ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, ANOTHER UNITED STATES IS NECESSARY

As the United States engages in conflicts around the world, there is a hidden but deadly war going on within the US borders. This unreported war has left millions of poor and working families in the US without basic economic human rights to food, housing, healthcare, education, communication and living wage jobs.

The billions spent on financing the War in Iraq translate into the cruelest budget cuts at the city, state and federal levels in decades, Funding to education, health care, housing, social assistance, drug rehabilitation, and benefits for vets and active duty soldiers have been slashed. The poor are paying the price for the war.

While our nation responded to terrorist attacks on 9/11 with the full strength of the federal government, Hurricane Katrina was another story. Over a million were left homeless and over a thousand washed up dead. Meanwhile tens of thousands sat in the convention center for a week without electricity, water and food as temperatures exceeded 100 degrees.

Every day each of our survival is at risk, no matter what race we are, if we are educated or not or what class we were raised in. We are living in a time when record numbers of people in our rich country are falling into permanent unemployment, homelessness and abject poverty, and where 44 million are currently without health care in the United States, and 71 million have been without coverage in the past two years.

The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign

The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) is committed to unite the poor across all 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, including the right to food, housing, health, education, communication, and a living wage job.

"PPEHRC and the United States Social Forum

From June 27th through July 1st, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) will attend and participate in the United States Social Forum (USSF). The United States Social Forum will provide a process to build a powerful movement in this country based on the organized voices and experiences of those most affected by US and global injustices. The USSF will also provide space to build relationships, learn from each other's experiences, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, and bring renewed insight and inspiration. It will help develop leadership and develop consciousness, vision, and strategy needed to realize another world.

The PPEHRC is organizing to bring together hundreds of poor people and allies from throughout the country to participate in this event. Immigrant farm worker-organizers from Immokalee, Florida, to homeless children and their unemployed parents in Philadelphia, to survivors of Hurricane Katrina will all join together for this imperative time in history.

Today, we, this growing movement of the poor in the US, stand among millions of the world’s people in denouncing both the war and the impoverishment of the world’s majority. Despite every effort to keep the poor in the United States isolated and to divide us from the rest of the poor internationally, we will constantly stand up in unity with the poor of the world to reclaim a world without poverty and war, a world with Human Rights for all.

For more information contact:

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
PO Box 50678
Philadelphia, PA 19132

Website: www.economichumanrights.org

Contact person:
Emily Carlson
emilykwru@gmail.com
651-245-5107