Join Us Saturday July 20th 10am MLK Park (Urbana, Illinois) to March for Justice for Trayvon Martin
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Patricia Avery, CCNAACP President
217-766-3059 or 217-373-2827
The Champaign County NAACP, CU Citizens for Peace and Justice, National Council of African American Men, Citizens with Convictions, NorthEnd Breakfast Club, Sisternet, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, AON CCAD, along with many other concerned citizens, will join the National Social Justice movement lead by the National Action Network on Saturday, July 20th to “March for Justice for Trayvon Martin, Civil Rights, Equality, and the End of Institutional Racism and Discrimination,” perpetrated against people of color.
We will assemble at 10:00 a.m. at Martin Luther King Park in Urbana and march to the Urbana Federal Courthouse where a rally will be held from 12:00 Noon – 1:00 p.m.
The speakers will address a numbers of local and state issues and also add their voices to the national call to the U.S. DOJ to file civil rights charges against George Zimmerman.
We invite the public, all community organizations, non-profits, churches and businesses to stand with us on Saturday, July 20th for social justice. Express solidarity and denounce the culture of institutionalized racism that inflicts incomprehensible disparities and violence on people of color.