Bill Cosby protesters plan to disrupt Hamilton show
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company
A Hamilton writer is recruiting people to buy tickets to comedian Bill Cosby's upcoming performance in the city so they can disrupt the show inside the theatre.
Anne Bokma said "the numbers are growing every day" of people planning to join her for a non-violent protest during Cosby's Jan. 9 show at Hamilton Place Theatre.
Bokma said she's been contacted through her website by both people who want to join her by buying $90 tickets, and people who have tickets to the show who don't want to go anymore and are unable to get refunds. They're giving Bokma their tickets so she can distribute them to people prepared to be part of the protest.
"There will be an interruption," she said. "Exactly what were doing and how many people, I can't tip my hand."
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/bill-cosby-protesters-plan-to-disrupt-hamilton-show-1.2877720
An outside protest and denouncement is being led by the Hamilton Woman Abuse Working Group.
Hamilton is located in Ontario, Canada.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)He has got to cancel this show - and the rest of them.
I agree 100% with people protesting, but we still live in a country where people are innocent until proved guilty.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)In your heart, is this what you believe?
joeglow3
(6,228 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Failing that, people draw their own conclusions.
Do you also think that George Zimmerman was innocent, since a jury never found him guilty?
joeglow3
(6,228 posts)For the same reason I say Michael Brown is innocent since he was never proved guilty, I say the same here.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)If nothing else, it seems to make more sense for him to lay low for a bit.
joeglow3
(6,228 posts)At this point, in his life, he should probably just go off into the sunset.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)I can't understand why he doesn't cancel all the shows either as Cosby's case grows worse be the day.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I guess his operative assumption is that people who don't want to see his show won't come see it.
I mean, the weird aspect of this protest is that they are putting money in his pocket to get in.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)It seems to make more sense to hide for a while.
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)That said, the business of Hollywood is also guilty of anything Cosby has done to women...this business enabled the behavior to continue for the sake of marketable profit. The women remained silent, in their pain at the time of the crimes...it was a choice to do so...not the best choice but the one they decided to make. The agency representing the women no doubt have dirty hands too.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Clearly there is a way for him to do so if he was so inclined.
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)He sounds like he needs mental health treatment... This media outrage is his intervention... I hope he accepts the warning alarm.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)I wonder how long Camille will tolerate this...
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)chervilant
(8,267 posts)Very, very, very sad...
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Don't know whether it comes truly from love, or from willful ignorance.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 18, 2014, 11:55 PM - Edit history (1)
Rosenberg definitely takes Camille Crosby to task for blaming the victims, rather than her husband's actions.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)she too had been drugged and assaulted by Cosby.
You can also add to that number another 12 victims:
And, P.J. Masten, one of the two ex-bunnies who have publicly accused Cosby of sexual assault, told CNN's Alisyn Camerota that there are other women who have not come forward, or will not.
" There are) 12 former bunnies that I know of that are ashamed to come forward, frightened to come forward, married with families (and) don't want to come forward." Masten said. "But they were also drugged and raped by Bill Cosby."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/05/showbiz/bill-cosby-playboy-accusations/
So far that makes roughly 34 women who have been drugged and sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)Mr. Cosby is a predator, and he should face consequences for his assaults.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)hats off to the righteous women of Canada for their upcoming protest of the Cosby performance.
Snow Leopard
(348 posts)But not right to do in the show and ruin it for other paying customers. And silly to put money in his coffers to do so. Just protest outside. mho
Not sure why people would still want to see him, but same held for m.jackson.fandom trumps thinking.