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  1. @MarkBrigham And for those NOT familiar with #StevenDonziger...

    Steven Donziger, Lawyer Targeted by #Chevron, Appeals to #Biden for #Pardon

    by Jessica Corbett
    Mar 20, 2024

    "A pardon would bring a measure of justice to a prosecution that has been widely criticized as a violation of international law... and as a grave threat to #FreeSpeech,' said 14 attorneys backing the #ClimateJustice lawyer's request.

    "After exhausting his options in the judicial system, American attorney Steven Donziger on Wednesday launched a campaign seeking a pardon from U.S. President Joe Biden for his #misdemeanor conviction—the result of a process that experts worldwide have condemned as retaliatory for his climate justice work and an abuse of the nation's judiciary.

    "'No matter where one stands on the political spectrum, we should all be able to agree that what happened to me in the United States should not happen to anybody in any country that adheres to the rule of law,' Donziger said in a statement announcing a letter to Biden signed by 14 prominent lawyers and a leader at the advocacy group #AmazonWatch.

    "''#Corporations should not be allowed to take direct control of a public prosecution from the government and lock up their critics, as happened to me,' asserted Donziger, who spent 993 days in federal prison and on house arrest. 'It's an outrageous abuse of power that not only wrecked me and my family's life for three years but also embarrassed our country in the eyes of the world.'"

    commondreams.org/news/donziger

    #ClimateActivist #FreeDonziger #PardonDonziger

  2. what to do with leaves

    What to do with leaves, if one cannot leave them
    
Here beneath aspen, gum, maple and birch
    
As what they become in winter, a kind of skirt
    
To warm and feed fanned roots, is gather and



    Toss them on a garden. She spreads hers
    
Over bed and path alike, with straw, with



    Dead grass and weeds, barn bedding, the contents
    
Of kitchen bucket and tumble barrel, along

    

With any foliage that comes to hand, even prunings
    
If too small to bother with for her iron stove.
    
This is for worms and all their small companions
    
Heaving aside the earth of path and bed alike,



    Leveling and loosening, making untilled tilth.
    
Evening comes and she stills, listening
    
As the city of humus thrums toward spring.
    
Very likely it's best to interfere not
    Even this much in things, she tells herself, yet
    
She's always loved to tell her children: eat.

    -- shonin #poetry #acrostic #gardening #homesteading #soil #composting

  3. what to do with leaves

    What to do with leaves, if one cannot leave them
    
Here beneath aspen, gum, maple and birch
    
As what they become in winter, a kind of skirt
    
To warm and feed fanned roots, is gather and



    Toss them on a garden. She spreads hers
    
Over bed and path alike, with straw, with



    Dead grass and weeds, barn bedding, the contents
    
Of kitchen bucket and tumble barrel, along

    

With any foliage that comes to hand, even prunings
    
If too small to bother with for her iron stove.
    
This is for worms and all their small companions
    
Heaving aside the earth of path and bed alike,



    Leveling and loosening, making untilled tilth.
    
Evening comes and she stills, listening
    
As the city of humus thrums toward spring.
    
Very likely it's best to interfere not
    Even this much in things, she tells herself, yet
    
She's always loved to tell her children: eat.

    -- shonin #poetry #acrostic #gardening #homesteading #soil #composting

  4. what to do with leaves

    What to do with leaves, if one cannot leave them
    
Here beneath aspen, gum, maple and birch
    
As what they become in winter, a kind of skirt
    
To warm and feed fanned roots, is gather and



    Toss them on a garden. She spreads hers
    
Over bed and path alike, with straw, with



    Dead grass and weeds, barn bedding, the contents
    
Of kitchen bucket and tumble barrel, along

    

With any foliage that comes to hand, even prunings
    
If too small to bother with for her iron stove.
    
This is for worms and all their small companions
    
Heaving aside the earth of path and bed alike,



    Leveling and loosening, making untilled tilth.
    
Evening comes and she stills, listening
    
As the city of humus thrums toward spring.
    
Very likely it's best to interfere not
    Even this much in things, she tells herself, yet
    
She's always loved to tell her children: eat.

    -- shonin #poetry #acrostic #gardening #homesteading #soil #composting

  5. what to do with leaves

    What to do with leaves, if one cannot leave them
    
Here beneath aspen, gum, maple and birch
    
As what they become in winter, a kind of skirt
    
To warm and feed fanned roots, is gather and



    Toss them on a garden. She spreads hers
    
Over bed and path alike, with straw, with



    Dead grass and weeds, barn bedding, the contents
    
Of kitchen bucket and tumble barrel, along

    

With any foliage that comes to hand, even prunings
    
If too small to bother with for her iron stove.
    
This is for worms and all their small companions
    
Heaving aside the earth of path and bed alike,



    Leveling and loosening, making untilled tilth.
    
Evening comes and she stills, listening
    
As the city of humus thrums toward spring.
    
Very likely it's best to interfere not
    Even this much in things, she tells herself, yet
    
She's always loved to tell her children: eat.

    -- shonin #poetry #acrostic #gardening #homesteading #soil #composting

  6. JOHN CAGE / STEVE REICH / MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS / RALPH GRIERSON
    Three Dances & Four Organs
    1975 U.S. pressing

    Early evening warped tomfoolery.

    About to paint my study bookshelf, and wanted something weird and a little out there.

    This fits the bill and then some.

    A curated program featuring Reich’s landmark “Four Organs For Four Electric Organs & Maracas” piece, as well as John Cage’s three-part “Three Dances For Two Amplified Prepared Pianos”.

    It is a #minimal , post-modern #classical mindfuck.
    Definitely not something you’d listen to while driving in your car or cue up at a party. 😂

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #abstract #artrock #weird #bizarre #fringe #stevereich #johncage

  7. JOHN CAGE / STEVE REICH / MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS / RALPH GRIERSON
    Three Dances & Four Organs
    1975 U.S. pressing

    Early evening warped tomfoolery.

    About to paint my study bookshelf, and wanted something weird and a little out there.

    This fits the bill and then some.

    A curated program featuring Reich’s landmark “Four Organs For Four Electric Organs & Maracas” piece, as well as John Cage’s three-part “Three Dances For Two Amplified Prepared Pianos”.

    It is a #minimal , post-modern #classical mindfuck.
    Definitely not something you’d listen to while driving in your car or cue up at a party. 😂

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #abstract #artrock #weird #bizarre #fringe #stevereich #johncage

  8. JOHN CAGE / STEVE REICH / MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS / RALPH GRIERSON
    Three Dances & Four Organs
    1975 U.S. pressing

    Early evening warped tomfoolery.

    About to paint my study bookshelf, and wanted something weird and a little out there.

    This fits the bill and then some.

    A curated program featuring Reich’s landmark “Four Organs For Four Electric Organs & Maracas” piece, as well as John Cage’s three-part “Three Dances For Two Amplified Prepared Pianos”.

    It is a #minimal , post-modern #classical mindfuck.
    Definitely not something you’d listen to while driving in your car or cue up at a party. 😂

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #abstract #artrock #weird #bizarre #fringe #stevereich #johncage

  9. JOHN CAGE / STEVE REICH / MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS / RALPH GRIERSON
    Three Dances & Four Organs
    1975 U.S. pressing

    Early evening warped tomfoolery.

    About to paint my study bookshelf, and wanted something weird and a little out there.

    This fits the bill and then some.

    A curated program featuring Reich’s landmark “Four Organs For Four Electric Organs & Maracas” piece, as well as John Cage’s three-part “Three Dances For Two Amplified Prepared Pianos”.

    It is a #minimal , post-modern #classical mindfuck.
    Definitely not something you’d listen to while driving in your car or cue up at a party. 😂

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #abstract #artrock #weird #bizarre #fringe #stevereich #johncage

  10. JOHN CAGE / STEVE REICH / MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS / RALPH GRIERSON
    Three Dances & Four Organs
    1975 U.S. pressing

    Early evening warped tomfoolery.

    About to paint my study bookshelf, and wanted something weird and a little out there.

    This fits the bill and then some.

    A curated program featuring Reich’s landmark “Four Organs For Four Electric Organs & Maracas” piece, as well as John Cage’s three-part “Three Dances For Two Amplified Prepared Pianos”.

    It is a #minimal , post-modern #classical mindfuck.
    Definitely not something you’d listen to while driving in your car or cue up at a party. 😂

    #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #abstract #artrock #weird #bizarre #fringe #stevereich #johncage

  11. ⭐️The World Congress of Families
    -- From Idea to Movement⭐️

    One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the
    "World Congress of Families".

    Founded in 1997, the #WCF says its mission is to
    “respect, protect, and defend” the
    “natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”

    A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days,
    detailed the close relationship between WCF founder #Allan #Carlson
    and the Russian Orthodox Church.

    In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF:

    According to Jennifer Butler’s
    “Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,”
    Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University,
    determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that
    “they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”

    Further, as Stroop recently detailed,
    the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and #Anatoly #Antonov and #Viktor #Medkov,
    a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

    The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”
    —the idea that progressive legislation,
    from birth control to LGBT rights,
    will precipitate civilizational collapse
    —and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work.

    Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,”
    the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right
    —and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.

    Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost #antiLGBT organizations:

    Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.”

    The group hosts global and regional summits
    designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers.

    In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia,
    where speakers encouraged attendees to
    “stay firm against homofascists”
    and “rainbow radicals.”

    One of the keynote speakers at the event was #Alexey #Komov, who,
    as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia,
    has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West,
    but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.

    The WCF is now run by #Brian #Brown, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay "National Organization for Marriage"
    and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation.

    In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the
    "International Organization for the Family" ( #IOF ).

    Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch.

    Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto,
    which they are calling "The Cape Town Declaration."

    And it appears that they are wasting no time.

    In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.

    (7/N)

    #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  12. ⭐️The World Congress of Families
    -- From Idea to Movement⭐️

    One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the
    "World Congress of Families".

    Founded in 1997, the #WCF says its mission is to
    “respect, protect, and defend” the
    “natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”

    A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days,
    detailed the close relationship between WCF founder #Allan #Carlson
    and the Russian Orthodox Church.

    In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF:

    According to Jennifer Butler’s
    “Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,”
    Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University,
    determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that
    “they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”

    Further, as Stroop recently detailed,
    the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and #Anatoly #Antonov and #Viktor #Medkov,
    a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

    The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”
    —the idea that progressive legislation,
    from birth control to LGBT rights,
    will precipitate civilizational collapse
    —and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work.

    Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,”
    the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right
    —and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.

    Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost #antiLGBT organizations:

    Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.”

    The group hosts global and regional summits
    designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers.

    In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia,
    where speakers encouraged attendees to
    “stay firm against homofascists”
    and “rainbow radicals.”

    One of the keynote speakers at the event was #Alexey #Komov, who,
    as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia,
    has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West,
    but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.

    The WCF is now run by #Brian #Brown, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay "National Organization for Marriage"
    and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation.

    In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the
    "International Organization for the Family" ( #IOF ).

    Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch.

    Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto,
    which they are calling "The Cape Town Declaration."

    And it appears that they are wasting no time.

    In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.

    (7/N)

    #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  13. ⭐️The World Congress of Families
    -- From Idea to Movement⭐️

    One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the
    "World Congress of Families".

    Founded in 1997, the #WCF says its mission is to
    “respect, protect, and defend” the
    “natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”

    A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days,
    detailed the close relationship between WCF founder #Allan #Carlson
    and the Russian Orthodox Church.

    In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF:

    According to Jennifer Butler’s
    “Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,”
    Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University,
    determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that
    “they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”

    Further, as Stroop recently detailed,
    the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and #Anatoly #Antonov and #Viktor #Medkov,
    a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

    The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”
    —the idea that progressive legislation,
    from birth control to LGBT rights,
    will precipitate civilizational collapse
    —and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work.

    Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,”
    the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right
    —and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.

    Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost #antiLGBT organizations:

    Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.”

    The group hosts global and regional summits
    designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers.

    In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia,
    where speakers encouraged attendees to
    “stay firm against homofascists”
    and “rainbow radicals.”

    One of the keynote speakers at the event was #Alexey #Komov, who,
    as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia,
    has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West,
    but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.

    The WCF is now run by #Brian #Brown, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay "National Organization for Marriage"
    and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation.

    In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the
    "International Organization for the Family" ( #IOF ).

    Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch.

    Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto,
    which they are calling "The Cape Town Declaration."

    And it appears that they are wasting no time.

    In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.

    (7/N)

    #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  14. ⭐️The World Congress of Families
    -- From Idea to Movement⭐️

    One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the
    "World Congress of Families".

    Founded in 1997, the #WCF says its mission is to
    “respect, protect, and defend” the
    “natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”

    A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days,
    detailed the close relationship between WCF founder #Allan #Carlson
    and the Russian Orthodox Church.

    In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF:

    According to Jennifer Butler’s
    “Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,”
    Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University,
    determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that
    “they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”

    Further, as Stroop recently detailed,
    the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and #Anatoly #Antonov and #Viktor #Medkov,
    a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

    The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”
    —the idea that progressive legislation,
    from birth control to LGBT rights,
    will precipitate civilizational collapse
    —and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work.

    Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,”
    the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right
    —and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.

    Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost #antiLGBT organizations:

    Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.”

    The group hosts global and regional summits
    designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers.

    In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia,
    where speakers encouraged attendees to
    “stay firm against homofascists”
    and “rainbow radicals.”

    One of the keynote speakers at the event was #Alexey #Komov, who,
    as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia,
    has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West,
    but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.

    The WCF is now run by #Brian #Brown, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay "National Organization for Marriage"
    and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation.

    In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the
    "International Organization for the Family" ( #IOF ).

    Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch.

    Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto,
    which they are calling "The Cape Town Declaration."

    And it appears that they are wasting no time.

    In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.

    (7/N)

    #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars

  15. ⭐️The World Congress of Families
    -- From Idea to Movement⭐️

    One of the primary vehicles in building Moscow’s relations with the U.S. Religious Right is known as the
    "World Congress of Families".

    Founded in 1997, the #WCF says its mission is to
    “respect, protect, and defend” the
    “natural family founded on marriage between a man and a woman.”

    A 2014 report in The Nation, looking at the WCF’s earliest days,
    detailed the close relationship between WCF founder #Allan #Carlson
    and the Russian Orthodox Church.

    In fact, the partnership between the two actually predates the WCF:

    According to Jennifer Butler’s
    “Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized,”
    Carlson, speaking in 1995 at Moscow State University,
    determined with a representative from the Russian Orthodox Church that
    “they needed … to bring together scholars and leaders from ‘newly free Europe and Russia’ to meet with leaders from the West.”

    Further, as Stroop recently detailed,
    the WCF grew as the brainchild of Carlson and #Anatoly #Antonov and #Viktor #Medkov,
    a pair of sociology professors at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

    The two Russians, according to Mother Jones, were casting about in the mid-1990s for a means to stave off their country’s looming “demographic winter”
    —the idea that progressive legislation,
    from birth control to LGBT rights,
    will precipitate civilizational collapse
    —and stumbled over Carlson’s prior work.

    Gathering in the apartment of a “Russian Orthodox mystic,”
    the trio outlined an organization that would help organize a global Christian right
    —and resurge Russia to a leadership position abdicated during the atheistic Soviet period.

    Some two decades on, the Illinois-based WCF has now morphed into one of the world’s foremost #antiLGBT organizations:

    Per the Southern Poverty Law Center, the WCF “is one of the key driving forces behind the U.S. Religious Right’s global export of homophobia.”

    The group hosts global and regional summits
    designed to share strategies and build connections among activists and policymakers.

    In 2016, the WCF hosted a conference in Tbilisi, Georgia,
    where speakers encouraged attendees to
    “stay firm against homofascists”
    and “rainbow radicals.”

    One of the keynote speakers at the event was #Alexey #Komov, who,
    as the WCF’s primary representative in Russia,
    has not only helped facilitate Moscow’s efforts to woo and fund far-right groups across the West,
    but is also closely linked with those backing Moscow-supported separatists in eastern Ukraine.

    The WCF is now run by #Brian #Brown, the co-founder and president of the vehemently anti-gay "National Organization for Marriage"
    and a man who has his own history of visiting Russia to lobby for anti-LGBT legislation.

    In December, Brown announced that the WCF will be run as a project of a new group, the
    "International Organization for the Family" ( #IOF ).

    Komov was among the anti-LGBT activists from around the world who joined Brown in South Africa for the IOF’s launch.

    Komov said at the time that allies in the Russian parliament would be promoting the group’s anti-LGBT manifesto,
    which they are calling "The Cape Town Declaration."

    And it appears that they are wasting no time.

    In early February, Brown sent a fundraising email from Moscow, where he had gone to promote the declaration and build working relationships with lawmakers from Putin’s United Russia party.

    (7/N)

    #Religious #Right #American #missionaries #David #Duke #Preston #Wiginton #Harold #Covington #Mike #Cernovich #Matthew #Heimbach #HailPutin #PutinForTsar #Novorossiya #Konstantin #Malofeev #TraditionalistWorkerParty #Richard #Spencer #NPI #antiSemitism #monoracial #statehood #Lügenpresse #Jobbik #Nina #Kouprianova #Byzantina #Richard #Spencer #Matthew #Heimbach #Alexander #Dugin #Eurasianism #Eternal #Rome #Alex #Jones #InfoWars