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Title: WATCH: SF Activists Occupy The HRC Store In The Castro
Post by: Shana A on December 12, 2011, 08:46:39 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 12, 2011, 08:46:39 AM
WATCH: SF Activists Occupy The HRC Store In The Castro
By: Oscar Raymundo
On: Dec 9, 2011
http://www.queerty.com/watch-sf-activists-occupy-the-hrc-store-in-the-castro-20111209/ (http://www.queerty.com/watch-sf-activists-occupy-the-hrc-store-in-the-castro-20111209/)
Gay, Inc.'s 1% had it coming. Disgruntled activists marched down Castro Street and right into the HRC store to express their frustration with the non-profit gay organization. Their main demand was a refocusing of HRC's priorities to include addressing homelessness among LGBT youth and people with AIDS, high unemployment rates for transgender folk, and lack of decent healthcare and affordable housing for elderly queers.
This is not the first time the activists in the Castro have shown their contempt for the HRC.
By: Oscar Raymundo
On: Dec 9, 2011
http://www.queerty.com/watch-sf-activists-occupy-the-hrc-store-in-the-castro-20111209/ (http://www.queerty.com/watch-sf-activists-occupy-the-hrc-store-in-the-castro-20111209/)
Gay, Inc.'s 1% had it coming. Disgruntled activists marched down Castro Street and right into the HRC store to express their frustration with the non-profit gay organization. Their main demand was a refocusing of HRC's priorities to include addressing homelessness among LGBT youth and people with AIDS, high unemployment rates for transgender folk, and lack of decent healthcare and affordable housing for elderly queers.
This is not the first time the activists in the Castro have shown their contempt for the HRC.
Title: Protesters Occupy HRC Store in S.F.
Post by: Shana A on December 13, 2011, 08:51:17 AM
Post by: Shana A on December 13, 2011, 08:51:17 AM
Posted on Advocate.com December 12, 2011 09:25:49 PM ET
Protesters Occupy HRC Store in S.F.
By Trudy Ring
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/12/12/Protesters_Occupy_HRC_Store_in_SF/ (http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/12/12/Protesters_Occupy_HRC_Store_in_SF/)
The Human Rights Campaign Action Center and Store in San Francisco's Castro district was the site of a recent Occupy protest — but HRC officials say they share the movement's concern about economic issues.
Protesters with Occupy the Castro marched through the neighborhood December 3, chanting, distributing literature, stopping to deliver a letter about economic injustice to a Citibank branch, and finally ending up at the HRC store, located in the building that once housed pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk's camera shop.
Inside the store, they chanted, "HRC, don't speak for me!" and "We're a movement, not a market!" (See video below.) They also delivered a letter highlighting the high rate of poverty, homelessness, and unemployment among LGBT people, especially transgender people. It reads in part, "We call on the Human Rights Campaign to make affordable housing, living wage jobs, the maintenance of benefits, and healthcare for all priorities that it pushes on both the local and national level. Never has it been more critical for our national organizations to stand up for bread-and-butter issues that affect the 99% of us who struggle to make ends meet every day."
Protesters Occupy HRC Store in S.F.
By Trudy Ring
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/12/12/Protesters_Occupy_HRC_Store_in_SF/ (http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/12/12/Protesters_Occupy_HRC_Store_in_SF/)
The Human Rights Campaign Action Center and Store in San Francisco's Castro district was the site of a recent Occupy protest — but HRC officials say they share the movement's concern about economic issues.
Protesters with Occupy the Castro marched through the neighborhood December 3, chanting, distributing literature, stopping to deliver a letter about economic injustice to a Citibank branch, and finally ending up at the HRC store, located in the building that once housed pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk's camera shop.
Inside the store, they chanted, "HRC, don't speak for me!" and "We're a movement, not a market!" (See video below.) They also delivered a letter highlighting the high rate of poverty, homelessness, and unemployment among LGBT people, especially transgender people. It reads in part, "We call on the Human Rights Campaign to make affordable housing, living wage jobs, the maintenance of benefits, and healthcare for all priorities that it pushes on both the local and national level. Never has it been more critical for our national organizations to stand up for bread-and-butter issues that affect the 99% of us who struggle to make ends meet every day."