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April 28, 2004

ALTRIA PROTEST
April 29, 2004

National/International Press Coverage

• Associated Press: Protesters target cigarette-maker Altria's 'lies'
  The AP article ran in over 50 online and/or print versions of newspapers around the country, including the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and the Richmond Times Dispatch (home turf newspaper for Philip Morris).*
  
  
• Three Associated Press photos by Warren Westura:

Photo 1: Members of the Youth Leadership Institute, a national organization based in San Francisco [demonstrate outside of Altria's Meeting of Stockholders]

Photo 2: Sharon Brown, of Tuscon, Ariz, a member of Nightingales, a national organization [holds a photo of her father (killed by tobacco) at a press conference outside of Altria's Meeting of Stockholders]

Photo 3: Patrick Delaney, a regional vice president of the American Cancer Society, speaks to anti-smoking groups in a protext at Altria Group Inc.'s annual meeting. On the ridge is Kraft Foods Inc.'s research center in East Hanover, NJ. (printed in The Richmond Times Dispatch)

• CNN filmed the youth rally outside the Altria meeting. Sebastian Cortes, a foreign exchange student from Colombia who attends high school in Wisconsin, was excited to learn that his grandmother saw him on CNN in Colombia!
  

New Jersey Press Coverage

• Daily Record: Altria protesters are fuming mad; 200 demonstrate at shareholders meeting
  
  
• Star Ledger: Protesters heat up Altria meeting
  
  
• Daily Record: Altria CEO says smokers have a choice; Few shareholders vote for resolutions to cut health risks
  
  
• Channel 12

Press Coverage in Other States and Communities

• The Daily Messenger (NY): Picketing Big Tobacco; A handful of local teens joined others from around the country to picket a New Jersey tobacco company's annual shareholder's meeting, Page 2 Note: Altria is incorporated in Virginia, not New Jersey
  
  
• Dover Community News (NH): Dover teens take on big tobacco
  
  
• Beloit Daily News (WI): Local youths protest tobacco giant; Tobacco-free kids talk to shareholders Note: One of 5 articles that ran in Wisconsin newspapers. Provoked the following rant from the Forces International (a tobacco industry front group): Anti tobacco dolts: But would you want your daughter to marry one of them?
  

Miscellaneous

• Press Release (written by youth)
  
  
• Zine: License Revoker (created by youth)
  

* Newspapers that ran the AP story in online and/or print version (in alphabetical order by state): Times Daily, AL; Tuscaloosa News, AL; Los Angeles Times, CA; Monterey County Herald, CA; North County Times, CA; The Porterville; Recorder, CA; San Jose Mercury News, CA; San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA; WTOP, D.C.; Bradenton Herald, FL; Miami Herald, FL; Ocala Star-Banner, FL; Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL; Tallahassee.com, FL; The Ledger, FL; Atlanta Journal Constitution, GA; Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA; Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN; Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN; Kansas.com, KS; Kentucky.com, KY; Lexington Herald Leader, KY; Maysville Ledger Independent, KY; Boston.com, MA; Worcester Telegram, MA; Baltimore Sun, MD; MLive.com, MI; Duluth News Tribune, MN; Kansas City Star, MO; Biloxi Sun Herald, MS; Charlotte Observer, NC; Grand Forks Herald, ND; Newsday, NY; Akron Beacon Journal, OH; Springfield News Sun, OH; Centre Daily Times, PA; Montgomery County Record, PA; Philadelphia Inquirer, PA; phillyburbs.com, PA; Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC; The State, SC; Rapid City Journal, SD; Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX; Richmond Times Dispatch, VA; Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA; Canada.com, Canada; CBC News, Canada