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 and offering safe space for discussion of "controversial" issues. Petitions, appeals to meet with the Center’s board of directors, calls and letters have not succeeded in winning back our right to free speech and assembly.
If you agree that the wealthy and powerful 1% should not be allowed to silence the voices of the 99%, then join us in defying this ban.
Occupy the Center!
We demand:
1) End the ban on Palestine solidarity organizing at the Center.
2) Open the Center to all who respect its stated mission.
3) Open the Center's board meetings and decision-making process to the community.
This event is open to all.
Initiated by NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid: queersagainstisraeliapartheid.blogspot.com
Facebook: NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid
This event is part of Israeli Apartheid Week: newyork.apartheidweek.org
http://www.facebook.com/events/106123286178242/
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