Protesters hit Fox TV’s anti-Muslim bigotry

Protest outside Fox studio. WW photo: John Catalinotto

On the popular morning ABC show, “The View,” guest Bill O’Reilly went off on a spree of verbally violent attacks on the Muslim community in the U.S. He went so far that co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked out of the show, a rare event on TV, to show their resistance to his vicious remarks.

Inspired by the actions of the two stars, the United National Anti-war Coalition and some of its constituent organizations called for a public protest on Oct. 17 outside the doors of Fox News in midtown Manhattan. That afternoon, people from around the region, many from Muslim organizations, came out to protest Fox’s Islamaphobia.

Anti-war conference Nov. 6

This was the first public local New York City action by UNAC, which held a national conference last July in Albany, N.Y. The group has also called a regional conference for Nov. 6 at St. Marks Church in the Bowery, at 10th Street and Second Avenue, from noon to 4 p.m. The meeting will take up concrete plans for an anti-war demonstration set for April 9, 2011, that was voted on at the Albany meeting. Dozens of greater New York organizations plan to participate.

For more information, see nationalpeace conference.org.