[Seattle-editorial] Fwd: Correction on press release

[Chapolin Colorado]

--- Yu Yu Din <yu2din at hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: "Yu Yu Din" <yu2din at hotmail.com>
> To: yusmedia at yahoo.com
> Subject: Correction on press release
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:04:18 -0500
> 
> PLEASE NOTE THE CORRECTION IN CONTACT INFORMATION
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 18, 2002
> Contact: Yu Yu Din 646-373-0475 Email:
> ydin at yclusa.org
> 
> Young Communist League, USA to hold a National
> Convention
> 
> Schiller Park, Illinois – Under the banner "Youth
> and Labor Unite and Fight, 
> for peace, equality, jobs, education and socialism!"
> the Young Communist 
> League, USA (YCL) is gearing up for their 7th
> National Convention. Expected 
> to attend are several hundred youth and student
> activists from across the US 
> and over fifty guests from national and
> international youth and student 
> organizations. Libero Della Piana, the National
> Coordinator of the YCL said 
> "We wanted to hold the Convention in a working class
> town, and you can’t 
> find a better place than Chicago."
> 
> YCLUSA recently took part in a coordinated action
> against the FTAA on 
> November 17th with International Student Union
> (IUS), the United States 
> Student Association (USSA), the Canadian Federation
> of Students (CFS) and 
> the Continental Oraganization of Latin American and
> Caribbean Students 
> (OCLAE). Youth resistance to corporate globalization
> and the FTAA will be a 
> major theme of the Convention. Numerous
> international guests will be in 
> attendance, including the President of the World
> Federation of Democratic 
> Youth (WFDY), the Young Communist League of Isreal,
> and the General Union of 
> Students of the Iraqi Republic.
> 
> Workshops on education, jobs, women’s rights, racial
> justice and workers are 
> planned for the convention. Abdul Hassan, the
> convention organizer promises 
> an exciting time. "There will be music, education,
> culture, and we will take 
> to the streets to oppose Bush’s war drive in Iraq."
> 
> The Young Communist League, which is a founding
> member of the National Youth 
> and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) helped bring
> more than 100,000 youth, 
> students and working people to Washington DC on
> April 20, 2002 for the March 
> Against the War at Home and Abroad. Over the past
> year, the YCL helped 
> organize demonstrations to resist the World Economic
> Forum and CUNY budget 
> cuts in NYC. "It is a crucial time for the youth to
> come together and talk 
> about the challenges that we are facing, like war
> and economic hardships." 
> said Alcy Montas, the Chair of NYC Uptown YCL Club.
> ####
> 
> 
> WHO: The Young Communist League, USA
> 
> WHAT: 7th YCL National Convention
> A. Saturday Morning Plenary
> B. Press Conference
> C. March and Rally
> 
> WHEN: November 22-24th
> 
> WHERE: Schiller Park, IL
> 
> HOW: Press list only by Fri 12 Noon
> 
> ####
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Yu Yu Din
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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