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break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">After
all the hoopla and foofarah
of Gay Pride fades, the sun dims, and the
earth grows cold, Barbie remains…
</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
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left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;
line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New
Roman';"><b>Barbie's Gay Pride Shocker! </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
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left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>"Get
out!
Get out of here and never come back!"
shrieked an enraged Barbie, as
she hurled a tiny bedroom slipper in my
direction. The dainty missile careened
off an itty-bitty bust of Ken, then
shattered the frame that held a photo of
Barbie's
best friend, Midge. "Take your Gay Pride
and shove it!"</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
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20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Barbie's
entire
Malibu Dreamhouse shook and threatened to
cave in on itself as the
diminutive lass slammed my nose in the
door. This doll was mad, but I couldn't
help it; I was just doing my job.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
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left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Me?
I'm
a crackerjack reporter for Gay City News.
My editor had just given me
"one more chance" to turn in a story on
Gay Pride that was "upbeat"
and "gay-positive," and not "another of
your infernal,
politically correct diatribes against the
U.S. corporate war machine." </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
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#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
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left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>My
assignment:
To come up with a breezy, vapid piece of
queer-friendly consumerist
claptrap hawking Gay Pride, in 45 minutes,
or be fired. I had to work fast – no
matter how many hearts I broke. I was in a
dither.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
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New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Then
I
remembered Barbie and her Malibu
Dreamhouse. I had purchased the set –
$156.98
at Toys R Us – as a present for a campy,
shopaholic gay male friend (if I ever
found one). I took Barbie and her
Dreamhouse out of my closet. Maybe, I
thought, the pert little minx could
provide an upbeat, gay-positive
perspective.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
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left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
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New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Leering
journalistically
into her upstairs bedroom, I peeped Barbie
at her dressing
table. There she sat in a negligee,
quaffing a wee can of Diet Coke. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Times
New Roman""><b>WAIT – isn't Diet Coke a
"Platinum" sponsor of New
York City's Heritage of Pride? WOW! Whatta
scoop! </b></span></p>
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New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>"Hey,
doll!"
I called, inserting my nose-for-news
through her window.
"Since you obviously don't need to lose
weight, you must be drinking Diet
Coke to support Gay Pride, right? My, your
Dreamhouse is so <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">pink</i>
– isn't that an upbeat, gay-positive
color? Here, let me fix your strap for
you…"</b></span></p>
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New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>In
a
playful response to my barrage of
hard-hitting questions, Barbie tried to
stab my finger with her cuticle scissors.
Then she said something that was
shockingly non-upbeat. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
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mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>"Don't
you
know the Coke Company is bankrolling Gay
Pride so the LGBT community will forget
last winter, when Coke sponsored the
Olympic Games in Sochi?" Barbie
asked, taking a large swig of the brown
bubbly. "Coke said absolutely
nothing about Russia's 'gay propaganda'
law. Nothing about queers threatened
with prison or having their children taken
away –"</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
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mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>"Whoa
there,
honey," I countered. "This story will
never 'trend' online if
you're such a Gloomy Gus. Look on the
bright side – Corporate America doesn't
hate us anymore! Things Go Better With
Queers!"</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
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New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Barbie
stifled
a belch. "Fine, have your Pride," she said
resignedly.
"Just know that your so-called sexual
orientation now depends for its
validation on another planet-destroying
multinational. The Coke Company
expropriates drinking water in India and
kills union leaders in Colombia. And
don't get me started on some of those
other Pride sponsors. Wells Fargo: Major
financial
supporter of U.S. immigration detention
centers. TD Bank: More than $15 billion
invested in the Alberta tar sands project.
HSBC: Ginormous fines for laundering
drug cartel money…"</b></span></p>
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New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>This
reporter
was beginning to get a whole new sense of
why Barbie might like pink so
much. But I couldn't let her Marxist
rhetoric poison my upbeat, gay-positive
journalism
with hideous, hideous facts.</b></span></p>
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Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Times
New Roman""><b>"If the Coca-Cola
Company and other major corporate
entities want to recognize queer people as
human," I rebutted adroitly,
"then I think we should return the favor
and regard these corporations as
people – maybe even <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">queer</i>
people. In
fact, I have every reason to believe that
Wells Fargo is gay. I am, therefore,
proud to identify with Wells Fargo, and
not a bunch of heterosexual detainees. In
fact, I suspect that any corporate or
human entity with a net worth of at least
$65 billion is probably gay. Bill Gates,
$78 billion: gay. Vladimir Putin, $70
billion: gay. Betty Crocker does it with
Sara Lee. Trump Tower is hot for the
Chrysler Building."</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:
.5in;line-height: 150%;margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Times
New Roman""><b>I began humming and
snapping my fingers. "Come on, Barbie,
sing it with me! <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">I'd
like to teach the
world to sing</i> …"</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
150%;margin: 1em 0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Barbie
only
stared vacantly into the bleak, aluminum
opening of her Coke can.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
150%;margin: 1em 0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>"I'm
drinking
this bilge in hopes that the aspartame
will kill me," she said hollowly.
"It's useless."</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
150%;margin: 1em 0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>"Oh
Barbie,"
I started to say, "nothing's useless in an
upbeat story
about Gay Pride –" But she cut me off.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
150%;margin: 1em 0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>"You
see,
I'm in love. Deeply in love with Chelsea
Manning."</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
150%;margin: 1em 0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This
reporter tried to wrap this
reporter's mind around Barbie's shocking
confession. Chelsea Manning – really?</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:
.5in;line-height: 150%;margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Times
New Roman""><b>Chelsea Manning who, as
23-year-old Army private Bradley
Manning, gave classified data to the
whistleblower website Wikileaks, stunning
the world with over 700,000 instances of
heretofore unknown U.S. diplomatic
malfeasance
and war crimes? Chelsea Manning who,
facing a 35-year sentence in the brutal
hopelessness of prison, <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">dares</i>
to
transition from male to female? What did
Chelsea Manning have to do with Gay
Pride? </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
150%;margin: 1em 0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Obviously,
nothing.
So I asked the only question that I, as an
upbeat, gay-positive
reporter, could think of.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
150%;margin: 1em 0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>"Gee,
Barbie
– does this mean you're a lesbian?"</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
150%;margin: 1em 0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
New Roman""><b><span
style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>That's
when
the commie dyke kicked me out. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:
.5in;line-height: 150%;margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Times
New Roman""><b>Fair enough, I thought:
Plastic is as plastic does. Besides,
I had only three minutes until my
deadline, and no time to care. So I kicked
Barbie's Malibu Dreamhouse back into my
closet, slammed the door, and ended
this piece.</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:
"Times
New Roman""><b><br>
</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
150%;margin: 1em 0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New
Roman'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">©
Susie Day, 2014</span><br>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:
150%;margin: 1em 0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;text-align:
left;word-wrap: break-word;margin-bottom:
20px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;
line-height: 150%;">References:</span><br>
</p>
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0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Barbie/Malibu
Dreamhouse:</span></p>
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0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213937-www.toysrus.com/family/index.jsp?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="font-size: 11pt;line-height:
1.6em;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;text-decoration: none;color: #3466CC;">http://www.toysrus.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3628113</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213941-www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="font-size: 11pt;line-height:
1.6em;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;text-decoration: none;color: #3466CC;">http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11587154&cp=2255956.3053760.10882029.33886106.3628113&parentPage=family</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">NYC
Gay
Pride Sponsors:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213945-www.nycpride.org/sponsors?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="font-size: 11pt;line-height:
1.6em;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;text-decoration: none;color: #3466CC;">http://www.nycpride.org/sponsors</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">Coke:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">Coke
and
Sochi Olympics sponsorship:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213949-www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/olympic-sponsors-were-war_b_4679919.html?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;text-decoration: none;color:
#3466CC;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/olympic-sponsors-were-war_b_4679919.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">Drinking
water,
India:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213953-www.hummingbirdproject.org/regions/india/water-for-people-or-profit-coca-cola-sucks-india-dry/?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;text-decoration: none;color:
#3466CC;">http://www.hummingbirdproject.org/regions/india/water-for-people-or-profit-coca-cola-sucks-india-dry/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">Union
leaders,
Colombia:</span></p>
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0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213957-www.alternet.org/story/146579/coca_cola-s_role_in_the_assassinations_of_union_leaders_explored_in_powerful_new_documentary?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;text-decoration: none;color:
#3466CC;">http://www.alternet.org/story/146579/coca_cola's_role_in_the_assassinations_of_union_leaders_explored_in_powerful_new_documentary</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213961-colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="font-size: 11pt;line-height:
1.6em;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;text-decoration: none;color: #3466CC;">http://colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">More
on
Coke:</span></p>
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0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213965-killercoke.org/index.php?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;text-decoration: none;color:
#3466CC;">http://killercoke.org/index.php</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1em
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#505050;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:
15px;font-style: normal;font-weight:
normal;letter-spacing: normal;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;word-wrap:
break-word;margin-bottom: 20px;"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">Wells
Fargo:</span></p>
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href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213969-www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/immigrants-wells-fargo_n_1016339.html?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">TD
Bank:</span></p>
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href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213973-vtdigger.org/2013/03/20/tar-sands-opponents-target-td-bank/?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213977-tcprogressivealliance.blogspot.com/2014/01/what-is-keystone-xl-pipeline-and-tar.html?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">HSBC:</span></p>
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moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213981-www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/17/us-hsbc-moneylaundering-exclusive-idusbrea0g1kq20140117?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="-ms-text-size-adjust:
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">Bill
Gates:
Net worth $78.8 billion:</span></p>
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href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213985-www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="-ms-text-size-adjust:
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">Vladimir
Putin:
Net worth $70 billion:</span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213989-www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/presidents/vladimir-putin-net-worth/?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#3466CC;">http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/presidents/vladimir-putin-net-worth/</a></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">Bradley/Chelsea
Manning:</span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213993-www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/manning-sentenced-for-leaking-government-secrets.html?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="font-size: 11pt;line-height:
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moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1213997-www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/8/21/bradley_manning_sentenced_to_35_years?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="font-size: 11pt;line-height:
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1214001-www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/as-a-transgender-woman-in-prison-chelsea-manning-is-commencing-the-greatest-struggle-of-her-life-8789886.html?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="font-size: 11pt;line-height:
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">Manning
transition
statement:</span></p>
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moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/snidelines/barbie-s-gay-pride-shocker/1214005-www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/8/22/i_want_everyone_to_know_the_real_me_i_am_chelsea_manning_i_am_a_female?c=6d81fb7a-3227-4ee1-9d3d-c0e8d025b1fb"
style="-ms-text-size-adjust:
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style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.6em;">NY
Times
editorial by Manning, 6/15/14:</span></p>
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San Francisco, CA 94110
415 863.9977
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