Reply #12: Some of the speakers who have confirmed they'll be there [View All]

[Fly by night]

At the Gathering, we will have several speakers, including honored veterans of the 1960s Nashville civil rights movement including, among others: Rev. Sonnye Dixon, President of the Davidson County Chapter of NAACP, Amos Jones, former President of the Davidson County Chapter of NAACP, Michael Grant, a local Democratic activist who has had experience with voting machines and Jerry Maynard, Attorney, who is the former state minority outreach chair of the Kerry/Edwards campaign in Tennessee. We also have commitments from Congressman Jim Cooper's office that Rep. Cooper will be represented.

The Nashville Tennessean is giving us a story tomorrow (Saturday) on the Gathering which should help boost turnout. We also did a half hour public service program yesterday during "drive time" on the largest Black-owned radio station in Nashville, which should help. We need to pack the 300+ seat Benton Chapel to show the Nashville media that there is a large and growing community of people in this ORANGE state who will not stand for the 2004 election theft. So come if you can.

By the way, Benton Chapel is on the northeast corner of the Vanderbilt campus, off 21st Avenue, uphill from Starbuck's (which used to be O'Charley's.)