Allegedly Conservative?
Today's Bay Windows might make you go "huh?".
In the article about our protest of the HRC Dinner Bay Windows, media sponsor of HRC, refers to the candidates HRC has endorsed as allegedly conservative. I guess supporting the war, being against reproductive rights, anti-environment, and getting scores under 50% from civil rights organizations like NAACP only makes you allegedly conservative in Bay Window's eyes.
Here are three good reasons to protest HRC.
1. HRC supported a strategy of passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that did not include protections for gender identity and expression. Over 300 LGBT organizations signed the United ENDA document (http://www.unitedenda.org) in opposition to this strategy. Transgender activists across the country have been protesting HRC’s historically shaky history with the trans community. HRC has lost their only transgender board member due to this debacle.
2. HRC has a history of endorsing conservatives who support policies that directly harm the LGBT community, and our allied movements. This strategy divides us and weakens our collective political power. HRC has endorsed Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican who supported George Bush’s Supreme Court nominations. HRC has also endorsed Joe Lieberman, a staunch supporter of the occupation of Iraq and a supporter of John McCain for president.
3. HRC has a history of not working well with organized labor. HRC has refused to endorse the Employee Free Choice Act which has been endorsed by organizations ranging from the National Center for Transgender Equality to the NAACP. HRC has only recently decided to change venues from the Hynes Convention Center to the Sheraton after months of protest from Local 26 Unite Here! (hotel workers union). HRC hires non-unionized venues and caterers. One caterer, Aramark, has a long history of bad labor practices and discriminating against the LGBT community. Ironically, they have even received several very low scores from HRC's own "equality index." HRC partners with and promotes companies that sell goods that are produced by sweatshops, profit from war, discriminate, and donate to candidates who discriminate.
In the article about our protest of the HRC Dinner Bay Windows, media sponsor of HRC, refers to the candidates HRC has endorsed as allegedly conservative. I guess supporting the war, being against reproductive rights, anti-environment, and getting scores under 50% from civil rights organizations like NAACP only makes you allegedly conservative in Bay Window's eyes.
Here are three good reasons to protest HRC.
1. HRC supported a strategy of passing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that did not include protections for gender identity and expression. Over 300 LGBT organizations signed the United ENDA document (http://www.unitedenda.org) in opposition to this strategy. Transgender activists across the country have been protesting HRC’s historically shaky history with the trans community. HRC has lost their only transgender board member due to this debacle.
2. HRC has a history of endorsing conservatives who support policies that directly harm the LGBT community, and our allied movements. This strategy divides us and weakens our collective political power. HRC has endorsed Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican who supported George Bush’s Supreme Court nominations. HRC has also endorsed Joe Lieberman, a staunch supporter of the occupation of Iraq and a supporter of John McCain for president.
3. HRC has a history of not working well with organized labor. HRC has refused to endorse the Employee Free Choice Act which has been endorsed by organizations ranging from the National Center for Transgender Equality to the NAACP. HRC has only recently decided to change venues from the Hynes Convention Center to the Sheraton after months of protest from Local 26 Unite Here! (hotel workers union). HRC hires non-unionized venues and caterers. One caterer, Aramark, has a long history of bad labor practices and discriminating against the LGBT community. Ironically, they have even received several very low scores from HRC's own "equality index." HRC partners with and promotes companies that sell goods that are produced by sweatshops, profit from war, discriminate, and donate to candidates who discriminate.
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