"If you can't treat someone from another gender with dignity and respect, then you need to get out. If you demean someone in any way, you need to get out. If you can't treat someone from another race, or different color skin, with dignity and respect, then you need to get out." - Lt. Gen. Jay B. Silveria, 2017Sep28
#EqualRights #NoHate #CheckEntitlements #StandWithCharlottesville
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/us/air-force-academy-racial-slurs.html
A pastor spoke out *against* racism, hate and white supremacists, then had to resign from his church due to community backlash.
"My name is Robert Lee IV; I am a descendant of Robert E. Lee, the Civil War general whose statue was at the center of violence in Charlottesville. We have made my ancestor an idol of white supremacy, racism and hate. As a pastor it is my moral duty to speak out against racism, America's original sin."
#StandWithCharlottesville #EqualRights
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/05/us/robert-lee-iv-resigns-church-pastor-mtv-vma-confederate/index.html
"20th Century testaments to a fictionalized, glorified narrative of the rightness of the Southern cause in that war, when the actual cause was an insurrection against the United States of America promoting the right of southern states to perpetuate the institution of slavery"
#StandWithCharlottesville #EqualRights #NoHate #DoSomethingPositive #HeatherHeyer #JayCullen #BerkeBates #CoreyLong #DeandreHarris
Charities moving events from Mar-a-Lago.
The Red Cross said Mar-a-Lago "has increasingly become a source of controversy and pain for many of our volunteers, employees and supporters."
Volunteers. It's an easy way for the 99% to have influence. Don't volunteer for charities that stand with racists and white nationalists. And, *tell them why*.
If you volunteer with a charity that has moved, contact them and say thank you.
10,000 counter-protestors show up in Boston to block racist rally.
The protestors are chanting, "No Nazis, No KKK, no facists USA"
News coverage is showing video of the counter-protestor crowd filling in public space in Boston.
The article now has pictures of the crowds. Great job Boston!
#StandWithCharlottesville #EqualRights #NoHate #DoSomethingPositive #CitizenActivism #BostonRocks
Colbert being presidential.
Then, he takes someone to task for not being presidential and addresses the scourge of nazism.
Colbert also points to good responses from the Charlottesville vice-mayor and the company that makes tiki torches.
"I gotta say it's pretty troubling when a backyard decoration comes out stronger swinging against Nazis than the president of the United States. <pause> You're move lawn flamingos."
Colbert sums up the problem using Trump's own words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naihe2MR3Yk
#StandWithCharlottesville #EqualRights #NoHate #CheckEntitlements #NoRacistNationalists
Vice-mayor of Charlottesville says racist event wasn't due to removal of a statue. That was just an excuse used by a small group of racists. Decades of continued racism is what led to the event and the counter-protest.
Sand together and say racism is not tolerable.
In the US, you have the right to be a racist. The other 300 million of us have the right to tell you what we think of your racism and hold you socially accountable for your racism.
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/12/543096680/white-supremacist-rally-in-virginia-turns-violent
"#DontTreadOnAz is a statewide protest, taking place on Monday, August 14th at all of the congressional district offices throughout Arizona."
The event for Rep. David Schweikert has moved from his office to Celebrity Theater as he will be there for a fundraiser
-This is a NON-VIOLENT protest
-Please bring water, an umbrella for shade, your family, and your friends
-Please recycle and dispose of trash properly
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