Successful Facebook Activism

Yesterday, RH Reality Check was reporting that the Forced Birth Gang were aaallll over that Lilith Fair gaffe -- including crisis pregnancy centers among charities that this year's femipalooza might support.

Here's Big Nurse Jill telling her flying monkeys to get out there and you know, votey-vote-vote.

RH Reality Check also noted that Lie-La Rose, not surprisingly for the scheming, lying imp that she is, had posted relevant linkies on her Facebook page with similiar nudge-nudge-wink-winks.

On Wednesday, LifeShite had a remarkably straightforward account:

Back in the 1990s, the Lilith Fair tour was one of the most people concert draws* of the time -- with millions of people flocking to venues and festivals to see mostly female alternative rock and pop artists. Organizers of the tour, which had a distinct liberal, feminist, bent have brought it back -- with a twist.

The Summer 2010 Lilith Fair team announced a "Choose Your Charity" campaign through which Facebook users were able to vote from a pre-selected group of charities.

Those selected will receive $1 for every ticket sold in each concert city -- potentially generating tens of thousands of dollars for charities involved.

To the surprise of pro-life advocates, the Lilith Fair team included pregnancy centers in the mix of groups and the Facebook users who voted decided to award them as their charity to receive the funds.

(*Though I'm not sure what a 'people concert draw' is.)

Well, after the Facebook furore, Lilith Fair organizers have removed the fake clinics from consideration.

Here's LifeShite whinging today:

Four days after it first received national attention for including crisis pregnancy centers in its list of potential charity recipients, organizers of the typically pro-abortion Lilith Fair dropped them from consideration. Officials also dropped a pro-abortion group but kept another and kept a group of maternity homes.

LifeShite suggests readers complain at Lilith Fair's FB and twitter pages, linkies helpfully provided.

Now, if we could just get that CAPP Facebook thingie to work as well.

Lilith Fair to Fund Crisis Pregnancy Centres??!?!!

When I read this, I hoped it was a sick April Fool's prank.

But no. It seems some hamhanded Googling got them into this weird fix.

Remember Lilith Fair?

Lilith Fair is a concert tour and traveling music festival, founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Group's Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and New York talent agent Marty Diamond, which took place during the summers of 1997 to 1999. Its website says that it will return in 2010. It consisted solely of female solo artists and female-led bands. In its 3 years, Lilith Fair raised over $10M for women's charities throughout North America, helping to pave the way for female musicians the world over.

It is coming back this year.

But with a twist. In a laudable effort to have fans choose the lucky charities in each venue, organizers 'pre-selected' some lady-friendly sounding outfits and made the lists voteable.

That pre-selection pissed off potential fans in Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Seattle, and Kansas City when they clicked on their towns and recognized known Crisis Pregnancy Centers, aka Fake Clinics. Also, weirdly, group homes for pregnant teens and religious-based adoption agencies.

So they started a Facebook group to protest.

The RH Reality Check article says that the CPCs were taken off then put back in with a peculiar statement:

The Lilith organizers opened the local charity selection process up to the public because we strongly value and respect your input, and feel you should have a voice in what your money will support. We understand that no one knows these communities better than those who reside in them. In the coming days, we'll open up this selection process even further by allowing you to suggest charities you feel should be recognized and included in the Choose Your Charity campaign. Stay tuned for more information.

Whaaa?

Sarah McLachlan is quite the philanthropist, but I seriously question whether she'd want dough from Lilith Fair to go to these lying, manipulative, Christo-Talibannies.

Aside: I was pleased to see no Christo-Talibannies on Toronto's list.