From: MPetrelis@aol.com Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:13:45 EDT Subject: Ad Hoc Committee demands MMOW open the books Ad Hoc Committee for An Open Process P.O. Box 1114, Old Chelsea Station New York, NY 10011 www.foranopenprocess.org News from the Ad Hoc Committee for an Open Process For Immediate Release: May 9, 2000 MEDIA CONTACTS: Leslie Cagan 212-927-8342 lesliecagan@igc.org Bill Dobbs 212-966-1091 duchamp@mindspring.com AD HOC COMMITTEE DEMANDS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY FROM MILLENNIUM MARCH -- OPEN THE BOOKS AND RECORDS. The Ad Hoc Committee calls for immediate financial accountability by promoters of the Millennium March and related events in Washington, DC April 28-30, 2000. The complete books, records, contracts, meeting and conference call minutes, corporate charters, etc. must be made immediately available for inspection. 1. Millennium March on Washington and Rally. The individual board members and the MMOW corporation must make this information available to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender community. The MMOW Board of Directors: Co-chairs Duane Cramer, Ann DeGroot, Nicole Murray-Ramirez, and Donna Red Wing; treasurer Michael Armentrout; and board members Charles Ching, Margaret Conway, Christopher Daigle, Ingrid Duran, Dennis Gorg, Jr., Kirsten Kingdon, Rabbi Jane Litman, Butch McKay, David Medina, Nick Metcalf, Irene Monroe, Deborah Oakley-Melvin, Rev. Troy Perry, Dana Rivers, and Elizabeth Toledo. The Millennium March failed to make good on its promise to open the books and records prior to the march. 2. Millennium Festival. The promoter, Millennium Productions, L.L.C., and the individuals involved must make this information available to the GLBT community. Jose A. Ucles, executive director; David W. Andrews, director. 3. Equality Rocks concert. The promoter, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the individual board members and the concert producers must make this information available to the GLBT community. The HRC Foundation board members are: Vic Basile, Edith Dee Cofrin, Vincent Friia, Ellen Malcolm, Hilary Rosen, Andrea Sharrin. Concert producers are Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director, The Human Rights Campaign; Laurette Healey, President, Entertainment Marketing Associates; Bill Leopold, President, W.F. Leopold Management, Hilary Rosen, President, Recording Industry Association of America; and Lisa Sanderson, Partner/Producer, Red Strokes Entertainment; Judy Wieder, Editor in Chief of The Advocate and Ingrid Casares, CP Ventures. 4. Millennium March Official Gala Dinner at Ronald Reagan Center. The promoter, Montage Events, (San Diego, CA) and producer Rob Appel must make this information available to the GLBT community. Millennium March events were organized and promoted in the name of the GLBT community. More important, organizers promised these events would benefit the GLBT community financially as well as politically. Many of the media outlets we might rely on to report about march profits and financial matters are sponsors of the Millennium March or related events including Planet Out, The Advocate, Gay.com, Chicago Free Press, Curve, Florida Gazette, Genre, Girlfriends, HERO, HX Magazine, instinct, MetroSource, On Our Backs, OUT, WOMO, Next Magazine, Odyssey, Buzz Magazine, Frontiers Newsmagazine, San Francisco Frontiers, In Los Angeles, Gay & Lesbian Times. Such sponsorships compromise the ability of those media outlets to provide fair coverage. Opening the books to immediate public scrutiny is the first step in ensuring accountability. Let the sun shine in. -30- Michael Petrelis Welcome to AIDS-STATISTICS www.AIDS-statistics.com 2215-R Market Street, #413 San Francisco, CA 94114