Prairie View March & Rally for Voting Justice

Tuesday Feb. 19, 2008 9:00 AM

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Prairie View A&M University
Student Government Association and Black Youth Vote! Texas will hold a march
and rally Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 9:00 AM to protest ongoing student
voting disfranchisement in Waller County Texas. The students will assemble at
the PVAMU Memorial Student Center at 9:00 AM and march to the courthouse in
Hempstead (over seven miles). Officials at the Historically Black University
agreed to excuse the 8000-plus student body to participate in the march, which
will take place on the first day of early voting.
WHAT: March & Rally - The students will leave from the Memorial
Student Center at 9:00 AM and march to the courthouse in
Hempstead.

WHEN: DATE: Tuesday February 19, 2008
TIME: 9:00 AM CT

WHERE: Memorial Student Center
Prairie View A&M University
Prairie View, TX 77446

WHY: In 2004 an estimated 5,000 students marched to demand the right
to vote without intimidation. In the 2006 election, hundreds of
newly registered students were turned away from the polls and
forced to vote with provisional ballots because their names
were never added to the Waller County voter registration rolls.
Recently the Waller County Commission decided to eliminate six
early voting locations in the county including the one adjacent
to campus.

ABOUT BLACK YOUTH VOTE
Black Youth Vote!, (www.ncbcp.org/byv) the youth division of the
Washington, DC based National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, is a
national grassroots coalition of organizations and individuals committed to
increasing political and civic involvement among black men and women aged 18-
35. Founded in 1996, the youth led organization educates young adults about
the political process and trains them to identify issues and influence public
policy through participation.
SOURCE Black Youth Vote!

Edrea Davis, +1-818-613-9521, edmedia@dogonvillage.com, or Christina Sanders,
+1-713-899-0737, both for Black Youth Vote!