People send me stuff. Here’s a press release from a PR firm that I really don’t understand. Why are LGBTQ activists joining in a climate protest against Google? The only reason I can think of is that based on their past performance, “Forecast the Facts” couldn’t find enough warm bodies to hold a protest. I had to laugh at the tagline.
Media Advisory For: February 18, 2014
Contact:
Anna Zuccaro, anna@fitzgibbonmedia.com, (914) 523-9145
Molly Haigh, molly@fitzgibbonmedia.com, (907) 705-1999
TUESDAY: Google Faces Protests Over ALEC Ties
Progressives to Google: Don’t Be Evil, Stop Funding Right Wing Extremists
Mountain View, CA — Today, dozens of climate and LGBTQ activists will protest outside of Google HQ to demand the tech giant cut ties with the extreme right wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is one of the most notorious and influential peddlers of climate denial in the country.
What: Rally against Google funding climate denial and right wing-extremism in the form of ALEC
Who: Dozens of climate and LGBTQ rights activists. The event and campaign are being organized by Forecast the Facts, Courage Campaign, and SierraRise.
Where: Google Headquarters, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway. Mountain View, CA 94043
When: 2:30pm Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014
Visuals: Dozens of people with a 3’x8′ banner reading “Google: Don’t Fund Evil” and signs with the same message.
Right now, state legislatures in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado are considering bills developed by ALEC to force public schools to teach children climate denial.
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Forecast the Facts is a membership organization that seeks to ensure that Americans receive accurate information about climate change from the media, politicians, and corporations.
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I had to laugh at the tagline, because as we all know, former Climate Progress writer and now “Forecast the Facts” activist in charge Brad Johnson is all about “accuracy”:
ThinkProgress discussion of the tornado outbreak – click image for the full article
My rebuttal: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/29/the-folly-of-linking-tornado-outbreaks-to-climate-change/
Heh, strange bedfellows.
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rent-a-mob or sometimes even called agent provocateurs.
Kind of like the so-called “Black Block” at the G20 meeting in Toronto- that kind of crap.
Molly is not a close relative of mine.
Maybe we should all contact our state legislatures and ask them to follow these leading states !
I’m game.Lets go for it!
During the Vietnam “protests” in the late ’60’s and 70’s there was a BUS CARVAN of 100 busses, which traveled from University to University. DUPPED STUDENTS WERE ROPED IN, and planned people told the MEDIA how to report the crowds. (1000 or 3000 became 10,000 and 30,000) I know about this because of a retired FBI officer. NEVER FOUND OUT DIRECTLY who organized this, but strong suspicious on the “Stockholm Peace Institute” which was a MOSCOW front…
This is a strange affair. Perhaps, when a cause has been achieved, the campaigning organisation must adapt or die. So the LGBTQ agenda may now be complete.
Or maybe there is a link between homosexuality and the climate. The minor British political party UKIP thinks so.
These guys and UKIP seem to have something in common.
Why would LGBTQ activists want to protest the climate? Because the corporate-industrial system perpetuated by the top 1% is sexist, misogynist, racist and just not any fun?
When I was job hunting in the early 1980’s the Boston Globe was running want ads for nuclear protesters to protest the Seabrook Nuclear plant in New Hampshire. At the time the minimum wage was ~ $3.35/hour while the ad promised $10.00/hour.
Astroturf anyone?
I thought LBGTQ was a kind of sandwich. And then I realised that there could be a double entendre there…
Wonder if they will deploy their Artists brigade:
” By recruiting musicians, artists and celebrities to elevate progressive causes, Artist Action adds a powerful new element to advocacy and outreach efforts that, when combined with FitzGibbon Media’s earned media and digital strategies, can tip the scales, cause a campaign to stand out, and reach a wider audience. Our team of passionate organizers and activists, have more than twenty-five years of extensive experience and relationships with key musical acts and entertainment leaders.”
It’s like any other pet goal of the democrats. To butress their amoral goal of teaching the human induced climate change in public school, making other people’s children the victim through coersive power of the state.
They couldn’t get orphans to give testimonials, about how the weather drove mommy away, so instead they get the homo coalition.
If you point out that tornados have shown no trend in frequency over the supposed interval that HICC has held sway, then you will be labeled a homophobe, or so the liberal activists would like it to turn out.
Just shows that climate change, global warming, isn’t trending well in their focus group.
Which is another way of saying, even among California liberals, people are not buying it.
They seem to think that the recent [snip] media campaigns are a vehicle they can now attach the flagging Global Warming bandwagon to.
I think they are wrong, but I like the sentence
“Right now, state legislatures in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado are considering bills developed by ALEC to force public schools to teach children climate denial.”
for its Orwellian hilarity. Quick, act now, somebody’s threatening to teach the children logical thinking and the scientific method! Can’t have that.
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” – Vladimir Lenin
The LGBT Warmists are showing their roots.
Forecast the Facts, Courage Campaign, and SierraRise —-
You think any of these tax exempt political organizations were given the Lois Lerner scrutiny?
Notice how non-existent are the calls for intellectual debate or presentation of facts. What we’re dealing with here are intellectually bankrupt folks who desperatey need a looming disaster so they can become environmental heroes. If one be not available, well, just make up a looming planetary disaster. Along with obligatory evil doers (always impersonal corporations or organizations). Anyone notice just how much alike are these folks and fundamental religious types? The are remarkably alike – except these guys substitute Mother Earth for God. I’m waiting for the witch trials to begin. Now these folks are what one calls anti-Reason, reactionary,
superstitious loonies.
M Courtney says:
February 18, 2014 at 8:21 am
“This is a strange affair. Perhaps, when a cause has been achieved, the campaigning organisation must adapt or die. So the LGBTQ agenda may now be complete.”
It is not complete, M Courtney; the German Greens have just attempted to introduce a new curriculum in Baden Württemberg, which entailed that in EVERY course including maths and hard sciences, sufficient exposure is given to homosexuality and the other sexual deviations running in the “Rainbow COalition” (the rainbow going back to the “hanky code” of the 1970ies homosexuals; in which they had a colored hanky hanging out of their back pockets to signalize the kind of sex they were looking for).
When it is complete, even persons of your political leaning will be amazed.
Rent-a-mob. Keep people angry and you can keep them under control and you prevent any pesky questions like “what are you doing?” The goals of all these leftist organizations are the same goal, and they all involve me being poor and under control. The sad fact is these rent-a-mobs do not realize they are pawns. If the goals they are protesting for are achieved, they will have to give up their expensive iPhones that hardworking mommy and daddy bought them, will have to work hard themselves for little reward, and look over their shoulder all the time. But they don’t think about that because they are given fake righteous indignation, thus they are always angry and always under control.
The left love to foster class division, but America has fewer class strata than most countries, and the strata that do have strong definition are permeable. Therefore, when an identifiable group emerges, they pick it up as a tool to be used against society. They don’t want to solve anything, they want to promote permanent class struggle.
Look! Chevron even sponsored that tornado!
To M Courtney
Slightly misleading (sarc) to state that UKIP think there is a link between homosexuality and climate change. A longstanding conservative councillor (Henley Town Council) who very recently defected to UKIP stated he believed that the flooding was god’s vengeance on David Cameron (prime minister) for legalising gay marriage. Very clear, M Courtney, that you feel threatened by UKIP.
Whatever you feel about UKIP , IMHO, it is completely off topic and a total irrelevance as a comment here.
haha maybe because of this,
“google search history for the terms “climate change” and “global warming”.
Dropped by 80% over the past 7 years”
http://www.google.com.au/trends/explore#q=Climate%20change%2C%20Global%20warming&cmpt=q
At least they did manage to pick a location that is not bitterly cold or covered in snow for their protest. However, when their own press release predicts that it will be attended by “dozens”, you have to wonder if the press release is mightier than the protest. I’m sure this protest will resonate with the rest of the country that is still digging out from global warming.
Once again we see the pattern played out: self proclaimed progressives seek to silence those who dare to disagree with them.
My gentle suggestion to the LGBTQ crowd is to focus on their own causes for which we are sympathetic and not go protesting haywire.
Watching the Olympics I’m getting tired of the anti-Putin LGBTQ crap. It’s too much. I don’t like Putin but last time I looked the Olympics was about sports.
If you make everything political, everyone tunes out.
And then after the protest they got in their SUVs and drove home and used electricity.