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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@hd9xc1k2 You want to be heard so you take a blowhorn and crash a meeting. But when someone expresses an opinion that challenges your point of view you delete it. You should be ashamed of your act of censorship and blatant hypocrisy.
hd9xc1k2 4 weeks ago
FIERCE they were clearly not ready for you! Thank you for continually broadening the conversation. Love, and gratitude.
jacoby81623 1 month ago
I am BEYOND PROUD!!!!!!!!! FIERCE is amazing!!!! Thank you always for your FEARLESS necessary leadership
imanihenry 1 month ago
I love how specific your messaging is! Fabulous! And, of course, fierce!
OutFMWBAI 1 month ago
get it!
brownstargirl 1 month ago
good job guys <3
jazzy51180 1 month ago
Palestinian Queers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3<3
EddieMorning2 1 month ago
fantastic!
prtrany1 1 month ago
well done!
l7y2n2n 1 month ago