All Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia are called to a protest in front of Barnes and Noble Book Store in Edina, Minnesota on Sunday 20th of November at 6:00 pm. No less than Jimmy Carter himself, the former President of the United States of America and one of the most influential supporters of the Dictatorial Meles Zenawi regime will be there.
President Jimmy Carter will be in Minnesota to promote his latest book that discusses endangered US values and what he sees as a moral crisis in the country’s political system. He is able to discuss these issues openly and promote his idea because of the liberal politically permissive environment that he himself helped build in this country.
For President Jimmy Carter to support Meles Zenawi’s regime and deny similar freedoms to Ethiopians at a time when they are fighting for it desperately represents a blunder of great magnitude on his part. His misguided quiet support for the tyrannical regime in Ethiopia is absolutely dumbfounding when one adds to his achievements a 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for working to end violence and spread human rights around the world.
It might be cold and dark at 6:00pm on Sunday afternoon. Ethiopians and their friends have no cold to fear however. Their people are continuing to be killed and imprisoned for asking for their basic freedoms. Standing out in the cold for a few hours will only help to further demonstrate to President Carter, the media and citizens that rain or shine Ethiopians in Minnesota are by their people’s side. It will emphasize to all that some rights are non-negotiable and songs of freedom will fill the air for President Carter to hear even in a small city somewhere out in the Midwest.
Address of Protest
Parking Lot at: Galleria (Intersection of W. 69th St. and York Avenue)
3225 W. 69th
Edina, MN 55435
Concerned Ethiopians and Ethiopian Americans in Minnesota
For President Jimmy Carter to support Meles Zenawi’s regime and deny similar freedoms to Ethiopians at a time when they are fighting for it desperately represents a blunder of great magnitude on his part. His misguided quiet support for the tyrannical regime in Ethiopia is absolutely dumbfounding when one adds to his achievements a 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for working to end violence and spread human rights around the world.
It might be cold and dark at 6:00pm on Sunday afternoon. Ethiopians and their friends have no cold to fear however. Their people are continuing to be killed and imprisoned for asking for their basic freedoms. Standing out in the cold for a few hours will only help to further demonstrate to President Carter, the media and citizens that rain or shine Ethiopians in Minnesota are by their people’s side. It will emphasize to all that some rights are non-negotiable and songs of freedom will fill the air for President Carter to hear even in a small city somewhere out in the Midwest.
Address of Protest
Parking Lot at: Galleria (Intersection of W. 69th St. and York Avenue)
3225 W. 69th
Edina, MN 55435
Concerned Ethiopians and Ethiopian Americans in Minnesota
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