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| Source | Dave Anderson |
| Date | 99/05/01/21:42 |
| /* Written 11:24 AM May 22, 1998 by jshell@netcom.com in igc:labr.all */ /* ---------- "Support the New Freedom Bus" ---------- */ Forwarded message: > From andersd@spot.colorado.edu Fri May 22 10:14:54 1998 > Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:07:54 -0600 (MDT) > From: ANDERSON DAVID > Subject: [Fwd: Support the New Freedom Bus] (fwd) > > Subject: Support the New Freedom Bus > > Hello everyone, > Thought you might be interested in the New Freedom Bus that will be > traveling the country beginning June 1, talking about economic rights, > democracy, global economic and political pressures, and more. Many > students are involved. Below is information on the tour and the cities it > will go through. The web site of the organizers is at the end of the > message. > Sandra Reid > Speakers for a New America > http://www.mcs.net/~speakers/ > > PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY > > The Economic Human Rights Campaign '98 is a national effort to highlight the > economic human rights abuses caused by welfare reform and poverty in the > United States. The Campaign is led by the National Welfare Rights Union, an > organization of poor and homeless women, men, and children from all races > struggling both to survive and to end poverty. The Campaign is spearheaded by > the Kensington Welfare Rights Union. (Kensington, located in North > Philadelphia, is the poorest area in the state of Pennsylvania, USA.) > > The new freedom bus - freedom from unemployment, hunger and homelessness - > will travel around the country visiting economic human rights tribunals where > documentation of these economic human rights abuses will be collected and the > efforts of poor communities to survive and fight back will be spotlighted. The > bus will take all of this documentation to the United Nations for an > international economic human rights tribunal on July 1st, where a formal case > against the United States will be initiated. > > The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), signed in > 1948 by many countries - including the United States - guarantees the basic > human rights of every man, woman and child. The Economic Human Rights Campaign > '98 focuses on articles 23, 25 and 26. These articles guarantee the right to - > a job with safe conditions of work and a living wage, join and form a trade > union, housing, food, healthcare, childcare and education. As a result of > recent federal and state welfare reform in particular, and global economic and > political pressures in general, welfare recipients, homeless families, > temporary and under-employed workers, immigrants, down-sized families, > students, and injured workers are just some of the many in this country who > are experiencing economic human rights violations. > > The New Freedom Bus - Freedom from Unemployment, Hunger and Homelessness: > > Philadelphia, PA - June 1 Send-off Rally > Boston, MA - June 1 > Springfield, MA - June 2 > Albany, NY - June 3 > Rochester, NY - June 3 > Lorain, OH - June 4 > Cleveland, OH - June 4 > Pittsburgh, PA - June 5 > Welch, WV - June 6 > Durham, NC - June 7 > Knoxville, TN - June 8 > Highlander Center- New Market, TN - June 9 > Atlanta, GA - June 9 > Macon, GA - June 10 > Dublin, GA - June 10 > Waycross, GA - June 10 > Columbia, MS - June 11 > Jackson, MS - June 11 > Little Rock, AK - June 12 > Louisville, KY - June 13 > Detroit, MI - June 15 > Ann Arbor, MI - June 15 > Chicago, IL - June 16 > Milwaukee, WI - June 17 > Minneapolis, MN - June 18 > Denver, CO - June 19 > San Francisco, CA - June 21 > Los Angeles, CA - June 23 > El Paso, TX - June 25 > Houston, TX - June 27 > Washington, DC - June 29 > Philadelphia, PA - June 29 > Elizabeth, NJ - June 30 > Fort Lee, NJ - June 30 Encampment in NJ, March to the United Nations > New York, NY - July 1 International Tribunal at the United Nations > 9am March over George Washington Bridge > 12noon Rally in New York City Against Workfare > 4:30-6:30pm International Tribunal at United Nations > > Please join us! > > For more information on any of our stops, to get involved or make a financial > contribution to the trip, please email us at kwru@libertynet.org or call us > at 215/203-1945. > > Visit the Economic Human Rights Campaign Webpage at: > > http://www.libertynet.org/~kwru |
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