March of the People comes to Cleveland:

July 25-30

"Impeach the President, End the War"

University of Chicago master's student Mario Penalver is treking 830 miles from Chicago to D.C. in what is being called "The March Of The People". He will be in the Cleveland area from July 25-30.

Folks are encouraged to support and join him in this courageous stand for peace and sanity in a world gone wrong. This is also a call for impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

Cleveland area schedule:

Thursday, July 26

Mario will be walking from Avon lake to Rocky River on July 26. Contact Mike Fagan for details

A peace vigil along Rocky River Drive and meet and greet is being planned for him at The Sister's of St. Joseph for lunchtime-early afternnon on the 26th. For details contact Brian Fry

Later on Thursday July 26, folks can come to C-Space at 44th and Clark ave on Cleveland's near west side for a pot-luck dinner with Mario at 5:30-7:00P.M.

At 7:00 p.m. peace activists will then join Mario in a peace march down Clark Avenue to Tremont's Lincoln park at West14th and Starkweather where NOAC is showing a free film screening of "Terrorstorm" at 8p.m.

Wear orange during the macrch to be part of the national launch of the Orange Revolution demanding Impeachment! Contact MJ Muser

Friday, July 27 is still open

Saturday, July 28

Mario will join the Cleveland Non Violent Network and others for our weekly peace vigil at the rear entrance of the West Side market from 11 a.m. -noon

We can then have a march around the neighborhood if Mario wants to. It is very crowded and busy in that area on Saturdays with a lot of visibility.

We also plan to take him out to lunch and to see Yoko Ono's "Imagine Peace" show which is at
the Emily Davis Gallery at The University of Akron's Mary Schiller School of Art which is showing from 10a.m.-6p.m.

Mario wants to meet as many students as possible so all are encouraged to come meet him and network.

Sunday, July 29th is still open
for those who may be interested in planning something for Mario on the east side of Cleveland before he heads out again on his march to Solon on the 30th.

Reporters interested in interviewing Mario can contact him through Nic Baria

updates will be posted at:
www.noacinfo.org
http://www.ohioworldcantwait.blogspot.com/

for a map of his march route and more info, go to:
http://www.marchofthepeople.org/

Report back on Bush Protest in Cleveland

by MJ mjm@notinourname.net

Folks gathered today to Protest Bush's visit to Cleveland.

About 25-30 folks showed up at the Free Stamp this morning to protest Bush's visit to Cleveland. We had the huge Impeach letters along with various banners and signs most of them calling for impeachment. A reporter told us that earlier in the morning in Parma an anti war activist got into a fist fight with a Bush supporter after she called the anti war woman the c word. We managed to get our message out loud and clear on Fox8 at 6p.m. They showed us screaming "Push Bush Out" and the word IMPEACH clearly on several of our banners and signs along with the huge letters. The reporter also said that we were calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

Afterwards three of us went to a freeway overpass for about an hour and 1/2 with a large IMPEACH banner. We recieved tons of honks,thumbs up, peace signs flashing lights and raised fists from the cars passing below. We only got two negative responses.

From the overwhelming positve response we have decided that we are going to do freeway blogging at least once a week from now on throughout the summer and beyond. We also plan to hit the festivals and musical events with the orange bandanas and get the color orange out everywhere we can over the summer, since orange is the color of the impeachment movement.

www.worldcantwait.org

Protest Bush in Cleveland TODAY
This Tuesday, July 10!
11:30 am at the Free Stamp (Lakeside and E. 9th Street)

According to the Plain Dealer, "President Bush wants to spend some time in a 'great American city,' so he will put in the better part of a workday Tuesday in Cleveland, the White House said.
He will talk with people in the business of energy technology and health care. Then he will make remarks to business people about energy and health care, talk about fiscal discipline -- with an implicit if not explicit veto threat -- and the war on terror."

Bush will visit two places in Cleveland, GrafTech International in Parma (a maker of fuel cell components) and the Cleveland Clinic.

Wear Orange! Impeach Bush for War Crimes!