5 Years Too Many
PROTEST WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS!
ON THE ANIVERSARY OF THE
MARCH 19, 2003
When: 4:30 p.m - 7:30 p.m.,
this Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Where: In
front of Senator McCain's Office, 5353
N. 16th Street.
(You may be able to park in the Madison Park Middle School parking
lot located on the east side of 16th Street, just north of Missouri,
or park in the nearby residential neighborhood.)
Candlelight Vigil starts at 7:00 p.m.
Starting at 5:00 p.m. this Wednesday these community
leaders will speak:
• Warren Stewart,
senior pastor at First
Institutional Baptist
Church of Phoenix.
Led the coalition which successfully campaigned for the Martin Luther King Jr./Civil Rights Day in Arizona;
• Charles Goyette,
morning talk show host at KFNX 1100 News
and Talk. In 2004 lost his Clear Channel
KFYI program because of his sharp criticism of the war;
• Kyrsten Sinema,
Arizona
State representative;
• Karen Johnson,
Arizona State
senator;
• Jarrett Maupin,
Phoenix Union
High School
District Board member;
• Alfredo Gutierrez,
Arizona State Senator between 1976 and 1982
and current Radio Campesina talk show host;
• Jeff Farias,
afternoon talk show host at
progressive talk KPXH 1480;
• Eleanor Eisenberg,
recently retired Executive Director of the
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and long time community, peace and
civil rights activist;
• Deedra Abboud,
executive director of the Muslim American
Society of Arizona
Freedom Foundation. On January 18, 2008,
awarded the Phoenix MLK Jr. “Living the Dream” award;
• Antonio Bustamante,
immigration attorney and
civil rights advocate with Los Abogados, a Maricopa County Hispanic legal
organization; and
• Dennis Stout,
Viet Nam war army journalist who
reported war crimes later described in the Pulitzer Prize winning
series "Buried Secrets, Buried Truths." Founder of Phoenix Veterans for Peace and host
at KPHX’ s weekly “About Face” talk show.
Music by
folk/political duo Dakota & the Black
River Bandit, as well as by rock n' funky
blues musician Thomas Oliver