GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
AGAINST BIG TOBACCO



April 28-29, 2004
East Hanover, NJ

LICENSED TO KILL, INC
1st SHAREHOLDERS MTG
April 28, 2004

ALTRIA PROTEST
April 29, 2004

PRESS CONFERENCE
April 29, 2004
Licensed to Kill, Inc
We're Rich, You're Dead!

Photo credit: Youth Leadership Institute

MEDIA COVERAGE

National/International Press Coverage

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

Press Coverage in Other States and Communities

Miscellaneous

* 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


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