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Peace Vigil at Fort Monmouth entrance gate in Eatontown, Route 35, northbound sidewalk

PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS WILL HOLD MARCH TO COMMEMORATE THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

To All Sponsors and Participants:

As you know the "days of action" are fast approaching and as a sponsor or participant of The Peace & Justice Coalition (please see email below from Larry Hamm regarding future coalition activities.)

With that, I am attaching a press release of the action that People's Organization for Progress is having on Saturday, April 7th. If your organization is having an event during the days of action please forward it to me and I will distribute it widely.

Thank you.
Vickie White for The Peace & Justice Coalition

1. That a follow-up meeting for all conference participants take place on Saturday, March 24, 12:00 noon at Essex County College, 303 University Avenue in Newark. This meeting was originally scheduled for March 17 but the planning committee is proposing that the date be changed in order to avoid a conflict with an antiwar demonstration scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C. on that day.

2. That we commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King on April 4 by designating April 4 thru 7 as days of action at which time each of the sponsoring organizations will engage in its own activities related to the struggle for peace in Iraq and racial, social, and economic justice at home.

3. That we hold a statewide march for peace, jobs, and justice in Newark, NJ on Saturday, August 25, 2007, to coincide with the anniversary of the 1963 March On Washington.

4. That we reconvene the second People's Peace Conference on Saturday, January 19, 2008, at Rutgers Law School in Newark.

5. The we change the name of the Peace Coalition to the Peace & Justice Coalition. There is an existing coalition that already had the name Peace Coalition.

6. That we establish an entity and process for the continuation of the work of the conference and the implementation of its resolutions.

PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS
POST OFFICE BOX 22505
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07101-2505
(973) 801-0001

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
LAWRENCE HAMM (973) 801-0001

PEOPLE'S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS WILL HOLD MARCH TO COMMEMORATE THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The People's Organization for Progress (POP) will have a Martin Luther King Commemoration March for Peace & Justice on Saturday, April 7, 2007, 12:00 noon, starting at the corner of Broad & Market Streets in downtown Newark, NJ.

"The purpose of the march is to remember Dr. King's contribution and sacrifice in the struggle for peace, equality, and justice, but more importantly to demand an end to war, racism, and injustice that continues today." POP chairman Lawrence Hamm stated.

"We believe that if Dr. King were alive today he would call for an end to the U.S. war in Iraq, a halt to funding for the war, the immediate withdrawal of American troops, and the redirection off money for the war to fund domestic needs." Hamm said.

"I also believe that Dr. King would say that the United States has not achieved racial equality and that he would call upon the nation to recommit itself to the realization of that goal. He would tell the president and congress that the passage of an economic bill of rights was essential to achieving that goal," he said.

Participants in the event will march down Broad Street and back. Speakers will include grassroots activists, students, elected officials, religious leaders and others.

Besides an end to war and racial inequality, the marchers will demand an end to police brutality, and end to violence in urban communities, living wage jobs, affordable housing, universal health care, full funding for the Abbott school districts, justice for victims of Hurricane Katrina and the protection of voting rights, civil liberties and human rights.

For more information interested persons can call (973) 801-0001.

Monday, April 9, 7:30 PM

Presentation and Discussion: PIONEERING A SUSTAINABLE CULTURE
First Congregational Church of Montclair, 40 So Fullerton Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042

Lessons from EcoVillage at Ithaca and
Sustainable Tompkins County (New York)

Featuring Liz Walker, Director of EcoVillage Ithaca
author of EcoVillage at Ithaca: Pioneering a Sustainable Culture

(The talk will be held in the Guild Room;
the entrance is in the back of the church)

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Come and learn more about:
. Cohousing as an environmentally sound principle of community design
. Community supported agriculture
. Car sharing
. Land trusts
. Permaculture
. Solar house design
. More effective recycling and composting
. Participatory decision making
. A large scale cooperative supermarket
. A community oriented progressive bank
. A local currency experiment
... and more

For more information contact: Dick Franke
973-744-4021 or franker@mail.montclair.edu

Be sure and visit:
www.EcoVillage.Ithaca.NY.US
www.SustainableTompkins.org

Jointly sponsored by:
Blue Wave of NJ
First Congregational Church
Cornucopia Network of NJ

Sponsored by
The Green Party of Camden County
and
The South Jersey Environmental Coalition

For more information, contact: Anna at Boston1807@yahoo.com