GAG Takes on Smith and Wesson and BlackRock in Another Double Header Action | Event Recap
WATCH: GAG Member Ken Kidd leaders GAGers from various chapters in an action at BlackRock Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. Today, Gays Against Guns pulled off another double header action in it's fight against the Chain of Death. Smith and Wesson Press Conference GAG NY joined a coalition including New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, National Action Network, Judson Church, CBST, MCC NY, NYC PA , and Public Advocate Tish James at a a press conference in front of the Onmi Berk
LGBTQ and Anti-Gun Violence Activists to Protest Smith & Wesson Appearance at Manhattan Investor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 13, 2016 LGBTQ and Anti-Gun Violence Activists to Protest Smith & Wesson Appearance at Manhattan Investor Conference WHAT: Leading anti-gun violence and LGBTQ and religious leaders will condemn a scheduled September 13 appearance by Smith & Wesson at the 2016 Best Ideas Conference produced by CL King & Associates, an investment bank. Speakers will include: Letitia A. "Tish" James, NYC Public Advocate; Kirsten John Foy, National Action Network;
Gays Against Guns Raids BlackRock Demands Drop the Gun Stock
Gays Against Guns staged a dramatic, highly visible, and "in your face" protest at BlackRock Capital Management on August 15 at Bl
Your Daily GAG: The Implications of Targeting BlackRock
James Militzer's piece "Weekly Roundup: The Death of a Salesman, a Megaphone for Mom, and a Target on BlackRock" summarizes our #dropthegunstocks demand. It also addresses BlackRock's (“BR”) insufficient response that was included in the Fortune Magazine article to our demand: BR argues that it is required to manage gun stocks/ funds. Read: our hands are tied. BR also argues that they are socially responsible as their actively managed portfolios which exclude firearms among
Another Bad Day at BlackRock | Event Recap
Following a well publicized action of a large email blast of demands to BlackRock's leadership and Board of Directors, Gays Against Guns made it another "Bad Day at BlackRock". Two NYC GAGgers stood outside @BlackRock HQ in midtown today and handed this flyer to 225 exiting employees. Some employees cheered, some said that management had instructed them to ignore us, some gave us BS reasons why BlackRock's "hands were tied" to divest from murder weapons. A few said that our
GAG Campaign Telling BlackRock to #DropTheGunStocks Begins With Mass Communication | Event Recap
At its bi-weekly open meeting last night at the LGBTQ Center in New York City, Gays Against Guns enlisted those in attendance to kick of its campaign to get BlackRock, the massive investment management firm headquartered in New York City, to divest in its portfolio of gun stock (#DropTheGunStocks). As reported by Bloomberg in their article “BlackRock Targeted by Gay Activists for Investing in Firearms” by Jeff Green “The Gays Against Guns protest will start with e-mailed dema
