For Immediate Release
PRESS ADVISORY
CONTACT: Pauline Park (718) 662-8893 (c); (718) 424-4003 (h)paulinepark@earthlink.net
OCCUPY THE CENTER!
Protest censorship by New York’s LGBT Community Center
WHO: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and other groups (list below)
WHEN: Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 4-6 PM
WHERE: LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. between 7th and 8th Avenues
WHY: One year ago, amidst great controversy, the LGBT Center banned groups opposing Israeli apartheid....
FAQ for "Occupy the LGBT Center!"
2/16/12
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Why are we protesting against the LGBT Center?
What do we want from the LGBT Center?
Queer liberation and Palestinian self-determination? Aren’t these separate issues?
What is “pinkwashing”?
NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid: queersagainstisraeliapartheid.blogspot.com
For info on Israeli Apartheid Week: newyork.apartheidweek.or...
Flyer for 3/3 action: Occupy the Center!
2/15/12
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
PROTEST 4-7pm
@ LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St.
Occupy the NYC LGBT Center!
End the ban on Palestine solidarity organizing!
Since March 2011, the NYC LGBT Center has banned Palestine solidarity activists (queer and non-LGBT) from meeting at the Center and imposed a "moratorium" on any discussion of the Palestinian struggle. This censorship, in response to pressure from wealthy supporters of Israel’s anti-Palestinian policies, flies in the face of our community's commitment to diversity...
March 3: Occupy the NYC LGBT Center!
2/13/12
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
PROTEST 4-7pm
@ LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St.
Occupy the NYC LGBT Center!
End the ban on Palestine solidarity organizing!
Since March 2011, the NYC LGBT Center has banned Palestine solidarity activists (queer and non-LGBT) from meeting at the Center and imposed a "moratorium" on any discussion of the Palestinian struggle. This censorship, in response to pressure from wealthy supporters of Israel’s anti-Palestinian policies, flies in the face of our community's...
Why We Fight: Refusing NYC Arab-baiting, refusing Israel's pinkwashing
2/9/12
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The LGBT Center's ban on “groups meeting about the Israel-Palestine conflict” is racist – and it makes the queer community an instrument of racism. It extends the practice of pinkwashing beyond facilitating Israeli apartheid, and into a facilitation of New York's anti-Arab/anti-Muslim hate.
Let's be clear about what the Center's ban does: it brands any queer who stands up against the racism and violence of Israeli apartheid as a terrorist sympathizer, and a threat to the safety of “good” and “normal”...
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action/events by NYC queers,
NYC-QAIA,
pinkwashing
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