BRING THE FIGHT TO YOUR CAMPUS

HOST ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS WEEKS... Educate your campus on issues of poverty, homelessness, and economic human rights. Examples of activities for this week include distributing a food stamp lunch to fellow students; construction of a graveyard to capture the numbers of homeless people who die during the winter, conducting faculty panels on solutions to end poverty, etc. Contact us for more specific help with the planning of such weeks.

HOST A SPEAKER… The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign has a speaker's bureau. Our 40+ member organizations are available to speak about the campaign, human rights, poverty, organizing and a range of other topics. Email speakers@kwru.org for more information about speakers.

HOST A FILM SCREENING… Three documentaries, Poverty Outlaw, Outriders, and Battle For Broad have successfully portrayed our struggles. We can assist you in hosting a screening and follow-up discussion. Contact our office for information on how to order a copy of either documentary.

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS… As students we must also fight for our own rights. As the economy changes and as policy makers continue to roll back college assistance in the form of grants and other financial aid, students and recent graduates are finding themselves in increasingly troubling situations. From equal access to education to lack of health care insurance to the trouble of obtaining a living wage job upon graduation, we must begin to realize that the fight for economic human rights is a struggle that affects us all, including the college-educated.

FUNDRAISE… As students on college campuses you have access to a wide array of resources. On a daily basis we are figuring out how to keep our office running, pay our phone bill, deal with housing crisis', and, on top of these things, continue tobuild a broad based movement to end poverty. Get some friends together and host a dance, movie, art auction, or speaker. We invite you to be creative, and to figure out what activities would best inspire and motivate other students on your campus. In addition to cash donations we are also in need of in kind materials such as food, vehicles, office supples, or housing.

DOCUMENT ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS… We know that people all over this country are hurting because of the conditions of poverty and we consider those conditions to be a violation of our economic human rights. In October of 1999 in conjunction with the March of the Americas, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accusing the US government of violating economic human rights by implementing welfare reform. Over the past four years we have been collecting documentation of how individuals rights have been violated by the welfare cutbacks, but we always need more. Read our guidelines for documenting human rights violations by clicking here.

HAVE A HUMAN RIGHTS SCHOOL… The KWRU and the University of the Poor conduct human rights schools to teach some of the basics of our organizing method, which has enabled us to sustain and grow over the last ten years.

RESEARCH… In conjunction with the documentation of human rights violations, we are in need of ongoing research on poverty, economics (nationally and globally) and the effects of welfare reform. We are especially looking for information on the particularities of welfare reform in each state.

GET ONGOING UPDATES… Subscribe to our two listserves, kwru-announce and kwru-students, for more information about our ongoing activities and ways you can get involved. For more information on any of these ideas contact the KWRU office (215) 203-1945. Or e-mail us at students@kwru.org