Gay Pride Rally June 19, 2010

Gay Pride Rally June 19, 2010

Gay Pride Rally June 19, 2010

June 19: 2010 GAY PRIDE RALLY

THE 2010 GAY PRIDE RALLY

Saturday, June 19th, 4:00 - 8:00 PM

72nd St. & 5th Ave. @ Rumsey Playfield Central Park


Please join the official NYC LGBT Pride Rally!

The Rally will feature well-known performers and motivating speakers from the LGBT community to kick-off this year's Pride Week events
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The first NYC LGBT Pride Rally occurred one month after the Stonewall Riots in June 1969 when 500 people gathered for a "Gay Power" demonstration in Washington Square Park. It was followed by a candlelight vigil in Sheridan Square. From 1997 to 2009, the Rally was held in Bryant Park.

Now, the 2010 Rally is delighted to be moving to Central Park's SummerStage in Rumsey Field, 5th Ave and 72nd St.

This event is free and open to the public. No tickets are necessary.

The entire Rally will be ASL interpreted for individuals who are deaf/hard-of-hearing.

Joe Barton: "A tragedy of the first proportion"

I think it is a tragedy in the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown -- in this case a $20 billion shakedown

These were the words yesterday of Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex) commenting on the escrow account that the administration got BP to agree to. An agreement Burton labelled a "shakedown." Although most of the media has focussed on the word "shakedown." It seems to me that - in the face of a real "tragedy of the first proportion" in the Gulf of Mexico, Burton would characterize the White House/BP deal in those words. Talk about insensitivity.

Wikileaks and the Obama administration

There may be legitimate reasons for security, but when administrations use "security" to cover up their crimes, to look better than they really are that's not transparency. Democracy requires an informed public and cover-ups undermine that. Remember the Pentagon Papers well check this out we may be back there.

Consortiumnews.com

June 18: World War 4 Report Benefit

June 8: Protest Israeli actions in Gaza

PROTEST TUESDAY

June 8, 5 PM

the Israeli Consulate
(42nd St and 2nd Ave)
Look for the JVP banner to join our contingent.

We still don't know the names of the dead or wounded, and the remaining activists trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza have been removed from their boats and are being held incommunicado.

President Obama says he "deeply regrets the loss of life," but has made no suggestion that there be any consequences for Israel's deadly attack in international waters. And Gaza remains under siege.

WE CAN'T BE SILENT. COME OUT TUESDAY.

A trade: Bloomberg for LeBron

Mayor Bloomberg is at it again. Remember his failed attempt to get half the West Side condemned in order to bring the N.J. Nets basketball team here. Remember the fiasco of Bloomberg and the Summer Olympics (2012). Well, as you can see from the above video, he's at it again. With all the serious problems NYC has right now, he spends his time and our money on attempts to get Cleveland's LeBron James here. That used to be called tampering, but for Bloomberg it's business as usual (remember Term Limits).

But actually I think there is a way to get LeBron here: a trade - Bloomberg for LeBron. Cleveland gets Bloomberg (it's their problem what to do with him) and we get LeBron. That way we win twice.

June 4: Citizen's arrest at BP headquarters

Citizen's Arrest at BP Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Friday, June 4, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

BP's Washington, D.C. Office

1101 New York Ave., N.W., Washington, DC

Public Citizen, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Energy Action Coalition,
Chesapeake Climate Action Network, 350.org, Hip Hop Caucus and the Center for Biological Diversity are going to hold BP accountable for its high crimes and misdemeanors. They need YOU to help them deliver the charges against BP!

June 3: SEIZE BP

NYC Protest to demand: SEIZE BP!
National Days of Action

Thursday, June 3, 5pm

JP Morgan Chase World Headquarters*
270 Park Avenue (48th Street)

(6/E/V Trains to 51st St)
(*Chase owns close to 30 percent of BP's public stock)

(RSVP on Facebook)

Yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a "criminal probe" to investigate whether BP "broke any laws." That completely misses the point! Of course BP broke laws. But what everyone in the country wants to know from the Obama administration is whether the government will defend the interests of the people whose livelihoods have been destroyed and offer any hope of salvaging the environment in the Gulf of Mexico.

A criminal probe will last years. By then, the criminals at BP will have reorganized the company or dissolved it, with BP's assets handed over to some other big oil conglomerate before BP has to pay out. Its executives will be paid handsomely; the people whose lives it has destroyed will be left to suffer. The government must act now to seize BP's assets before the company "reorganizes."

From coast to coast, people are stepping up to the plate and organizing demonstrations for the Seize BP Week of Action in their cities and towns.

The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition will take to the streets from Thursday, June 3 to Thursday, June 10 in cities across the country to demand: Seize BP!

For more information: 212-694-8720, nyc@answercoalition.org

June 1: Protest Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla

Protest Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla

June 1, 5 PM
Assemble at the Israeli Consulate, 42nd St & 2nd Ave

Planned route: After rally at the Israeli Consulate,
march across 42nd St to Grand Central,
and then to Times Square.
Protest expected to last until approximately 7 pm.

We still don't know the names of the dead or wounded; the surviving activists are not being allowed to communicate to the outside world. Pres. Obama "deeply regrets the loss of life" but has made no suggestion that there be any consequences to Israel for its deadly attack on the flotilla in international waters. Gaza remains under siege.

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT. NOW IS THE TIME TO COME OUT!!!

ADDITIONAL ACTION TO TAKE TODAY!

CALL the U.S. State Department (+1 202-647-4000, x 1) and the US Consulate in Jerusalem (+972 2 622 7207/21/30) and DEMAND that the U.S. Government take immediate action to safeguard innocent lives!

CALL White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (+1 202 456 6798) and DEMAND that the Obama Administration support the creation of an unbiased international commission to investigate and hold the Israeli government accountable for the murder of unarmed civilians!

For background and more information, go to www.freegaza.org and U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

June 3: Code Pink benefit play

Join CODEPINK NYC & friends from the Lower East Side Girls Club for a special benefit performance of Karen Malpede’s new play PROPHECY,
featuring Kathleen Chalfant, George Bartenieff and Najla Said.

Thursday, June 3rd, 7:30 p.m.

PROPHECY
Written & directed by KAREN MALPEDE

Performance followed by a talk-back with Laura Flanders of GRIT TV

Fourth Street Theater
83 East 4th Street

General Admission Tickets: $40 each
Sponsor a ticket for YOU AND a Lower Eastside Girls Club teen: $75

All ticket holders are invited to join CODEPINK NYC at the Lower Eastside Girls Club's Art+Community Gallery for a pre-show wine and cheese reception on June 3rd @ 6pm. 56 east 1st Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues.

All ticket holders are also invited to a special talk-back with Noam Chomsky to be held at the New York Theater Workshop (79 East Fourth Street) at 10 p.m. on June 8th.

The Lower Eastside Girls Club (www.girlsclub.org) provides a place where girls and young women 8-23 can grow, learn, have fun, and develop confidence in themselves and their ability to make a difference in the world. By delivering strong arts, literacy, science, health and leadership programs we provide girls with the vision to plan – and the tools to build – their future. All Girls Club programs develop environmental, entrepreneurial and ethical leadership in the girls we serve.

“The play is a thing of beauty…and I’m here to tell you to see it.” David Swanson, After Downing Street

More about the play: In PROPHECY, the Abraham-Sarah-Hagar myth echoes through the marriage of Sarah and Alan Golden. Sarah Golden is an acting teacher who tries to avert the tragedy of a talented young man who went to war for tuition money but returns with a terrible secret seared into consciousness. Then, Alan's estranged daughter arrives from the Middle East, seeking retribution.