Police Send Out False Information to Media Regarding
Poor People's March on August 30th

New York (July 30) - The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign was alerted by a member of the media that press releases were sent out by the New York Police Department's Office of Information to a number of media outlets giving false information regarding their rally and march on August 30th. The information the police sent out led the press to believe that the Poor People's Campaign was joining the nine celebrities at the Hip Hop Action Network Rally instead of having their own March and rally at 4pm from the United Nations later that same day.

The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, the group responsible for the largest march four years ago at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, has held press conference after press conference asserting that we will not be made to disappear by celebrities or by the NYPD.

People are dying in the war at home from not having healthcare, housing, food and the other basic necessities of life. We will march WITH OR WITHOUT A PERMIT on August 30th at 4pm from in front of the United Nations through Times Square to the front doors of the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden.

The Poor from across America will March on August 30th.

- Cheri Honkala,

National Spokesperson for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign