Disney faces Pulse, Parkland protest for support of 'NRA sellout' Putnam

Orlando Sentinal ^ | 06/13/18 | Gray Rohrer

[Simon Green]

Survivors of the mass shootings at Pulse nightclub and Parkland are planning to pressure Walt Disney Co. to withdraw its support of self-described “NRA sellout” Adam Putnam by holding a “die-in” at a Disney property sometime this month.

National Die-In, a group co-founded by Parkland survivors, is in the early stages of organizing the demonstration where protesters lie in a corpse-like pose to emphasize the effect of shooting massacres. The protest would be at a Disney headquarters or Orlando theme park.

“We want to keep doing these protests to show people we aren’t backing down,” Nurah Abdulhaqq, a Georgia teen whose cousin was killed by a gunman in 2016 and co-founder of the group, said Wednesday in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel.

National Die-In alluded to its plans on Twitter by posting “Can you guess where we’re going next?” with a “D” in the style of the Disney logo. David Hogg, the Parkland student who has risen to national prominence, responded with a tweet that said, “it’s D for die in.”

Disney has donated $789,000 to Putnam’s political committee, Florida Grown, since 2015; including $300,000 since Feb. 14, when a gunman killed 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, setting off a firestorm of protests calling for greater gun control measures.

Putnam, the state’s agriculture commissioner, is a Republican running for governor this year.

A Disney spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.

Student activists have targeted the National Rifle Association for blocking bills to limit magazine capacities and ban assault-style weapons. That has extended to companies that support politicians who back the NRA.

Last month, die-in protests at Publix stores throughout the state led the Lakeland-based grocery chain to suspend all political donations. Publix had given $670,000 to Putnam’s committee.

[48th SPS Crusader]

Someone needs to form a Piss On! protest group. This activist group would show up where the Die- Ins are occurring and well, piss on those lying on the ground. You know to show contempt for morons that seek to destroy our Constitution and liberties. Just sayin..