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5 Arrested at March for Our Lives At Winter Olympics |
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by Kensington Welfare Rights Union
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09 Feb 2002
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Repost from Utah IMC:
400 people rallied in Salt Lake City today for the "March for Our Lives" led by organizations from the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. |
400 people rallied in Salt Lake City today for the "March for Our Lives" led by organizations from the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. The Utah police stopped the March as it moved towards the Olympic Stadium, arresting 5 march leaders.
Organizations of the poor together with religious leaders, organized labor, social workers, artists, and other allies gathered to decry poverty in the richest country in the world and demand economic human rights for all. Poor and homeless families, many with their children, from the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, Philadelphia; JEDI for Women, Salt Lake City; Women's Economic Agenda Project of Oakland; New Jerusalem Recovery Community, Philadelphia; Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Florida; Rochester Poor People's Coalition, New York; the Deaf and Deaf-Blind Committee for Human Rights, Ohio and many others marched from Resevoir Park towards the Olympic Stadium. The March brought together poor and homeless families from Utah, around the country, and other countries around the world.
As we approached the Olympic Stadium, chanting demands for healthcare and human rights, the police, arranged in a wall across the street, barred passage. Cheri Honkala, Spokesperson for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and Director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union; Bonnie Macri, Director of JEDI for Women; Margo Westley, also of JEDI for Women; Melissa Sydor, of the Rochester Poor People's Coalition; and Sister Margaret McKenna of New Jerusalem were handcuffed and taken away in a police van.
Organizers of the March say that they will continue to stuggle to bring attention to these life and death issues; this March represents the first of serveral major actions planned throughout the next year.
Check our webpage for updates on those arrested as well as future activities of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. |
See also:
http://www.kwru.org
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