Notice the celebrities in the story:
Jane Fonda, Martin Luther King III, Marisa Tomei, Kurt Vonnegut, Oliver Stone, all serial signers of the "Not In My Name" statement, all following the cues of Revolutionary Communist Party and Workers World Party; also Patti Smith and Ramsay Clark.
"We need to stop the testosterone-poisoning of our globe." - when Medea Benjamin, the head of Global Exchange, said this she was laughed at.