URGENT PRESS ADVISORY
CONTACT: MELINDA SHELTON, 767; KATIE BEMAN, 771

"HUNGRY FOR JUSTICE" DAY 6:

TUESDAY, AUG. 6, 1996

Activists are planning additional actions in response to President Clinton's signing or veto of the punitive welfare bill that will thrust millions of poor people deeper into poverty:

• On the day Clinton acts, another intense demonstration will take place at either 12 noon (if he acts in the morning) or at 5:30 p.m. (if he acts in the afternoon) in Lafayette Park across from the White House.
• Until Clinton acts, NOW President Patricia Ireland, NOW Membership Vice President Karen Johnson, activist Dick Gregory, along with several NOW staff members and other protesters will continue their fasts. Daily activities at Lafayette Park include a vigil from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., speakout at 12 noon, and candlelight vigil from 8:30-9:30 p.m.

More than 75 activists joined in Monday night's candlelight vigil, and hundreds of individuals joined a demonstration last Thursday.

Groups participating in the ongoing protests include: NOW, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Feminist Majority, the National Welfare Rights Union, the National Rainbow Coalition, the National Union of the Homeless, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Human Rights Campaign, the Gray Panthers, the Mexican American Women's National Association, the United Methodist Church, the National Council of Jewish Women, Network -- the National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, the Older Women's League and Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law.