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<H2 class=date-header><SPAN><FONT size=4>Wednesday, May 15,
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<H3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">LGBTQ supporters protest S F
Pride Board's shunning Bradley Manning </H3>
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itemprop="description articleBody"><FONT size=4><STRONG>I went to a protest last
night in San Francisco. The event was organized by members of the LGBTQ
community and supporters demanding that the board that organizes Gay Pride
reinstate Bradley Manning as San Francisco Pride Grand Marshal. This is a
significant event in San Francisco. Manning is the young soldier who is in
prison facing life for releasing the US diplomatic cables to Wikileaks. Manning
is also gay. The speakers also condemned the increasing corporate
influence in the SF Pride event and the control of it by wealthy members,
basically the capitalist class, of their community.<BR><BR>There were maybe 60
or 70 people there including some members of the military. I managed to
video some of the speakers at the open mike but missed one speaker who gave some
interesting history about this movement, of which I am not so familiar. I spoke
to him at the end.
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</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT size=4><STRONG>Glenn Stehle said...
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<P><FONT size=4><STRONG>Richard,<BR><BR>Thank you for this.<BR><BR>I think
what you are seeing here are the fault lines developing between the LGBT 1%
and the LGBT 99%. It is a microcosm of what is happening everywhere, not just
in the US, and not just in the LGBT sub-group, but in the macrocosm of the
world.<BR><BR>The LGBT 1% of course does not represent the interests and
desires of the LGBT 99%, but the interests and desires of the transnational
1%. Its loyalties do not lie with the LGBT 99%, but with the 1% of the world.
<BR><BR>The public face of the transnational 1%, the one which we see, are the
supranational corporations, with those in finance, energy, big Pharm, big Ag
and the armaments industry being some of the standouts. The US national
security state, the state's instruments of violence -- the police and the
military -- are the long arm of the transnational 1%. The security state
increasingly serves no interests except those of the 1%, despite all the
propaganda emanating from the 1% to the contrary, and despite the fact that
the 99% bears much of the burden, both in blood and treasure, to maintain it.
<BR><BR>Those who have served as soldiers for the national security state seem
to react to it in two very differnt ways: they either love it or they hate it.
The German movie <I>Napola</I> gives a tragic father vs. son portrayal of the
different psychological makeups which inform the two opposing views. It's
available on the internet
here:<BR><BR>http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_586233&feature=iv&src_vid=rn9togC_FY8&v=61NRJRfCWaQ
<BR><BR>Just as is the case in the larger political community, the 1% has
seized the levers of power in the LGBT community. The 1% has turned this power
against the 99%, and we are beginning to see resentment grow as more of the
rank and file become aware of this betrayal.<BR><BR>The old ways of looking at
politics -- the left vs the right, liberal vs. conservative, Democrat vs.
Republican -- have become meaningless. The political organization of the 1% is
what Peter Skerry calls "elite-network," which has managed to infiltrate every
nook and cranny of mainstream politics. <BR><BR>As Skerry explains in
<I>Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority</I>, the lifeblood of
elite-network politics are the torrents of money which flow into it not from
within political districts that the politicians represent, but from without,
from the elite-network. "Network" refers to the structural dimension of this
style of politics, Skerry explains, and "Elite" refers to the clique's
exclusivity and weak community ties, "in contrast to the relative social
diversity and community base of both friends-and-neighbors and organization
politics." <BR><BR>As Skerry goes on to explain, friends-and-neighbors and
organization politics are anathema to elite-network politicians, and
elite-network politicians will do everything in their power to destroy the
competing forms of political organization. </STRONG></FONT></P></DD>
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<P><FONT size=4><STRONG>I think a fairly accurate and complete picture of what
the 1% has wrought on the home front as it has seized the levers of political
power (which began in earnest in 1978 with Jimmy Carter, but Reagan and every
president since have certainly taken the ball and ran with it) can be summed
up with three graphs:<BR><BR>1) The explosion in private
debt:<BR>http://rwer.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/chart-of-the-day-public-vs-private-us-debt-to-gdp-ratios/<BR><BR>2)
The explosion in the prison population (it takes a lot of police oppression to
keep the proles in line as they are being
crushed):<BR>http://www.dailypaul.com/86866/what-happened-in-1980<BR><BR>3)
The growing gap between real hourly compensation for production/nonsupervisory
workers and productivity,
1948–2011<BR>http://www.newbullhorn.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/071812krugman3-blog480.jpg<BR><BR><BR>These
of course do not speak to what has happened to our foreign policy, which has
also experienced transformative changes as it, but most especially our energy
policy, has been
militarized.</STRONG></FONT></P></DD></DL></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>