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In a national press conference held atthe Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York City on Thursday, February 19, leaders of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign from New York City and across the country announced plans to protest at the Republican National Convention. During the week preceeding
the Republican National Convention, which starts on August 30th of this
year, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) will erect
a Bushville Tent City at an undisclosed location near the site of the
convention. Throughout the week, PPEHRC organizers will be taking members
of the national and international media, the human rights community, religious
people and others on Reality Tours of New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia,
showing the true face of economic human rights violations occurring across
this On opening day of the Republican National Convention, August 30th, at 4 PM, the PPEHRC will lead a massive non-violent "March for Our Lives: Stop the War at Home" from the United Nations at 45th and 1st Avenue through downtown Manhattan toward the site of the RNC at Madison Square Garden. In the words of KWRU founder and PPEHRC national organizer Cheri Honkala: " We will march because both the Republicans and Democrats have ignored the plight of poor and we will march to highlight the war at here at home. A war caused by the massive job losses and people without housing and healthcare and the other basic necessities of life." Speakers at the press conference included Cheri Honkala, KWRU founder and National Organizer of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC), New York resident and actor Mark Webber of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), and leaders of PPEHRC organizations: Roland Emerson of the Deaf & Deaf-Blind Committee on Human Rights in Ohio (DDBCHR), Ethel Long-Scott of Women's Economic Agenda Project (WEAP) in California, Galen Tyler and Carolyn Caesar of the KWRU in Pennsylvania, Rachle Hamilton and Kieran Holcombe of the Loring Nicolett Alternative High School in Minneapolis, and Jennifer Jewell and Kyauna Black of Women in Transition in Louisville Kentucky. Also speaking at the press conference were Peter Weiss, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Reverend Dr. Paul Chapman of The Employment Project in New York City, Bill Kane of the New Jersey State Industrial Union Council, and Bob Brown of the newly founded Health Care Human Rights Network.
"Just as Dr. King warned in his final days, the soul of America is tortured because we are being forced to live in a society that denies compassion, dehumanizes our neighbors and puts all of us in jeopardy. IN THE FACE OF ESCALATING WAR AT HOME WE ARE MARCHING FOR OUR ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS!" - Ethel Long-Scott, Women's Economic Agenda Project (WEAP), California The events in August will be
organized by and joined by the wide range of more than 100 organizations
belonging to the PPEHRC, including, in addition to the ones listed above,
the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Chicago Coalition to Protect
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Poor
People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) announces plans for 
country.
"We
are no longer going to sit back and take this abuse. It's time for us
to stand up and fight
for our rights!"
Public Housing and dozens of other member organizations, unions and others.
In addition, the PPEHRC events have already gained the widespread support
of organizations and movements around the world, including many who attended
the recent World Social Forum and International Forum for the Defense
of People's Health, both held in Mumbai, India this past January.