Date sent: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 01:39:39 -0400 (EDT) To: c-news@world.std.com From: Bob Larimer Subject: C-NEWS: Alveda King, niece of MLK, to speak in Seattle on Initiative 677 Send reply to: Bob Larimer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The N.O.P.E. (No Official Preferences in Employment) Committee to Defeat Initiative 677 Announces: Dr. Martin Luther King's niece, Alveda King, is coming to Seattle, Washington to oppose Washington's homosexual initiative. Civil rights leader Alveda King will participate in a Seattle news conference on September 10, along with N.O.P.E. committee Spokesman Bob Larimer, to oppose a Washington state ballot measure giving special legal standing, protections and rights in the workplace based on wide-open definitions of "real or perceived" sexual orientations. Alveda King was recently in California standing with internationally acclaimed black pastor E. V. Hill and more than one hundred of Los Angeles' black ministers in opposition to similar legislation elevating homosexual behavior to "civil rights" status. While in California, King expressed outrage that 'sexual preference' is being equated with skin color. King stated: "By inserting this behavior into civil rights law, the true meaning of civil rights is destroyed." King is a veteran civil rights leader. She has participated in nonviolent sit-ins with her uncle and father during the peak of the civil rights movement. Her home has been firebombed due to her activities. Alveda King is the founder of King of America, Inc. She is also a member of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change; and she is a former Georgia state legislator. For more information, call N.O.P.E. at: 360-850-1272. ------- To subscribe to c-news, send the message SUBSCRIBE C-NEWS, or the message UNSUBSCRIBE C-NEWS to unsubscribe, to majordomo@world.std.com. Contact owner-c-news@world.std.com if you have questions.