Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 01:56:31 -0500
Subject: M-G: apr 27 Philadelphia Protest


Forwarding this to the lists on the welfare question..

Bob Malecki

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>From: joe piette <philnpc-AT-Op.Net>
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>Subject: apr 27 Philadelphia Protest
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>NATIONAL PEOPLES CAMPAIGN
>National: 39 West 14th St., #206, New York, NY 10011 
>212-633-6646   fax:212-633-2889
>Philadelphia: 813 South 48th St., Philadelphia, PA 19143   
>215 724-1618  fax:215-729-3615
>email: <npcny-AT-peoplescampaign.org>; <philnpc-AT-op.net>
>web page:http://www.peoplescampaign.org/ 
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>Press Release
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>Attention: News Editor                         
>Press Contact: Brian Becker or Berta Joubert
>March 25, 1997                           (212) 633-6646   215-724-1618
>
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>"OVERTURN THE ANTI-WELFARE LAW"
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>     ***Thousands will protest on April 27 when
>               Clinton comes to Philadelphia***
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>Declaring that their intention is to overturn the welfare legislation
>that was passed last year, a national network of organizations has
>announced that thousands of protesters will greet President Clinton,
>George Bush, and Colin Powell when they host the Summit on America's
>Future in Philadelphia on April 27, 1997.
>
>The April 27 protest is the "first step in creating a mass movement to
>overturn both the welfare and immigration reform bill," stated Pat
>Tucker of the National People's Campaign (NPC). She said that busloads
>of demonstrators would be coming to Philadelphia from New York,
>Boston, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Cleveland and twenty other cities.
>
>On behalf of the NPC, Tucker said, "The cruel and inhuman anti-welfare
>law will create a disaster for millions of people. We demand that
>President Clinton use his legal powers of executive authority to
>suspend the application of this vicious law and prevent a national
>disaster that will impoverish at least 2.6 million people, including
>1.1 million children. In a rich country like the United States it is
>unconscionable that 800,000 immigrants are about to lose their
>Supplemental Security Income, and that between 100,000 and 200,000
>disabled children will also lose their SSI. It is criminal that
>corporate welfare continues unabated, that the biggest defense
>contractors will be provided $280 billion to make weapons of mass
>destruction while 11 million families will lose income averaging $1300
>per family as a result of this law. These cuts have nothing to do with
>helping people to get jobs. Workfare is a fraud to help employers get
>cheap labor and give an excuse to throw mothers, children and helpless
>individuals off the welfare rolls." 
>
>The April 27 demonstration will also demand a new trial for
>African-American journalist and death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
>Mr. Jamal is a well known critic of racist practices by the
>Philadelphia police department.
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