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October 18 New Castle to Protest Bush Policies at Home and Abroad
by Isaac Ludwig
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003 at 10:10 PM
ludwigih@westminster.edu
On Saturday 18 October starting at 2 PM, the Westminster College Green Party will hold a march and rally at Kennedy Square in New Castle, PA. The march is currently endorsed by the Pittsburgh Professors for Peace, the Rosenberg Institute, the Pittsburgh Organizing Group, the Pittsburgh Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and the Thomas Merton Center.
On Saturday 18 October starting at 2 PM, the Westminster College Green Party will hold a march and rally at Kennedy Square in New Castle, PA. The march is currently endorsed by the Pittsburgh Professors for Peace, the Rosenberg Institute, the Pittsburgh Organizing Group, the Pittsburgh Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and the Thomas Merton Center.
The march is based on a resolution the Green Party made public during a press conference on 8 October 2003. The resolution made public, grievances the student organization has about the Bush administration including: the repeal of the PATRIOT Act, the failing economy, an end to the failed War on Drugs, environmental mismanagement, an exit strategy in Iraq, and an end to corporate crime.
The Westminster College Green Party was formed at Westminster in spring semester of 2002 and subscribes to the ten key values of the Green Party of the United States: grassroots democracy; social justice; ecological wisdom; nonviolence; decentralization; community-based economics; feminism and gender equity; respect for diversity; personal and global responsibility; and future focus. In the group’s first full year they brought Green Party PA lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Vicki Smedly and U.S. House of Representatives, PA District 3 candidate AnnDrea Benson, organized Storm and Castle and Books Not Bombs. The group was also involved in numerous regional progressive causes and worked in conjunction with Allies, Westminster gay-straight alliance, on tactics for reprimanding Senator Santorum in the wake of negative comments make about homosexual individuals.
For additional information contact Green Party Chair Ken Jae at 724-946-8340 or jaekc@westminster.edu. The views of the Westminster Green Party reflect the opinions of its membership, and not the views of Westminster College.
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