FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: Rev. Dr. Anne Armstrong 401-304-6543 annearmstrongri@gmail.com

“We Apologize forAnti-Rastafarian Bigotry, Mockery”

“Cannabis Catholics” Don Sackcloth-&-Ashes,to Repent for Jamaican Rastafarians’ ill-treatment,

in Symbolic Presentation to singer Ziggy Marley at Upcoming Concert

Church activists pay tribute at the new Portsmouth NH African Burial Ground Memorial 9/2015

What: Local Cannabis Church to wear sackcloth and ashes to present 3 ceremonial apology artefacts to Ziggy Marley and/or his representatives.

Where: Stage Right at the Ziggy Marley concert at the Alex and Ani Center (see map below for pinpoint)

When: 7:00 pm, Friday, September 23, 2016, just before the Ziggy Marley concert

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: Rev. Dr. Anne Armstrong 401-304-6543 annearmstrongri@gmail.com

Rev. Dr. Anne Armstrong, Deaconess and leader of The Healing Church, RI’s native cannabis-using Catholic apostolate, will present 3 gifts of repentance to reggae singer Ziggy Marley before his upcoming Waterfire performance in downtown Providence.

Armstrong says she hopes the Marley will accept, on behalf of the Rastafarian tradition, her Church’s symbolic offerings on behalf of American and Christian repentance. She also hopes the international star will offer words of advice to Americans who want to help undo the damage inflicted. Ziggy Marley is the son of Rastafarian “Prophet,” Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley, and the younger Marley is considered by many to be a Prophet in his own right, judged by a spirit of compassion, wisdom and equality in his song lyrics.

Rev. Dr. Armstrong, a well-known RI Catholic figurehead for decades, carries a recent letter from the Pope’s US ambassador, addressed to her while she sat in jail on cannabis charges, addressing her as “Rev. Dr.” Upon this authority, Armstrong rightly claims to be the first recognized female Catholic clergy and Deacon since the Biblical era when women like St. Phoebe served such roles. As such, she says, she is entitled to speak for the Catholic Church and its offshoots, and is eager to apologize in the spirt of Pope Francis’ recent social justice forays. “Pope Frances has sent me three separate affirmations, so I am entitled,” she says.

Armstrong says she and Church canon Alan Gordon hope to present, on behalf of Catholicism and its offshoot, the Church of England, one gift for each of 3 historic woes inflicted by her culture on Rastafarians.

One, she says, is under-reported historic anti-Rastafarian violence nearly on the order of the Holocaust, in terms of the severity of its effect on its victims.

Second, says Armstrong, an apology is due for the number of Westerners who mock Rasta traditions (such as “Pastafarians”), wrongly thinking it a new religion invented to justify cannabis and/or other non-conformist behavior.

Third, Armstrong says, Rastafarianism’s increasing popularity with whites creates risk of glossing over the history of “unspeakable” racist violence without due reflection. One example she points to is the recent US State Department Religious Freedom report, which she calls a “liberal feel-good report on the oppression of Rastafarian practice in numerous countries, while the US still eagerly oppresses the faith themselves.” Armstrong’s Apostolate, like the Rastafarian faith, accepts as true the ancient texts telling the Blessed Mother’s childhood as a Temple Priestess, dancing on the Temple’s 3rd step under the KNH BSM oil lamp hung there. “Rastafarians almost single-handedly kept the truth alive during the Time of the Lie, despite brutality and deliberate deprivation of the most basic needs by their neighbors,” says Armstrong.

Church canon Alan Gordon, who holds a 2012 UK law degree with top marks in International Law, says: “In truth, the historical systemic use of unwarranted violence against Rastafarianism meets the UN’s legal definition of “Genocide,” a type of Crime Against Humanity, because it disrupted a religion/culture’s reproduction, through death, incarceration, and deprivation of medicine, food, water, and education.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: Rev. Dr. Anne Armstrong 401-304-6543 annearmstrongri@gmail.com

According to Alan Gordon, a religious cannabis historian, “systemic historic brutal oppression” of Rastafarians in Jamaica and elsewhere is now at grave risk of being swept under the carpet in an ironic wave of increasing popularity of reggae spirituality among American and European whites. Most white fans of reggae and Rastafarianism are grateful for the cultural exposure, but due to “white-washing” by corporate filters, have no inkling of the suffering behind the ancient memes the Rastafarians kept alive, says Gordon.

The three gifts to be presented by The Healing Church are:

1. A copy of Armstrong and Gordon’s book about Biblical “KNH BSM”, illustrated with photographs of Cathedral Bible art which the pair say depict cannabis prominently.

2. A copy of UK human rights law scholar Melissa Bone’s book chapter criticizing hypocritical application of law against Rastafarians in the US, UK and other nations.

3. A copy of Armstrong and Gordon’s book about the German enemy wartime confessions and known links of Harry J. Anslinger, the notorious racist who authored uniform cannabis ban language for not just all of the American States, but the whole world through a UN treaty he authored.

Gordon has previously made news in Sept 2014, in Bermuda, criticizing police maltreatment of Rastafarian People.http://bernews.com/2014/09/gordon-double-standard-for-rastas-hebrews/

Location map for planned ceremony