Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Unprecedented Summit Meeting on Capitol Hill
Washington, DC -
February 23, 2009
- U.S. criminal justice experts will unveil a
comprehensive national proposal for urban
peace and
jobs. The proposal employs a targeted economic
stimulus approach to reach hard core urban
unemployed, at risk youth and street gang
members at
local levels. It focuses on job creation,
alternative
energy, infra-structure building, education
and family
reunification. It combines public policy,
practice,
legislation and appropriations.
WHO: http://www.TheNEC.net
The National Exhoodus Council (NEC) is a
coalition of over twenty-five leading U.S.-and
growing-community-based resettlement (reentry),
anti-crime and anti-violence organizations whose
management and leadership were all previously
incarcerated. Led by Co-Chairs Pastor Derrick
Johnson and Malik Aziz, the Council will
coordinate a
national campaign, aimed at creating jobs and
reducing urban violence, based on their
research and
the groundbreaking proposal they authored.
WHAT:
NEC Council members will present the
national proposal to key leaders in the
community as
well as to city and state officials unveiling
a new
paradigm for community economic development and
civic engagement. This plan for a national
agenda will
then be presented to members of Congress and
Senate in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday,
February 24,
2009.
WHEN:
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - Presentation of
proposal begins at 1:30pm. The Council members
and other participants will be available for
live TV,
print and radio interviews at 1:00pm and
again at
3:00pm.
Special Guests: Congressman Danny Davis;
Chaplain Barry Black, Chaplain to the U.S.
Senate;
Michael Melton, President of 100 Black Men,
Greater
DC Chapter; and other key figures from city
and state.
WHERE:
Rayburn House Office Building, Southwest of
the Capitol between South Capitol Street and
First
Street, Room 2105
WHY:
The National Exhoodus Coalition was
organized to bring the expertise and personal
experience of the group to address the
resettlement
(reentry) problems of annually transitioning
700,000
people from prison to urban communities and the
concurrent proliferation of street gang
related crime
and violence in these communities.
Please RSVP to
attend. Sponsored In Part by Aloft Hotel,
4301 Island
Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
TO SCHEDULE INTERVIEWS WITH NATIONAL
EXPERTS:
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Director of Communications
1.214.435.3694
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Mertine Moore Brown
Publicist
phone:
202.460.4653
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