The NEWS (Monrovia)
5 September 2008
Monrovia — The Alliance for Peace and Democracy (APD), a coalition of the Liberia People's Party (LPP) and the United People's Party (UPP) will hold a joint symposium later this month in memory of the late legendary politician Gabriel Baccus Matthews.
Slated for Monday, September 29, 2008 at the University of Liberia Auditorium, the symposium is expected to bring together progressives including Dr. Amos Sawyer, Oscar Jaryee Quiah, Cllr. Chea Chepoo and Dr. H. Boima Fahnbulleh, among others.
An APD release said the late Matthews always stood by the side of the oppressed and downtrodden masses in their quest for participation in the affairs of Liberia and equal distribution of the nation's resources.
APD: "As there is a time to plant, and time to harvest, so was the case of Liberia's social justice advocate in person of the late Comrade Gabriel Baccus Matthews who, on September 7, 2007, left the face of the earth, leaving his fellow compatriots in the struggle for participatory democracy in Liberia and across Africa."
"He braved the storms in the early 1970s to rally other progressive Liberians to challenge the True Whig Party oligarchy in its unrestrained one party and class dominance over the political landscape.
Baccus' crusade culminated in the formation of the Progressive Alliance of Liberia (PAL) and subsequently the Progressive People's Party (PPP) and today the United People's Party (UPP)," the APD added.
Mr. Matthews died a year ago in Monrovia following a brief illness.
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