Thursday, October 30, 2008

HELLENIC-AMERICAN COMMUNITY SHOUTS “SHAME ON FYROM” OPPOSITE THE US MISSION TO THE UN IN NEW YORK

HELLENIC-AMERICAN COMMUNITY SHOUTS “SHAME ON FYROM” OPPOSITE THE US MISSION TO THE UN IN NEW YORK
Numerous videos of the Rally are being uploaded and are available at the
CANAgrassroots You Tube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/CANAgrassroots )

NEW YORK—The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) played its part this week for the HELLENIC HUMAN RIGHTS campaign, by organizing the first successful rally for the campaign opposite the US Mission to the UN in New York on October 27, 2008 during the mid-Manhattan lunch hours of 12Noon-2PM.
The aim of the campaign, supported by a broad range of human rights, ethnic, advocacy, and Hellenic community based partners, is to ensure that the US State Department promptly and properly investigate human rights violations against Hellenes living in FYROM.
Throughout the meeting, attendees were asked by rally leaders to hold up their cellular phones, to immediately call the US Mission to the UN, and urge them to investigate human rights violations perpetrated against Hellenes in FYROM.

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