On April 26th 2008 from 9am-5pm, PPEHRC will convene our Health Care as a Human Right! Conference at Sabathani Community Center In Minneapolis, MN as a part of our organizing building up to the RNC. More info...
To be held in Minneapolis, MN at the Republican National Convention 2008
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On June 29th at 3PM, PPERHC marched from the History Martin Luther King, Jr. Center to the Headquarters of Coca Cola demanding that another US is Necessary. at the USSF, We hosted sessions and workshops in a Tent highlighting poverty in the US.
Read: PPEHRC March at the USSF |
Why the USSF?: Another World is Possible, Another United States is Necessary
On July 15 and 16, 2006, PPEHRC made history in Cleveland, OH by holding the first National Truth Commission on Poverty in the USA.
Read the Report | Testimony | Watch the Commissioner's Opening Addresses
Another World is Possible! PPEHRC sends delegation of 100 to the 2006 WSF...
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The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign Holds a Successful, Unpermitted,
Peaceful March at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
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WIT is broadening their scope and strengthening their efforts in fighting the injustices mothers are facing in the Child Welfare System.
Read News Coverage:
WLWT Channel 5 Feb 8, 2007
Courier Journal Jan 18, 2007
News Enterprise Jan 18, 2007
Courier Journal Dec 19, 2006
May 9th, 2008
Read the announcement... Read it here
UPDATED: May 9th, 2008
PPEHRC Nat'l Organizer, Cheri Honkala, helps lead march and takeovers in Nashville.
Read the Tennessean article
Watch: Nashville Channel 5 coverage | Interview with
PPEHRC's Cheri Honkala | NHPP's Jeannie Alexander
May 5th, 2008
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Feb 5th, 2008
"Homeless Hero" tells the story of Cheri Honkala's rise from homelessness to the leadership of a growing popular movement in America.
Watch "Homeless Hero" here...
Aug 8th, 2007
EHR Documentation and Violation Report form | Guide to Organizing a Truth Commission | Guide to Documenting EHR Violations
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The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is committed to uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty. We work to accomplish this through advancing economic human rights as named in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights- such as the rights to food, housing, health, education, communication and a living wage job.
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This project aims to highlight the millions of Americans who have suffered economic human rights violations in the richest country in the history of the world--those who have been laid off, denied healthcare, lived in shelters, had their children taken away, and gone without food for their families.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the international standard for Human Rights, expresses the rights due every human being - including food, housing, and living wage jobs. While claiming to defend human rights, the United States has consistantly ignored and undermined the global consensus on economic human rights. Economic Human Rights are mainly expressed in articles 23, 25, and 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights