Jun 15, 2013
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Central New York Pride/sSyracuse, NY6/15/13

Central New York Pride/s
Syracuse, NY
6/15/13

Jun 11, 2013
501 notes
Photo credit: Boston branch, Workers World PartyPhoto caption: Leslie Feinberg, Boston, 1984.I had already been infected with tick-borne diseases for a decade.6/11/13Message from Leslie Feinberg:I want to be the one to tell you that I am failing to thrive very rapidly, and a local hospice expert is working to set up care in our home. In the meantime, messages of personal support are welcome, but I can’t respond. I can’t do interviews or videos. Please no commercial inquiries of any kind.Minnie Bruce and I welcome your messages of support at: minniebrucepratt@yahoo.comPlease do not send these messages to our other e-mail accounts! And—please do not ask for details or send medical advice.I suffered with tick-borne diseases for 35 years without treatment. In the five plus years since I have been in treatment, I have been diagnosed with late-stage Lyme along with serious coinfections including Babesiosis, Protomyxzoa Rheumatica, and Bartonella. My 20-year pattern of periodic immuno-suppression has become chronic for quite some time.My body is failing so fast that I can’t undergo more diagnostic and treatment attempts. It is difficult for me to swallow, walk, breathe, talk and write. This sharp decline, evidenced in labs and in life, has forced me to set up home hospice care quickly. My goal is to survive hospice. But I set out to do so with this reminder: illnesses and deaths are not personal failings. Nor is hospice a surrender. While it might not be realistic or possible, I have a fierce determination to get out in the streets with you all at the Central New York Pride March this Saturday, June 15.I will continue to work in hospice—if not now, when?—to finish the Stone Butch Blues 20th anniversary author’s edition.  {For updates on this free online-read/at cost print-on-demand, www.tumblr.com/blog/leslie-feinberg}I will continue to work on the slideshow honoring CeCe McDonald. Titled “This is what solidarity looks like,” the slideshow is part of a multi-media dedication of Stone Butch Blues to CeCe. The slide show demonstrates the breadth of the demand to “Free CeCe!” {supportcece.wordpress.com}The deadline for “Free CeCe!” photo submissions is July 1, 2013.Send solidarity photos/art, permission form, and photo information including date/location/photographer to: transgenderwarrior@gmail.comSee permission forms: www.iacenter.org/lgbt/feinberg-mcdonald100712/To subscribe for updates:Leslie’s Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/leslie.feinberg.tgwarrior?ref=tn_tnmnLeslie’s tumblr:http://www.tumblr.com/blog/leslie-feinbergLeslie’s twitter:https://twitter.com/lesliefeinbergMinnie’s Bruce’s Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/minniebruce.pratt***Health care for free—not for profits!Jobs, homes, education, recreation—not wars at home & abroad—covert & overt—that only profit the 1%!Free CeCe McDonald, B. Manning & Lynn Stewart!End police brutality & racist mass incarcerationSolidarity with immigrant workers, Muslims,oppressed peoples and workers around the world!

Photo credit: Boston branch, Workers World Party
Photo caption: Leslie Feinberg, Boston, 1984.
I had already been infected with tick-borne diseases for a decade.

6/11/13
Message from Leslie Feinberg:

I want to be the one to tell you that I am failing to thrive very rapidly,
and a local hospice expert is working to set up care in our home.

In the meantime, messages of personal support are welcome,
but I can’t respond. I can’t do interviews or videos.
Please no commercial inquiries of any kind.

Minnie Bruce and I welcome your messages of support at: minniebrucepratt@yahoo.com

Please do not send these messages to our other e-mail accounts!
And—please do not ask for details or send medical advice.

I suffered with tick-borne diseases for 35 years without treatment. In the five plus years since I have been in treatment, I have been diagnosed with late-stage Lyme along with serious coinfections including Babesiosis, Protomyxzoa Rheumatica, and Bartonella. My 20-year pattern of periodic immuno-suppression has become chronic for quite some time.

My body is failing so fast that I can’t undergo more diagnostic and treatment attempts. It is difficult for me to swallow, walk, breathe, talk and write. This sharp decline, evidenced in labs and in life, has forced me to set up home hospice care quickly.

My goal is to survive hospice. But I set out to do so with this reminder: illnesses and deaths are not personal failings.

Nor is hospice a surrender.

While it might not be realistic or possible, I have a fierce determination to get out in the streets with you all at the Central New York Pride March this Saturday, June 15.

I will continue to work in hospice—if not now, when?—to finish the Stone Butch Blues 20th anniversary author’s edition.  {For updates on this free online-read/at cost print-on-demand, www.tumblr.com/blog/leslie-feinberg}

I will continue to work on the slideshow honoring CeCe McDonald. Titled “This is what solidarity looks like,” the slideshow is part of a multi-media dedication of Stone Butch Blues to CeCe. The slide show demonstrates the breadth of the demand to “Free CeCe!” {supportcece.wordpress.com}

The deadline for “Free CeCe!” photo submissions is July 1, 2013.

Send solidarity photos/art, permission form, and photo information including date/location/photographer to: transgenderwarrior@gmail.com

See permission forms: www.iacenter.org/lgbt/feinberg-mcdonald100712/

To subscribe for updates:

Leslie’s Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/leslie.feinberg.tgwarrior?ref=tn_tnmn

Leslie’s tumblr:
http://www.tumblr.com/blog/leslie-feinberg

Leslie’s twitter:
https://twitter.com/lesliefeinberg

Minnie’s Bruce’s Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/minniebruce.pratt

***

Health care for free—not for profits!

Jobs, homes, education, recreation—
not wars at home & abroad—covert & overt—
that only profit the 1%!

Free CeCe McDonald, B. Manning & Lynn Stewart!
End police brutality & racist mass incarceration

Solidarity with immigrant workers, Muslims,
oppressed peoples and workers
around the world!

May 31, 2013
31 notes

From Leslie:

Free/at-cost 20th anniversary

author’s edition of

Stone Butch Blues

 

Production appears to be

on schedule for July 15, 2013

 

Please check back here then

for more information.

Apr 30, 2013
51 notes
STONE BUTCH BLUES
*** MAY DAY 2013 update***

My illness has delayed publication
of the free-read digital & at-cost print-on-demand
20th-anniversary author edition of Stone Butch Blues
—dedicated to “Free CeCe McDonald!”
{supportcece.wordpress.com}

However, thanks to the teamwork
of a small group of wonderful individuals,
the delay may only be weeks.

Teachers:
It’s realistic to expect
free-read online edition
free downloadable PDF
by July 15, 2013 {maybe sooner!}

Check back here: June 1
for progress on free-read digital
and at-cost print-on-demand editions

NEXT GOALS
1. post slide show dedicated to “Free CeCe McDonald!”
2. post personal health update

I am too ill to respond to one-on-one
messaging at this time.
Feb 4, 2013
97 notes

LESLIE STATES “NOT GUILTY”—
JUDGE CONVICTS BUT STAYS SENTENCE

Leslie Feinberg declared she/ze was “not guilty” today (2/4/13) on a charge of 3rd degree gross misdemeanor (property damage) for spray painting “Free CeCe Now” on the walls and pillars of the courthouse/jail in Minneapolis.

Based on police reports of Leslie’s actions, which were not in dispute, the judge found Leslie “guilty,” and asked if she/ze had anything to say before sentencing.

Leslie said: “I am a revolutionary journalist and member of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. I am not guilty of any wrongdoing. I delivered the people’s verdict on the jailhouse walls. The real crimes are going on behind the walls where CeCe McDonald is imprisoned.”

“By sentencing CeCe McDonald to prison, Minneapolis sent a green light to neo-fascists at a time of growing racist lynching and massacres in the U.S. CeCe was attacked and survived at a time when an increasing number of transwomen of color are being assaulted and murdered.

“Racist mass incarceration is the crime, as even a former Hennepin County prosecutor admitted in an article—that Minnesota has the greatest racist disparity in sentencing of any state in the U.S.

“The world is watching CeCe McDonald’s struggle. I’m proud to add my voice to the tens of thousands of people who demand: Free CeCe!”

The judge admitted that Leslie’s action was an act of “civil disobedience.”

Then the judge stayed the imposition of sentence for 2 years. During that time, Leslie is on informal probation. This means if Leslie is not convicted of any additional “property damage” for 24 months, the 3rd degree gross misdemeanor charge will be dismissed.

The prosecutor did not pursue court expenses or a fine. Leslie walked out of the courtroom without having to perform community service or report to a probation officer.

Leslie was ordered to pay more than $1300 for the erasure of the political demand she/ze wrote on the wall. Leslie stated after court, “I refuse to pay for the censorship of the political demand Free CeCe Now!

Local Free CeCe organizers were present in the courtroom. Many CeCe supporters in the U.S. and around the world sent tweets, e-mails, faxes, and made phone calls to help deliver the people’s verdict—Free CeCe!—to the Minneapolis mayor and prosecutor.

Feb 4, 2013
29 notes

(Please take action & repost)
Message from Leslie Feinberg:

I am ordered to begin trial in Minneapolis today,
Feb. 4 at 9 am (Central U.S. time zone).

The jury trial is expected to last about 2 days.

I am charged with 3rd-Degree Gross Misdemeanor
for my June 4 solidarity action demandi
CeCe McDonald. The charge threatens
a maximum 1 year sentence.

Help deliver the peoples’ verdict:
‘FREE CECE!’

Send messages to Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak
and the city prosecutor — a mayoral political appointee:

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak — twitter: @MayorRTRybak; email: rt@minneapolis.org; fax: (612) 673-2305;
phone: (612) 673-2100.

Minneapolis City Attorney Susan Segal —
email: Minneapolis311@ci.minneapolis.mn.us;
fax: (612) 673-2189;
phone: (612) 673-2010.

Feb 4, 2013
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Resistance proves irrepressible—‘Free CeCe!’ Help deliver peoples’ verdict, part 2

By Leslie Feinberg
posted on Feb. 2, 2013


Feb 4, 2013
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FreeCeCe McDonald: VIA Leslie Feinberg “Leslie Feinberg trial information Leslie is...

freececemcdonald:

VIA Leslie Feinberg
“Leslie Feinberg trial information

Leslie is ordered to appear in court
Feb. 4 at 9 am
Hennepin County “Public Safety” Facility
401 Fourth Ave. South Minneapolis, MN
Look on the blue monitors for assigned courtroom.

Bruce Nestor & the National Lawyers Guild
…

Feb 1, 2013
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Leslie Feinberg trial information

Leslie is ordered to appear in court
Feb. 4 at 9 am
Hennepin County “Public Safety” Facility
401 Fourth Ave. South Minneapolis, MN
Look on the blue monitors for assigned courtroom.

Bruce Nestor & the National Lawyers Guild
are defending Leslie in the court of the 1%.

Please bring “Free CeCe” signs
for a big group solidarity photo
in support of CeCe McDonald on Feb. 4
Please wear buttons/t-shirts,
& purple in solidarity with CeCe.

[for more information about
CeCe McDonald’s struggle:
supportcece.wordpress.com/]

Children of all ages welcome,
including infants and toddlers.
Leslie will bring crayons & paper!

###

Help signal boost the peoples’ verdict — “Free CeCe!”

Deliver that message to Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and the city prosecutor — a mayoral political appointee:

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak — twitter: @MayorRTRybak; email: rt@minneapolis.org; fax: (612) 673-2305; phone: (612) 673-2100.

Minneapolis City Attorney Susan Segal — email: Minneapolis311@ci.minneapolis.mn.us; fax: (612) 673-2189; phone: (612) 673-2010.

Jan 29, 2013
1 note

Signal boost the peoples’ verdict—‘Free CeCe McDonald!’

By Leslie Feinberg
posted January 28, 2013

Jan 28, 2013
7 notes

Trial message from Leslie Feinberg — Help signal boost the peoples’ verdict: ‘Free CeCe!’

CeCe McDonald survived a white-supremacist,
anti-woman, transphobic hate crime.
 
Today, CeCe McDonald is in a cell where sadistic
racist and anti-trans guards hold the key.
[supportcece.wordpress.com]
 
The city of Minneapolis is re-charging me [info below]
with 3rd-Degree Gross Misdemeanor for writing
the peoples’ verdict — “Free CeCe!” —
on the jailhouse/courthouse walls.

Help signal boost the peoples’ verdict
— ‘Free CeCe!’

Send a message to the mayor
and his prosecutor:

Mayor R.T. Rybak—
twitter: @MayorRTRybak; email: rt@minneapolis.org;
fax: (612) 673-2305; phone: (612) 673-2100
 
City Attorney Susan Segal—
email: Minneapolis311@ci.minneapolis.mn.us;
fax: (612) 673-2189; phone: (612) 673-2010

My trial information:

I am ordered to appear in court
Feb. 4  at  9 am
Hennepin County “Public Safety” Facility
401 Fourth Ave. South Minneapolis, MN
Look on the blue monitors for assigned courtroom.
 
Bruce Nestor & the National Lawyers Guild
are defending me in the court of the 1%.

Please bring “Free CeCe” signs
for a big group solidarity photo
in support of CeCe McDonald on Feb. 4
Please wear buttons / t-shirts,
& purple in solidarity with CeCe.
 
I welcome children of all ages,
including infants and toddlers.
I will bring crayons & paper!

Jan 9, 2013
6 notes
4_Central New York Pride 2012: “Free CeCe!”photo credit: Elliott DeLinephoto caption:June 16, 2012Syracuse, New York, U.S.“Free CeCe!” March in the Syracuse Pride Parade 2012++++Between now and trial I am posting a photo a day to FREE CECE NOW![for information about CeCe McDonald’s struggle, explore: supportcece.wordpress.com]Thank you to the photographers/artists/activistswho are contributing photo/s to an onlineSLIDE SHOW DEDICATION to FREE CECE McDONALD—entitled “This is what solidarity looks like!”The dedication will be part of the May Day 2013free online publication of the 20th-anniversaryauthor edition of Stone Butch BluesPlease make your own individual and group photosin support of CeCe’s struggle for the slide showtitled “This is what solidarity looks like!”FREE CECE NOW!!Photo information/photo credit forms:Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/notes/leslie-feinberg-on-facebook/stone-butch-blues-multi-media-digital-dedication-to-free-cece-mcdonald/486837591335592Tumblr:http://leslie-feinberg.tumblr.com/IACenter.org:http://iacenter.org/lgbt/cecemcdonaldpictures/

4_Central New York Pride 2012: “Free CeCe!”

photo credit: Elliott DeLine

photo caption:
June 16, 2012
Syracuse, New York, U.S.

“Free CeCe!” March in the Syracuse Pride Parade 2012

++++

Between now and trial I am posting
a photo a day to FREE CECE NOW!
[for information about CeCe McDonald’s struggle,
explore: supportcece.wordpress.com]

Thank you to the photographers/artists/activists
who are contributing photo/s to an online
SLIDE SHOW DEDICATION to FREE CECE McDONALD—
entitled “This is what solidarity looks like!”

The dedication will be part of the May Day 2013
free online publication of the 20th-anniversary
author edition of Stone Butch Blues

Please make your own individual and group photos
in support of CeCe’s struggle for the slide show
titled “This is what solidarity looks like!”

FREE CECE NOW!!

Photo information/photo credit forms:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/leslie-feinberg-on-facebook/stone-butch-blues-multi-media-digital-dedication-to-free-cece-mcdonald/486837591335592

Tumblr:http://leslie-feinberg.tumblr.com/

IACenter.org:http://iacenter.org/lgbt/cecemcdonaldpictures/

Jan 8, 2013
17 notes
3_Central New York Pride 2012: “Fight racism & transphobia! Justice for CeCe!”photo credit: Elliott DeLinephoto caption:June 16, 2012Syracuse, New York, U.S.“Free CeCe!” March in the Syracuse Pride Parade 2012++++Between now and trial I am posting a photo a day to FREE CECE NOW![for information about CeCe McDonald’s struggle, explore: supportcece.wordpress.com]Thank you to the photographers/artists/activistswho are contributing photo/s to an onlineSLIDE SHOW DEDICATION to FREE CECE McDONALD—entitled “This is what solidarity looks like!”The dedication will be part of the May Day 2013free online publication of the 20th-anniversaryauthor edition of Stone Butch BluesPlease make your own individual and group photosin support of CeCe’s struggle for the slide showtitled “This is what solidarity looks like!”FREE CECE NOW!!Photo information/photo credit forms:Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/notes/leslie-feinberg-on-facebook/stone-butch-blues-multi-media-digital-dedication-to-free-cece-mcdonald/486837591335592Tumblr:http://leslie-feinberg.tumblr.com/IACenter.org:http://iacenter.org/lgbt/cecemcdonaldpictures/

3_Central New York Pride 2012: “Fight racism & transphobia! Justice for CeCe!”

photo credit: Elliott DeLine

photo caption:
June 16, 2012
Syracuse, New York, U.S.

“Free CeCe!” March in the Syracuse Pride Parade 2012

++++

Between now and trial I am posting
a photo a day to FREE CECE NOW!
[for information about CeCe McDonald’s struggle,
explore: supportcece.wordpress.com]

Thank you to the photographers/artists/activists
who are contributing photo/s to an online
SLIDE SHOW DEDICATION to FREE CECE McDONALD—
entitled “This is what solidarity looks like!”

The dedication will be part of the May Day 2013
free online publication of the 20th-anniversary
author edition of Stone Butch Blues

Please make your own individual and group photos
in support of CeCe’s struggle for the slide show
titled “This is what solidarity looks like!”

FREE CECE NOW!!

Photo information/photo credit forms:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/leslie-feinberg-on-facebook/stone-butch-blues-multi-media-digital-dedication-to-free-cece-mcdonald/486837591335592

Tumblr:http://leslie-feinberg.tumblr.com/

IACenter.org:http://iacenter.org/lgbt/cecemcdonaldpictures/

Jan 7, 2013
6 notes

Capitalism profits from guns, war & reaction / In defense of peoples' power

my weekly pre-trial statements

Part 4  

By Leslie Feinberg

Jan 7, 2013
2 notes
2_Central New York Pride 2012: “Free CeCe!”photo credit: Elliott DeLinephoto caption:June 16, 2012Syracuse, New York, U.S.“Free CeCe!” March in the Syracuse Pride Parade 2012++++Between now and trial I am posting a photo a day to FREE CECE NOW![for information about CeCe McDonald’s struggle, explore: supportcece.wordpress.com]Thank you to the photographers/artists/activistswho are contributing photo/s to an onlineSLIDE SHOW DEDICATION to FREE CECE McDONALD—entitled “This is what solidarity looks like!”The dedication will be part of the May Day 2013free online publication of the 20th-anniversaryauthor edition of Stone Butch BluesPlease make your own individual and group photosin support of CeCe’s struggle for the slide showtitled “This is what solidarity looks like!”FREE CECE NOW!!Photo information/photo credit forms:Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/notes/leslie-feinberg-on-facebook/stone-butch-blues-multi-media-digital-dedication-to-free-cece-mcdonald/486837591335592Tumblr:http://leslie-feinberg.tumblr.com/IACenter.org:http://iacenter.org/lgbt/cecemcdonaldpictures/

2_Central New York Pride 2012: “Free CeCe!”

photo credit: Elliott DeLine

photo caption:
June 16, 2012
Syracuse, New York, U.S.

“Free CeCe!” March in the Syracuse Pride Parade 2012
++++

Between now and trial I am posting
a photo a day to FREE CECE NOW!
[for information about CeCe McDonald’s struggle,
explore: supportcece.wordpress.com]

Thank you to the photographers/artists/activists
who are contributing photo/s to an online
SLIDE SHOW DEDICATION to FREE CECE McDONALD—
entitled “This is what solidarity looks like!”

The dedication will be part of the May Day 2013
free online publication of the 20th-anniversary
author edition of Stone Butch Blues

Please make your own individual and group photos
in support of CeCe’s struggle for the slide show
titled “This is what solidarity looks like!”

FREE CECE NOW!!

Photo information/photo credit forms:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/leslie-feinberg-on-facebook/stone-butch-blues-multi-media-digital-dedication-to-free-cece-mcdonald/486837591335592

Tumblr:http://leslie-feinberg.tumblr.com/

IACenter.org:http://iacenter.org/lgbt/cecemcdonaldpictures/

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