National Support Needed: Anti-racist Group Calls for Phone Jam Against Neo-nazi Conference

PHONE JAM TO SHUT DOWN NAZI CONFERENCE IN PHILLY SUBURBS!

Call the Sheraton Park Ridge Hotel and Conference Center in King of
Prussia, PA!
Tell them to cancel the Stone Kingdom Ministries Neo-Nazi Conference
Scheduled for This Weekend!

Phone: (610) 337-1800
Fax: (610) 337-4506
Email: sales.parkridge [at] sheraton.com

On April 6th, 2007 Stone Kingdom Ministries, a "Christian Identity"
ministry based in Asheville, NC is coming to the Philadelphia area to
hold a "Spring Bible Conference." In reality, this so-called ministry
is coming to our area to preach hatred and: Christian Identity
adherents believe that white people are God's chosen people, while all
non-whites are "mud people." Those who practice this "religion" are
virulently racist and anti-Semitic.

Despite its small number of adherents, Christian Identity is not an
ideology we can ignore. In 1999, Buford Furrow, a member of the Aryan
Nations and a devout follower of Christian Identity, violently
attacked the daycare center at the North Valley Jewish Community
Center in Los Angeles, injuring three children, a counselor, and a
receptionist. He also shot dead US Postal Service carrier Joseph
Ileto, specifically because he was Filipino- American. A year before
these attacks, Furrow was reported as saying: "I am a white
separatist. I've been having suicidal and homicidal thoughts for some
time now ... Sometimes I feel like I could just lose it and kill
people." Obviously, those who subscribe to these beliefs are taught
decidely un-Christian, genocidal and violent values.

We cannot allow a group that holds such violent beliefs to preach in
our community. It is imperative that we get this conference shut down.
To that end, we are asking all people who care about equality and
multi-culturalism to take some time out of their days (or nights)
during the rest of this week, and let the hotel management know that
we do not appreciate their providing a forum for racist hate speech,
and that no one will patronize their business while they support a
neo-Nazi agenda. Ask them why they are allowing a hate group to use
their hotel on April 6th, and let them know how you feel about their
support for neo-Nazis.

Call, fax or email the Sheraton Park Ridge Hotel and Conference Center
in King of Prussia, PA! Ask for the general manager, the director of
sales, and the person in charge of booking meetings. Please be polite
to the people answering the phones – save your anger for the hotel
management who allow such groups to utilize their spaces without first
checking to see that they are supporting a HATE GROUP. According to
One People's Project, a hate group monitoring organization, this is
the NINTH year that Stone Kingdom Ministries is holding this
conference at this specific hotel.

Sheraton Park Ridge
Phone: (610) 337-1800
Fax: (610) 337-4506
Email: sales.parkridge [at] sheraton.com

You can also call Sheraton's parent company Starwood Hotels and
Resorts. We're sure people in the corporate headquarters would love to
hear what their staff in King of Prussia is up to. Make sure to let
them know that no one will patronize ANY of their businesses,
including other large chains such as Westin, if they continue to
support fascists. That means no business at ANY of their hotels from
the majority of Americans who believe in equality and freedom. Call or
fax the Starwood Hotels:

Phone: (914) 640-8100
Fax: (914) 640-8310

You can also fill out their email contact form, which is located all
the way at the bottom of this page:

http://www.starwoodhotels.com/corporate/contact_us.html

Please let both the Sheraton itself, and its corporate parents know
that if the April 6th meeting is not cancelled, community members will
be out in force to protest outside the Sheraton Park Ridge Hotel and
Conference Center located at 480 North Gulph Road, King of Prussia,
PA, 19406. If you are interested in joining us, please email
philadelphiarar [at] gmail.com

Call, fax and email - be angry, be firm, but be legal.

In solidarity,
Philadelphia Residents Against Racism
philadelphiarar [at] gmail.com