WORLD AIDS DAY DEC 1st

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Wall Las Memorias Project

November 19, 2009

Keith Malone, (323) 514-3282



Eastside World AIDS Day Observance

Honors the Memory of AIDS Activist & MTV’s

The Real World’ Star Pedro Zamora



With Zamora’s sister and niece in attendance, organizers of the event will launch a

campaign to ask the U.S. Postal Service to honor Zamora’s legacy with a stamp.



WHAT The late Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist and star in the third season of

MTV’s “The Real World: San Francisco” series will be posthumously

honored and his name will be etched on the granite panels of the AIDS

monument at Lincoln Park on the eastside of Los Angeles.

As part of the evening’s ceremony, attendees will be asked to launch a

petition drive to honor Zamora’s legacy with a stamp.

His name will be unveiled along with other names that have been

added recently. They join more than 400 names that already grace the

granite panels of Las Memorias, a 9,000 square-foot monument.

More than 500 individuals, including partners and spouses, parents,

children and others who lost loved ones to AIDS will attend the

evening’s ceremonies which include a mix of spirituality and faith,

education and prevention, and advocacy.



WHO Attending:

Pedro Zamora’s sister, Mily Zamora and her daughter

California State Senator Gilbert Cedillo

Jonathan Murray, creator of “The Real World” (MTV)

Anticipated: Members of the cast of “Pedro,” a biopic of Zamora’s life

which aired April 1 on MTV, MTV Tr3s, mtvU and Logo.

Richard Zaldivar, founder and executive director, The Wall Las

Memorias.



WHEN Tuesday, December 1, 2008, beginning at 7 p.m.



WHERE Lincoln Park at 3540 Mission Road in Lincoln Heights. The monument

is located directly across from the DMV offices and next to Plaza de la

Raza.



ETC. The Wall Las Memorias Project (www.thewalllasmemoriasproject.org)

is dedicated to promoting wellness and preventing illness among

Latino populations affected by HIV/AIDS by using the inspiration of

The AIDS Monument as a catalyst for social change.



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