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Public Schools: A Battleground for the Religious Right

If you have a child currently enrolled in public school be warned: a heavy dose of... more

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Obama Announces Modern Day Slavery Initiative. (Summer Jobs +)

180k positions, 100k paid positions. Seems worse than paying a kid to mop a bathroom... more

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Empowerment and education: why young people don’t vote

“In the immediate aftermath of the Twenty-sixth Amendment’s passage,... more

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Friday November 4th 2011

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Brazilian Ex-Gay Leader Comes Out, Rebukes ‘Act Of Violence’ Of Reinforcing Internalized Homophobia

AMERICAblog Gay points to a Brazilian ex-gay leader who has come out as gay and harshly condemned the ineffective therapy he spent decades promoting.

Sergio Viula co-founded the Movement for the Healthy Sexuality (MOSES), but now says ex-gays don’t exist and promoting ex-gay therapy is “brainwashing” and an “act of violence” that relies upon reinforcing internalized homophobia. Viula is now encouraging young gay people to find spiritual outlets that affirm their sexual orientation:

VIULA: Nobody really quit being gay. There were relationships even within the group, between an activity and another, they would always find time for that. Can you figure out how much suffering to myself and to all of those who have already worked or been influenced by this kind of ‘ministry’? That’s enraging! And there are people repeating that stupid discourse until today. [...]
Yes, it was an act of violence against ourselves, as we had internalized the homophobia that surrounded us from early childhood, as well as against the others, because we reproduced that very homophobia which they had internalized by themselves long before. We just reinforced it even more. [...]
Religious conversion which does not admit and CELEBRATES your homosexuality does not deserve your time and talent. If you want to attend a church, search for one which is mature enough to even question the validity of its own religious statements. But, preferably, live your life without relying on existential braces whatever they are.

Viula is only the latest ex-gay leader to recant his previous teachings. John Smid of Love In Action recently began doing the same. The testimony these changed men share is important to highlight, but it does not undo the harm that ex-gay therapy continues to cause individuals every day. The desire to change one’s sexual orientation (and the belief that it is possible) is motivated by the anti-gay stigma present throughout society. Only by challenging that demonization will the harm ever come to an end.
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This is NOT Michael Moore’s revolution, and ALL minorities should get involved

by David Haynie

The ‘Occupy’ protests that started 3 weeks ago are spreading throughout the country like wildfire. Overnight, close to a thousand ‘Occupy’ events have connected with each other, and the number is only increasing.

There are people from all walks of life participating, but one thing remains the same: people have had enough with this broken financial oligarchy. Protesters have been spreading information and addressing the important issue of ending the Federal Reserve’s control of our money supply and economy. There have been key videos from San Francisco, Boston, and New York that encapsulate the public anger towards the private central banks and the international banking cartel.

Many are awake to the truth behind worthless fiat currency and the fractional reserve banking system. Americans and especially disadvantaged youth are done with the corrupt practices of the organized criminal class.

Michael Moore has been attending the protests in New York, and has been caught on camera saying we need to end capitalism. Most protesters don’t want to end capitalism, they want real capitalism which we have never seen with the financial and political system under the control of the international banking cartel.

Unfortunately Michael Moore has led groups within the movement in a bad direction. David Degraw of AmpedStatus.org reports from the frontlines in New York Thursday night, “We decided to gather people together and march to Wall Street later into the night. It seems every time we have a massive crowd, Mike Moore shows up a little later. He helped us rally people to start the march. Once we got to the barricades near Wall Street and things began to get intense, Moore was nowhere to be found, he vanished into the night.” Michael Moore seems to be acting as an agent provocateur in a way. Degraw says Moore led the protesters to barricades where two agent provocateurs incited police clubbing and pepper spraying as captured here by Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange.

People involved in the protests need to make sure they stop Michael Moore from infiltrating this movement and steering it in any direction. This is not Michael Moore’s revolution and protesters need to keep that in mind going forward. Fortunately it looks as if the movement has already taken notice of this, and a “We Will NOT Be Co-Opted” Working Group has popped up and released this important statement:

“There are many people, organizations and media outlets within both the Democratic and Republican parties who are trying to label us as the Democrat’s version of the Tea Party. In this working groups opinion, not only is this incorrect, but in labeling us this way, you are, whether you realize it or not, undermining the very essence of this movement with your obsolete divide and conquer groupthink propaganda. Just as the mainstream media and both political parties aided and abetted the co-option of the Tea Party by the Republican Party, there is an attempt being made to do the same to us within the Democratic Party. We the People, We the 99%, are not the pawns of either wing of the two-party oligarchy.”

Most recently, the movement is now being painted as not adequately representing minorities. Janell Ross of HuffingtonPost reports Julianne Malveaux, the president of Bennett College[a historically black women’s college in North Carolina] as saying, “The organizers of Occupy Wall Street need to tap into the spaces where non-white people organize and discuss political and economic matters if they want to broaden the movement… The alleged post racial society that so many white people were so excited about doesn’t exist because we haven’t built it.”

This is just another attempt by mainstream media to paint a movement as racist, which is still being done, in order to prevent people from reaching across the aisle and joining forces under common ideals.

African Americans ARE awake, and artists like Prodigy embolden the fact that the anger against the Federal Reserve and financial oligarchy passes color lines. We must be vigilant and not allow the mainstream media to steer this revolution in any direction. People of all colors and creeds are welcome to this movement. Let us all participate in this struggle to free our future from the control of the international banking cartel.

I am extremely pleased to see Infowars and OathKeepers getting involved in a serious way. Alex Jones has sent reporters to New York to cover the protests. He is also occupying 3 separate Federal Reserve’s in his area. OathKeepers’ Stewart Rhodes recently said on the InfoWars Nightly News that he will be helping to spread information and support protests against the Federal Reserve all over the country.

The Federal Reserve is the real problem plauging this economy and it is important to focus on them in order to keep the movement going in the right direction, against the private central banks and their control of our economic system.by David Haynie The ‘Occupy’ protests that started 3 weeks ago are... more