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March for Peace and Economic Justice
April 14, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Nick Mottern and his team have been working really hard on building this important rally and march for justice in April. Please let me know if you will join me and the WESPAC contingent on Saturday, April 14th. Please note that the flyer is attached and that we will be promoting widely on social media:
PRESS ADVISORY GREENWICH, CT, RALLY AND MARCH FOR PEACE AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
APRIL 14, 2018
CONTACTS:
Nick Mottern: 914-806-6179, [email protected]
Bennett Weiss: 914-213-9783, [email protected]
Facebook @RallyGreenwich
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The Greenwich Rally & March for Peace & Economic Justice will be held in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 14, 2018.
Rally speakers will address the many destructive consequences of the wide and rapidly expanding gap between rich and poor. We will emphasize what Martin Luther King labeled the “Triplets of Evil: Racism, Extreme Materialism, and Militarism” and the take-over of our democracy by an increasingly insular plutocracy. There will be a call for the adoption of strategies to stop US wars and police oppression, and to create income equality, including a call for divestment from the military/industrial complex.
Home to billionaire investors, Greenwich is a critical place to deliver our call to conscience with respect to war, police violence and the impact of extreme wealth concentration. The combined net worth of just 10 of Greenwich’s residents is at least $35.5 billion. Six of these people oversee hedge funds, private equity funds or other investment firms managing assets totaling nearly $525 billion.
“We are going to Greenwich to talk to people who pull the strings in Washington to stop these wars and put the economy to the service of the public,” said organizer Nick Mottern. “We will be in Greenwich,” Mottern continued, “because democracy is broken.” Underscoring his point, he quoted the late Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Brandeis: “We have democracy or we can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”
The event will include a march through the streets of Greenwich.
VISUALS: The march will include not only banners and signs but pink cardboard military tank replicas that people will carry, with the message on the sides “Tanks for Divesting”. There will also be a pink, large-scale replica of an MQ-9 attack drone, also supporting CODEPINK’s Divest from the War Machine campaign. Further details will be forthcoming.
SPEAKERS:
Rabyaah Althaibani – Yemeni-American Peace Organizer
Medea Benjamin – Co-Founder, CODEPINK/Divest From The War Machine
Taylor Rae Bundy – Organizer, Founder @ Little Local Life blog / #ShiftPrivilege
Maurice Carney – Executive Director, Friends of the Congo
Marie Cruz-Soto – Professor, NYU; New York Solidarity with Vieques, Puerto Rico
Joe Lombardo – Co-Coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition
Ralph Nazareth – President, GraceWorks International
Hawk Newsome – President, Black Lives Matter/Greater NY
Alice Slater – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; World Beyond War
ENDORSERS:
CODEPINK
WESPAC Foundation
Friends of the Congo
Hudson Valley Green Party
Knowdrones.com
New York Solidarity with Vieques
Orange County (NY) Peace and Justice
United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
The Greenwich event is the first part of a peace weekend double-header in which there will also be a New York City “Spring Action” rally on Sunday, April 15 at 2 pm at Herald Square, 34th Street and 6th Ave., with a march to Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave. http://www.springaction2018.