Example of a press release written by World Can’t Wait and can be used as a reference in writing your press release for October 5th.
For Immediate Release
( Date)
World Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime
www.worldcantwait.org
Press contact: ( Person’s Name and Phone Number)
Battle Continues for the Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi
Friday, 10AM, July 21, Demonstration by World Can’t Wait at State Capitol, Jackson
Saturday, 10AM, July 22, March sponsored by NOW, with World Can’t Wait contingent, meet at Mississippi Fair Grounds (High St.), march to State Capitol, Jackson
Jackson, Mississippi– All week long, the extremist anti-abortionist Christian group, Operation Save America (OSA), has been in Jackson trying to close down the last abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi. The World Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime national bus tour has joined with other pro-choice groups and individuals this week to defend the abortion clinic and oppose Bush’s agenda of war, torture, theocracy and wire tapping.
On Thursday, July 20, World Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime ran an ad in the Jackson Clarion-Ledger calling people together to speak out against “bigotry, intolerance and theocracy” to stop OSA and bring the dangerous Bush program “to a halt!” A national day of resistance is called for October 5.
Sunsara Taylor of World Can’t Wait: “OSA people are lunatics but this organization is not the fringe. They have friends in very high places in the Bush Regime, and in the leadership of the religious right. And they are serious — not only about a complete end to abortion and outlawing birth control. They aim to remake America in a fascist direction, with a legal system that enforces Biblically-literal law. This would be a horror for women and all thinking people.”
As if to demonstrate the disturbing breadth of their theocratic program, on Tuesday as TV news cameras rolled, Operation Save America ripped up a copy of the Qu’ran, along with a rainbow gay pride flag. What did this have to do with abortion? Flip Benham, director of OSA, answered: “We deal with all the issues we possibly can because there are different manifestations covering the same cyst, the cyst of the devil.” (Jackson Clarion-Ledger, July 19) On Sunday, OSA surrounded a liberal church that was holding a meeting with pro-choice people. Their message blares from their t-shirts: “Homosexuality is a sin. Islam is a lie. Abortion is murder.”
World Can’t Wait activists are reaching out to people in Jackson. Taylor: “People are overwhelmed by this spectacle. We’ve been going door to door everyday to neighborhoods and businesses. We’ve been well received.” (Jackson Clarion-Ledger) In the next few weeks the bus tour will travel to abortion clinics, “creationism museums”, and military bases in Arkansas, Indiana, and Ohio– areas where the whole direction of the country is being contested.
For more on World Can’t Wait Bus Tour, go to www.worldcantwait.org