[1734] in peace2
5/8 Organize for Anti-War Pride with Stonewall Warriors Answer (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Tue May 7 18:58:31 2002
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Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 18:58:20 -0400
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
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From: "ANSWER-Boston" <ANSWER-Boston@iacboston.org>
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Subject: 5/8 Organize for Anti-War Pride with Stonewall Warriors Answer
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 18:39:46 -0400
*** COME TO THE NEXT MEETING OF STONEWALL WARRIORS' ANSWER
to Plan for a strong visible presence at Boston Pride saying
NO to racism, profiling and war -- From Stonewall to Palestine, Peoples
Resistance Will Triumph!
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 AT
6:30PM, at
284 Amory Street in Jamaica Plain
(The Brewery building - Stony Brook T stop on Orange Line,
turn left out of the station and right onto Amory).
http://www.iacboston.org/directions
***
We will be planning for a strong contingent in the Pride
parade emphasizing opposition to racism and profiling and
war and saying, from Stonewall to Palestine, Peoples
Resistance will Triumph!
This year's Boston Pride theme was going to be "American
Pride". This theme clearly did not represent us all. While
we still do not have the rights that many others enjoy, and
struggle day to day to keep ourselves alive and sane in this
country at such a critical time, how could the Pride
organizers be so presumptuous as to say that we are all
proud to be Americans right now? Many of us are not proud
to be part of any system or institution that is oppressive
towards us as well as people all over the world. Who could
be proud of the detainment of hundreds after 9/11, of racial
profiling, never ending war, and curtailed civil liberties?
As LGBTQ people, we have our own histories of curtailed
civil liberties and profiling. It's about time we remember
what Pride is all about, how it started, and stand next to
our friends all over the world who are facing extreme
oppression and death as a result of "American" ideas of
freedom.
We are happy to see that the response from the community has
been such that the Pride Committee has withdrawn this theme.
They are soliciting suggestions on the theme at their
website at www.bostonpride.org . We should respond with
suggestions emphasizing diversity and oppostion to racism,
profiling and war.
Do you want to be part of the struggle to organize against
jingoism and war in this year's Pride? Be part of a
movement to recognize the radical roots of our struggle, and
create and define our own sense of pride. Remember our own
history of the fight for freedom. We will not be spoken for
in this way.
Now more than ever we need a strong visible presence in the
pride parade that shows that as LGBTQ people we oppose
racism and war and profiling, and we say Money for AIDS not
for war against Palestinian, Afghani, Iraqi, Korean,
Colombian or any other people. We will be building a float
and a contingent in the Pride parade to make ourselves
visible and known.
If you want to join various community activists and build a
broad movement for a positive Boston Pride for all of us,
please contact the Stonewall Warriors ANSWER at
617/522-6626, or email iacboston@iacboston.org, and COME TO
OUR NEXT MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 AT 6:30PM, at 284 Amory
Street in Jamaica Plain (The Brewery building - Stony Brook
T stop on Orange Line, turn left out of the station and
right onto Amory).
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