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Peoria Area Green Party
For Immediate Release: September 15, 2020

U.S. Senate Candidate David Black to Visit Peoria

Peoria, IL—David Black, Illinois attorney and Green Party candidate for the United States Senate, will be in Peoria for a rolling meet and greet, news conference, and virtual open house on Tuesday, September 22, 2020.

The sites for the meet and greet/press conference are all outdoors. Social distancing will be observed and masks will be required in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. The event will begin at 2:45 pm at the NW corner of Jefferson Street and Main Street at the “Peace and Harvest” sculpture, created by artist Mary Anderson Clark. The candidate will address the Green New Deal and his position on military spending. The “Peace and Harvest” sculptures were created by a federally funded arts program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), in 1938. The agency employed over 8.5 million people from 1935–1943, a time of great economic strife due to the Great Depression. 

The event will move south on Jefferson Street to Preston Jackson’s “Knockin’ on Freedom’s Door” sculpture at the corner of Liberty Street and Jefferson Avenue, outside the Peoria Civic Center. The sculpture honors Peoria’s role in the historic Underground Railroad movement. While there, at 3:45 pm, Mr. Black will speak about U.S. border and amnesty issues. 

The final stop will take place at 4:45 pm, at the site of Preston Jackson’s Richard Pryor sculpture, titled “Richard Pryor: More Than Just a Comedian,” at the corner of  SW Washington Street and State Street. Mr Black will speak to the issue of police violence as documented in the life history of one of Peoria’s greatest comedians, who spoke out about his relationship with the police in the 1970s. In visiting these public sculptures, the Peoria Area Green Party hopes to convey that Peoria’s values are Green Party values. 

Finally, the candidate will host a Virtual Open House at 7:00 pm, open to everyone, to discuss his entire platform and to answer questions from the general public. More information to access the event is found at: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/2724239147818886/. Questions for the virtual open house may be submitted to Peoria Area Green Party Coordinator Sheldon Schafer at 309-868-4028 or via email [email protected]. 

For further information please contact Peoria Area Green Party spokesperson Sheldon Schafer at 309-682-1876 or via email at [email protected].

Illinois Green Party Outreach
http://www.ilgp.org/