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catttt4/20/2009 9:27:19 am PDT

re: #134 funky chicken

As far as UN protests go, here is a gay rights group who protested:

GAYS DISRUPT UN SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON
AT MEETING IN SAN FRANCISCO

BAN SAYS: “GAY RIGHTS ISSUE IS VERY SENSITIVE”

SAN FRANCISCO (July 26) — A group of activists staged a protest at an evening meeting at the Fairmont Hotel featuring the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, in order to protest the unconscionable, murderous silence of the United Nations concerning continued violence and executions globally which specifically target gays and lesbians. Ban was speaking before the World Affairs Council of Northern California, as San Francisco is considered the birthplace of the UN.

“The UN has been silent for far too long, as our gay brothers and lesbian sisters are aggressively selected for human rights violations, torture and execution across the globe, simply due to their sexual orientation,” said [Michael] Petrelis, who organized the protest.

“In the last year alone, our brothers and sisters have been maimed and slaughtered in too many incidents around the world,” said Hank Wilson. “This includes the violent attacks on gays in Eastern European pride marches; the killings of Jamaican gays; and the ongoing executions of gays in Iran. The United Nations never fails to speak out against injustice and human rights violations as they happen, but they are criminally silent when it comes to the murders of lesbians and gay men.”

zombie was there at the meeting and covered the protest, but hardly anyone else did.