Million Mom March

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FEBRUARY 13, 2004 10:18 AM	CONTACT: Million Mom March Peter Hamm, 202-898-0792

'Halt the Assault'; The Million Mom March, National Grassroots Advocacy Group, to Make Announcement Feb. 16

WASHINGTON - February 13 - Leaders of the Million Mom March, the nation's leading national chapter-based gun violence prevention group, will hold a press conference on Monday, Feb. 16 -- President's Day -- on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City to make an announcement regarding Mother's Day weekend of 2004. On Mother's Day 2000, the fledgling organization sponsored a march on Washington D.C. at which hundreds of thousands of "mothers and others" demanded that Congress pass sensible laws to protect American children from relentless gun violence. Monday's press conference will be held outside Martin Luther King, Jr. High School, where two students were wounded by gunfire on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday in January 2002. WHAT: Press Conference - The Million Mom March WHEN: Monday, Feb. 16, 10:15 a.m. WHERE: Outside Martin Luther King, Jr. High School, 66th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, New York, N.Y. ###