Press Release Template for Local Campaign Nonviolence Actions

Press Release Template for Local Campaign Nonviolence Actions:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: [Name 1] [Phone Number 1]

[Address] [Name 2] [Phone number 2]

[Date]

JOIN NONVIOLENT PROTEST IN {city} on {date},

AS PART OF ‘CAMPAIGN NONVIOLENCE’ RALLIES NATIONWIDE

(Your City, State) [Date of your Event] — Join Campaign Nonviolence at [Time of day of your event] at [Place where your event is taking place (for example, a particular park), with its address in parentheses] in downtown [City] and march to the federal building [or describe what your event entails, with a street address] to protest racism, war, poverty, and environmental destruction, as part of 1,000 nonviolent actions in all 50 states nationwide from September 16 to 24. Featured at [your rally] will be speakers from [names].

This unprecedented campaign calls for nonviolent action and concrete policy shifts to end the culture of violence and injustice, and begin peacemaking. Through Campaign Nonviolence, separate movements are coming together to build a just, peaceful, and sustainable world.

“Americans want a positive vision of hope and peace for our country and the world,”said the Rev. John Dear, co-founder of Campaign Nonviolence, nationally known peace activist, author of 35 books, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. “During this week of nonviolent actions, we are mobilizing local grassroots rallies to speak out against violence, greed, and war. To be true the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and insist on resolving conflicts nonviolently at home and abroad.”

[Insert quotes (2-3 sentences) from TWO OR THREE local leaders into this text]

For more information about this local event [reiterate time, date and place of your local Campaign Nonviolence event], please call [contact listed above].

Campaign Nonviolence is a burgeoning grassroots movement launched September 2014, with over 230 nonviolent actions held in every state of the nation. The following year, 370 actions took place. In 2016, these nonviolent actions grew to 760.

Campaign Nonviolence is sponsored by Pace e Bene, a non-profit organization committed to building a culture of peace and active nonviolence through shared understanding and partnerships to protect human rights, abolish war, end poverty, heal the planet—and to meet today’s profound spiritual task: build a just, peaceful, and nonviolent world.

Pace e Bene is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization founded in 1989 by the Franciscan Friars of California. For more information please visit:

[FOR INFORMATION ON THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN, CONTACT RYAN HALL AT or 510-268-8765.

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