FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
for Thursday, April 4, 2013
Contact: Tour
Media - DeDe Miller 562/500-9079
National – Cres Vellucci 916/996-9170 cresvellucci@gmail.com
Online: http://tourdepeace.org
Anti-War Mom Cindy Sheehan Announces 3,000-Mile
Cross Country 'Tour de Peace' Bike Ride for Peace; 1st
Leg
Begins Thursday at Son Casey's Grave, and Ends in
Sacramento
VACAVILLE/SACRAMENTO,
Ca. – Cindy Sheehan will begin an arduous 3 month, 3,000-mile
Ride-for-Peace – dubbed "Tour de Peace" – this Thursday/April 4 from the
Vacaville grave of her son to Arlington Cemetery and White House.
She will hold a press availability at 10 a.m., Thursday (April 4) at Vacaville-Elmira Cemetery (522
Elmira Road/West Side), where her son Casey is buried. He was killed in Iraq
nine years ago.
The first leg of the 'Tour de Peace" runs from that Vacaville
gravesite in to Sacramento, about 41 miles. Supporters are expected to welcome
Cindy and the initial bike rider in Sacramento
about 6 p.m. Thursday at Sierra 2/Curtis Hall (2791 24th St.).
Cindy will be available for interviews along the route, and
in Sacramento at the end of the first leg.
WHAT: The Tour de
Peace bike ride across the United States will follow historic Route
66 to Chicago, and other roads from there on to D.C. Bicyclers will join in for all or part of the tour, which will include public events organized by local groups along the way.
Complete route: http://tourdepeace.org/the-route.html
66 to Chicago, and other roads from there on to D.C. Bicyclers will join in for all or part of the tour, which will include public events organized by local groups along the way.
Complete route: http://tourdepeace.org/the-route.html
The tour begins April 4, 2013, nine years after Casey
Sheehan was killed in Iraq, and 45 years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was
killed in Memphis. It will conclude on
July 3, 2013, with a ride from Arlington National Cemetery to the White House.
WHY: This August
will mark 8 years since Cindy Sheehan began a widely reported protest at
then-President George W. Bush's "ranch" in Crawford, Texas, demanding
to know what the "noble cause" was for which Bush claimed Americans
were dying in Iraq. Neither Bush nor
President Obama has yet offered a justification for a global war now in its 12th
year. The Tour de Peace will carry with
it these demands:
To end wars,
To end immunity for U.S. war crimes,
To end suppression of our civil rights,
To end the use of fossil fuels,
To end persecution of whistleblowers,
To end partisan apathy and inaction.
To end immunity for U.S. war crimes,
To end suppression of our civil rights,
To end the use of fossil fuels,
To end persecution of whistleblowers,
To end partisan apathy and inaction.
Watch the trailer: http://youtu.be/2uBctq4dzss
Right on! Ride on! I hope a million bike riders join you at Arlington.
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