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Protest 'Justice Sunday III' (sic), Jan 8, 6:30pm Philly

by: kwilkinson

Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 02:57:53 PM EST



Women's groups and suburban Philly Dem groups will be joining too.

JOIN AIDS ACTIVISTS IN PROTEST AGAINST THE RADICAL RIGHT

Philadelphia SUNDAY JANUARY 8 at "JUSTICE SUNDAY III" (sic)

Jerry Falwell. Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council. James Dobson from Focus on the Family. Rick Santorum. All coming to Philadelphia on Jan 8 to rally on "Justice Sunday" to pack the Supreme Court. This event will be telecast live across the country.

Happy New Year, everybody.

"Justice" is the right to health care and effective HIV prevention, reproductive freedom, and freedom from homophobia and bigotry -- not fundamentalist extremism from the extreme right wing.

Join ACT UP Philadelphia, people of faith, people of conscience, women's health groups and other friends in Philadelphia at 7 PM on Sunday January 8 2006 to protest "Justice Sunday III" -- a national rally for religious extremist groups who are fighting for a judiciary that is as reactionary as they are.

"Justice Sunday III" comes just one day before the Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings for Supreme Court Justice Nominee Samuel Alito.

"Justice Sunday III" will include notorious fixtures of the radical right Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, and Jerry Falwell along with Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.

These right wing religious groups exert extraordinarily powerful influence over White House policies on HIV prevention, global AIDS, science, sex education and public health.

Join us outside the Greater Exodus Baptist Church, at 704 North Broad Street at 6:30 for a spirited rally and protest.

For more information please call ACT UP Philadelphia at (215) 386-1981

kwilkinson :: Protest 'Justice Sunday III' (sic), Jan 8, 6:30pm Philly
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AP estimates are 150 people.  It made for a good crowd across the street from the protest, but sad to see so few given the stakes. 

Across the street, about 150 protesters held signs and chanted. Organizers, including AIDS activists and abortion rights supporters, maintain that sponsors of "Justice Sunday" back a dangerous mixing of church and state and an agenda that threatens civil rights.

"Real justice does not tolerate hatred. Real justice is not about inequality. Real justice is about diversity," the Rev. Jeffery H. Jordan, senior pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of Philadelphia, told the cheering crowd.

The main groups were Act Up and World Can't Wait

Candidates for Santorum's Senate seat Chuck Pennachio and Alan Sandals (somewhat of a Corzine look alike, though shorter) were in the crowd.  Sandals even brought a truck with his new ads - the one about women's reproductive rights is worth a look (and doesn't he sound like Corzine?)


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