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LGBTQ People of Color Mic Check the Obama Administration: Stop militarization and policing at home and abroad. Queers Say: No Justice! No Peace!
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LGBTQ People of Color Mic Check the Obama Administration: Stop militarization and policing at home and abroad. Queers Say: No Justice! No Peace!
On Friday, January 27, 2012 at the Creating Change Conference Baltimore, FIERCE delivered a message to the LGBT Liaison to the White House, the Department of Defense, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development at "The Obama Administration and LGBT Community" session.
Urvashi Vaid, a community organizer, writer and attorney who has been a leader in the LGBT and social justice movements for nearly three decades, helped keep the conversation going.
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"...This is a space where there is a lot of political rage and viewpoints around various issues. One of the great things about creating change is it's not just that there's a range of issues and people here who bring them but that we create a space in which many viewpoints about what it means to be queer what it means to be engaged in a political way in our world -- what it means to change the world is the subject of this conversation.
I think one of the questions that I heard in the challenge raised was how can we deepen and broaden what is known as the LGBT agenda? And that's a complicated question to ask at a moment when we're sort of first time really in the door in this mass way. The Clinton administration began the process of addressing issues although may I say that President Clinton did it in some really bad ways too! The process continues now with the Obama Administration and yet as you heard from some of us there is even more that one can hope for and aspire to through our government. It is our government and we are all committed to using it to meet the needs of our people which I think you have highlighted some of the ways in which HUD and DOL and other are doing that and there is much to talk about there and that is much appreciated and I personally want to acknowledge the benefit that has given to community centers and homeless programs and schools and all that stuff we need or want, and we need to work together to figure out in this crazy political environment how to support you in getting more of that."
-- Urvashi Vaid
http://urvashivaid.net/
www.fiercenyc.org
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LGBTQ People of Color Mic Check the Obama Administration: Stop militarization and policing at home and abroad. Queers Say: No Justice! No Peace!
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LGBTQ People of Color Mic Check the Obama Administration: Stop militarization and policing at home and abroad. Queers Say: No Justice! No Peace!
On Friday, January 27, 2012 at the Creating Change Conference Baltimore, FIERCE delivers a message to the LGBT Liaison to the White House, the Department of Defense, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development at "The Obama Administration and LGBT Community" session.
(mic check full script)
MIC CHECK!
MIC CHECK!
TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA
A MESSAGE FROM US QUEERS:
WE WANT JUSTICE FOR OUR PEOPLE
NO WAR ON IRAN!
OUT OF AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN IMMEDIATELY!
END MASS INCARCERATION!
END MASS DEPORTATIONS!!
END THESE POLICE STATES!
END FORECLOSURES!
QUEERS SAY:
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!!
WE DO NOT APPRECIATE
THE WHITE HOUSE COMING HERE
TO PINKWASH AND DISPOSE OF ITS CRIMES
AGAINST QUEER & TRANS FOLKS OF COLOR,
IMMIGRANT QUEERS,
MUSLIM QUEERS,
IRAQI QUEERS,
PALESTINIAN QUEERS,
AND QUEERS LOCKED UP
BY THE RACIST JUSTICE SYSTEM!
WE WILL NOT FIGHT
IN YOUR IMPERIALIST WARS
THAT KILL QUEER AND TRANS BODIES AND OUR HOMES
HERE AND AROUND THIS WORLD!
QUEERS SAY:
NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE!
ANYBODY ELSE HAVE A MIC CHECK??!
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On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, FIERCE joined forces with hundreds of community and labor groups to march against corporate greed and big banks. We ...
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On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, FIERCE joined forces with hundreds of community and labor groups to march against corporate greed and big banks. We marched to show solidarity between grassroots organizations working in NYC communities and the Occupy Wall Street protesters. What resulted was the largest mobilization to Wall Street since Occupy Wall Street started.
As LGBTQ youth of color organizing in NYC for access to safe space and for services and programs that provide a lifeline to many homeless and low-income LGBTQ youth, we have felt first-hand the impacts of corporate greed and the financial crisis.
On Wednesday, we showed the power of all our communities and gave voice and visibility to the long history of our fight for social justice and liberation. We showed our people power and the strength of community organizing that happens everyday!
FIERCE sends our thanks to CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, Picture the Homeless, Queers For Economic Justice, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, People's Justice, and all the fierce organizations at the Community/Labor March.
Check out the voices, music and power of our communities and FIERCE representing on Democracy Now!
View the full Democracy Now segment at: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/6...
We Are the 99%": Voices From the Occupy Wall Street March (find FIERCE at 37:07)
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FABULOUSPOC uploaded a new video
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On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, FIERCE joined forces with hundreds of community and labor groups to march against corporate greed and big banks. We ...
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On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, FIERCE joined forces with hundreds of community and labor groups to march against corporate greed and big banks. We marched to show solidarity between grassroots organizations working in NYC communities and the Occupy Wall Street protesters. What resulted was the largest mobilization to Wall Street since Occupy Wall Street started.
As LGBTQ youth of color organizing in NYC for access to safe space and for services and programs that provide a lifeline to many homeless and low-income LGBTQ youth, we have felt first-hand the impacts of corporate greed and the financial crisis.
On Wednesday, we showed the power of all our communities and gave voice and visibility to the long history of our fight for social justice and liberation. We showed our people power and the strength of community organizing that happens everyday!
FIERCE sends our thanks to CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, Picture the Homeless, Queers For Economic Justice, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, People's Justice, and all the fierce organizations at the Community/Labor March.
Check out the voices, music and power of our communities and FIERCE representing on Democracy Now!
View the full Democracy Now segment at: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/6...
We Are the 99%": Voices From the Occupy Wall Street March (find FIERCE at 37:07)
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This Summer, FIERCE held free programming on the piers for LGBTQ youth. These programs included a Queer Movie Series, Artistic Nights, Wellness Ev...
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This Summer, FIERCE held free programming on the piers for LGBTQ youth. These programs included a Queer Movie Series, Artistic Nights, Wellness Events and a mini-ball called the Colors Ball. These events were part of our Safe Space Saves Lives Campaign to keep the West Village a safe, accessible place for queer and trans youth.
FIERCE's member-led media crew talked to some of the youth who came out to our events. Listen up to what they have to say!
Join the Fight! Learn more about FIERCE at www.fiercenyc.org.
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