Monthly Archives: May 2017
Stop Eventbrite from fueling the new wave of hate groups!
Eventbrite is selling tickets to events for hate groups.
Tell Eventbrite to stop supporting and profiting from hate groups.
Eventbrite – the world’s largest platform for selling event tickets – has a hate group problem. Eventbrite is making tens of thousands of dollars a year selling tickets to events hosted by hate groups and featuring enablers of white supremacy like Milo Yiannopoulos and Richard Spencer.
Demand Eventbrite permanently cut white supremacists off from their platform!
Just this past Saturday, white nationalists hosted a sold-out gala featuring some of the biggest names in the white nationalist movement. Tickets to the event were sold on Eventbrite for as much $1,500 each. For a similar event hosted last year by white nationalists, Eventbrite made upwards of $100,000. The event page hosted by Eventbrite even contained a cartoon image of Trump making a hand gesture that is increasingly being used as a white supremacist symbol.
Despite having met with their leadership and bringing this problem to their attention multiple times, Eventbrite continues to fail to take action that ensures their platform is not used to spread and fund hate, all while CEO Julia Hartz talks openly about being a people-centered company. If Eventbrite truly cares about people, then why do they continue to promote and profit from groups and individuals whose rhetoric are explicitly tied to the rise in violent hate crimes?
Demand Eventbrite permanently cut white supremacists off from their platform!
When white supremacists – and the people who cater to them – use a platform like Eventbrite’s to elevate their hateful and violent ideas they create tangible dangers for our people. These hate groups and their leaders are not just shock-jock provocateurs looking to get a rise out of people by ‘offending’ them; they are actively painting a target on the backs of our communities and teaching their audiences how to harass vulnerable people.
While Eventbrite’s relative profit from these hate groups is practically peanuts, these groups are using the money raised off of Eventbrite to indoctrinate people into their hateful ideologies, spread propaganda that promotes damaging lies about marginalized groups and even to train and deploy an army of white nationalist that travel around the country to harass people of color. And in the case of Gavin McInnes, one of Saturday’s featured speakers, to organize an “alt-right” paramilitary group whose goal is to physically assault people protesting against Trump and the far-right.1 Groups like McInnes’ are clearly meant to intimidate and harm people of color, so why won’t Eventbrite do the right thing and stop profiting off of hate?
Eventbrite needs to make sure its platform is not profiting from hate groups or giving them a megaphone to stir up racial fear and push damaging falsehoods and distortions about Black communities.
Demand Eventbrite permanently cut white supremacists off from their platform!
Until justice is real,
— Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Evan, Jade, Yeshi, Anika, Corina and the rest of the Color Of Change team.
References:
1. “Meet the New Military Division of White Nationalism” The Root, April 26, 2017. http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7864?t=7&akid=7400.1174326.V38wnS
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Private prison company Geo Group just signed a $110 mil contract with the Trump admin
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| Private prison company Geo Group just signed a $110 million contract with the Trump administration to build a new immigrant detention center in Texas1. Right now, we’re witnessing a renewed rush of private prisons pushing anti-immigrant legislation to maximize profits. It’s sickening, but we will not be silent.We’re launching our Immigration campaign on Monday and releasing our latest video about Sanctuary to fight back. This ongoing series will document corruption, abuse, and the conflicts of interest at the heart of current US immigration policy. Next up is an in-depth investigation into ICE – a look at the corrupt and out of control abuses of the ‘deportation force.’
The Trump administration is serving the interests of private prison pushers over the interests and safety of our communities. We will not be silent as immigrants are rounded up, removed from their communities, forced to detention centers and criminalized for profit. To launch our Immigration campaign, we’ve organized an advocacy fair in Los Angeles where we’ll be premiering the Sanctuary film and connecting our audience to local advocacy groups on the ground. We need to raise an additional $1,500 to release Sanctuary next week and get this film to every district. Your support is vital. As documentary storytellers, our obligation is to amplify these stories, put a human face to policy and give a voice to the voiceless. Thank you for your support. Jim Miller, Executive Director 1. Immigration Detention – Texas story by Meredith Hoffman via Associated Press |
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The Governor Pence Scandal No One Is Talking About
It really hasn’t been a great week for the state of Indiana, with the worst hit being the signing of ‘right’ to discriminate (against gays) legislation. But what’s lost in all of that is Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has decided to follow the scientific evidence–only after it’s too late (boldface mine):
An outbreak of H.I.V. in southeastern Indiana prompted the governor on Thursday to declare a public health emergency as officials worked to stop the spread of the virus that causes AIDS.
Officials said that 71 cases of H.I.V. identified since mid-December have been traced to intravenous use of a prescription painkiller in Scott County north of Louisville, Ky. Nine more cases are still under investigation, and state health officials predicted that more would appear in coming weeks. The governor authorized a short-term exchange program that would provide drug users with access to sterile needles so that contaminated…
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