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| David McReynolds For Senate Campaign Endorses August 31 Civil Disobedience. |
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McReynolds for the U.S. Senate Media Release August 18, 2004 For More Information: David McReynolds (212) 674-7268; (646) 942-7118 MCREYNOLDS FOR SENATE CAMPAIGN ENDORSES CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE to be held in The Green Party candidate for the US Senate (New York) has endorsed a nonviolent civil disobedience sponsored by the War Resisters League (WRL). New York, N.Y. -- David McReynolds has endorsed a mass march and civil disobedience at the Republican National Convention to be held in NYC on Tuesday, August 31. By co-sponsoring this event, McReynolds reaffirms his unwavering commitment to free speech, human rights and peace. The War Resisters League sponsored event will be a nonviolent civil disobedience that begins at Ground Zero and includes a march to Madison Square Garden, site of the Republican convention. McReynolds supports the WRL goal of confronting the Bush administration with the death and suffering for which they are responsible: more than 10,000 Iraqis and Afghanis, as many as 1,000 Americans killed, and thousands more wounded and scarred for life. McReynolds feels that although the nonviolent protest may block or inconvenience Republican delegates and others, it is necessary to call attention to the enormous horrors inflicted on the world by the Bush administration. Among the other organizations participating in the WRL sponsored event are: The Socialist Party of NYC, Schools of Americas Watch, Atlantic Life Community, Progressive Programmers League, The Mourning Project, Pax Christi, NYC War Tax Resistance and Veterans for Peace, among others. More information on the event can be found at: www.warresisters.org David McReynolds, 74, previously ran for President on the Socialist Party line. He has been arrested a number of times in civil rights, labor, and peace demonstrations. He was one of those active in the Vietnam Peace movement. An open gay, he has lived for many years on the Lower East Side. He is currently on the Board of the Mutual Housing Association of Cooper Square, and on the Board of the A. J. Muste Memorial Institute. The Greens are committed to ecology, grassroots democracy, nonviolence and social and economic justice. Green Party Office: Manhattan |
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