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Iran Press Kit
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Stop Iranian Terror and Nukes: Events in U.S. Cities
(by date)
Events in New York, Washington, D.C. and Detroit
Washington, D.C.:
Rally Against Iran’s Nukes/Ahmadinejad
Date: Monday, Sept. 22, 2008
Time: 12 p.m. (noon)
Location: Farragut Square Park, Washington, D.C.
Intersection of Connecticut Ave, 17th St. and K Street NW
Washington, D.C.
Confirmed speakers: Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD); Rep. Steven King (R-IA); Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett; Nesse Godin (Holocaust survivor); JCRC President Ron Glancz; Jewish Federation of Greater Washington President Susie Gelman; Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt (moderator)
Sponsoring organizations: Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Washington, The Israel Project, The Endowment for Middle East Truth, The Israel on Campus Coalition of Greater Washington, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and The American Jewish Committee
Contact: Ari Rudolph at (301) 770-0881 or ARudolph@jcouncil.org
New York City:
New York Rally to Stop Iran’s Nukes Now!
Date: Monday, Sept. 22, 2008
Time: 11:45 a.m.
Location: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (across from the United Nations)
2nd Ave. at 47th St.
New York City
Sponsoring organizations: National Coalition to Stop Iran Now, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Israel Advocacy Initiative, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of New York, United Jewish Communities, UJA-Federation of New York
Confirmed speakers: Elie Wiesel; Dalia Itzik
Contact: info@conferenceofpresidents.org, or 212-318-6111
info@jcrcny.org, or 212-983-4800 x161
*Attendees traveling from Boston can take a bus provided by the JCRC at 6:15 a.m. at Boston University, 6:45 a.m. at Brighton, and 7:15 a.m. at Newton. Lunch and dinner will be provided. Cost is $10 for students, $18 for non-students. Click here to register, or contact dhorton@jcrcboston.org for more information.
Suburban Detroit:
Rally Against Iran’s Nukes/Ahmadinejad
Date: Monday, Sept. 22, 2008
Time: 12 p.m. (noon)
Location: Holocaust Memorial Center
28123 Orchard Lake Rd.
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Confirmed speakers: Rabbi Aaron Bergman; Rev. Kenneth Flowers; Council Executive Director Robert Cohen; and Rabbi Charles Rosensveig
Sponsoring organization: Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit
Contact: Beverly K. Phillips at (248) 642-5393
Washington, D.C.:
Conference: “State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide: What Can Be Done?”
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency, 400 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Confirmed speakers: Amb. Richard Holbrooke (architect of Dayton Accord on Bosnia); Prof. Payam Akhavan (former legal advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda); Salih Mahmud Osman (Member of Parliament-Sudan, human-rights advocate on Darfur); Esther Mujawayo (Survivor of the Rwanda genocide in 1994, expert witness); Prof. Gregory Stanton (founder Genocide Watch and the Cambodian Genocide Project at Yale University and formerly with the U.S. Department of State); Prof. Irwin Cotler (Member of Parliament-Canada, former Attorney General and Minister of Justice); Prof. Gregory Gordon (former Legal Officer, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, first post-Nuremberg Prosecutions for Incitement to Genocide); and Amb. Dore Gold (former Israeli Ambassador to the UN)
Sponsoring organizations: Genocide Watch, International Association of Genocide Scholars, Yale University's Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Contact: glf@jcpa.org
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Board of Advisors: Sen. Evan Bayh (IN), Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (GA), Sen. Tom Coburn (OK), Sen. Norm Coleman (MN), Sen. Susan Collins (ME), Sen. Judd Gregg (NH), Sen. Joe Lieberman (CT), Sen. Ben Nelson (NE), Sen. Gordon Smith (OR), Sen. Arlen Specter (PA), Sen. Ron Wyden (OR), Rep. Rob Andrews (NJ), Rep. Shelley Berkley (NV), Rep. Tom Davis (VA), Rep. Eliot Engel (NY), Rep. Frank Pallone (NJ), Rep. Jon Porter (NV), Rep. John Sarbanes (MD), Rep. Jim Saxton (NJ), Rep. Brad Sherman (CA), Rep. Joe Wilson (SC), Actor and Director Ron Silver
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