Monday, August 4, 2008

Hibbing Daily Tribune: March for economic rights due in Hibbing

Will wind up at Republican convention

Published: Monday, August 4, 2008 8:11 AM CDT

Mike Jennings

HIBBING — A march that is intended to draw attention to the needs of Minnesota’s poor is due to arrivetoday in Hibbing.

Sponsored by the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, the march began Friday in St. Paul and continued Saturday in Duluth and Sunday in Taconite. It is scheduled to pass through about 20 communities across the state this month and end Sept. 2 at the front door of the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, where the Republican National Convention will be in progress.

Peter Cooper, a spokesman for the sponsoring group, said the marchers would set out from the outskirts of Nashwauk about 8 a.m. today and follow Route 169 to Hibbing, where they will proceed along First Avenue to the Salvation Army building on Howard Street. After resting at Bennett Park, the marchers will return to the Salvation Army building, where they will hold a press conference about 2:30 p.m., he said.

Cooper said Sunday that 10-15 people were participating in the march so far. “It’s kind of fluid, and it’s going to be growing,” he said.

Those who have been “denied health care and housing are welcome to come out and share their stories and march with us,” Cooper said. He said that during the march the group will collect documentation from people who have been denied services that meet basic needs.

On Tuesday, the march is due to continue in Grand Rapids.

Mike Jennings can be reached at mike.jennings@mx3.com. To read this story and comment on it online go to www.hibbingmn.com.

Labels: Hibbing, March for Our Lives 2008, MN Caravan

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