(Final) Public and Media Update for Friday night on the
"Riverside Rejects Racism" rally, Saturday 26 September 2009
30 Sponsoring Groups Back "Riverside Rejects Racism" rally at City Hall
Are we for peace, or against violence? Are we for love, or against hate? There are different ways to put it, and the different speakers on Saturday morning will say it many ways in at least two languages. The Inland Area will come together at Riverside City Hall to make it plain that our entire community strongly opposes the hate, division and violence preached by the so-called "National Socialist Movement" (the Nazis), who have threatened to invade Riverside the same day. The organizers of the "Riverside Rejects Racism" rally expect to have many times as many people at their rally as the Nazis have at theirs, and urge people to bring their families to the peaceful rally to show community unity in the face of the Nazi threat.
In response to an announced rally by the Nazis in Riverside on Saturday, many people in the Inland Area have come together to plan a rally at Riverside City Hall on Saturday morning from 10 am to 11 am. The peaceful "Riverside Rejects Racism" rally will be held in the shade at City Hall, Tenth and Main Streets, and will feature about 30 speakers who will each take two minutes to explain why their organizations oppose the Nazis and their divisive racist tactics. Organizers expect "several hundred people" to attend. Some sponsoring organizations are providing plastic bottles of water to prevent dehydration, but those who attend are urged to bring their own water as well. If the crowd will not fit in the area immediately north of City Hall, it will spread out to the north along the mall around the statue of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Nazis have not kept their promise to announce the location of their rally 24 hours beforehand, but those who monitor hate groups indicate that their small rally will probably be several miles southwest of City Hall.
Over the past 24 hours, six additional organizational sponsors have joined the ad-hoc coalition that will be rallying at City Hall: Laborers International Union of North America Local 777, the Social Justice Committee of the Universalist-Unitarian Church of Riverside, MEChA Riverside Community College - Moreno Valley Campus, Mexican Political Association, Comite Pro-Democracia en Mexico, and the Riverside Latino Voter Project.
The 30 sponsoring organizations are listed below.
The sponsoring organizations as of 5 pm Friday night are:
Western Inland Empire Coalition Against Hate
United Democrats of Moreno Valley
Social Justice Committee of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside
San Bernardino County Peace and Freedom Party Central Committee
San Bernardino Community Services Center
Riverside Latino Voter Project
Riverside Green Party County Council
Riverside County Libertarian Party
Riverside County Peace and Freedom Party Central Committee
Riverside Community College Student Alliance for Education
Redlands PFFLAG
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
People for Immigrant Rights
Mount San Antonio College Students for Immigrant Rights
Mount San Antonio College I.S.O.
Mount San Antonio College IDEAS
Moreno Valley Parents Association
Mexican Political Association
Mensch Foundation International
MEChA de U.C.R.
MEChA de R.C.C - Moreno Valley
Laborers International Union of North America, Local 777
Inland Communities Fellowship of Reconciliation
Inland Empire Rapid Response Network
Inland Empire Do Peace & Nonviolence Alliance (IEDOPN), US Department of Peace Campaign
Fernando Pedraza Day Labor Coalition
Comite Pro-Democracia en Mexico
Colectivo Tonantzin
CODEPINK Redlands
Aztlan Brown Berets
This is the final list of sponsors, but it should be noted that many other organizations have not formally endorsed because their internal procedures take too long, but they are spreading the word about the rally and urging their members to attend through e-mails to thousands of people. This includes many local unions, churches, and community organizations.
There are three coalition contact people for media and the public:
Benjamin Wood (Upland) (909) 996.1624, AntiRacistIE@gmail.com or bnjmn.wood@yahoo.com
Kevin Akin (Riverside) (951) 787.0318, kevinakin1950@hotmail.com
Jennaya Dunlap (Temecula) (951) 490-2345, contraredadas@gmail.com
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4:39Mexican radicals: Brown Clowns: Communistsby hollywoodnight64,905 views
"Thank you peace people.. and keep the fight going." Lol. That's one of the lines I would change.
chuzyrf8 1 year ago
@chuzyrf8 I still think that line at the end is funny. "Thank you peace people... and power to the peaceful!" That's what I wish I had said. Lol.
chuzyrf8 9 months ago