Geneva: Communication Rights in the Information Society, Dec. 7th Report

After arriving in Geneva to attend a conference hosted by Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS), the KWRU was generously welcomed and hosted by FEA which houses various NGOs who have little money. Despite not knowing where we were going to sleep when we got here, how we would afford to eat in this very expensive city, and how we would pay our bills and rent when we returned home, we have come to Geneva because we feel that our lives depend on it. Every day, life becomes more precarious for more and more people who are thrown out of their jobs, cut off from their health care, evicted from their homes, and each day our lives are in more danger as we confront the reality of human rights abuses in the United States. We have come to the city of international human rights and to this country which has traditionally been one of haven for the oppressed, to appeal to the world's conscience.

Today we held a press before the international press to tell the real story of the terror and destruction inflicted on the poor in the US. We announced our participation in this historic UN summit and our determination to break through the media blackout which is aimed at making the poor and poverty and homelessness invisible to the world at the FEA center, Le maison.

As we prepared for this press conference we were saddened and outraged to hear of Saturday`s bombing in Afghanistan in which nine children were killed. The money which is being used to kill innocent people across the world is money stolen from our families back home, from our children who are dying on the streets of our country because their families have no right to housing, food or health care.

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