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Rainbow Youth Inc. – registered charity and its “political advocacy” campaign

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The Sunday Star Times reports today that Television Presenter Alison Mau (estranged wife of news reader Simon Dallow) will be taking part in a national campaign organised by Rainbow Youth Inc., a gay lobby group that is a registered charity (Reg. No. CC24284) with the Charities Commission. “What the F**k !” is the name given to the gay campaign according to the National Business Review which suggests it may create nationwide offence due to its aggressive marketing.

The charity Rainbow Youth Inc. claims its campaign is “aimed at raising awareness of the discrimination faced by young gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people”.  However, the real purpose of this campaign, run jointly by the gay charity lobby group Rainbow Youth and OUTline, is clearly two-fold: (1) to put pressure on the government to change the Marriage Act 1955 so same-sex couples like Mau and her partner Karleen Edmonds, can marry, and ultimately be able to adopt children, and (2) shame the government into feeling it must put more money by way of government grants into the pockets of the charity Rainbow Youth Inc. and its ilk. [Read more…]

Promoting Charity Events – Rooting for Piggies, Poultry & Political Advocacy

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From the Archives. Understanding SAFE Charitable “Political Advocacy”

“SAFEs awareness campaign For The Love Of Pigs offers an evening of wine, music and local celebrities and comedians this Thursday.

“The event Pigs, Kiwis And A King will take place at the Auckland Museum, and is hosted by comedian Mike King, speaking out against animal cruelty. Like battery hens, factory-farmed pigs are often kept in cruel and claustrophobic crates, and the animal-activists at SAFE [Save Animals From Exploitation] demand healthy and humane conditions for the animals.

[See: http://www.lovepigs.org.nz/Home/]

“The fun begins at 7pm, when the SAFE [a registered charity] awareness campaign unites all those of us who love pigs, hate animal cruelty, and have watched Babe too many times.”

Published by “Admin” JollyPeople.com June 19, 2009

Promoting Charity Events Around the World

Source: http://auckland.jollypeople.com/safe-awareness-love-pigs-campaign/4365/

[Report on Charity Event: “The evening went so late that we finished at breakfast with bacon & eggs supplied to us by a local pen & battery-cage farmer! Most delightful.” Ally ‘N Good-Humor, Auckland  :-) ].

“Real moral jihad” & SAFE charitable “advocacy” for piggies and poultry

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A good number of charites registered with the Charities Commision are determined to get their grievances with law-makers into the public spotlight. They do so by investing considerable financial resources they have obtained from donors and/or government sponsorship etc, into provocative campaigns seeking public support for their “political advocacy” crusades – all aimed at trying to get the law changed and/or upheld to serve those they claim to advocate on behalf of.

United Future leader, the Hon. Peter Dunne, has today in a Dominion Post report, pointed to “a whole suite of agenda items”, promoted by allegedly “seriously extreme and nutty” campaigners, that in his view constitute “a real moral jihad”. He has highlighted two of his former party members as “extreme”  jihadists possessing “little tolerance” in their alleged “fanaticism over smacking” laws, opposition to the reform of prostitution laws and desire to tighten the abortion laws. [Read more…]

“Animal rights” protestors guilty of bullying – Letter to Editor

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Protestors guilty of bullying (Letter, Dominion Post 15 May)

The standover tactics employed by the noisy rabble outside Wellington’s Le Canard restaurant (May 12-13) are repellent in the extreme.

As self-styled “professional people with sensible jobs”, they should know that the concerns they have with the production of foie gras lie with producers in France, not with a restauranteur going about his legitimate and “sensible” business.

They are not only creating a public nuisance but are also guilty of bullying, an action that shows a lack of probity greater than that involved in over-feeding a farmyard bird. [Read more…]

NZAF – a registered charity – may face legal action for alleged slander

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Legal action threat [against New Zealand Aids Foundation] in HIV child stouch

A Whangarei childcare centre is planning legal action against the a New Zealand Aids Foundation (NZAF) for slander.

[The NZAF lobby group, active in political advocacy, is a charity registered with the Charities Commission. NZAF had a total gross income of $4,659,689 in the financial year ended 30 June 2011, which including $4,112,376 in Government grants/contracts, $342,029 from other grants and $117,508 from donations. Its total expenditure for the year was $4,997,359]. [Read more…]