Contact: Walter B. Hoye II, Issues4Life Foundation, 510-557-7716, life@issues4life.org

UNION CITY, Calif., Jan. 19, 2015 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Issues4Life Foundation is excited to announce its Eight (8th) Annual StandUp4Life Rally|Walk in Oakland, California on Friday, January 23rd, 2015. Starting at 12:00 Noon, the event will be held in the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, right in front of Oakland City Hall.

This year our guests will include, Augusta Lee Collins, a Bay Area Blues Hall of Fame member whose musical career spans fifty (50) years, Dr. Clenard H. Childress, Founder and Director of  BlackGenocide.Org and Maafa21 DVD Star, Connie Eller, President of Missouri Blacks for Life and Maafa21 DVD Star, Elaine Riddick, Executive Director of the Rebecca Project for Justice and Maafa21 DVD Star, Bruce Rivers, Pastor the Mount Moriah First Baptist Church in Dos Palos, California, Walter Moss, author of the book "Why I Am A Black Pro-Life Pastor" and Evangelist Richard Lane, who leads the only full time Black American Lay Catholic Ministry in the United States of America.

Walter B. Hoye II, Founder and President of the Issues4Life Foundation, said: "If Black lives matter, they have to matter in the womb first. Because if Black lives don't matter in the womb, they don't matter anywhere else. So join us and help us speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves."

For more event details please visit our website at: issues4life.org.