|
|
|
News Release - Friday, September 28, 2001 |
Home | Press | State Press |
|
D.C. Statehood Green Party |
|
| D.C. Statehood Green Party Hosts Greens Coming to Washington D.C. for Peace Activity and Forums. |
|
Various events scheduled, including a national
Green Party forum on a "Democratic Response to the Crisis" |
|
CONTACT Scott McLarty, D.C. Statehood Green Party |
|
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The D.C. Statehood Green Party will welcome and host Green Party members from all over the United States this weekend as they arrive in Washington, D.C. to participate in various rallies, workshops, forums, and other events addressing the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and airline flights and the U.S. response to the attacks. The planned events replace protests earlier scheduled against the IMF and World Bank summits, which were canceled after the attacks. Officials and organizers of the Green Party of the United States, including Steering Committee members Anita Rios and Ben Manski, political coordinator Dean Myerson (cell phone 303-956-0827), and legal counsel David Cobb (cell phone 713-444-6592) will be present and availablefor interview this weekend. Call them directly, or call 202-518-5624, to arrange an interview. The following major Green Party events are open to the media: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Welcome Wagon, with refreshments and music, hosted by the D.C. Statehood Green Party for Greens and friends coming to Washington, D.C. for the weekend's events. 7 p.m. to midnight at the Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 15th Street, NW. Interviews with Green Party members, officials, and activists may take place during the Welcome Wagon. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Green Party National Forum: A Democratic Response to the Crisis. 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the University of the District of Columbia Auditorium. Confirmed speakers: Kit Gage, National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom; Anita Rios, co-chair of the Green Party of the U.S.; Sam Smith; editor of Progressive Review and D.C. Statehood Green Party member; Chris Toensing of the Middle East Research & Information Project. More information: <http://gpus.org/articles/terror.html>. D.C. Statehood Green Party members and other Greens will also participate in numerous other events throughout the weekend, including a Peace March on Sunday, September 30 organized by the Washington Peace Center and many other groups that will commence 11 a.m. at Malcolm X Park, 16th and Euclid Streets, NW. (More information: 202-234-2000, <http://washingtonpeacecenter.org>.) "Greens everywhere have called for peace with justice," said D.C. Statehood Green Party media coordinator Scott McLarty, who also co-chairs the media committee of the Green Party of the United States. "That means we seek justice for the attacks, with the perpetrators apprehended, tried, and punished through an internationally cooperative effort -- and that the U.S. must not launch vengeful, retaliatory military strikes that will kill more civilians, lose sympathy for the U.S., and motivate further terrorism. We must do everything possible to avert war and to prevent the further shedding of innocent blood. Let's not give the extremists the holy war they seek." "We also call on President Bush and other leaders to continue condemning the racist backlash against Arabs, Muslims, and all people of Middle Eastern ethnicity or ancestry, and we warn against the erosion of civil liberties at a time when democracy, free and open discussion, political dissent, and scrutiny of U.S. policy are most precious and necessary." Greens have also said that preventing future attacks will depend in part on resolving various conflicts in the Middle East, including an end to Israel's suppression of the human rights of Palestinians, ceasing the sanctions and destruction of infrastructure that have killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and assisting the plight of civilian Afghanis living under extreme economic hardship and a brutally oppressive theocracy. MORE INFORMATION
|
|
News Release - Thursday, September 28, 2001 |
Home | Press | State Press |
