UN 42nd and 1st Ave. in Ralphe Bunche Park.
Freedom fast observing prisoners of conscience around the world including 7-year old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, occupied Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama, Nobel Peace Prize candidate Wei Jingsheng, and Wang Dan.
10, 3pm-5pm - Guest Speakers - Same location as above at RB Park
3:00 - Opening Statement
Pema Gashon, President Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, NY & NJ
3:05 - Opening Invocation/Chanting
3:15 - First Speaker
Kasur Dawa Tsering, Representative to His Holiness the Dalai Lama of the Americas
3:20 - 2nd Speaker
Xin Ku, Student leader from 1989 Beijing Pro-democracy movement and good friend of Wang Dan
3:25 - Chanting
3:45 - 2nd Speaker
Goodluck Diigbo, National President of National Youth Council of the Ogoni People
4:00 - Chanting
4:10 - 3rd Speaker
Dr. Thaung Htun, National Coalition Govt. Union of Burma, Burma UN Service Office
4:15 - 4th Speaker
Marco Perduca, Project Coordinator of the Transnational Radical Party
4:25 - Chanting
4:40 - 5th Speaker
Allan Nairn, Award winning journalist covered the 11/91 Dili massacre in East Timor
4:45 - 6th Speaker
Maggie Poe, Network Coordinator for National Labor Committee and Disney Campaign
4:50 - Closing
5pm to 5:30pm - March to Times Square
Begin at 42nd and 1st to 42nd and 6th Ave and up to 47th St. and Across to 47th and Broadway at Duffy Square Park Triangle in the heart of Times Square.
5:30pm - 7:30pm - Candlelight Vigil
At Times Square's Duffy Square Park Triangle at 47th and Broadway, Candlelight and observance.