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Radical Reading Group reads Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

The Queer Radical Reading Group will be meeting on Thursday September 4th and 18th at 7 PM at Equal Grounds to discuss Julia Serano's book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Please come!

PSL's La Riva/Puryear Presidential Campaign on the ballot in New York!

La Riva/Puryear socialist campaign on the ballot in 10 states … with more states to come!

Robach's "Women's Wellness Fair" Sparks Protest

National Organization for Women Protests Robach's "Women's Wellness Fair"

Community Comes Out to Protest ESL's Sponsorship of Lonsberry

A huge crowd turned out for at ESL on State street this Thursday to protest their sponsorship of the Bob Lonsberry show. Demonstrators swarmed around the entrance to the ESL branch and made it clear that they did not want their money being used to sponsor his racist, sexist and classist statements.

At the peak of the demonstration there were about 50 people in front of the branch.

Anti-Racism Movement protests ESL, Bob Lonsberry

In response to WHAM’s continued denial of accountability and refusal to have Bob Lonsberry removed from their programming, Rochester’s Anti-Racism Movement (ARM) has begun a grassroots campaign to boycott all sponsors of the Bob Lonsberry show. On Saturday, June 26 ARM held the first of many visual demonstrations intended to do just that—to quite literally hit WHAM and its sponsors where it hurts: the bank.

Fight to Remove Bob Lonsberry Continues - Join Us

Last night, a group of activists appalled by Bob Lonsberry's most recent racist, classist, and sexist remarks, met again to discuss how to get Bob Lonsberry off the air once and for all (previous story on Lonsberry). We've been listening to his show for a week now and have a list of approximately 100 of the sponsors aired on his show.

Rochester's Anti-Racist Movement Visits WHAM

The Rochester Anti-Racist Movement (ARM) went to the offices of WHAM radio today to talk with the station management about Bob Lonsberry's recent racist, sexist and classist remarks. After the meeting ARM gave a press conference, calling for him to be removed from the air.

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ARM released a position statement stating their beliefs on Lonsberry.

Lonsberry's Racist, Sexist and Classist remarks

Below is a transcript of Bob Lonsberry's remarks on his show, June 10th where he attacked the women in the young mother's program, Rochester Black Scholars and people who support them.

There is a story about um “Girls who got pregnant in high school and they stay in high school and let’s give them a special award and tell them how proud we are of em.”

Or we could tell them they should have left their frickin pants on, right. Keep your legs together uh-sweet cheeks and everything will be ok.

See here is the deal.

Security Barrier cuts casulaties in Israel 90%

Yep. You are right- the security barrier has been tremendously effective in cutting back casualties- it is saving lives every day.

None the less- there are still attacks on Israel and the Jewish people:
Remember the massacre of 8 Jewish students in Jerusalem just a few months ago? The suicide bombing in Dimona? The daily barage of rockets from Gaza and the subsequent death and injuries?

Racist pig writes:

"There have been no Jewish people in Gaza except for soldiers since the Israeli pull out which happened more than 2 years ago."

Bingo!!! No occupation!

Plaestinians murder pregant Israel and 4 young daughters


Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed when two Palestinian terrorists fired on their car

Their white Citroen station wagon spun off the road after the initial shooting, then the attackers approached the vehicle and shot the occupants dead at close range.

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