killing Sochi - Russian Homocaust

StonewallAGAIN has started posting a photo activism series in protest of the gay propaganda laws that Russia enacted in the summer of 2013.

The photo expose can be viewed by the groups Facebook page.  It shows emotions associated with being forced into the closet.

The gay propaganda laws should have disqualified them from hosting the 2014 Olympic games based on Chapter 4 of the Olympic charter which states that no one is to be discriminated against.  The Olympic sponsors and IOC did nothing to change the location of these games.  These Olympic sponsors should be held accountable.  The true spirit of the games is apparently cash.

As the games close today, these lasting images will still be out there as a reminder that we need to help rescue Russian LGBT from genocidal violence they are subjected to.

Utah: Government Sponsored Discrimination

How does it feel to live in a place where the Governor and State openly hates you?
Do you want to know who is truly behind the high suicide rates of gay teens in places like Utah?  The state and the people who run it.

There is nothing like siting a 10 year old vote on a ban in which the countries attitude has shifted.  Where your own Governor stands before a nation and degrades you, your relationship and your family.  The state attorney general promoting homophobia sending hate mail to the Supreme Court that your an "affront" to the entire state and its citizens.

It has to be painful to wake up and pay taxes in a state that pays the salaries of this governmental hate group and the church that runs it.

I wonder how the Mormon Church, Governor Gary Herbert, or Attorney General Reyes would feel if they woke up and their marriages were expendable at the discretion of the general public. That every Mormon union was an AFFRONT to the state and all its citizens.  That Governor Herbert woke up to be an abomination because of his family.

Isn't the Mormon Church loosely affiliated with Christianity?  I think so.  Isn't there some thing about "love thy brother" and "treat others how you want to be treated"?

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Governor Herbert, AG Reyes and the Mormon Church following Hitler in history by maintaining power by publicly repressing a minority group.  This corrupt self empowerment will lead to their painful, catastrophic end.  For even the Catholic Church has realized that they will cease to exist if it didn't do a redirect.

History repeated in Utah.  Very similar to the Spanish Inquisition and it took the GOVERNMENT to take down the tyrannical religious zealots and restore order.

Utah follows in the dark side of history.  The internet forever recording and displaying the names of the people who would use their own government to repress them.  Governor Herbert, Attorney General Reyes and the Mormon Church.  R.I.P.

Picture from blog about a Utah road sign.  Why would anyone want to visit there?

Sochi Winter Games: HOLD SPONSORS ACCOUNTABLE

It is unbelievable that the International Olympic Committee is moving forward with these Olympic games in Russia.
With all the reports of abuse, rape and death related to the cleansing of the population of the LGBTQ community.
Sponsors like McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Proter and Gamble and Panasonic are funding the modern day holocaust that we have named the HOMOCAUST.
This is a case of history repeating itself.  Only this is on a larger venue.  The whole world is aware of what is going on and Russia is getting away with this.
This has outraged the world and any civilized nation.
Obviously, GE has spoken up but the rest of the sponsors have hid behind "supporting diversity" statements or remained silent.  It is clear at this point that the only solution would be to cancel the games, which is not realistic.
Plenty of people all over the world are on the same page as StonewallAGAIN on pulling the games from Russia.  They clearly broke the agreement with the IOC charter number four which clearly states not to discriminate.
Stephen Fry has made the same comparison as StonewallAGAIN that this Olympic Games is hauntingly reminiscent of the 1936 Nazi Games where Hitler showcased his Third Reich.
LGBTQ and supportive communities should NOT be feeling helpless in this.  We can help by boycotting the vendors that directly sponsor these homophobic olympics.
McDonald's and Coca-Cola should feel the heat from their decision NOT to influence the laws inception in the first place.  They had plenty of power to jump in and stop this before this actually came to a vote in the parliment.  They sat on their hands.
It is our responsibility to say that the corporate greed over human rights is complete bullshit.  LGBTQ and supportive community can say NO to purchasing their products and services.
Holding them accountable for EVERY INCIDENT because they are inviting and marketing for people around the globe to participate in this hate crime.
WE WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO BE PUTIN'S HOMOPHOBIC SHOWCASE, LIKE HITLER DID AGAINST OUR COMMUNITY NOT SO LONG AGO.

Our first newsletter, The Pink Flag.  Find out what we have been up to and articles on who we are and what we are about.
Enjoy!
http://stonewallagainpinkflag.blogspot.com/2013/09/stonewallagain-newsletter-pink-flag-1.html

McHomocaust: Russia the Fourth Reich

September 15, 1935
Nuremberg, Germany
Persecution Begins

• On April 1, 1933, the Nazis instigated their first action against German Jews by announcing a boycott of all Jewish-run businesses.
• The Nuremberg Laws, issued on September 15, 1935, began to exclude Jews from public life. The Nuremberg Laws included a law that stripped German Jews of their citizenship and a law that prohibited marriages and extramarital sex between Jews and Germans. The Nuremberg Laws set the legal precedent for further anti-Jewish legislation.
• Nazis then issued additional anti-Jews laws over the next several years. For example, some of these laws excluded Jews from places like parks, fired them from civil service jobs (i.e. government jobs), made Jews register their property, and prevented Jewish doctors from working on anyone other than Jewish patients.

Honestly, how can anyone not see what is happening here?

Are corporations like McDonald's who are sponsoring the Sochi Winter Olympic games that stupid to see that the gains that they are making for this one event could potentially and forever scar their business?

Tragedies at Olympic events are forever recorded in history.  What is to prevent a Munich Massacre?  Those where the murdering terrorist games.  What about the Atlanta Games?  No one remembers a damned thing about those games except there was a bomb!

With people running through the streets smashing faces in if you are even suspected of being LGBT, you want to kill ALL your business when you have the opportunity to do the right thing now?  Be the HERO and not the VILLAIN!  Ask your marketing people which is better.

LGBT has already started to actively avoid your products.  We are a tight community and will not tolerate this.  In your press release you use the key words such as diversity.  When you use the words and they have no action behind them, it's called lip service.  You are essentially lying to avoid dealing with the problem head on. 

We call bullshit on your response.  McDonald's is quite capable of saying that these actions taken by the Russian government do not comply with the image that McDonald's represents and will withhold any further funding of these Olympics under breach of contract.  Breach of contract due to they no longer qualify.

Olympic Charter #4:(takes time to load)

The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of

practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which

requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.

So, we ask again, DO YOU WANT TO RUIN YOUR BUSINESS OR BE A HERO?

Walk away and set up another venue in a location for all to participate "WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION OF ANY KIND" as the charter states.  Bring the other sponsors with you.  It will be a WIN WIN scenario.

Reference:
About.com Holocaust timeline
Olympics.org Bidding for HOST CITY
Olympic Charter apparently NO ONE HAS READ THIS.  BECAUSE IF YOU DID, YOU WOULD NOT CONTINUE THE GAMES IN RUSSIA! (This document takes time to load.  It is worth reading.)

We the People: Move the 2014 Winter Olympic Games from Russia

We the People will NOT acknowledge, listen to or view the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.

We the People will NOT purchase products or services from corporations or organizations that SPONSOR these games.  Giving money to said sponsors is condoning and accepting the slaughter of the LGBT community through legislative genocide.  Sponsors are going to be forever associated with the Second Holocaust.

We the People will NOT buy, view or acknowledge any products with the Olympic symbol attached on the product or its packaging.

We the People WILL hold Olympic Committee and ALL Sponsor responsible for anything that happens to ANY citizen during your Holocaust Olympics.

We the People WILL continue to have our voices heard through worldwide demonstration that HUMAN RIGHTS are more important than CORPORATE GREED.

We the People WILL NOT LET THIS GO.  THIS WILL NOT DISAPPEAR.  MOVE THE GAMES AND SEND A MESSAGE THAT HUMAN LIFE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HOMOPHOBIC POWER DOMINATION.

WE THE PEOPLE SAY IT'S TIME FOR EVERYONE TO DO THE RIGHT THING THIS TIME AND STOP THIS HOLOCAUST!

McDonald's and Coca Cola: SPONSORS OF VIOLENCE ON LGBT

The next time you are buying that Big Mac with a large Diet Coke, ask yourself if it's worth it?  When LGBT are being brutally assaulted without punishment for just being themselves, Americans are funneling their money to fuel this behavior.  The YouTube video link below is a sampling of what McDonald's apparently feels is part of "diversity" in their statement with regards to Sochi Winter Games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59WCKaKqjKY
As a gay man that was tortured all through my adolescent years,  this brings back memories I want to forget. Daily ass kickings from homophobes.
Many of the LGBT community have experienced this type of attack.  This is NOT diversity, this is NOT tolerance.  What this is, UNACCEPTABLE HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE!
McDonald's, Samsung, Coca Cola, NBC, Dow: message from the LGBT community is simple FUCK YOU if you think we are going to continue to buy your products.  FUCK YOU if you think we would buy ANYTHING associated with these Olympic Games in Sochi.  FUCK YOU if you think we would watch these HOMOPHOBIC DONT ASK DONT TELL Games.  FUCK YOU if you think that we would ever return to you as a customer.
Here is your golden opportunity to make things right.  MOVE THE GAMES.  This is NOT going to go away.  WE WILL NOT FORGET THIS!!!!
There is a Burger King down the street.  Mountain Dew and Pepsi right next to that Coke Zero.  I would watch FOX NEWS over anything on NBC, on principle alone.
What is in this and many more videos of our community publicly genocide is OUTRAGEOUS!
Sochi Olympic Sponsors, wake the fuck up or lose our business!!!!  AND FUCK YOU!!!

McDonald's Sochi Sponsor: Golden Arches or Golden Showers?

How big does the rock have to be to hit McDonald's in the proverbial head to realize, "Bad is BAD and good is GOOD"

One would think that they have mastered the art of marketing.  With slogans like "I'm Lovin It" swirling in the toilet, no slogan or jingle is going to pull them out of this one way luge to the septic tank.

The only thing that they are going to do is to pressure the International Olympic Committee to find another venue.

Look, we all realize that Russia breached the contract that qualified them for hosting the games when they enacted the 'gay propaganda' laws.  Laws with criminalize publicly and openly being LGBT.  Kissing in public or holding hands in a restaurant for same sex couples can land you in jail with a heavy fine.  You can be gay, you just need to be in the closet.  Not like that doesn't generate its own issues.

So this state sponsored genocide continues to be enforced on anyone attending the winter games in Sochi.  McDonald's, grab a bigger rock because THERE IS GOING TO BE PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO THIS AT THE GAMES.  Six months out from the games and we have Russian athletes making profound gestures.

Here is where McDonald's walking away from these games and moving them or even running off with the other sponsors to host their own games, will make a financial killing.....forever.  McDonald's could be the leader of the pack on behalf of humanity to say and genuinely mean that they will not sponsor this homophobia.  Can you imagine the loyalty from the LGBT community?  The eternal goodwill that would be accomplished by such a beloved and influential American icon would be unfathomable.  They would definitely look like heros.

The contrary will definitely lose the respect and business of the LGBT community.  We will be singing "Have It Your Way" when ordering flame broiled burgers.  People will opt for granola bars over chicken nuggets while traveling until they can find a respectable vendor.  Many have started cutting McDonald's and Coca-Cola out and replacing with KFC and Pepsi.

So when the stuff hits the fan in Russia....which it will, get ready to run.  We will be on your door step with hundreds of pride flags and banners, wanting our pound of flesh.  Everyday that these games are continuing to be sponsored in Russia, is another missed opportunity to be the hero in all this.

Depeche Mode's People are People says it best.  'I can't understand, what makes a man.  Hates another man.  Help me understand.'

McDonald's: Proud Sponsor Of Don't Ask, Don't Tell Winter Olympic Games.

Here is the official press release from StonewallAGAIN about the impending protest:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 15, 2013

For Information:  Mike Lackovich StonewallAGAIN, 312-600-8429, info@StonewallAGAIN.com

LGBT community protests McDonald’s sponsoring the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Winter Olympics in Russia.

LGBT to McDonald’s: We’re Not Lovin’ It!

Oakbrook, IL – Members of the Chicagoland LGBT community will be descending on McDonald’s World Headquarters, 2111 McDonald’s Drive, Oak Brook, at 11 AM, Saturday, August 17 to protest the Corporation's continued sponsorship of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia despite the country's recently instituted homophobic “gay propaganda” laws.  The laws have sparked widespread, increased violence against LGBT persons in the country, as demonstrated by YouTube videos [2] [3] proudly circulated by brutal anti-gay activists there. 

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stated that no signs of LGBT presence or protest will be tolerated in its venues and has failed to admonish Russia against violence and threats of violence on LGBT Olympians and spectators.  Russian authorities have boldly stated that the repressive new law would be enforced on all who attend the games.

StonewallAGAIN, an LGBT activist group in Chicago that arose out of the May failure of Illinois's marriage equality bill, is the sponsor of Saturday's protest at McDonald's world headquarters  "McDonald’s has a responsibility to disavow sponsorship if local authorities refuse to provide safety to all who participate in the games that they are promoting," said Mike Lackovich, founder of StonewallAGAIN.  "These homophobic laws enacted are similar to those passed at the start of the holocaust in Nazi Germany.  McDonald’s needs to work with the IOC to find a safe venue for all participants to compete without fear of abuse, violence or deportation for being who they are.”

In response to questions concerning the forthcoming protest, the Chicago Phoenix reported Wednesday the following statement from Suzanne Valliere, senior manager of McDonald’s Global External Communications:

“There is no room for discrimination under the Golden Arches.  McDonald’s welcomes, respects and values the diversity, culture and unique differences of our 69 million customers and nearly two million employees around the world every day.  McDonald’s supports the spirit of the Olympic Games and its ability to unite the world in a positive and inspirational way.  We’ve been a proud sponsor of the Games for 37 years.  Regarding the recent Russian legislation, we support the International Olympic Committee’s belief that sport is a human right and the Olympic Games should be open to all, free of discrimination, and that applies to spectator, officials, media and athletes.” 

"Valliere’s press release is full of fluffy words that are contrary to what is actually occurring," said Lackovich.  "The Russian government and the IOC are imposing a state of 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,' with tolerance for violence and threats of violence thrown in for good measure.  As experience in the U.S. has shown, the policy of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' is discriminatory in and of itself, and in direct contradiction to the claimed 'spirit of the games.'" 

“As for the ‘diversity’ Valliere speaks to,” Lackovich said, “nearly all gay people have to go through a difficult 'coming out' phase in their lives.  To ask people to go back into the closet so they can compete in something they have aggressively trained for regardless of sexual orientation is utterly absurd.  Clearly, Valliere has no idea how painfully difficult this phase of LGBT life is.  Most in the LGBT community would find this demand offensive and unacceptable.”

The protest will begin at 11AM and have speakers including StonewallAGAIN Founder, Bisexual Queer Alliance Chicago Founder Mike Oboza and Gay Liberation Network’s Co-Founder Andy Thayer.  More information about the protest is posted on the group’s website, StonewallAGAIN.com or their Facebook page.

For further information, contact StonewallAGAIN at 312-600-8429 or email info@StonewallAGAIN.com

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