TX, Fort Worth: American People's Poll on Iraq
EVENTS
VENUE:
Fort Worth Convention Center
Fort Worth, TX 76102
starts: 09/01/2007 - 12:00am
ends: 09/01/2007 - 5:00pm
Join us for a day of patriotic, non-partisan, all-are-welcome events honoring our courageous military, and promoting what we all want - to bring them home safely!
Schedule of Events:
9:00 am - 5:00 pm - Straw Poll Canvassing: 9-5 outside the Fort Worth Convention Center
1:00 pm Pre-Rally Entertainment
1:30-3:30 pm Peace Rally Main Street, including:
- "I Miss America" Pageant
- Speakers - see list of speakers
- Musicians - see list of musicians
- 5:30 pm - Celebrate the American People - Texans for Peace after-rally fundraiser ($5 donation suggested)! at The Pour House
Speaker Biographies:
- Tunde Obazee - "Grand Poobah" of Empowerment Radio
- Carolyn Wonderland - award-winning guitarist and songwriter who knows how to rock the house.
- Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright - chair of Veterans for Peace who resigned from the State Department to protest the war.
- Carlos Arrendondo - father of Carlos, killed in Najaf in 2004.
- Tina Richards - mother of Cloy who suffers from PTSD sustained in Iraq.
- Diane Wilson - shrimper, activist and author of "Unreasonable Woman"
- Cindy Sheehan - mother of Casey who was killed in Iraq
- Rev. Lennox Yearwood - minister and leader of the Hip Hop Caucus
- Hadi Jawad - Dallas peace activist and co-founder of the Crawford Peace House
- Fr. Tim Gollob - Holy Cross Catholic Church
- Imam Muhsin Shaheed
- Diane Baker - grandmother and peace activist
- Rev. Charles Stovall - Chair of Southern Christian Leadership Council
And Iraq War Veterans:
- Leonard Shelton - Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Hart Viges - Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Adam Kokesh - Iraq Veterans Against the War
Musician Biographies:
- Carolyn Wonderland - award-winning guitarist and songwriter who knows how to rock the house
- Eric Folkerth - guitarist
- Sheila Randolf - blues singer
- Rick Burnley - The "Poet Laureate of Camp Casey"
- Flack Jaket - rock and roll band
- Instruments for Peace
- Katelyn Harris Thompson - rhythm tap
- Code Pink Police and the "Bush Chain Gang"
- Code Pink - I "Miss" America pageant
Special surprise guests to be announced as well
Travel and updates at: http://www.texansforpeace.org/peoplespoll/schedule.htm
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