By Ray Hanania
English: Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Civil rights activists from around the country are targeting a convention being held by RE/MAX Realty in Las Vegas beginning March 2 to protest their ongoing support of illegal Jewish-only settlements in occupied Palestine that discriminate against Christians and Muslims.
The annual convention will bring RE/MAX representatives from around the world to the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas March 2 through March 6, 2015. The keynote speaker is NFL MVP Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos with performances planned by Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.
RE/MAX, which was founded by Dave and Gail Liniger in 1973, buys and sells homes in the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The settlements are built on lands taken by military force from Christian Arabs and Muslims in Palestine.
English: Mandalay Bay (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Many critics have called RE/MAX “anti-Christian” for supporting Israel’s policies which discriminate against Christians and Muslims.
An online petition drive to convince Tyler to cancel his scheduled performance at the RE/MAX convention has drawn more than 9,700 signatures and will easily meet its goal of 10,000. Click here to view petition.
For more information on the ongoing protests against RE/MAX, click here.
Some protestors were also urging Manning to cancel his appearance, too.
Here is the press release that RE/MAX published on its website about the upcoming convention that is expected to attract hundreds of civil rights protestors.
Peyton Manning to Headline RE/MAX R4
NFL’s Top Player Will Inspire, Motivate at Annual Event
October 07, 2014
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Thousands of RE/MAX agents will have the rare opportunity to hear from one of the NFL’s top players at the annual RE/MAX R4 Convention in Las Vegas March 2 – 5, 2015. Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, the league’s only five-time MVP and a 13-time Pro Bowler, will be the event’s keynote speaker. Manning’s story of hard work and success will inspire and motivate his audience.
“Peyton is in high demand as a speaker and we’re thrilled that he accepted our invitation to speak at R4,” said RE/MAX, LLC CEO Margaret Kelly. “His story of success on the football field, and his determination to overcome what could have been a career-ending injury, is something that will no doubt be one of the highlights of the convention.”
The 2015 RE/MAX R4 will also feature Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Steven Tyler, lead singer for Aerosmith. Tyler has been a rock icon since the 1970’s, and has also taken on film and TV roles and authored a bestselling book. He’s included among Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Singers and has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The conference will bring RE/MAX Broker/Owners and agents from all over the world to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. The event features educational and networking sessions, designed to update attendees on current real estate industry trends and technology. They’ll also celebrate the company’s 42nd anniversary.
Founded in 1973, RE/MAX completed a successful initial public offering in October of 2013, trading under the ticker symbol RMAX on the New York Stock Exchange. After four decades of industry innovations, RE/MAX continues to adapt and change with the real estate market and expand around the world.
RE/MAX was founded in 1973 by Dave and Gail Liniger, with an innovative, entrepreneurial culture affording its agents and franchisees the flexibility to operate their businesses with great independence. Over 96,000 agents provide RE/MAX a global reach of more than 95 countries. Nobody sells more real estate than RE/MAX.
RE/MAX, LLC, one of the world’s leading franchisors of real estate brokerage services, is a subsidiary of RE/MAX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:RMAX).
With a passion for the communities in which its agents live and work, RE/MAX is proud to have raised more than $140 million for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® and other charities.
For more information about RE/MAX, to search home listings or find an agent in your community, please visit www.remax.com.
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
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