Creating Change ™ Will NEVER Create Change

Creating Change ™ Will NEVER Create Change
NGLTF-- Surrender Or Else!

Gay Shame calls on you to resist the sham of NGLTF's Creating Change Conference™ in Oakland, CA November 9-13 using direct action, infiltration, sabotage, redecoration, performance, disruption, transformation and anything else your delicious imagination concocts.
Each year, Creating Change ™ recruits hundreds of fresh faces for corporate “nonprofit” jobs instead of challenging the career activist industry that serves to pacify threats to the status quo. Nonprofits claim to create an alternative to everyday oppression, when in reality they replicate the same deadly inequalities that exist in the larger world, continuing to benefit the privileged few at the top while robbing everyone else. Nonprofits mimic the power-hungry mentality of the corporate world by developing hierarchical organizations with Executive Directors and donors instead of CEOs and shareholders. Does NGLTF make sure the janitorial staff has access to basic services like housing, healthcare, food, rest, transportation and free time? Are unpaid interns at NGLTF more empowered than temp workers at Halliburton?
We’re sick of the Creating Change ™ money machine. How can we build an anti-racist movement at the Oakland Marriott City Center? Marriott is the Mormon-owned global tourism pioneer famous for building exclusive resorts on impoverished islands to help wealthy white people to participate in hands-on colonialism one Mai Tai luau at a time. How is supporting this chain helping indigenous communities to reclaim the land stolen from them? How will spending your money at the Marriott help to reduce backbreaking labor for poorly-paid housekeeping staff?
NGLTF is working hard for social and economic justice and freedom at the Advocate Golf Classic --presented by Subaru-- in the classic desert weather of Palm Springs. How much are undocumented immigrants being paid to water the sun-squelched golfing greens by cover of night? How many millions of gallons of water are pumped through underground aquifers hundreds of miles away, destroying wildlife habitats, ecological resources and community farming and rendering low-income communities powerless.
NGLTF is building an anti-racist movement at the Winter Party on the white sands of South Beach. Will the several thousand buff, tan white men PnP’ing to the sounds of Phil B. lead a revolt to free the hundreds of prisoners illegally jailed for their skin color and religious beliefs, 90 miles away at the US’s Guantanamo Bay naval base? Will a six-day crystal binge lead bench-pressing muscle queens to burn down police stations, end Jim Crow segregation, and dismantle the prison industrial complex?
This year’s Creating Change ™ catalog invokes The Wizard of Oz to say, “Surrender, Dorothy? Never!” But Gay Shame isn’t counting on the Good Witch to rescue us. NGLTF might break out the broom (or ask the janitorial staff to wheel in the Hoover), but in reality NGLTF prevents change by strengthening people’s allegiances to violent institutions like marriage and the military. Instead of salivating over straight privilege, Dorothy needs to concentrate on building radical alternatives. Until then… Surrender, or Else!

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