Speakers and Schedule Released For Count Every Vote '08 Rally

WASHINGTON, May 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Organizers of the Count Every Vote '08 Rally are confirming the schedule and speakers at the convening of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting. The meeting is being held today at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington DC where the Committee is expected to rule on the disposition of the Florida and Michigan state delegations to the Democratic National Convention.

There are two rally sites permitted. The first is on Woodley Road in front of the hotel. The main rally site and speaker area is in the park at the junction of Connecticut Ave, 24th St. & Calvert St.

Schedule:

7:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Attendees gather on Woodley Road outside of the
front entrance of the hotel.

8:45 a.m. Attendees move to park space at Connecticut Ave.
NW and Calvert St. NW

9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Rally activities and speakers

1:00 p.m. Stephanie Tubbs Jones leads attendees back to
Woodley Road outside of the front entrance of the
hotel

1:00 p.m. - conclusion Attendees will gather in front of hotel
of RBC meeting

TBD Post-rally news conference

Schedule of Speakers:

Emcee: Jehmu Greene

9:00 - 9:15 Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones

9:15 - 9:30 Marcia Dyson: Author/ Minister/ Activist Currently a
research associate at the University of Pennsylvania

9:30 - 9:45 Eric Massa: NYS Democratic Congressional Candidate

9:45 - 10:00 Kim Gandy: President of NOW organization

10:00 - 10:15 Sandy Rapp: Political Activist/Musician/
Songwriter-performer

10:15 - 10:30 Eleanor Smeal: President of the Feminist Majority
Foundation

10:30 - 10:45 Jim Hannagan: Founder of the Florida Demands Representation

10:45 - 11:00 Lulu Flores: President of National Women's Political Caucus

11:00 - 11:15 Brent Wilkes: Executive Director of LULAC (League of United
Latin American Citizens)

11:15 - 11:30 Amy Siskind

11:45 - 12:00 Meritxell Negre: Performance

12:00 - 12:15 Congresswoman Corrine Brown of the 32nd District of Florida

12:15 - 12:30 Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley-Former: Senior Advisor
to Secretary of State Madeline Albright and served as U.S.
Ambassador to Portugal

12:30 - 12:45 Allida Black: Founding member of WomenCount PAC, Project
Director and Editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers and
Research Professor of History and International Affairs

12:45 - 1:00 Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Count Every Vote '08 Committee was founded in March 2008 by a group of politically active Democratic women who came together to advocate in support of the candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton and other qualified women candidates across the country. They firmly believe in the core democratic principle that every vote should count.

WomenCount PAC was created to ensure that the 51 percent of American citizens who are women have their values and votes counted in the political process.

Source: WomenCount PAC

CONTACT: Stacy Mason, Managing Director, +1-650-793-3556,
Stacymason@aol.com, or Rosemary Camposano, Communications Director,
+1-650-740-5544, rosemary1ac@camposano.com, both for WomenCount PAC; Karen
Feldman, +1-518-828-4330, or +1-518-755-4441 cell, katskill@aol.com, for
Count Every Vote '08

Web Site: http://www.womencountpac.com/

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