A New York City lawyer, Lou Posner, was arrested on a variety of

prostitution and money-laundering charges involving his brothel and

voter activism groups.

See:

High End NYC Brothel Affiliated with Groups that Promote Voter Fraud

What is being grossly under reported is, Lou Posner was also the head

of nobloodforoil.org

A few searches in Google shows that shows nobloodforoil is also

riseup.net:

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WHO: Direct Action Network

WHAT: DAN began as a coalition of activists during the WTO protests in

Seattle, formed in the hope of maintaining a “continental network of

activists” to share resources and facilitate future mobilization

through the guerrilla tactics of direct action. In response to the

situation in Iraq, NYC DAN started the No Blood for Oil Coalition.

WHY: “Our mission is to bring direct action into the movement against

the war. We’re not organized around holding large rallies; our focus

is more around civil resistance: facilitating affinity groups,

organizing guerrilla action and other visible ways that show we’re

ready to put our bodies in line to speak against this war.”

WHAT NEXT: Mass mobilization on Times Square in New York City at 5 pm

the day of the invasion of Iraq.

CONTACT
NYC DAN e-mail: nyc-dan@riseup.net
Website: www.anotherworldispossible.com/dan

and

No Blood For Oil e-mail: nobloodforoil@riseup.net

Website: www.nbfo.org

and

Chicago DAN e-mail: chicagoDAN@ziplip.com

Website: www.chicagodan.org

 

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Now look who RiseUp.net is affiliated with. Email contact is

RiseUp.net:

http://www.stonewallvets.org/recent_past_events_2007.htm

Saturday, September 29 (eve) — “PARADE WITHOUT PERMIT” PROTEST MARCH

The unauthorized but well-planned march sponsored by the Radical

Homosexual Agenda (”RHA”) gathers at Tompkins Square Park after 6 p.m.

amd kicks off @ 7 p.m. It is planned to have the famous “Stonewall

Car” — well-known to the NYCPD — symbolically leading the protest

march. One of the protest issues is the unnecessary new law that any

gathering of 50 or more people need a “parade permit”!? What is this

pre-Stonewall 1968? Shame on the City Council Speaker for supporting

such undemocratic trash! For further 411, e-mail the RHA’s chief

coordinator Tim Doody at Query@RiseUp.net.

S.V.A. Editor’s Note: What an absolutely treble busy day for the

S.V.A. It’s like deja vu 1969!
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Sunday, September 23 -- S.V.A. and the RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA

For the planning of their protest march on Saturday, September 29th,

their special guests today are logically members of the STONEWALL

Veterans' Association.  There is no question that the S.V.A. has

experience with "protests".  The Radical Homosexual Agenda ("RHA")

also invited the S.V.A. today to plan protest strategies and make

arrangements for the protest march to feature the big blue classic

convertible known as the "Stonewall Car".  Williamson Henderson of the

S.V.A. originated the symbolic and visible Stonewall history idea.  It

was quickly embraced by both groups united in Gay respect and Gay

rights cause.  One of the RHA's popular banners cleverly states:  "The

Stonewall Veterans didn't ask for a parade permit!"  Today's

representation for the S.V.A. is headed up by Bert Coffman.  Meeting

location is at Bike Space, 49 East Houston Street in the East Village

@ 4 p.m.  For more 411, you may e-mail the RHA at: 

WeWantYou@RiseUp.net.   

 

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Do you know who Stonewall (S.V.A.) is?: NAMBLA

Harry Hay
Pioneer, coalition-builder and radical faerie
Nov., 2002

Henry “Harry” Hay, the founder of the modern American gay movement,

died on October 24, 2002 at age 90. He had been diagnosed weeks

earlier with lung cancer. Despite his illness, he remained lucid to

the end and died peacefully in his sleep at his home in San Francisco.

“Harry Hay’s determined, visionary activism significantly lifted gays

out of op-pression,” said Stuart

Timmons, who published a biography of Hay, called “The Trouble with

Harry Hay,” in 1990. “All gay people continue to benefit from his

fierce affirmation of gays as a people.”

Hay devoted his entire life to progressive politics, and in 1950

founded a state-registered foundation network of support groups for

gays known as the Mattachine Society.

Hay was also a co-founder, in 1979, of the Radical Faeries, a movement

affirming gayness as a form of spiritual calling. A rare link between

gay and progressive politics, Hay and his partner of 39 years, John

Burnside, had lived in San Francisco for three years after a lifetime

in Los Angeles. Hay is listed in histories of the American gay

movement as the first person to apply the term “minority” to

homosexuals. An uncompromising radical, he easily dismissed “the

heteros” and never rested from challenging the status quo, including

within the gay community.

“Harry was one of the first to realize that the dream of equality for

our community could be attained through visibility and activism,” said

David M. Smith of the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, DC. “When

you were in a room with him, you had the sense you were in the company

of a historic figure.”

Due to the pervasive homophobia of his times (it was illegal for more

than two homosexuals to congregate in California during the 1950s),

Hay and his colleagues took an oath of anonymity that lasted a quarter

century until Jonathan Ned Katz interviewed Hay for the

ground-breaking book “Gay American History,” published in 1976.

Countless researchers subsequently sought him out. In recent years,

Hay became the subject of a biography, a PBS-funded documentary, and

an anthology of his own writings called “Radically Gay: Gay Liberation

in the Words of Its Founder.”

Before the establishment of the Mattachine Society, attempts to create

gay organizations in the United States had fizzled or been stamped

out. Hay’s first organizational conception was a group he called

Bachelors Anonymous, formed to both support and leverage the 1948

presidential candidacy of Progressive Party leader Henry Wallace. Hay

wrote and discreetly circulated a prospectus calling for “the

androgynous minority” to organize as a political entity.

Hay’s call for an “international bachelor’s fraternal order for peace

and social dignity” did not bear results until 1950. That year, his

love affair with Viennese immigrant Rudi Gernreich (whose fashion

designs eventually earned him a place on the cover of Time magazine),

brought Hay into gay circles where a critical mass of daring souls

could be found to begin sustained meetings. On November 11, 1950, at

Hay’s home in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles, a group of gay

men met which became the Mattachine Society. Of the original

Mattachine founders, Chuck Rowland, Bob Hull, and Dale Jennings

pre-deceased Hay. Konrad Stevens and John Gruber are the last

surviving members of the founding group.

“Mattachine” took its name from a group of medieval dancers who

appeared publicly only in mask, a device well understood by

homosexuals of the 1950s. Hay devised its secret cell structure (based

on the Masonic order) to protect individual gays and the nascent gay

network. Officially co-gender, the group was largely male -- the

Daughters of Bilitis, the pioneering lesbian organization, formed

independently in San Francisco in 1956.

Though some criticized the Mattachine movement as insular, it grew to

include thousands of members in dozens of chapters, which formed from

Berkeley to Buffalo, and created a lasting national framework for gay

organizing. Mattachine set the stage for rapid civil rights gains

following 1969’s Stonewall riots in New York City.

Harry Hay was born in England in 1912, the day the Titanic sank. His

father worked as a mining engineer in South Africa and Chile, but the

family settled in Southern California. After graduating from Los

Angeles High School, he briefly attended Stanford, but dropped out and

returned to Los Angeles. He understood from childhood that he was a

sissy -- different in behavior from boys or girls -- and also that he

was attracted to men. His same-sex affairs began when he was a

teenager, not long after he began reading 19th century scholar Edward

Carpenter, whose essays on “homogenic love” strongly influenced his

thinking.

A tall and muscular young man, Hay worked as both an extra and

ghostwriter in 1930s Hollywood. He developed a passion for theater,

and performed on Los Angeles stages with Anthony Quinn in the 1930s,

and with Will Geer, who became his lover. Geer (who later generations

grew to love as Grandpa Walton on the TV series “The Waltons”), took

Hay to the San Francisco General Strike of 1934, and indoctrinated him

into the American Communist Party. Hay became an active trade

unionist. A blend of Marxist analysis and stagecraft strongly

influenced his later gay organizing.

Despite a decade of gay life, in 1938 Hay married the late Anita

Platky, also a Communist Party member. The couple were stalwarts of

the Los Angeles Left. Hay taught at the California Labor School and

worked on domestic campaigns like that for Ed Roybal, the first Latino

elected in Los Angeles. The Hayses occasionally hosted Pete Seeger

when he performed in Los Angeles, and Hay recalled demonstrating with

Josephine Baker in 1945 over the Jim Crow segregation policy of a

local restaurant. When he felt compelled to go public with the

Mattachine Society in 1951, Hay and his wife divorced.

After a burst of activity lasting three years, the growing Mattachine

rejected Hay as a liability due to his Communist beliefs. In 1955,

when he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee,

he had trouble finding a progressive attorney to represent him. He

felt this was due to homophobia on the Left. (He was ultimately

dismissed after his curt, brief testimony was deemed unimportant.) Hay

felt exiled from the Left for nearly fifty years, until he received

the Life Achievement Award of a Los Angeles library preserving the

history and artifacts of progressive movements.

A second wind of activism came in 1979 when Hay founded, with Don

Kilhefner, a spiritual movement known as the Radical Faeries. This

pagan-inspired group continues internationally based on the principle

that the consciousness of gays differs from that of heterosexuals. Hay

believed that this different way of seeing constituted the greatest

contribution gays made to society, and was indeed the reason for their

continued presence throughout history.

For most of his life Hay lived in Los Angeles. However, during the

early 1940s, Hay and his wife lived in New York City. He returned

there with John Burnside to march and speak at the Stonewall 25

celebration in 1994. During the 1970s, he and Burnside moved to New

Mexico, where he ran the trading post at San Juan Pueblo Indian

reservation.

His years of research for gay references in history and anthropology

texts led Hay to formulate his own gay-centered political philosophy,

which he wrote and spoke about constantly. His theory of “gay

consciousness” placed variant thinking as the most significant trait

in homosexuals. “We differ most from heterosexuals in how we perceive

the world. That ability to offer insights and solutions is our

contribution to humanity, and why our people keep reappearing over the

millennia,” he often stressed.

Hay’s occasional exhortations that gays should “maximize the

differences” between themselves and heterosexuals remained

controversial. Some academics and activists seeking full integration

of gays and lesbians into straight society tended to reject his ideas

while still respecting his historic stature.

A fixture at anti-draft and anti-war demonstrations for sixty years,

Hay worked in Women’s Strike for Peace during the Vietnam War as a

conscious strategy to build a coalition between gay and feminist

progressives. He also worked closely with Native American activists,

especially the Committee for Traditional Indian Land and Life. Hay was

a local founder of the Lavender Caucus of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow

Coalition during the early 1980s, and was determined to convince the

gay community that its political success was inextricably tied to a

broader progressive agenda.

Despite his often-combative nature, Hay became an increasingly beloved

figure to younger generations of gay activists. He was often referred

to as the “Father of Gay Liberation.”

Hay is survived by Burnside as well as by his self-chosen gay family,

a model he strongly advocated for lesbians and gays. His adopted

daughters, Kate Berman and Hannah Muldaven, also survive him. A circle

of Radical Faeries provided care for him and Burnside through their

later years.

Harry Hay leaves behind a wide circle of friends and admirers among

lesbians, gays, and progressive activists. Donations in his memory can

be made to the San Francisco GLBT Community Center, 1800 Market

Street, San Francisco CA 94102 (identify it for the Harry and John

Founders Wall plaque), or to the One Institute and Archives, 909 West

Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007.

 

 

[This obituary was prepared by Stuart Timmons, Hay’s official

biographer, historian Martin Duberman, Joey Cain of the San Francisco

GLBT Pride Parade, and Harry Hay’s niece, Sally Hay. IN Step’s

Jamakaya also contributed to the story.]

 

COMMENT ADDED 07/31/2008 10:32 PM

Russian Organized Crime

Excerpt:

http://jaactv.com/330/site/content/view/77/102/

Practicing law under the name LOUIS J. POSNER, P.C. at 305 Madison

Avenue & the Lincoln Building at 60 East 42nd Street “Big Lou” lists

substantial experience as a debtor and creditor lawyer in bankruptcy

courts including bankruptcy appellate practice.

(snip)

According to The Daily News, many of the hookers were Russian women

forced to work as prostitutes to pay off debts to their “handlers”, a

process otherwise known among women’s rights advocates as sex industry

slavery.

I thought we had some pretty serious laws against transporting women

across state lines (and international trafficking) for prostitution.

Consider the Mann Act which now confronts Posner’s pimpin’ cousins in

crime Eliot Spitzer and Mark Brener. But Posner appears caught in an

extremely serious level of organized crime: money laundering,

operating a fake charity, tax fraud, slavery, and so forth - that’s

got to be a life sentence. There are only two ways out for someone in

Posner’s shoes: the perp has to hope that the chief prosecutor deems

his victims race ethnicity to be so low that they are unworthy of

justice and the corrupt official lets it slide, or or the perp cuts a

deal and rats out a bigger catch for the officials to parade in a

prosecution.

(snip)

Let’s try to forget the salacious details involving Posner’s expensive

manhattan strip club with the private rooms available for $5,000 and

up and remember that we are talking about a bankruptcy lawyer. The

bankruptcy industry is not merely a bunch of slimely lawyers who have

organized crime members and corrupt hedge funds as clients. Posner’s

outing is indicative of the “shocking” notion that the bankruptcy

industry consists of organized crime operators who also hold law

degrees.

Did anyone ever get some hard facts about the “mysterious” death of

Lou Tersigni? No matter.

Remember this: Posner has been considered an honorable officer of the

court, recognized to appear before Federal Bankruptcy Judges and by

law his statements before a bankruptcy judge are automatically deemed

true while statements by “ordinary” business people are not accorded

such authority.

Proven Link Between Prostitution Ring and Bankruptcy Law Firm

Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is Eliot Spitzer, the

Federal prosecutor and New York’s Attorney general whose duty was to

enforce the laws. BankruptcyMisconduct.com reported back in 2006 via

an AP press release delivered to every periodical in the nation which

covered the legal services industry that Eliot Spitzer was corrupt and

was protecting those persons involved with the death threat against

the whistle-blower to bankruptcy ring corruption in the largest

bankruptcy, fee fest, and hedge fund scandal in history called

Worldcom.

Subsequently, all other citizens have learned that Eliot Spitzer

abused prosecutorial discretion all those many years during which he

actually did business with organized crime. In fact, the prostitution

ring operators held career ending dirt on Eliot Spitzer and thus held

de facto immunity for all of their criminal operations.

Some main stream media disparaged our linkage between prostitution

rings and bankruptcy rings. Of course, Lou Posner was never arrested

when Eliot Spitzer was in power. Upon information and belief, Posner

was never even investigated under Spitzer. Did Posner’s having dirt on

Spitzer after providing the Governor pervert with prostitutes enable

Posner to operate free of criminal consequences for so long? How many

crimes related to bankruptcy proceedings was Posner involved with

under the protection of Eliot Spitzer? How many other criminal

enterprises were protected by Spitzer? Only a Federal Special

Prosecutor can answer that question for us.

(snip)

Judging by the lack of action against certain elements of organized

crime by the DOJ and other law enforcement entities controlled by

corrupt officials such as Eliot Spitzer, there is simply no such thing

as a Russian mafia, there is only an Italian mafia. The fact that

Moscow is now rated the most expensive city in the world and has the

highest concentration of new money billionaires has absolutely nothing

to do with the coincidental failures of our DOJ to prosecute organized

crime in America when perpetrated by race and ethnicities other than

Italian Americans. That Mukasey is Russian is only a coincidence.

 

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Tidbit, in Russian Chertoff = Devil