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Thousands protest murder of NYC gay man

By May 21, 2013 » Add the first comment.
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Thousands of people marched through New York’s Greenwich Village the evening of May 20 to protest the murder of Mark Carson. Shortly after midnight May 18, Carson was shot to death by a man yelling anti-gay slurs. Carson, a 32-year-old African American described by family and friends as “a proud gay man,” had been strolling [...]

 

LGBTQ activists protest exclusionary, Zionist policies

By February 21, 2013 » Add the first comment.

New York — Nearly two years after the New York City Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Community Center first barred the groups Siegebusters and Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from meeting there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community erupted in outrage in mid-February, when the Center again denied a space request from QAIA, as it had [...]

 
U.S. labor delegation in Israel: Why not solidarity with Palestine?

During the week of April 17, an official American Federation of Government Employees delegation, led by National President J. David Cox — along with some members of its National Executive Council — visited the settler state of Israel. Cox was the recipient of the 2012 Public Service Award from the American Friends of the Yitzhak Rabin Center, a quasi-official Israeli government body. […]

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