On the 4th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, please join the Gay Liberation Network as we unite with others in saying: "Stop Funding War & Occupation / Bring the Troops Home NOW!"

 

We will be meeting at the southwest corner of State & Oak (a few blocks north of the Red Line "Chicago" stop) at 5:30 PM, Tuesday, March 20.  Look for our big pink banners!

 

The "new" Iraq features fatwas that call for killing all gay people, issued by the so-called moderate that the U.S. has been courting, Ayatollah al-Sistani.  Iraq has become probably the most dangerous place on the planet for LGBT people.  The war has killed over 650,000, according to a study by Johns Hopkins Hospital, and billions of tax dollars which could have gone to securing decent health care and other social services for all instead have gone into the back pockets of privileged private contractors.   

 

General Peter Pace, George Bush's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says Lesbians and Gays shouldn't have equal employment rights in the military because we are "immoral."  Well sorry, General, but any "immoral" acts we might contemplate doing pale by comparison to the immorality of presiding over a war that has killed hundreds of thousands, and maimed many more.

 

Please join the Gay Liberation Network tomorrow as we join with thousands of others to demand an end to this madness:  5:30 PM, corner of State & Oak, Tuesday, March 20th.

 

 

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For more information on the protest -- called for by over 100 groups -- please check out the coalition website: www.M20coalition.net   While you're at it, check out our website at its new URL:  www.GayLiberation.net

 

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GLN Calendar

Tuesday, March 20 -- On the 4^th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, demand Troops Out Now!  Stop Funding War and Occupation!  Join the Gay Liberation Network and a coalition of over 100 other groups for a march on Michigan Avenue and rally at Daley Plaza.  5:30 PM, meet the LGBT contingent @ southwest corner of State & Oak Streets (look for the pink banners).  6 PM, rally at Odgen Elementary School parking lot, 24 W. Walton Street (Walton & State Streets).  7:30 PM, march on Michigan Avenue.  8:30 PM, rally at Daley Plaza (Clark Street & Washington Blvd).  Get details at www.M20coalition.net

 

Thursday, March 23 -- First meeting of GLN reading group.  7 PM at Gerber Hart Library, 1127 W. Granville.  We will be discussing the origins of the gay community.  Email LGBTliberation@aol.com for suggested readings.

Wednesday, April 4 - Monthly Gay Liberation Network general meeting. 7 PM at the Gerber Hart Library, 1127 W. Granville (just west of the "Granville" Red Line el station). We meet the first Wednesday of each month.

 

Friday, April 6 - Gay Liberation Network live call-in show on CAN TV, 6:30-6:55 PM on Cable Channel 21 in Chicago.  Tonight's show will preview the big anti-war protest on March 20^th.

 

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"Formed in response to three September '98 anti-gay bashings in the "Boy's Town" neighborhood...[we] respond to all serious hate crimes, no matter which scapegoated group is targeted. We will actively seek out and work with individuals and organizations in other communities to assist them in responding to hate crimes that target them. Only by the active involvement of grass roots people from all communities can we isolate the bigots and thus lessen hate crimes."                
-- from the GLN/CABN founding statement
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Gay Liberation Network
a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Direct Action Group
(formerly known as the Chicago Anti-Bashing Network)

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