Part of the reason that this war on the poor continues and why the poor are not surviving, is that our suffering has been made invisible. The poor have been disappeared from not only the welfare rolls and the workforce, but from the media and the political debates. Our stories are not told and our images are not seen. Our invisibility has allowed our situation to be ignored by our politicians, who have not placed a priority on addressing the increasing number of poor families and our worsening conditions. We know that in order to win this war and to survive, the faces of America's poor must be shown. If the general public knew our stories and saw our faces, we know that something would be done. The timing is critical. We need economic human rights to be a priority or many of us who have been abandoned by political parties in the past, simply will not make it.

Join us as we share in the tradition of our brothers and sisters from around the world and hold a Truth Commission to expose these human rights violations and gross economic violence. Send us your stories! Come bear witness to our struggles!

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