<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'><P class=Title-Professional style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: windowtext; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BACKGROUND: black; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 4.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">Call for International Accompaniment!!</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=Title-Professional style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: windowtext; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BACKGROUND: black; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 4.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"></SPAN></B> </P>
<P class=Title-Professional style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: windowtext; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BACKGROUND: black; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 4.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt" align=center><FONT size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">POOR PEOPLE’S </SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></P>
<P class=Title-Professional style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: windowtext; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BACKGROUND: white; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 4.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><FONT size=3></FONT></SPAN></B> </P>
<P class=Title-Professional style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: windowtext; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BACKGROUND: white; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 4.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><FONT size=5>MARCH FOR OUR LIVES: <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=Title-Professional style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: windowtext; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BACKGROUND: white; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 4.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Money for Housing and Health Care, Not for War!!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=Title-Professional style="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: windowtext; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BACKGROUND: white; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 4.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 4.0pt 0in 4.0pt" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><FONT size=5>DURING THE U.S. ELECTIONS<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=5> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=2>As the U.S. Elections approach, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=2>the Poor of the United States will March to insist: </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><FONT size=3>ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!! <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN><STRONG>ANOTHER UNITED STATES IS NECESSARY!!.</STRONG> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><STRONG><FONT size=4><U>A CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION AND SUPPORT!!!<o:p></o:p></U></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">On September 2nd, 2008, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) will hold a massive non-violent <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">“MARCH FOR OUR LIVES”</B> during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota in the U.S. to demand <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">“MONEY FOR HOUSING AND HEALTH CARE, NOT FOR WAR!” </B>The PPEHRC has led the largest marches of the poor during the last two U.S. presidential elections, at the Republican Conventions in Philadelphia in 2000 and New York City in 2004, in which George W. Bush was named as presidential candidate. The Republican National Convention (RNC) is where the Republican Party will name their party’s presidential candidate, as the people of the United States vote for George W. Bush’s successor
for president of the U.S.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">In the days preceding this year’s <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">March for Our Lives </I></B>in Minnesota, poor and homeless people will lead <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Poverty Reality Tours</B> through Minneapolis and St. Paul. We will hold a <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">National Truth Commission </B>and a <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">World Court of Women</B><SPAN style="COLOR: #333333"> about poverty, war and human rights violations under the Bush Administration, both in the United States and in different parts of the world</SPAN>. Poor and homeless families from across the country who will be joining us will stay in a national “<I>Bushville</I>” tent city, an encampment that will demonstrate the conditions
of poverty caused by Bush Administration policies, and serve as base of operations for our actions throughout the week. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">A CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION AND SUPPORT<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><EM>We call on the International Community, on movements, networks, campaigns and unions around the world to join us for this historic event at this crucial time in U.S. and world history.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></EM></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">The March for Our Lives and other activities at the RNC will be an important step in PPEHRC’s ongoing efforts to build a broad movement led by the poor for economic human rights in the United States. Inspite of the increasing dangers and repression we confront, we are committed to waking up this “sleeping giant” that is the people of the United States. For we are convinced that when the American people are organized to struggle for our own interests in unity with the peoples of the world, not in the interests of the U.S. government against the peoples of the world, that it is then that “<I>Another World</I>” truly will be “<I>Possible</I>.” </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">As we approach this pivotal election, we are determined to
ensure that the poor, the homeless and the uninsured of the U.S., together with movements from around the world, have a voice to demand a new direction for our country and for the world. We need the presence and solidarity of the international community as we organize the poor and the most marginalized sectors of the U.S. population to march en masse to declare: <SPAN style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">“<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Another</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">World is Possible, Another U.S. is Necessary!”</B><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><A href="http://www.economichumanrights.org/">WWW.ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG</A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:INFO@ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG">INFO@ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG</A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A href="mailto:JEN@ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG">JEN@ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG</A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">WE ASK THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO ACCOMPANY US AT THIS TIME:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">As a Human Rights Monitor: </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">During the last two elections, in the time before and during our marches at the Republican Conventions, the PPEHRC has experienced a high level of government <SPAN style="COLOR: #333333">surveillance, infiltration, sabotage, harassment and </SPAN>threats of long-term imprisonment of leaders, and of children of marchers being taken by the government. We need international Human Rights Monitors to monitor, document and expose any human rights violations committed against participants in the March.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">As a witness and participant in the National Truth Commission and the World Court of Women:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <SPAN style="COLOR: #333333">Help us expose the reality of the U.S. economic model by highlighting the stories of families in the U.S. who are suffering and dying under this model. Testify to poverty and war caused by the Bush Administration around the world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">Join us for exchanges between movements,</SPAN></B><SPAN style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> unions and organizations from across the United States and movements and networks from all over the world. <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help cover the events in August and September</B> for your organization’s, network’s, or movement’s <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">website or press.</B> Help us show the world the reality of the poverty and human rights violations in the US, the truth about the US electoral process, and to show the world that people of the U.S. are resisting our government and fighting for “Another U.S.” <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Come help
us:</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">We need interns and volunteers before and during our RNC events</B> to help with translation, internet coverage, media, outreach and organizing among the poor, documentation of economic human rights violations in the U.S., and preparation for the week’s events and for the U.S. and international delegations that will be coming.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO COME, HOLD A SOLIDARITY EVENT IN YOUR COUNTRY, TO EXPRESS THE UNITY BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THE POOR OF THE UNITED STATES AND MOVEMENTS AROUND THE WORLD</SPAN></I></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">. </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">Let us know what you are doing and we will include it on our website and news coverage.<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><o:p></o:p></I></B></SPAN></P>
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<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">**** 2008 Republican National Convention****<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Aug. 1 - 30 <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Minnesota Poverty Bus Tour<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">We will make stops in communities throughout Minnesota to expose conditions created by “free trade agreements” and other neoliberal policies, to share experiences, exchange ideas, collect human rights documentation, and join local actions in the fight for economic human rights. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Aug. 29 <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>World Court Of Women<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">PPEHRC will host a World Court of Women to expose poverty and war in the US and around the world caused by the Bush Administration, before a jury of human rights defenders and movement leaders from around the world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Sept. 1<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>March to Stop the War!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">On the first day of the convention, PPEHRC will join the ‘March to Stop the War!’, bringing together the issues of poverty and the war in Iraq. We will march to stop the wars – at home and abroad!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Sept. 1<SUP><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></SUP>National Truth Commission on human rights violations in the US.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">After the march, we will gather to hear stories of resistance and struggle told by people from communities across the country who have suffered economic human rights violations here in the richest country in the world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">SEPT. 2<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><U>March for Our Lives:</U> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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