has anyone ever heard of the term..[phrase?]..PINKWASHING
i came across it today at my favourite site
http://whatreallyhappened.com/

A ZIONIST VICTORY
IN NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNITY

Taking Pinkwashing to a whole new level, one of Israel’s very very good friends– gay male pornographer Michael Lucas– is boasting that he single-handedly

got NY’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans Community Center to not only cancel a “Party to End Apartheid” fundraiser to cover costs for Israel Awareness Week, but to ban the group from ever renting there again.

How?
You know, the usual calls
from supporters and threats to withhold major donations*
(according to Lucas)...''

http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/a-zionist-victory-in-new-yorks-gay-community/

but it seemed to ring a bell
cant think why?

all i knew about it before
was when you put red socks
into the washing

then wash with hot water

still its a funny name..
why would people ...any people..
want to wash the dirty socks
[blood stains...on the socks?]

so much other real news
so im going back in

if we need to know
whats REALLY happening
we need to find sites that tell us whats really going down

and the first few articles are more revealing..[on a different topic]
to whats really happening...
that somehow
the media forgets ..to tell us..about

Thank you, ANZ for coming to your senses. Very pleased to see you here today. Things are looking brighter now.

It is interesting to see what regular OLO contributor Michael Lardelli (OLO userID Michael_in_Adelaide) has to say about the threat posed to OLO's viability by what is, presumably, the invocation of the Internet Advertising Sales Houses Australia (IASH Australia) 'code of conduct' in relation to advertising (non) placement on OLO.

Michael Lardelli, on the Energy Bulletin website, http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-02-07/australias-online-opinion-media-website-under-attack , makes the following important points:

"... Many essays from Energy Bulletin have
been reprinted on OLO where they reach
political leaders, their staff and other
journalists in Australia - people who
otherwise would not normally see this
material. ...

... As someone growing older and more cynical
every day, I cannot but wonder if the severing
of OLO's support might have something to do with
spreading concern among our elites about growing
public awareness of the environmental, energy
and other geopolitical issues. ...

... Let's not let this important internet site
be taken off-line just as the times we live in
become more "interesting" by the day!"

In the eight days since the last post to this thread, the ANZ advertising that had re-appeared on OLO has again disappeared. It is not hard to imagine that, with the clarifications as to the chronology of events that have surrounded this matter, and some perhaps ill-advised admissions made by others, a number of parties may have come to the realization that there may come to be legal consequences for the course embarked upon of attacking OLO's revenue. Has, for example, there been a retraction by SX News of the false claim made here, http://sxnews.gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/scare-tactics-008393.html , that advertising was withdrawn because of a (misunderstood) after-the-event "call for homosexuals to be murdered" published in comments to the Wotherspoon article?

Be that all as it may, is it possible for viewers and users to be given some idea as to the extent to which donations or other sponsorships generated by the controversy, and this article, may be replacing the lost advertising revenue?

Hi Forrest. I've been a bit delinquent with information. I'll start another thread soon.

But briefly two points.

The reappearance of the ANZ on the site was a mistake on the part of our advertising agency, who control what ads are displayed.

We did get a flow of donations for a little, but they've dried-up. No doubt because we are not running a continuing campaign at the moment. I'm looking to do something more structured and need to run it past directors before posting a thread for comment.

GrahamY,

FWIW, the link that I put up in my post of Sunday, 6 March 2011 at 3:40:45 PM, to the SX News item 'Scare Tactics', now yields a '404 message'. I only discovered this yesterday after a reboot of my computer: I had had the page up in a tab, and got the 404 when my browser restored my session. I am consequently unaware as to just when the page was taken down.

I don't know whether the current unavailability of the 'Scare Tactics' news item constitutes a retraction, or constitutes evidence as to perceived sensitivity as to the source for its claim that advertising was withdrawn from OLO because of a comment taken as an incitement to the murder of gays. The only such comment on OLO would appear to have been the misunderstood, outside of its thread context, haiku posted elsewhere by 'Shintaro' long after this contention first emerged back in November 2010.

I mention it only because I sense that the page taken down may prove significant as to involvement of persons, chronology of events, and intent in relation to the invocation of the IASH code of conduct that seemingly lies behind the advertising boycott of 'The Domain'. I do not know as to what extent, if any, that the incorrect claims made in that news item may have been damaging to OLO and/or other participants in 'The Domain' advertising package.

And bump.