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Press
Release:
Students
for
Sensible
Drug
Policy
Activists
to
Take
"Skate
for
Justice"
Through
New
York
State
Tomorrow
(8/7)
8/6/04
Activists from across the
Northeast will skate in the 3rd annual Skate for Justice on August 7th.
This rigorous test of physical skill and dedication is held to raise awareness
and voice dissent over current state and federal drug polices. Organizers
also want Skate for Justice to destroy the belief that advocates for drug
policy reform are "a bunch of lazy, unmotivated, pot smokers."
"We chose a 48.9 mile segment
of a nation ravaged by a failed policy of prohibition," says Justin Holmes,
who has organized the event for the past three years. "We have a
serious budget responsibility problem in New York State, and I dare say
it is inexorably tied to our drug policy problem. I think it's time
we recognize that drug prohibition is making our communities more dangerous,
just as alcohol prohibition did in the 1920s."
WHO: Students for Sensible
Drug Policy
WHAT: 3rd Annual Skate for
Justice -- 48.9 miles of active, peaceful protest
WHEN: Saturday August 7,
2004, 8:00am-6:00pm
WHERE: Starts at Upper Front
Street, Binghamton, Ends at Ithaca Commons, Aurora Street
Visit http://www.skateforjustice.org
or http://www.destinationjustice.com
for further information. The event will be broadcast (audio) live
on the web. There is an after-event in the Ithaca Commons from 6:00-10:00pm.
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