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Subject: Breaking News
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:09:42 -0400
From: Ujima People Progress Party <uppmaryl...@gmail.com>
BALTIMORE, July 20, 2016 - The Ujima People’s Progress Party (UPP)
Organizing Committee is proud to formally announce that their candidate,
Nnamdi Scott _www.nnamdiscott2016.com
<http://www.nnamdiscott2016.com/>,_ has succeeded in securing a place on
the ballot as the people’s candidate for this November’s general election.
*For Immediate Release*
July 20, 2016
Contact: Abdul Jabbar Caliph 610-621-0699 <tel:610-621-0699>
/nnamdiscott4baltim...@gmail.com <mailto:nnamdiscott4baltim...@gmail.com>
*Black Workers-led Party Candidate Gains Ballot Access in Baltimore City*
*/Social Justice Candidate Challenges Establishment Politics in
Baltimore’s 7th District/*
Responding to the demands of the 2015 uprising after the murder of
Freddie Gray, the UPP obtained the required petition signatures to place
a social justice candidate on the ballot within the district where Mr.
Gray lived. “My campaign is based on mobilizing and organizing people as
well as utilizing my position to bring out issues.”
When asked about the social justice points of his platform, Scott
continued, “I stand for $15 an hour now and a right to a union, not in
2020. I stand for grassroots economic development and believe that the
city of Baltimore, the state of Maryland and the Federal government need
to provide subsidies to build communities in West, East, and South
Baltimore not for upper class and upper middle class communities in Port
Covington.”
Scott also pointed out, “Freddie Gray did not die from carelessness.
Police brutality is not something Black people made up. Citizens need
to organize to build for community control and greater oversight of the
police. I say no justice, no peace.”
The Black independent organizing group succeeded in getting Mr. Scott on
the ballot in a city whose only petition candidate until this November’s
election qualified in 2004. Mr. Scott becomes the first African American
male in Baltimore’s election history to get on the general election
ballot as a petition candidate.
The tragic events of last year’s police murder and subsequent uprising
in Baltimore centered within the city's embattled 7th District in West
Baltimore. With nearly 24% of its population living in poverty and a 37%
unemployment rate for Black males ages 20-24, the growing demand for
real change in the treatment of Black and working poor communities have
made it possible for an independent candidate to be in a position to
challenge the two major party candidates regarding the issues of social
and economic justice.
When asked why he thinks his petition bid was able to succeed where
others failed, Scott responded, "Last April's rebellion in the 7th
district exposed decades of frustration and neglect experienced by the
Black community under Democratic party rule. Voting for the same party
and the same policies have failed us. People want a candidate who will
serve them and not the one percent."
Although Scott is running as an independent, he is a central leader of
the Ujima People's Progress Party Organizing Committee. Scott said, “The
Party is working to obtain ballot status to become Maryland’s first
Black worker-led electoral party for social and economic justice for
black, brown, and working class people throughout the entire state.”
*End of Release*
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