FIERCE Mic Checks Obama Administration

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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[Dorsey Bass]

SO MUCH LOVE for this action!!!!

[thenewmiLONNIEum]

As of 2008, Iran carries out more sex change operations than any other nation in the world except for Thailand. The government provides up to half the cost for those needing financial assistance, and a sex change is recognised on the birth certificate. An attack on Iran is an attack on LGBT people around the world. We CAN and MUST fight bigotry and oppression around the world AND oppose US imperialism and militarism.

[thenewmiLONNIEum]

Although the murder of people should be enough for us to oppose any war, the Obama administration's threats of war against Iran are ALSO a threat to the international LGBT community. Beginning in the mid-1980s, trans folks were officially recognized by the government and allowed to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

[thenewmiLONNIEum]

Perhaps you should listen to Urvashi Vaid for a MATURE response and expression of solidarity with the Occupy Movement.

[thenewmiLONNIEum]

Fuck liberals. Even Harvey Milk knew that "Power is never given. It has to be taken."

When you express crappy ideas, the gay bashers smile. They know they have an ally.

When you silence queers, you are HOMOPHOBIC.

[thenewmiLONNIEum]

1. Censorship against bigotry, imperialism, and racism is a GREAT THING. Obama's silencing of whistleblowers and truth tellers is not.

2. I only wish we could mic check on behalf of the millions of people your president has murdered in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Jacoby Ballard]

FIERCE they were clearly not ready for you! Thank you for continually broadening the conversation. Love, and gratitude. 

[Imani Keith Henry]

I am BEYOND PROUD!!!!!!!!! FIERCE is amazing!!!! Thank you always for your FEARLESS necessary leadership

[OutFMWBAI]

I love how specific your messaging is! Fabulous! And, of course, fierce!