POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN TO REPORT ON RNC

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For Immediate Release | July 14th, 2004

POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN TO REPORT ON RNC PERMIT
MEETING WITH POLICE

* TIME CHANGED TO 10AM *
When: 10:00 AM, Thursday, July 15th Where: Behind
Madison Square Garden (8th Ave. on steps between
30th and 33rd St.)

New York, NY - Members of the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign met with the NYPD
last Friday to discuss a permit for their "March
For Our Lives" on Opening Day of the Republican
National Convention.
The group will report on the
outcome of this meeting as well what they intend to
do about it. PPERHC will also outline their plans
for a Mobile "Bushville" tent city that will begin
July 19th and travel through New Jersey into New
York City in time for the Republican National
Convention.

The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
(PPEHRC), a national organization representing over
fifty poor people's groups from around the country,
will stage a major protest at the Republican
National Convention (RNC) in August, targeting the
devastating economic polices they have experienced
over the last four years.

The Campaign garnered attention at the 2000 RNC
where 10,000 people participated in their protest
despite the fact that they were the only group
denied a permit that decided to march anyway.

PPEHRC has indicated they will march again this
year, regardless of whether they are granted a
permit.

According to Cheri Honkala, the group's founder
stated, "I will march because both the Republicans
and Democrats have ignored the plight of poor and I
will march to highlight the war at here at home: An
economic war in which the casualties are massive
unemployment, increasing homelessness, and
inadequate or non-existent healthcare."

Speakers: Cheri Honkala, National Spokesperson for
PPEHRC, will be joined by representatives from the
Immokalee Farmworkers (Florida), the Coalition to
Protect Public Housing (Chicago), the United
Workers Association (Baltimore), and the Kensington
Welfare Rights Union (Pennsylvania).

Contact:
Samantha Heller (407) 497-4318
Cheri Honkala (215) 668-8228
March For Our Lives