PHA-Exchange> PPEHRC announces Massive Nonviolent Civil Disobedience on Opening Day of the RNC

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POOR PEOPLE'S ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES 
MASSIVE NONVIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ON OPENING DAY OF  THE REPUBLICAN 
NATIONAL CONVENTION 

At a press conference in  front of the Statue of Liberty on August 19th, the 
Poor People's Economic  Human Rights Campaign proclaimed that we will not give 
up our freedoms  during the Republican National Convention next week.  

The  Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign will hold our "March for  
Our Lives: Stop the War at Home" rally and march from the on Opening Day of  
the RNC on August 30th at 4 PM. We will march with or without a  permit.      

Despite threats from the NYC Police  Department and false press releases that 
have gone out from the NYPD  stating we are marching from the "free speech 
zone," the Poor People's Economic  Human Rights Campaign again announced that 
poor and homeless families from  across the country will march from Dag 
Hammarskjold Plaza at the United  Nations (45th St. and 1st Ave.) to Madison Square 
Garden on the opening day  of the Republican National Convention. 
 
We will be marching in a non-violent march from the United Nations to  
Madison Square Garden, where we will then issue a citizens' arrest for  George W. 
Bush for "crimes against humanity." We will be accompanied by  international 
human rights monitors from across the world who  will join us to bear witness to 
our attempts to break  the isolation that the poor in this country face 
everyday.  

"Just as New York erected the Statue of Liberty to welcome the  tired, the 
poor, and the homeless to this country, we are sure that all  will be welcome 
again this August at the  Republican National Convention.  True freedom in 
America means freedom of speech,  freedom to worship your  own God, freedom from 
want and freedom from fear. We will march on August  30th from the United 
Nations to the doors of the Republican  National  Convention ."  - Cheri Honkala,  
National Spokesperson for PPEHRC 
 
See _www.marchforourlives.org_ (http://www.marchforourlives.org)   for more 
information.
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