Two Marches Beat As One
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Joining of March Against Iraq War and March Against City Violence in Rochester, NY, on 10/29/05
The organization "Equality and Justice for All" is holding a press conference Friday, October 28th, at 11am in front of the Hall of Justice in downtown Rochester to announce progress made towards organizing a march on Saturday, October 29th, at 1pm on the corner of Jay and Child Streets. Joining the announcment will be organizations in support of this effort as well in support of the march against the Iraq War, also taking place downtown Saturday, October 29th, at noon in front of the Federal Building at 100 State Street. Near the conclusion of the anti-war march, people will be invited to join with the anti-violence march at the Campbell Street Recreation Center, at approximately 2pm on the corner of Ames and Campbell Streets.
During the march against violence, community activist Rev. Joy Powell is calling upon concerned citizens, elected officials, and the mainstream media to respond to the proliferation of "Stop Snichin" t-shirts throughout Rochester. These shirts are available in corner stores, and they carry with them the message that people should not speak out about violence in our neighborhoods. That message needs correction.
Powell is offering another line of t-shirts to replace those negative shirts with a positive point of view. Her shirts show the "Stop Snichin" logo with a slash throughout, and below, the word "cooperate."
"We have Iraq right here in
Rochester, N.Y. called, the fallen deaths and violent injuries in
2005," says Powell in an email. "Both of these marches have significant meaning because there's a lot of senseless killings."
According to the website (www.RochesterAgainstWar.org) of the organizers of the anti-war march, Rochester Against War, "We will unfurl a
chain, with the names of each of the 2,000 dead US troops as well as
leaving symbolic chalk outlines of dead human beings to represent all
the ordinary Iraqi's who have died in this horrific invasion."