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Pacifica to Broadcast 40th Anniversary March
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FREE SPEECH TV AND PACIFICA RADIO'S 'LIVE' BROADCAST
40th Anniversary of the March on Washington
Saturday August 23rd 2003
When a young Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps
of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 and delivered his now famous
"I Have A Dream Speech" that inspired people around
the world, it was a voice already familiar to Pacifica listeners.
Pacifica Radio has recorded the civil rights movement in this
country virtually since its' inception. Rosa Parks discussing
her refusal to give up her seat to a white man in 1962 is
a part of Pacifica's
WBAI Archives.
Saturday, August 23, 2003 the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference will host the 40th Anniversary of the historic
March
On Washington and Pacifica
Radio together with Free
Speech TV will co-broadcast the event hosted by Pacifica
Radio's Verna Avery-Brown and Ron Daniels of the Center
For Constitutional Rights (unconfirmed). The event will
bring together the Sit-In Generation with the Hip-Hop Generation
and Free Speech TV and Pacifica Radio will broadcast the events
"live" to over 14 million radio and cable television
households nationwide.
Martin Luther King, III will lead a coalition of over 100
labor, peace, justice and human rights groups to a mass rally
at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial this Saturday August 23,
2003 for the kick-off of a 15 month political action movement
against increased U.S. militarism, class warfare and the so-called
war on terrorism.
The 2-day events begin Friday evening with a prayer vigil
and a Poetry Jam called "Spoken Word on Washington,"
carry over to Saturday morning with"community teach-ins"'
at the site of the 1968 Ressurrection City and culminate in
a 3pm mass rally at the Lincoln Memorial.
-more-
Invited speakers include:
Martin Luther King, III, President, SCLC
Kim Gandy, President of N.O.W.
Sean "P.Diddy" Combs, Entertainer
Rabbi David Sapperstein, Religious Action Center of Reform
Judaism
Russell Simmons, Hip Hop Summit Delegate, Entertainment Mogul
Matt Foreman, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Leslie Cagan, United For Peace and Justice
Damu Smith, Black Voices For Peace
And more
OUR LIVE COVERAGE:
Saturday
3PM- 5PM (EST)
Available on Pacifica KU Band (channel to be announced)
Stations and affiliates interested in carrying the free
radio/TV broadcast should contact:
Brian Drolet - (917) 701-4281
Verna Avery-Brown (202) 588-0999 X 349
Promos spots below
March On Washington Audio Promos
note: to download the audio file, right click (windows) and
select "save link target as" (in Netscape) or "save
target as" (in Internet Explorer)
Audio One - 1:00
featuring former congressman Walter
Fauntroy
Audio Two - 1:00
featuring congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
Audio Three - 0:50
featuring Kim Gandy of
the National Organization for Women
Audio Four - 1:00
featuring Ron Daniels Executive Director of the Center
for Constitutional Rights
Audio
Five - 1:00
featuring Leslie Cagan of United
For Peace and Justice, and chair of the Pacifica
iPNB
Audio
Six - 1:00 [en espaniol]
featuring Juan Mendez of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Audio
Seven - 1:00
featuring Matt
Foreman Executive Director of the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Audio
Eight - 1:00
featuring Coretta
Scott King
Audio
Nine - 0:56
featuring Martin
Luther King III
Audio
Ten - 0:55
featuring Jay Winter Nightwolf of the Echota
Cherokee Tribe in Alabama
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