PLEASE FEATURE: Hunger Strike Enters Fourth Day

PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE

May 13, 2004

Contact: Gabriel Hernandez
408-835-6633
Voicemail: 510-645-9213
Email: march4education [at] yahoo.com
Website address: march4education.org

Dolores Huerta to visit Fast4Education Hunger Fasters
Frank Ogawa Plaza, 14th St. and Broadway in Oakland, CA
1:30-2:00 PM
DAY 4 OF THE HUNGER FAST!

The Fast4Education has entered its fourth day of the fast. On this fourth day the Fast4Education hunger former United Farm Workers Vice President Dolores Huerta will visit fasters. She will visit with the fasters and the Fast4Education organizers between 1:30-2:00 pm TODAY.

Fast4Education is growing by the day with more and more support coming from the surrounding communities, local public schools, and public and private universities. So far two fasters have been forced to break their fast due to personal and health reasons. On Monday the hunger fasters will listen to concerns of children from Richmond schools and reaffirm why they are committed to this fast by holding a public forum at Richmond High School. The information for this event is as follows:

Monday, May 17th
6-8 PM

Richmond High School
1250 23rd Street
Richmond, CA



Upcoming Schedule:

8pm everyday: candle light vigil

May 13: Homeless Children from Oakland to visit hunger strikers at 3:30 PM in Frank Ogawa Plaza

May 15: Community Festival, 12 pm, Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA (Delegation from the Barbara Lee event will be present)

May 17: Richmond High School event (mentioned above)

May 17: Teach-in on Brown v. the Board of Education in Sacramento, CA

May 18: Fasters will hold press conference

May 27: Statewide mobilization of children of elementary, middle and high schools, higher education students to address the Governor of California at the Westside of State Capital Building, Sacramento, CA (DAY 18 OF HUNGER STRIKE)