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Faces
of the Fallen Vigils in front of United Nations:
Thursdays, 4:00 PM
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
46th Street and 1st Ave
New York City
Join us on the following dates:
May 20, June 24,, July 15, August 19
- May
20
- June
24
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Speak
Out!!
The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign is holding
an arts and culture event at Guernica (25 Avenue B, between 2nd
and 3rd Streets) to benefit the Bushville Tent City and the March
For Our Lives. Come hear musicians, DJs, poets and folks speaking
from the heart. Grab a drink, relax with friends, and support the
Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign this Thursday
from 7:00-10:00 PM at Guernica.
(Suggested donation of $5).
The Poor People’s Economic
Human Rights Campaign, a national organization of poor and homeless families
planning to March on opening day of the Republican National Convention
with or without permit, will assemble in front of United Nations with
photographs of loved ones who have had died or are not surviving the policies
of this administration. A member of the coalition to protect public housing
in Chicago, representing over a thousand tenets who have been given 180
day notice to vacate in preparation for demolition of their homes, will
be speaking. A young mother from Philadelphia will talk about the recent
death of her father, a Vietnam veteran, who struggled until the end of
his life as the result of healthcare difficulties. Other speakers include
currently homeless people, organized labor, and the religious community.
On May 20th the Poor People’s
Economic Human Rights Campaign will announce a national effort to document
the stories and faces of those that have fallen in the domestic war at
home. Leading up to March For Our Lives at the Republican National Convention
the PPEHRC will be releasing official reports on human rights violations
occurring in the United States of America focusing on access to healthcare,
housing, education, and living wage jobs. These reports will lead up to
the refilling an official petition to the Organization of American States
in Washington.
We welcome representatives
from United Nation and US Mission to come and hear our grievances. We
need outside international intervention to make visible the fact that
human rights violations are happen in the United States, especially at
a time when the US government had announced they will not release US Human
Rights report this year due to the abuses taking place by our soldiers
in Iraq.
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