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Schedule
for Bushville
August 23-30, 2004
Monday,
August 23
Bushville
is up!!
802 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY
(G train to Myrtle-Willoughby Aves)
Special thanks to Mt. Zion Christian Church of Christ Disciples Incorporated
for the use of their church and lot
11:00am-1:00pm
- New York City Poverty Reality Tour - Leaders of the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign will bring press and other interested
groups and individuals on poverty reality tours of New York City's Boroughs
12:00pm-1:00pm
- Lunch
1:00pm-2:30pm
- What Are Economic Human Rights and Who is the Poor People's Economic
Human Rights Campaign?
3:00-6:00
- Day of organizing: sign making, local outreach, documenting human
rights violations
6:00pm-7:00pm
- Dinner
Tuesday,
August 24
11:00am-1:00pm
- New York City Poverty Reality Tour - Leaders of the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign will bring press and other interested
groups and individuals on poverty reality tours of New York City's Boroughs
12:00pm-1:00pm
- Lunch
1:00pm-2:30pm
- What Are Economic Human Rights and Who is the Poor People's Economic
Human Rights Campaign?
6:00pm-7:00pm
- Dinner
7:00pm-9:00pm
- The War on Drugs and the War on the Poor: Video Showing and Discussion
of the Drug War Reality Tour
Wednesday,
August 25
11:00am-1:00pm
- New York City Poverty Reality Tour - Leaders of the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign will bring press and other interested
groups and individuals on poverty reality tours of New York City's Boroughs
12:00pm-1:00pm
- Lunch
1:00pm-2:30pm
- What Are Economic Human Rights and Who is the Poor People's Economic
Human Rights Campaign?
3:00pm-5:00pm
- Announcement of the participation of the poor from the United States
in the US Social Forum.
6:00pm
- BASKETBALL FUNDRAISER THE
POOR PEOPLE'S ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN Vs. BILLIONARES FOR BUSH
The
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign Takes on Billionaires for
Bush in Basketball Game to Raise Money for
the PPEHRC "March for Our Lives" on Opening Day of the Republican
National Convention.
Thursday,
August 26
11:00am
- Press Conference to announce the submission of a formal request for
a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the
Organization of American States about economic human rights violations
in the US. To be held at the Center for Constitutional Rights, 666 Broadway.
11:00am-1:00pm
- New York City Poverty Reality Tour - Leaders of the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign will bring press and other interested
groups and individuals on poverty reality tours of New York City's Boroughs
11:30pm-12:30pm
- Lunch
12:30pm
- 2:00pm - What Are Economic Human Rights and Who is the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign?
2:00pm-4:00pm
- Civil Disobedience and Human Rights Monitoring Training (Led by leaders
from the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, active lawyers
and religious leaders)
4:00pm-6:00pm
- Sharing Experience on Leadership Development - Member groups of the
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign will share lessons and
models for organizing for our economic human rights (Organized by the
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign's educational arm, the
University of the Poor School of Labor)
6:00pm-7:00pm
- Dinner
7:00pm-9:00pm
- Media Documentation Training - a hands on training on the use of photography,
video, audio, etc in documenting the movement to end poverty (Organized
by the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign's educational arm,
the University of the Poor Media College)
Friday, August 27
11:00am-1:00pm
- New York City Poverty Reality Tour - Leaders of the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign will bring press and other interested
groups and individuals on poverty reality tours of New York City's Boroughs
12:00pm-1:00pm
- Lunch
1:00pm
- 2:30pm - What Are Economic Human Rights and Who is the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign?
2:30-4:00pm
- "Just Health Care Campaign of the Labor Party" - a discussion
on the Labor Party's Health Care Plan and the Health Care Crisis in
the US
4:00pm-6:00pm
- Sharing Experience on Statewide Organizing - Member groups of the
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign will share lessons and
models for organizing for our economic human rights (Organized by the
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign's educational arm, the
University of the Poor, School of Labor)
5:00pm
- A delegation from the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
will attend the Immigrant Workers Speak Out at St Mark's Church, 131
E. 10th St.
7:00pm-10:00pm
- Potluck Dinner Honoring Marian Kramer - Co-Chair of the National Welfare
Rights Union
Saturday,
August 28
9:30-11:30am
- "What Are Economic Human Rights & Why Are They Important
for the Deaf Community" - a workshop for local Deaf folks. (Followed
by lunch with Bushville residents.)
9:30am-11:00am
-Sharing Experiences on the Plight and Fight of the Poor- Member groups
of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign will share lessons
and models of organizing for our economic human rights (Organized by
the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign's educational arm,
the University of the Poor School of Labor)
11:00am-1:00pm
- New York City Poverty Reality Tour - Leaders of the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign will bring press and other interested
groups and individuals on poverty reality tours of New York City's Boroughs
11:00am-12:00pm
- Sanctuary City - Homeless families with ARISE for Social Justice share
their experience of an on-going Tent City in Springfield, Massachusetts.
12:00pm-1:00pm
- Lunch
2:00pm-4:00pm
- Civil Disobedience and Human Rights Monitoring Training (Led by leaders
from the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, active lawyers
and religious leaders)
4:00pm-
4:30pm - A Workshop for Hearing Leaders on Working with Deaf and Deaf-Blind
Communities
4:30pm-6:00pm
- Human Rights Violations and Documentation - a time for poor people
to make their voices heard
6:00pm-7:00pm
- Dinner
7:00pm-10:00pm
- Break the Media Blackout: Documentary Showings and Discussion about
the Role of Multi-Media in the Movement to End Poverty (led by Members
of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign including: Poor
Voices United, Atlantic City, NJ; Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Immokalee,
FL; Loring Nicolett Alternative School, Minneapolis, MN and the Kensington
Welfare Rights Union, Philadelphia, PA)
Sunday,
August 29
11:00am
- Sunday Morning Worship at the Bushville (led by the Mt.
Zion Christian Church of Christ Disciples Incorporated, Community
Homeless Alliance Ministry, San Jose, CA and other members of
the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign)
11:00am-1:00pm
- New York City Poverty Reality Tour - Leaders of the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign will bring press and other interested
groups and individuals on poverty reality tours of New York City's Boroughs
12:00pm-4:00pm
- United for Peace and Justice March
5:30pm-7:00pm
- Good News from the Poor - a Panel Discussion on the Role of Religion
in the Movement to End Poverty (organized by the Poor People's Economic
Human Rights Campaign's educational arm, the University of the Poor
School of Theology)
7:00pm-8:00pm
- Dinner
8:30pm-10:30pm
- Young People in the Movement to End Poverty - a Discussion on the
Role of Kids and Young People in the Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign (led by the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign's
educational arm, the University of the Poor School of Youth and Parent
Leadership Panel and Loring Nicolett Alternative School)
Monday,
August 30
11:00am-1:00pm
- New York City Poverty Reality Tour - Leaders of the Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign will bring press and other interested
groups and individuals on poverty reality tours of New York City's Boroughs
11:00am-
12:30pm - "Battle for Broad Showing and Discussion"
12:30pm-1:30pm
- Lunch
4:00pm
- MARCH FOR OUR LIVES - assemble at Dag Hamerskold Plaza across from
the United Nations
9pm -
Hip Hop Benefit Concert for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign at Southpaw, 125 Fifth Ave, Brooklyn $10 cover charge
***Throughout
the week, residents at Bushville will be performing economic human rights
documentation in New York communities, leading community marches, and
preparing posters and signs for the March for Our Lives
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