[KFCF Friends] Rally coverage info

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Thanks to everyone who has called in a pledge during the current fund pledge drive!

This weekend KPFA and KFCF will be carrying the Bring the Troops Home Rally from Washington DC and San Fransisco.


Saturday October 25th Rally - Anti-Occupation/ Bring the Troops Home Rally - 

  

Who: United For Peace and Justice, International A.N.S.W.E.R, Black Voices for Peace 

 What: Monument Rally and March around the U.S. Dept. of Justice

 When: Sat. October 25th 11-am - 2pm eastern time 

 

Confirmed Speakers' list (partial) A.N.S.W.E.R

 Ramsey Clark, former U.S Attorney General
 Martin Luther King III
 Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Partnership for Civil Justice
 Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Auxiliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
 Bob Edgar, President National Council of Churches and former Congressman
 Rev. John Thomas, President United Church of Christ
 Mahdi Bray, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation
 Rev. Graylan Haglar, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church
 Damu Smith, Black Voices for Peace
 Brian Becker, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism
 Fernando Suarez Del Solar, father of Marine killed in Iraq
 Stan Goff, Bring the Troops Home Now Coalition, former Army special
forces,   son is in Iraq.
 Nancy Lessin, Military Families Speak Out
 Larry Holmes, International Action Center
 Congressman Dennis Kucinich*
 Peta Lindsay, A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth and Student Coordinator
 Caneisha Mills, Howard University Student
 Represenative of the Muslim Students Association
 Represenatives from United for Peace and Justice
 Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network
 Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua Network
 *to be confirmed

 


Pacifica's Coverage: 8-am 11am 


Co-Hosts: Verna Avery-Brown/Larry Bensky


coverage begins:    11-am eastern/8am pacific/10am Houston.

coverage ends:       2pm eastern/11-am eastern/1pm Houston


Coverage will focus primarily on stage speeches with occasional 'live' interviews with key individuals upon availability. 

 

RUNDOWN:


Rally - 11-am - 2pm (West side of the Washington Monument)

March - 1:30pm - March (pass the White House around the U.S. Dept. of Justice back to monument)


NO speeches following the march..


San Francisco companion rally  1pm-4pm 

 Co-Hosts: C.S. Soong and Sasha Lilley of KPFA's Living Room and  
 Miguel Molina of KPFA's  Flashpoints. 

 Early list of speakers at San Francisco rally include Former U.S. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia.  ( list will be updated as additional speakers are confirmed ).
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