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Full list of testimony given at the national truth commission

The Right to Health Care Panel
The Living Wage Struggles Panel
The Right to Housing Panel
The Right to Water, Utilities, Food, and other basic necessities
The Right to Education Panel
The Unjust Child Removal Panel

Right to Health Care Panel

Lori Smith
Tennesseans Fighting for Our Lives
Nashville, TN

Read the Transcript of Lori's Testimony

Barbara Baily
Health Care Now and the United Church of Christ


Read the Transcript of Barbara's Testimony

Muliaga Togotogo
CA Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
San jose, CA

Read the Transcript of Muliaga's Testimony

Judith Shega
UNITE HERE


Read the Transcript of Judith's Testimony

Janene Huffstater
Deaf and Deaf Blind Committee on Human Rights , DDBCHR
Cleveland, OH

Read the Transcript of Janene's Testimony

Ron Casanova
Artists For A Better America
NYC, New York

Read the Transcript of Ron's Testimony


Mailon Ellison
New Jerusalem Drug Recovery Program
Philadelphia, PA

Read the Transcript of Mailon's Testimony

Toni Washington
Musician
Philadelphia, PA

Read the Transcript of Toni's Testimony

Amy Bolt
Organize! Ohio


Read the Transcript of Amy's Testimony

Bill and Brenda Hawn
Single Payer Action Network
Ohio

Read the Transcript of the Hawns' Testimony

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testimony: Living wage stuggles Panel

Pete Meyers
Tompkins County Worker’s Rights Center
Ithaca, NY

Read the Transcript of Pete's Testimony

Vernetta King
UNITE HERE


Read the Transcript of Vernetta's Testimony

Lee Sui Hin
Immigrant Solidarity Network


Read the Transcript of Lee Sui Hin's Testimony

Silvia Berrones-TreviÑo
Lideres Campesinas
Pomona, CA

Read the Transcript of Sylvia's Testimony

Francisca Cortes
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Immokalee, FL

Read the Transcript of Francisca's Testimony 

Deaf and Deaf Blind Committee on Human Rights (DDBCHR)
Cleveland, OH

Donn Teske
President, Kansas Farmers Union
Kansas City, KS

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Ann Patterson
Minneapolis, MN

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testimony: Right to Housing Panel

Leslie Miles
Katrina survivor displaced in Philly
New Orleans, LA

Read the Transcript of Leslie's Testimony

Charlotte Delgado
President, National Alliance of HUD Tenants


Read the Transcript of Charlotte's Testimony

Christina Densmore
Arise for Social Justice
Springfield, MA

Read the Transcript of Christina's Testimony

Coalition to Protect Public Housing
Chicago, IL

Charlotte Keys
Jesus People Against Pollution
Colombia, MS

Read the Transcript of Charlotte's Testimony 

Wanda Riley
Deaf and Deaf Blind Committee on Human Rights (DDBCHR)
Cleveland, OH

Read the Transcript of Wanda's Testimony

Tenel Curtis
Hurricane Katrina Survivor
New Orleans, LA

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Right to The Right to Water, Utilities, Food, and other basic necessities

Erma Ramos
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Philadelphia, PA

Read the Transcript of Erma's Testimony

Gwendolyn Gains and Warrington Bryant
Michigan Welfare Rights Union
Detroit, MI

Read the Transcript of Gwendolyn and Warrington's Testimony

Nikki McLean
Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights
Portland, Maine

Read the Transcript of Nikki's Testimony

Brenda Pitts
Organize! Ohio
Ohio

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Testimony: The Right to Education

Maureen Taylor
Michigan Welfare Rights Union
Detroit, MI

Read the Transcript of Maureen's Testimony

Eric Cavitt
Loring Nicolett Alternative School
Minneapolis, MN

Read the Transcript of Eric's Testimony

Ellen Spristersbach
Deaf and Deaf Blind Committee on Human Rights (DDBCHR)
Cleveland, OH

Charles Anderson
Iraq Veterans For Peace

Read the Transcript of Charles's Testimony

Chucky Saez
Read by Rocco Rosanio
Incarcerated Youth
Philadelphia, PA
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testimony: Unjust Child Removal Panel

Virginia Durrance
Women in Transition
Louisville, KY

Read the Transcript of Virginia's Testimony

“Amanda” (anonymous testimony read by Jesse Vear)
Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights
Portland, Maine

Read the Transcript of Amanda's Testimony

Robert Hoague
Arise for Social Justice
Springfield, MA

Read the Transcript of Robert's Testimony

Bonnie Macri (testifying on behalf of the Bierly family)
JEDI for Women
Salt Lake City, UT

Read the Transcript of Bonnie's Testimony

Zenaida "Julie" Cosme
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Philadelphia, PA

Read the Transcript of Julie's Testimony

DawnMarie Fucile
Deaf and Deaf Blind Committee on Human Rights (DDBCHR)
Cleveland, OH

Read the Transcript of DawnMarie's Testimony

Shamyra Lady Dove Bey
Ohio


Read the Transcript of Shamyra's Testimony

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