Bishop Desmond Tutu @ City Hall 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov 21.

[beachmaster]

As soon as i rode up and saw no security i was suspicious. The fact that i could just stroll in made me even more suspicious, and then i saw a friend who took off work to come down and she told me the bad news.

 I hate to beat a dead horse, but there is a huge difference between Tutu coming and a program manager at the Tutu Peace Center coming.

Well in any case, i work for a nonprofit dealing with Africa can i get a key to the city??? Maybe i'll tell city hall that Winnie Mandela is coming and show up myself...

and yes Jenny that was Lipski with the non-Tutu, i can't think of a better ambassador for Jersey City!

[jennymayla]

_{Byron Smith/The Jersey Journal}

+1 for concealing their disappointment!

Cute photo but please tell me that is not Lipski with the non-Tutu?

[super_furry]

_{Byron Smith/The Jersey Journal}

+1 for concealing their disappointment!

[jennymayla]

Once again, we can't have nice things.

How completely sad.  How do you "miscommunicate" such a thing?  Wasn't there any kind of confirmation?  Did they think he was just going to show up, no advance prep, no security, no special precautions?  So so sad.

I really cannot grasp the concept of thinking you are getting one of the greatest, most benevolent people of our time....but then not.

Poor old Jersey City.  Sigh.

[bdlaw]

Once again, we can't have nice things.

[beachmaster]

 +1 very disapointed to go there and not see him. I thought it was too good to be true..

At great inconvenience to myself, I went to city hall to see the Archbishop and was very disappointed that he was not there.

Shit happens, I guess.

[Kindelan]

At great inconvenience to myself, I went to city hall to see the Archbishop and was very disappointed that he was not there.

Shit happens, I guess.

[Woodsy]

Or not.

Nobel Peace Prize winner won't be there, but aide will
by The Jersey Journal Friday November 21, 2008, 3:07 PM

Noble Peace Prize winner and noted activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu will not attend a ceremony to honor him today, because of a "miscommunication," a spokeswoman for Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said today.

The Jersey will present a proclamation and give the keys to the city to one of Tutu's aide, Thabo Mashulogo, for Tutu'sr work with the Desmond Tutu Peace Center, spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said.

Morrill said the city expected Tutu to attend, but this afternoon was told that an aide was going to accept the keys to the city, Morrill said.

Tutu, 77, became famous across the world in the 1980s by opposing apartheid in his native South Africa.

Still active in human and civil rights work, he uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed as founder and head of The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in Cape Town, South Africa.

Tutu also campaigns to fight the spread of AIDS, poverty and racism. In addition to the Nobel Prize in 1984, he has received the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and the Ghandi Peace Prize.

[Soshin]

how great for Jersey City!

Not so great for Desmond Tutu. 

I kid I kid.  Tutu and Mandela are two shining examples of how humanity is supposed to act, I wish more people were like them.

[beachmaster]

 how great for Jersey City!

[Kindelan]

I just spoke to someone at City Hall. It is open to the public.

[JCCA]

Mayor Healy to Welcome Nobel Prize Winner and South African Leader Bishop Desmond Tutu to Jersey City



JERSEY CITY – Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, members of the Municipal Council and other city officials will welcome Nobel Prize Winner Bishop Desmond Tutu to City Hall during a ceremony at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, 280 Grove Street. Mayor Healy will present Tutu, a South African cleric and activist who rose to international fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid, with a proclamation and a key to the city. In 1984, Tutu became the second South African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu has remained active in human and civil rights work and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. He is the founder and head of The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. Tutu also campaigns to fight the spread of AIDS, poverty and racism.
In addition to the Nobel Peace Prize, Tutu is also the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and the Ghandi Peace Prize. Tutu has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.

All media inquiries should be directed to Jennifer Morrill, Press Secretary to Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy at 201-547-4836 or 201-376-0699.

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