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JOHNNY CASH SPOKE FOR THE POOR AND UNDER-REPRESENTED
THE REPUBLICANS SPEAK FOR THE RICH

JOHNNY CASH ADVOCATED FOR PRISON REFORM
THE REPUBLICANS LOCK US UP

JOHNNY CASH SANG FOR OUR MINERS, FARMERS, AND WORKERS
REPUBLICAN ECONOMICS CRUSH THE WORKING CLASS

THE RNC HAS NO RIGHT TO TARNISH THE MEMORY OF JOHNNY
CASH
WE WILL RISE UP TO DEFEND THE HONOR OF AN AMERICAN
HERO

http://www.defendjohnnycash.org

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This is a call to action.
Meet at 4:00 P.M. dressed in black on Tuesday, August
31st at :
SOTHEBY'S AUCTION HOUSE
1334 YORK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Contact: ManInBlack at riseup.net

Sotheby's is located one block east of 1st Avenue at
71st street.
Subway: Take the 6 train to 68th St. and walk north 3
blocks, and then east to York Ave.

On Tuesday, August 31st, the Republicans who have
invaded our city plan to have an exclusive
"celebration" of Johnny Cash for the Tennessee
delegates inside the famous high-art auction house/
real estate investment house Sotheby's. It is
sponsored by the American Gas Association, a
multinational corporation whose membership includes
gas companies in Brazil, Korea, and France, among
others.

Well, we think that Johnny sure wouldn't be too keen
on this given the beating the current administration
has been giving to our nation's poor. Actually, he'd
be downright pissed. Just like we are. Over the past
four years, conditions for the poor and working class
have worsened. There are now over 31 million Americans
living in poverty. 12.2 million children in our nation
are poor, with over 1.35 million of them homeless.
Over 43 million Americans have no healthcare and there
are currently almost 10 million unemployed Americans.
(Poor People's Economic Rights Campaign)

The songs of Johnny Cash were beacons of light for
those who were unjustly locked up, kicked down, and
knocked around. He sang for the poor, the imprisoned,
and the oppressed. He sang from his heart. How dare
the Republicans think of using the memory of a true
people's hero to promote their greedy causes and
war-criminal president? Would Johnny support the
president's economic policies? NO! Would Johnny
support the Iraq war? NO! Would Johnny support the
draconian Rockefeller drug laws? HELL NO!

Stand with us in streets in front of Sotheby's on A31
to raise your voice in song, in rage, and in hope. We
will join together in defense of the honor of Johnny
Cash. We will stand in recognition of the misery of
the past four years the Bush administration has
slapped upon our nation's poor and working class. We
will make Johnny proud.

On a side note, later this fall, Sotheby's plans to
auction off all of the personal items belonging to the
late Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash (his wife, also
passed on). Everything from June's childhood shoes
to Cash family photos to Johnny's actual Grammys
will be auctioned off to the bidder with the biggest
wallet.

Bring your black clothing, pompadour, guitars (real or
cardboard), hair grease, singing voice, megaphones,
jailstripes, skeleton costumes, signs, art, posters,
CD players, boomboxes, musical instruments, Johnny
posters and records, and of course, your favorite
political Cash lyrics as big as you can print 'em!
Shame on the RNC!

Speakers and badass participants will be unveiled
shortly at http://www.defendjohnnycash.org, We are trying to
get Roseanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash, to come
and speak on our behalf.

More about Sotheby's:
http://www.shareholder.com/bid/news/20040217-128851.cfm

http://www.forbes.com/prnewswire/feeds/prnewswire/2004/07/07/prnewswire200407070952PR_NEWS_B_MAT_NY_NYW093.html

About the American Gas Association:
http://www.aga.org

About the fall Cash estate auction:
http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/event/EventDetail.jsp?event_id=26812

Johnny Cash bio:
http://www.history-of-rock.com/johnny_cash.htm

Some song lyrics:
http://www.toptown.com/hp/66/jclyrics.htm