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Global Support For Chelsea Manning At Pride 2015

By Chelsea Manning Support Network - This summer, Chelsea Manning supporters came out to Pride events globally to march and stand by for our heroic Wikileaks whistleblower. New York City, London, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Salina, Philadelphia, St. Petersburg, Los Angeles and Seattle all featured Chelsea contingents. Participants marched and carried banners, performed in street theatre & flash-mob dance groups, passed out stickers & buttons to the crowd, and raised awareness of Chelsea and her upcoming legal appeals to crowds of thousands. In the SF Pride parade, a synchronized dance group performed a routine to Michael Jackson’s ‘They Don’t Care About Us’. Former military strategist Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, marched alongside supporters.

TWAC Activists Blockade Fracked Gas Truck

July 7, 2015 Emma McCumber, www.risingtidevermont.org Resist! Environment, Fracking, LGBTQ, Oil and Gas

By Emma McCumber in Rising Tide Vermont. ADDISON, VT - Today activists from TWAC (Trans* and/or Women's Action Camp) and Earth First!, blockaded a shipment of fracked gas en route to the International Paper mill in Addison County, VT and hung a banner proclaiming "Not by Truck, Pipe or Rail" off the Crown Point bridge. [1] They called for an end to the extreme energy extraction, distribution, and consumption that fuels social and ecological violence, which impacts people of color, indigenous peoples, trans* people and/or women, and low-income people the most. About 40 people participated in the action, which blocked an NG Advantage truck for several hours. NG Advantage, owned in part by Texas oilman and billionaire T. Boone Pickens, began shipping fracked gas to International Paper last year after it became increasingly clear that the fracked gas pipeline underneath Lake Champlain was unlikely to be completed.

VIDEO: 5 Hints Obama’s Legacy Will Not Be Good

July 6, 2015 Lee Camp, www.rt.com/redactedtonight Resistance Report fast track, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Obama, TPP

By Lee Camp in Redacted Tonight. Washington, DC - Following a week of impressive Supreme Court decisions, many are saying Obama's legacy is secure. But is it really? Has all of America forgotten about the war on whistle blowers, the war on immigrants, the war on drugs, war on privacy, and the war on civilians living underneath drone aircraft? This not mention the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the continuing pillaging by Wall Street. So how exactly is Obama's legacy secure? Well, sometimes it takes a comedy show to break all this down.

Sky High Activism, Wedding Pics, Rainbows & Flags

July 5, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resistance Report China, Climate Change, LGBTQ, Pope Francis, Racism, Socialism, South Carolina, Sweden

By Eleanor Goldfield for Occupy.com. Congrats to all the couples who can now tie the knot! But now that you’ve ridden the rainbow to marital bliss, allow me to bring you back down to everything else we gotta fix in this country. A Chinese company stunningly and scarily showcases sky-high activism while a Chinese couple offers up some dystopian and creative wedding pic ideas. Bree Newsome shows the South Carolina legislature it’s actually not that hard to take down the Confederate flag. July 4th is this weekend so go enjoy a celebratory march with some rebels. Let’s get serious and blunt about the global corporate takeover. And finally, Naomi Klein and Pope Francis join forces to battle climate change.

Shivaani’s Journey As A Transgender Indian Woman

July 3, 2015 Setareh Baig, www.fsunews.com Organize! India, LGBTQ, Liberation, Student Activism, usa

By Setareh Baig in FSU News - Ehsaan helped inaugurate Transgender Liberation Front, a Tallahassee organization that advocates for transgender women, specifically women in color. They advocated and helped stop FL HB 583, which would have prevented transgender individuals from using the bathrooms of their choice. In April, she gave a TED Talk entitled "Trans Liberation in Communities of Color" to over 500 students on FSU's campus. "Be real with yourself," Ehsaan said. "Be what you want to be, and don't allow societal constructs to hold you back. If you want to wear a dress and still wear your beard, do that. Express your authentic self. Admit to the world who you really are and not who they want you to be."

LGBT Immigrant Rights Protesters Arrested Near White House

July 2, 2015 Dhyana Taylor and Jacob Kerr, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Immigrant Rights, LGBTQ, Mass Incarceration, Patriarchy, Torture

By Dhyana Taylor and Jacob Kerr In Huffington Post - Six LGBT immigrant rights activists were arrested Tuesday after blocking a street near the White House to protest the Obama administration's treatment of LGBT immigrants in detention. Protesters, organized by advocacy group United We Dream, took turns criticizing Obama administration detention policies as some participants linked themselves with chains or lay in the street and blocked traffic. “We are asking President Obama to free all LGBT people from detention because detention is not protecting them. Detention is brutalizing them,” said Brooke Cerda-Guzmán, an undocumented transgender woman who was arrested. The protest came a week after an undocumented transgender woman was kicked outof the White House for heckling President Barack Obama about immigrant detention.

Historic Gay Pride Parades Follow Supreme Court Ruling

June 29, 2015 Janie Har, www.AP.org Resist! Law, LGBTQ, Pride, SCOTUS

Hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday packed gay pride events from Chicago to New York City, Seattle to San Francisco, with overall attendance expected in the millions for what amounted to a celebration of a freshly endorsed right to marry. In San Francisco, a parade that at times resembled a rainbow-colored dance party snaked through downtown. Cheerleaders, dancers and proud families of lesbians and gays swooped up Market Street as spectators flocked 10 to 15 people deep along both sides. There were "Hooray for Gay" and "Love Won" signs. There were rainbow flags and knee socks, umbrellas and tutus. SF Pride Board President Gary Virginia said the exuberance was amplified given last week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that same-sex couples can wed in all 50 states. Still, he said more needs to be done in housing and job discrimination in the United States and for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people around the world.

Istanbul Police Clear Pride March W/ Water Cannons, Rubber Bullets

June 29, 2015 Sophia Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Istanbul, LGBTQ, police brutality, Türkiye

By Sophia Jones in Huffington Post - Thousands of men, women and children gathered in Istanbul's historic Taksim Square on Sunday for the annual gay pride festival only to face water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas. "Where are you, my love?" sang one group of LGBT rights activists, waving rainbow flags and holding hands, swaying to the popular Turkish love song. "I am here, my love!" Moments later, Turkish riot police aimed a water cannon into a crowd of people (including this reporter) sending them running for safety as water pounded them from behind. Belongings flew off with the force of the water as people struggled to stay on their feet -- a scene that caused several young police officers to laugh openly, mocking the drenched protesters.

Why I Let My Son Wear A Dress

June 29, 2015 Frida Berrigan, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Feminism, LGBTQ, Patriarchy

Research shows that a strict gender education for girls and boys starts at birth. Terrence Real, a family therapist and author of “I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression,” cites a study in which 204 parents watch a video of an infant crying and are asked to react. When told the baby is a girl, mothers and fathers both say that the child is frightened. When told they are watching a boy infant cry, they label the emotion as anger. The researchers, John and Sandra Cundry, concluded by writing, “It would seem reasonable to assume that a child who is thought to be afraid is held and cuddled more than a child who is thought to be angry.” Little boys who cry are told to “man up.” Aggressive and even violent little boy behavior is not corrected or redirected.

Court Ruling On Marriage Equality Shocking, Especially To US LGBT

June 27, 2015 Glenn Greenwald, www.firstlook.org Resist! Gay Marriage, Law, LGBTQ, SCOTUS

By Glenn Greenwald in The Intercept - In the 1970s — just 40 years ago — the existence of gay people was all but unmentionable, particularly outside of small enclaves in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. If your first inkling of a gay identity took place in that decade, as mine did, you necessarily assumed that you were alone, that you were plagued with some sort of rare, aberrational disease, since there was no way even to know gayness existed except from the most malicious and casual mockery of it. It simply wasn’t meaningfully discussed: anywhere. It was so unmentionable that Liberace, of all people, long insisted to his fans that he was a “bachelor” due to his inability to recover from his tragic break-up with his fianceé, the Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie.

ACT UP Protesters Reflect On AIDS Demonstrations 25 Years Ago

June 12, 2015 Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, www.sfexaminer.com Educate! AIDS, LGBTQ, Pride

By Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez in SF Examiner - “When people with AIDS are under attack, what do we do? ACT UP! Fight back!” Twenty five years ago, the principal rallying cry of the AIDS virus protesters known as ACT UP rocked the sixth annual AIDS Conference in San Francisco. The protesters chanted, sang songs and engaged in civil disobedience for a week straight. ACT UP San Francisco is seen as a pivotal voice during the early days of the AIDS crisis, winning much public support to increase research funding, change medical processes and otherwise save the lives of those dying. “They hate us, there are no drugs, no one is doing anything, so we have to push things,” said Tim Kingston, a journalist at the time. Grief “was the motivating emotion.” Many demonstrators ended up dying from AIDS.

Imagine Coalition Of Black Lives Matter, LGBT Equality, Fight For 15

April 7, 2015 Ian Reifowitz, www.dailykos.com Strategize! Black Lives Matter (BLM), Coalition, LGBTQ, Living Wage, Social Change

Silos are dangerous. I’m not talking about the kind that house nuclear missiles, but rather the metaphorical kind, the kind that divide people who could and should be working together toward a shared goal. Too often, progressives have found themselves divided into these kinds of silos, for example, with women—themselves typically divided by race and ethnicity—fighting for gender equality, LGBT folks fighting for gay rights, unions and workers fighting for labor rights, and on and on. To some degree, these divisions are understandable. Part of the way a marginalized group empowers itself is by creating a movement in which its members play a predominant role.

Backlash To Anti-Gay Laws Not A Movement, But The Result Of One

April 6, 2015 Kate Aronoff, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! discrimination, Indiana, Law, LGBTQ

There was a showdown this week in Indiana and it had nothing to do with the Final Four — well, almost. Last Friday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law Senate Bill 101, also known as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA. While most of the bill’s language consisted of relatively benign legal protections for religious groups, it also would have safeguarded small businesses and corporations alike in refusing business to customers based on their sexual orientation — providing a claim, as well, in lawsuits brought by private citizens. The bill’s definition of religious freedom was so broad as to allow individuals to declare a religion of one and use it as legal grounding in court. A similar law, HB1228, was passed on Tuesday in Arkansas, and drew similar — if less acute — ire.

Building A Fusion Politics-Based Movement

April 4, 2015 Harry Targ, www.heartlandradical.blogspot.com Organize! Indiana, Law, LGBTQ, Politics

All of a sudden Indiana has been thrust onto the national stage. Governor Mike Pence in a closed meeting signed the newly minted Restoration of Freedom of Religion Act (RFRA) passed by the state legislature. Despite efforts of Pence and supporters to deny that the new law allows state government support for discrimination, especially based on sexual orientation, the supporters of the law, its language, and the track record of the legislators and the governor all point to the real motivation of the law: to authorize the right to limit public accommodations to groups of Hoosiers. The outrage from well-meaning people in the state and across the country is justified and should be encouraged. The exuberance of the protests--rallies, petitions, economic boycotts--is a cause for hope for those who are concerned about deepening economic, political, racist, sexist, and environmental threats to the country and its states.

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