Pro-Peace Rally on Monday January 5th

Posted by Erica Mauter

January 4, 2009

Thanks to Basmah Ali for passing this information along.

University of Minnesota students are hosting a rally on Monday January 5th (1pm-5pm) as a reactionary measure to the violence in Gaza in front the state capitol in St.Paul. They will have a speaker from CAIR-MN, Council on American Islamic Relations-MN, and one from the twin cities chapter of International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. Keith Ellison may be speaking as well. There will protests from 1pm-3pm, speakers and a press conference from 3pm-4pm, and a candle light vigil at 4:15pm for the victims and deaths of the past week.