Media Packet
MEDIA PACKET
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: (Local Coord. Name & Phone ##)
WHEELS OF JUSTICE TOUR VISITS (NAME OF TOWN) TO SPEAK ABOUT THE OCCUPATIONS OF IRAQ AND PALESTINE
(City and Date of Release)— On (date and time) at (location), (group/s names) host/s the Wheels of Justice Tour. The tour brings first hand witness accounts from Iraq and Palestine to challenge and educate Americans about the repercussions of war and occupation both on people abroad and Americans at home.
Having seen and lived with war, terror and occupation in Iraq and Palestine, participants in the Wheels of Justice offer first-hand experience irrespective of partisan politics. Building upon the growing domestic and International movement against the war and occupation in both Iraq and Palestine, the Wheels of Justice Tour provides education, outreach, nonviolence/action training, active resistance, and community-building all across the United States. For details on the tour, see www.JusticeWheels.org.
Locally, the tour ….(Paragraph here for local info: Speakers, city schedule, local angle etc)
As people of conscience working for peace, we advocate justice and human rights as the only real roadmap for peace at home and abroad. We call upon all parties involved to recognize and adhere to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and we call for nonviolent resistance to this violence of war, terror and occupation.
The tour is sponsored by Peace Action (http://www.peace-action.org/) the Palestine Right to Return Coalition (http://Al-Awda.org), and the Middle East Children’s Alliance (http://www.mecaforpeace.org/) with support from affiliates of the International Solidarity Movement. This tour was endorsed and hosted by a number of organizations and starts in September 2008.
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For Immediate Release June XXXXX, 2008
For more information, contact Wheels of Justice
Inc: flyer about the tour