Jason Tompkins of GenderJust and the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob Schwartz discuss “Pinkwashing,” a propaganda campaign funded by the Israeli government to divert attention from its continuing violation of Palestinian rights behind an image of modernity, signified by Israeli gay …
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Like LGBT’s, undocumented immigrants are all too often treated as political footballs by politicians of both major parties. The Democratic Party claims to stand up to the racism of mainstream Republicanism, but then the Obama administration spent the last three-and-a-half …
Undocumented and Unafraid Read more »
President Obama has persecuted whistleblowers with a vengeance not seen since the Nixon administration. Chief among his victims is gay, alleged wikileaker Chelsea Manning. In this episode of the Gay Liberation Network on CAN TV, the Gay Liberation Network’s Bob …
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The Gay Liberation Network has long argued that LGBT people shouldn’t concern ourselves only with our own rights. We are a rainbow community, many of us sharing additional oppressed identities in addition to being LGBT. We must not only demand …
Eyewitness Honduras: Since the U.S.-Supported Coup Read more »
Minutes after taking office in 2008, President Obama’s first promise to the American people was that he was going to close down the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp, where people were being imprisoned for years in conditions internationally recognized as …
10 Years of Injustice at Guantanamo Bay Read more »
How have American soldiers’ and veterans’ views about the Afghanistan war changed since it began 10 years ago? David Van Dam and Tyler Zabel of Iraq Veterans Against the War describe how they turned against the wars in an interview …
Troops and Veterans Against the War in Afghanistan Read more »
Upon inauguration, President Obama’s first promise to the American people was to shut down the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison. Not only did Obama break that promise, he has managed to make the United States’ record on civil liberties violations even …
Organizing Against U.S.A. Torture Read more »
Andre Perez leads a discussion of a new project he’s launching focusing on an often-neglected portion of the LGBT community, recording the histories of Transgender, Transsexual,Intersex, and Genderqueer people. Since our show is for a general audience of people who …
Transgender Oral History Read more »
Many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people are undocumented immigrants, and obviously have an interest in genuine immigration reform. But the crossover benefits of immigration reform for LGBT people are far more than that. Tanya Unzueta, an undocumented immigrant, …
LGBT People and Immigrants’ Rights Read more »
State Representative Greg Harris joins the Gay Liberation Network’s Andy Thayer to discuss the prospects for winning the equal rights for same-sex couples in Illinois. Harris is the lead sponsor of a bill for civil unions, a lesser form of …
Equal Marriage Rights in Illinois Read more »