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DESCRIPTION:Call to Action for Solidarity Rally against LGBT Bashing and Political 
 Repression in Russia\n\n \n\nWhat: Planning meeting to organize an action 
 in solidarity with targets of fascism in Russia\nWhen: Tuesday, January 7, 
 2014, 6:00-7:30pm\nWhere: San Francisco Main Library, Mary Louise Stong 
 Room, Civic Center\n\nDear friend,\n\n \n\nYou are warmly invited to 
 participate in a community organizing meeting on Tuesday, January 7, 2014.  
 The purpose of the meeting is to develop ideas, slogans and plans for a 
 public rally in February in San Francisco demanding queer and civil rights 
 in Russia and to show solidarity with targets of escalating fascism. \n\n 
 \n\nThe 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia from February 
 7–23.  Many of you are aware that state-supported violent bigotry and 
 repression against the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer community and 
 others in Russia is an increasingly serious reality.  Also being targeted 
 are dissidents, radicals, feminists, artists, immigrants, and national and 
 religious minorities.  The Putin Administration, instead of advancing 
 equality for all, is dragging Russia backward by instituting laws making it 
 a crime to be gay or to even advocate for LGBT rights, throwing socialists, 
 anarchists, and feminists like punk rock group Pussy Riot into prison, and 
 clamping down on all forms of public protest. These policies aim to divert 
 working people’s anger at economic austerity measures and are emboldening 
 a growing fascist movement.  (Links to more information can be found 
 below.)\n\n \n\nWe believe that oppressed and working people everywhere 
 have a stake in the fight to stamp out dangerous rightwing scapegoating. 
 What’s needed is a public display of solidarity in order to show that 
 people in the Bay Area support civil liberties for all, the separation of 
 church and state, and solidarity with the oppressed—in Russia and here at 
 home.\n\n \n\nWe invite you to a community meeting to discuss and give 
 input into planning a visible and disciplined protest rally in San 
 Francisco to oppose Putin’s repression.  Your ideas, support, 
 endorsement, and help are all greatly needed.  The first planning meeting 
 will be held on Tuesday, January 7, 6:00–7:30pm in the Mary Louise Stong 
 Room (1st floor near information desk), located in the Main Library at 100 
 Larkin Street in San Francisco (near Grove and Market Streets; use Civic 
 Center BART/Muni).  Everyone is welcome.  We hope to see you there—please 
 spread the word.\n\n \n\nFor more information or to get involved, please 
 contact Masha at 415-678-8232 or Toni Mendicino at 415-730-2917, or email 
 .\n\n \n\nNote: this is not a Library Sponsored Program.  Food and drink is 
 not allowed in the library.\n\n \n\nMore information can be found 
 here:\n\n\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/10/gay-russian-teens-avoid-propaganda-law\n\nhttp://therussianreader.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/dmitry-chizhevsky/\n\nhttp://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/downfall-toward-fascism/489100.html\n\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/world/rising-russian-nationalism-sets-off-ethnic-tension/2013/11/11/9c9c15ae-495c-11e3-b87a-e66bd9ff3537_story.html\n\nwww.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/2594 
   (“Russia’s new anti-LGBT law 
 denounced”)\n\nhttp://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1006504/\n\nhttp://www.vocativ.com/11-2013/russian-neo-nazis-now-beating-gays-ukraine/\n\n 
 \n\n*\n\nПриглашаются все желающие на 
 мероприятие, где мы\n\nвместе будем 
 создавать идеи и лозунги, которые в 
 дальнейшем будем использовать на 
 митинге в защиту прав человека в 
 России\n\nРепрессии феменисток, 
 радикалов, художников, религиозных и 
 этнических меньшинств и выражающих 
 несогласие с нынешнем российским 
 правительством становятся все более и 
 более частыми в России. В последнее время 
 мы также наблюдаем гонения на геев, 
 лезбиянок, бисексуалов и трансгендеров. 
 Вместе с Путиным Россия не развивается, а 
 падает в низ. Это падение обусловленно 
 законом, жестко притесняющим права 
 секс-меньшинств, преследованием тех, кто 
 борется за права народа, нахождением 
 участницы группы Пуси Райот в тюрьме и 
 постоянными подавлениями протестов 
 против правительства. Путинская 
 политика насилует судьбы многих 
 людей.\n\nНесогласные с гонениями и 
 запретом свободы слова в России 
 собираются вместе, чтобы выразить 
 поддержку страдающим от путинского 
 режима, а также выразить недовольство 
 российским правительством, усиленно 
 развивающим фашизм.\n\nВо вторник 7ого 
 января с 6 до 7:30 вечера \n\nВ Главной 
 библиотеке – Mary Louise Stong Room, 100 Larkin Street, San 
 Francisco\n\nПо вопросам звоните Маше 415-678-8232, 
 Тони 415-730-2917 или пишите на email 
 maketheworldbetterSF@gmail.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/07/18748883.php
SUMMARY:Planning meeting for Russian anti-fascist & LGBT solidarity action
LOCATION:San Francisco Main Library, Mary Louise Stong Room, 1st Floor, 100 Larkin 
 Street, Civic Center
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/07/18748883.php
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