rainbowpush - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T16:20:02Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/rainbowpushMark Allen Joins Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr at Chicago BP Protest Friday May 28thhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/mark-allen-joins-rev-jesse2010-05-28T10:54:58.000Z2010-05-28T10:54:58.000ZMark S. Allenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen<div><h1 style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-title" align="center"><font size="4">Mark Allen, BLDI, BWS-C, Poor People's Campaign, Environmental activists, community organizers Joins Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr and The National Rainbow /PUSH Coalition in continued public protest and boycott call of BP, at BP site at 12th & Wabash in Chicago</font></h1><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-title" align="center"><em><span id="lw_1275043853_0" class="yshortcuts">The People</span> Must Not Pay The Bill For The BP Spill</em></p><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-meta" align="center"><div class="userpic pkg"></div></div><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="lw_1275043853_1" class="yshortcuts">773-392-0165</span></p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="lw_1275043853_2" class="yshortcuts"><strong><font size="5">FRIDAY, MAY 28th, 2010</font></strong></span></p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center"></p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center">Veteran Activist, <span id="lw_1275043853_3" class="yshortcuts">Mark Allen</span>, founder and president of The <span id="lw_1275043853_4" class="yshortcuts">Black Leadership Development Institute</span>, BLDI, and Board member of <span id="lw_1275043853_5" class="yshortcuts">The Black Wall Street -Chicago</span> Project, CBWS, The <span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="lw_1275043853_6" class="yshortcuts">Poor People's Campaign</span>, <span id="lw_1275043853_7" class="yshortcuts">Sierra Club</span>, other environmental activists and <span id="lw_1275043853_8" class="yshortcuts">community organizers</span> will join the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr, founder and President of <span id="lw_1275043853_9" class="yshortcuts">The National</span> Rainbow/PUSH Coalltion and Rainbow/PUSH members in a press conference and public demonstration in front of a <span id="lw_1275043853_10" class="yshortcuts">British Petroleum</span> (BP) gas station at 12th & Wabash in <span id="lw_1275043853_11" class="yshortcuts">Chicago beginning at 4:00 PM, Friday, May 28th, 2010.</span></p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center"></p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center">Allen, a former field director for Rainbow/PUSH iwill be back in the streets looking like the days of old with with Rev. Jackson, Rainbow/PUSH staff and members, complete with his Rainbow/PUSH "Boycott BP" signs and leading the demonstraters in chants like "Don't make us pay the bill for the BP spill." Allen joined Rev. Jackson in calling for citizens to step and protest the fact that BP is raising its gas prices on citizens to pay for the bill for BP, and to say that BP now stands for Bigger Protests, Better Protests, and Bolder Protests.</p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center"></p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center">With reference to Bigger Protests, Allen said that he will be lending his leadership and mobilization help in organizing a bigger citizen protest against BP site at 12th & Wabash with Rev. Jackson for <span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="lw_1275043853_12" class="yshortcuts">4:00 PM on Friday, May 28th</span>.</p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center"></p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center">The Black Leadesrhip Development Institute, BLDI</p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center">Black Wall Street-Chicago</p><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="lw_1275043853_13" class="yshortcuts"></span><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts">449 East 35th Street, 1st Floor</span></p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yshortcuts">Chicago, Illinois 60616</span></p><p style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;" class="entry-content" align="center"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="lw_1275043853_14" class="yshortcuts">312-624-8351</span> or direct 773-392-0165</p></div>