January 17, 2004:
The Kensington Welfare Rights
Union participated in a forum called Towards the Urban Way today, organized
by the International Alliance of Inhabitants, an international movement
for the human right to housing. Tara Colon, KWRU leader, provided the
audience with testimony about being a homeless youth and a homeless mother
in the United States, alongside representatives from Italy, France, Dominican
Republic, Haiti, Phillipines, Brazil, Mexico and others, who all spoke
of the new conditions of poverty and homelessness in unexpected urban,
developed centers of their countries.