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FOR IMMIDIATE RELEASE Ruzanna Avetisyan Journey for Humanity to Begin at Los Angeles City Hall The Journey for Humanity will begin Tuesday, June 27, 2006. A group of Californians will walk from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. in protest of the many Genocides that have afflicted the recent history of humanity. This admirable effort aims to raise awareness of crimes against humanity. A group of local political and religious leaders and other local dignitaries will join the walkers on the front lawn of the Los Angeles City Hall to initiate the journey. The ceremony will take place at 9:00 a.m., on June 27, 2006. The Media is invited and encouraged to attend. The United Armenian Students, a five year old Los Angeles based non-profit organization, is the driving engine behind the Journey for Humanity. This journey is actively receiving support form the Western and Eastern Dioceses of the Armenian Church of America, as well as the Armenian Assembly of America. As they journey across the nation they address the public at schools and rallies and educate them about how every American can help end the tragedy of genocide. Additionally, they will be speaking to our elected representatives in Congress and encourage them to pass several pieces of legislation that will address issues regarding the Armenian, Cambodian, and Rwandan Genocides, the Holocaust, and today’s ongoing Genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. The march itself is a symbolic reenactment of the death marches that many of the victims of the Armenian genocide had to endure before their annihilation. “The purpose of the Journey for Humanity is twofold: First it aims to keep the memory of the victims of crimes against humanity alive by illuminating the truth, and second, it seeks to heal the wounds of the victims by exposing the perpetrators as well as those governments that, in the fact of insurmountable evidence, remain silent by choosing profits over people,” said the Journey for Humanity project director and participant Vahe Abovian. For more information please visit www.journeyforhumanity.com. |
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