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To: PrideSTL Committee

No Pride in Genocide - STL

Pride STL: Cut ties with Boeing! Condemn pinkwashing! Cut ties with police!

As Queer St. Louisans of conscience, we support Palestinian resistance, call for a permanent ceasefire and ultimately, a free Palestine.  We condemn "pinkwashing," the use of weaponizing our Queerness against Palestinian liberation. Just as Boeing is trying to whitewash its participation in genocide, we reject Zionist attempts to pinkwash their role in genocide by proclaiming Israel as a Queer sanctuary. Pride STL must cut ties with all entities that profit from war and the prison industrial complex. Not only do these corporations profit off of the killing of Palestinians, but the destruction of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities across the country and world.
We must remember that pride began as a protest against police brutality targeting Black and Brown Queer and Trans people. With that in mind, we also demand that Pridefest cut ties with police. The Israeli Occupation Forces and the domestic police state trade strategies of surveillance and repression. As Marsha said, "No pride for some of us, without liberation for all of us."

We also would like to amplify the national demands from by the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity + the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. Read them using the link below:
https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit

Why is this important?

We have a moral obligation to speak out!
St. Louis, MO, USA

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