting Stop and Frisk on trial.  If we are allowed to be convicted and jailed without a massive fight, then the battle against stop-and-frisk and the spirit of resistance it has engendered will be seriously dampened. On the other hand, if people stand with us in this legal battle–if we meet and defeat their attempts to silence and punish us–then the movement will gain further initiative and pull many more people into the struggle against mass incarceration.

Source
Photo 1, 2

The United States police state imprisons all dissidents, from police brutality activists to government whistleblowers. 

NYC ACTION ALERT: PREVENT MTA FROM BLOCKING ADS THAT OPPOSE RACISM - 10/11 - 3pm - pls spread the word

International Action Center

PRESS CONFERENCE IN FRONT OF MTA OFFICE

TO ANNOUNCE LEGAL ACTION TO PREVENT MTA FROM BLOCKING ADS THAT OPPOSE RACISM

Thurs, Oct 11, 3:00 PM

347 Madison bet 44th & 45th

On Thursday, at 3:00 PM in front of the MTA headquarters, anti-war activists, Muslim clergy and others will hold a press conference to announce legal action to prevent the MTA from blocking ads countering war, hate and racism.

Shown above, on left, is the ad the International Action Centercontracted and paid for, with a two-line disclaimer at the bottom saying the MTA does not endorse the content. Shown on the right is the redrafted MTA ad, with the disclaimer now taking up a full 1/4 of the ad space.

Originally scheduled to run in the subway on Monday, October 8, the anti-racist ads have still not been posted.

Earlier, the MTA was challenged for running insulting anti-Muslim ads that attack a substantial portion of its ridership in a Klan-like fashion. Claiming its “hands are tied” by a court order enforcing the right of free speech, the MTA has allowed the ugly racist ads to run.

The International Action Center then attempted to run ads countering Geller’s message of hate. The IAC’s ads denounce racism and affirm the values of unity and solidarity. They especially denounce anti-Muslim bigotry as a tool of war hysteria.

That’s when the MTA decided that the right of free speech was not important after all.

“The MTA has stalled, stymied and frustrated the attempts by the IAC to run anti-racist ads,” said IAC director Sara Flounders. “In comparison, towards Geller’s ads the MTA’s arms were positively wide open — quite a feat given that its hands were tied.”

Flounders raised $6,000 to have the unity-and-solidarity ads posted in the subway, and by Oct 1 had signed an agreement with the MTA stipulating that the ads would begin on Monday, October 8.

However, the MTA repeatedly changed the language of the disclaimer on the bottom of the ad. Finally, after stipulating a clear two-line MTA disclaimer at the bottom of the ad, the MTA approved final copy for the anti-racist ad on Oct 3.

The ad was printed and shipped to the MTA distributor and subway stations set for posting the ad. However, on the day the already printed ad was scheduled to be posted in subway stations, the MTA pulled the approved ad. The transit agency then, in breach of contract, re-designed the ad so that the disclaimer took up a full 25% of the ad space (see above).

Flounders noted it would take a struggle to get the MTA to do the right thing, emphasizing that the MTA’s actions supporting war propaganda and racism is an extension of its longstanding role in the promotion of militarism and repression.

“With S.W.A.T. teams armed with submachine guns and attack dogs patrolling the subway, the MTA has been a willing accomplice in the bogus ‘war on terror,’” said Flounders. “Now with racist anti-Muslim hysteria, the MTA has allowed the war plans of the 1% to take over what should be public transportation for the 99%.”

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NYC E M E R G E N C Y P R O T E S T — SEPT 27th - MTA: TAKE DOWN THE RACIST ADS!

E M E R G E N C Y  P R O T E S T —
MTA: TAKE DOWN THE RACIST ADS!
  Drop the Charges against Mona Eltahawy! 
  Public Transportation Should Serve the 99%! 

THUR ►SEPT 27 ►8 am
 Madison Ave. bet 44th and 45th Streets

Before the MTA’s Monthly Board Meeting

This week the MTA issued another slap in the face to its riders. As if the new round of fare hikes weren’t enough, it posted racist, anti-Muslim ads in ten NY subway stations.
 
Yesterday Egyptian-born writer and activist Mona Eltahawy was arrested by the NYPD for the righteous act of spray-painting over the ads.
 
As of this writing, Eltahawy has been charged with “criminal mischief” for attempting to reclaim public transportation for all. The charges need to be dropped — and so do the racist ads!
 
“Our hands are tied,” says the MTA about the ads. That’s what the MTA says about the fare hikes it imposes every year, too.
 
If it wasn’t clear before, it is now obvious that the MTA is incapable of operating public transportation for the 99%.
 
Raising the fare repeatedly… cutting bus lines… eliminating trash cans… demolishing station booths… Once the board made it more difficult for disabled riders to use Access-a-Ride, the question was: how much lower could the MTA go?
 
We have the answer now — much lower with the ugly hate speech paid for by known racist Pamela Geller.

  COME TOMORROW MORNING AND TAKE A STAND! 
  WHEN RACISM REARS ITS UGLY HEAD,
  UNITE & STRIKE IT DOWN!
    

Called by the International Action Center      212-633-6646

Report Hate Speech Now re NY MTA ads on Muslims/Arabs as “Savages”

Report Hate Speech Now re NY MTA ads on Muslims/Arabs as “Savages”

Peace and Love,

The racist ad’s (ad attached in case you have yet to see them) paid for by Pamela Geller and the “American Freedom Defense Initiative” have been placed in ten MTA stations around the New York Metro area.

We will not stand for this hateful, racist hate speech.�

We are asking you to please report these ads as Hate Speech/Hate Crimes to the following numbers:

Hate Crime Hotline (NYPD/NYC Gov) 212-335-3100
NYC - City of New York - �311 from NYC or from outside NYC - 212-639-9675�
MTA Complaints Line - �718-330-3322

We will not stop until these ads are taken down.�

Not in our name!
Not on our trains!

LGBTQ people are part of 99%! - Build a LGBTQ Contingent at the MOWSS - Sept 2nd

LGBTQ people are part of 99%!  -   A National Call to LGBTQ people from LGBTQ members of the Coalition to March on Wall St. South, to build a National LGBTQ Contingent  
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina     
We demand equal access to employment, housing, healthcare and education discrimination NOW! Equal Rights Now!
Show Your Outrage over Passing of North Carolina’s Anti-LGBTQ Marriage Amendment 1!
Free LGBTQ activists CeCe McDonald& Bradley Manning!
To Become an Endorser Email mowsslgbt@gmail.com
 
LGBTQ People need Equal Rights and Economic Justice
As LGBTQ people in the United States, we have always had to fight for rights, dignity and even for our very lives. In this sexist, heterosexist, transphobic and homophobic society, LGBTQ people are targeted for violence from our youth to old age.   LGBTQ oppression then intersects with racism, sexism, ageism, the oppression of immigrants, the exploitation as working people, and other forms of oppression, intensifying the hardships we experience.
 
As LGBTQ people we are discriminated against when trying to find housing, health care and education, paid less as workers, fired for being who we are and then excluded from societal institutions like marriage. Marriage equality is, of course, not just about the recognition of our relationships and families, but it is rooted in fighting for economic justice. There are over 1,000 federally provided economic benefits that we are denied access to that is granted to heterosexual married people. We believe that all working people – married or single—should have access to affordable healthcare delivery and health insurance.  We also want to see an end to cuts in social services, including HIV/AIDS-related programs.
 
While many LGBTQ related victories have been highlighted in the media—such as securing marriage equality in some states or calling for the end of violence and bullying of LGBTQ youth in schools— the bottom-line is that in 2012, we as LGBTQ people still do NOT have equal rights in the United States. Perfect examples of this include the failure of Congress to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals still allowing individual states to deny legal recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states.
 
Coupled with the global economic crisis, our second-class status has meant massive unemployment and homelessness for LGBTQ young people and foreclosures or evictions of LGBTQ individuals and families. LGBTQ people like other working class people live paycheck to paycheck, face devastating economic hardships, while the U.S. government continues to bail out Wall Street corporations and banks such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo.
 
Voice your Outrage at the Bank of America and Wells Fargo, and the Banning of LGBTQ Marriage in North Carolina
This is why we must continue to fight, especially in an election year, and shine the spotlight on the injustices and inequalities that we face. From September 1st to 6th, the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will be in hosted in Charlotte, North Carolina, home to both the headquarters of Bank of America and Wells Fargo as well as Bank of America Stadium. North Carolina is the second largest concentration of finance capital in the U.S. after New York City.
 
Also on May 8th 2012, North Carolina, took its ban on LGBTQ marriages, one step further with the passage of Amendment One.  As a result of Amendment One, the state constitution now defines marriage as “between one man and one woman”, reinforcing the ban on civil unions and domestic partnerships.
 
For these and many more reasons, progressive grassroots organizations, union, immigrant and student rights groups, have come together across North Carolina to create the Coalition to March on Wall St South to organize a massive people’s demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention.
 
We, the LGBTQ organizers of the Coalition to March on Wall St. South want to take full advantage of the DNC media coverage, and are calling on LGBTQ people from all across the United States to join with us this September to demand:
  •   Full rights and equality in society for LGBTQ people. End the Second Class Status of LGBTQ people in the US.
 
 
  • Stop the discrimination against LGBTQ People! Equal access to employment, housing, healthcare and education for LGBTQ people.
 
  •  Demand LGBTQ marriage equality now!  Overturn all of DOMA and all state laws that deny us full marriage equality. We are Outraged about the passing of North Carolina’s Amendment One.
  • Free CeCe McDonald, a Black trans woman and activist imprisoned for manslaughter for defending herself and surviving a brutal racist and transphobic attack. We remember our transgender sisters Brandy Martell, Coko Williams and Paige Clay and countless other murdered trans and gender non-conforming people—Stop the Transphobic Violence Now!
  •  Free LGBTQ military whistleblower Bradley Manning, who is facing life in prison for exposing US genocide in Iraq.
     
It’s up to us to fight for what we need; we just can’t leave it up to the Democratic or the Republican parties. It was the LGBTQ movement, united with other political movements that forced the US military to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” which threatened LGBTQ service people with expulsion if they didn’t stay in the closet.
We as LGBTQ have a proud history of being on the front lines of political movements - from the civil rights and women’s movement, to today’s fights against police brutality and against repressive deportations of undocumented people.   Bi Black Author/Activist June Jordan, once said, “If you took all the gay people out of the movement, there wouldn’t be any movement!”
So it is up to us as LGBTQ peoples to organize for the economic justice and for equal rights! We are calling on LGBTQ people and organizations to:
  •  Become an Endorser   Sign on as an individual /organization/group/school/union in support of a National LGBTQ Contingent for the March on Wall St. South on September 2nd.  Email mowsslgbt@gmail.com with your endorsement.
  •   Come to Charlotte, NC during September 1st – 6th and participate in events of March on Wall Street South. See http://wallstsouth.org for details. 
  •  Bring your Banners and Signs& March with the LGBTQ Contingent of the March on Wall Street South on September 2nd
  • Spread the word to your communities and constituents and Help Build the LGBTQ Contingent for the March on Wall St. South!
 

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