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POOR
PEOPLE'S ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (PPEHRC)
MARCH
DIARIES
MISSION STATEMENT Espanol
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign is building a movement that unites the poor across color lines.
Daily more and more Americans of all colors are downsized and impoverished. We share a common interest in uniting
against the prevailing conditions and around our vision of a society where
we all have the right to health care, housing, living wage jobs, and access
to quality primary, secondary and higher education.
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign includes people of many backgrounds. We are mothers, fathers, children, and grandparents; we are
the unemployed, the working poor, the downsized, the homeless, the victims
of welfare reform, the cast-asides of the new economy; we are social workers,
religious leaders, labor leaders, students, artists, lawyers, and other
people of conscience; we are young and old; we live in rural areas and
in urban centers.
We are committed to uniting the poor
as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty everywhere
and forever. We work to accomplish this aim through the promotion of economic
human rights, named in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Articles
23, 25, and 26. These articles
state our right to such provisions as housing, health care, a living wage
job, and education. The founding creed of the United States of America,
which asserts our rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,
inspired the formulation of these human rights. Our government signed
the UDHR in 1948; its full implementation would mean that our country
would be living out the true meaning of its creed. This American Dream
is possible because our country is the richest and most powerful in the
world.
We do not seek pity. We do seek power
to end conditions that threaten all of us with economic human rights violations
denying us our birthrights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
We accept anyone or any organization into this Campaign who unites
with these principles.
The Poor People's Economic Human
Rights Campaign is composed of a number of endorsers and partners, many
of which are listed below:
Kensington Welfare Rights Union (PA),
Women's Economic Agenda Project (CA), Poor Voices United (NJ), Coalition
of Immokalee Workers (FL), Deaf and Deaf-Blind Committee for Human Rights
(OH), Coalition to Protect Public Housing (IL), Loring-Nicolett Alternative
School (MN), Rochester Poor People's Coalition (NY), National Welfare
Rights Union (MI), California Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
Committees, Jesus People Against Pollution (MS), West Virginia Listening
Project (WV), Rock-A-Mole Productions (CA), ARISE for Social Justice (MA),
Friends & Residents of Arthur Caper & Carrolsburg (DC), Direct
Action Welfare Group (WV), Portland Organized to Win Economic Human Rights
(POWER) (MA), Arnold Mirales Human Rights Center (IL), Southerners for
Economic Justice (NC), Center for Economic and Social Rights (NY), Centro
de Trabajadores Agriculas (TX), Mormons for Equality and Social Justice
(UT), United Workers Association (MD), Tampa Bay Action Group (FL), By
the Homeless, For the Homeless (FL), Community Homeless Alliance Ministry
(CHAM) (CA), POWER (CA), Idahoans Struggling in Solidarity (ID), Massachussets
Welfare Rights Union (MA), UNC Housekeepers Union (NC), Social Welfare
Action Alliance, Skylight Pictures (NY), New Jeruslem (PA), Simple Way
(PA), JEDI for Women (UT), Organize Ohio, Independent Media Center-Philadelphia
(PA), Human Rights Tech (PA), Delaware Housing Coalition, Alternatives
for Developing Change (CA), Youth Action Research Group (DC), Big Creek
People in Action (WV), Grassroots Leadership (OH), St. Petersburg Workers
Center (FL), Alabama Arise, Organizer's Learning Center (IL), New Labor
(NJ), New Jersey STEPS, North Carolina Farmworkers Project, The Employment
Project (NY), Mid-South Peace and Justice Center (TN), Villa2000 (Puerto
Rico), Highlander Center (TN), El Salvador Sister Cities (US), Women in
Transition (KY), Alexandria United Taxi Drivers Association (VA) and many
more.
DECLARACION
DE MISION
La Campaña de los Pobres por los Derechos Humanos Económicos
está construyendo un movimiento que se unen a los pobres a través
de las líneas de colores. Diariamente más y más personas
de todos colores pierden sus trabajos y se empobrecen. Nosotros compartimos
un interés común en unirnos en contra de las condiciones
predominantes y por nuestra visión de una sociedad donde todos
tenemos el derecho a salud, vivienda, trabajos con sueldos dignos, y acceso
a educación desde primario hasta la universidad.
La Campaña de los Pobres por los Derechos Humanos Económicos
incluye personas de muchos antecedentes. Somos madres, padres, hijos,
y abuelos; somos los desocupados, los trabajadores pobres, los downsized,
los sin casa, los victimas de la reforma de welfare, los rechazados de
la nueva economía; somos trabajadores sociales, lideres religosos,
lideres de sindicatos, estudiantes, artistas, abogados, y otras personas
de consiencia; somos jovenes y viejos; vivimos en areas rurales y centros
urbanos.
Estamos comprometidos a unir los pobres como las base de liderazgo de
un movimiento ancho para abolir la pobreza en todas partes y para siempre.
Trabajamos para realizar esto por medio de la promoción de derechos
humanos económicos, nombrados en la Declaración Universal
de Derechos Humanos (UDHR) en Artículos 23, 25, y 26. Estos artículos
declaran nuestros derechos a provisiones como vivienda, cuidado médico,
un trabajo con sueldo digno, y educación. El credo fundado de los
Estados Unidos, que afirma nuestros derechos a Vida, Libertad, y la Persecución
de Felicidad, inspiraba la formulación de estos derechos humanos.
Nuestro gobierno firmó la UDHR en 1948; su implementación
completa significaría que nuestro país viviría de
acuerdo con la significación verdadera de su credo. Esto Sueño
Americano es posible porque nuestro país es lo más rico
y poderoso del mundo.
No buscamos
piedad. Buscamos el poder para eliminar las condiciones que nos amenazan
a nosotros con las violaciones de nuestros derechos humanos económicos
y así nos niegan de nuestros derechos de nacimiento a Vida, Libertad,
y Persecución de la Felicidad. La Campaña de los Pobres
por los Derechos Humanos Económicos acepta a todas personas y organizaciones
que se unan con estos principios.
La Campaña
de los Pobres por los Derechos Humanos Económicos es compuesta
por un número de organizaciones endosados y socios, muchos de los
que son listados abajo:
Kensington Welfare Rights Union (PA),
Women's Economic Agenda Project (CA), Poor Voices United (NJ), Coalition
of Immokalee Workers (FL), Deaf and Deaf-Blind Committee for Human Rights
(OH), Coalition to Protect Public Housing (IL), Loring-Nicolett Alternative
School (MN), Rochester Poor People's Coalition (NY), National Welfare
Rights Union (MI), California Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
Committees, Jesus People Against Pollution (MS), West Virginia Listening
Project (WV), Rock-A-Mole Productions (CA), ARISE for Social Justice (MA),
Friends & Residents of Arthur Caper & Carrolsburg (DC), Direct
Action Welfare Group (WV), Portland Organized to Win Economic Human Rights
(POWER) (MA), Arnold Mirales Human Rights Center (IL), Southerners for
Economic Justice (NC), Center for Economic and Social Rights (NY), Centro
de Trabajadores Agriculas (TX), Mormons for Equality and Social Justice
(UT), United Workers Association (MD), Tampa Bay Action Group (FL), By
the Homeless, For the Homeless (FL), Community Homeless Alliance Ministry
(CHAM) (CA), POWER (CA), Idahoans Struggling in Solidarity (ID), Massachussets
Welfare Rights Union (MA), UNC Housekeepers Union (NC), Social Welfare
Action Alliance, Skylight Pictures (NY), New Jeruslem (PA), Simple Way
(PA), JEDI for Women (UT), Organize Ohio, Independent Media Center-Philadelphia
(PA), Human Rights Tech (PA), Delaware Housing Coalition, Alternatives
for Developing Change (CA), Youth Action Research Group (DC), Big Creek
People in Action (WV), Grassroots Leadership (OH), St. Petersburg Workers
Center (FL), Alabama Arise, Organizer's Learning Center (IL), New Labor
(NJ), New Jersey STEPS, North Carolina Farmworkers Project, The Employment
Project (NY), Mid-South Peace and Justice Center (TN), Villa2000 (Puerto
Rico), Highlander Center (TN), El Salvador Sister Cities (US), Women in
Transition (KY), Alexandria United Taxi Drivers Association (VA) and many
more.
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