May 20: Faces of the Fallen Vigil in front of United Nations

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 inpreparation 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.

Thursday, May 20th 4:00 PM
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
46th Street and 1st Ave
New York City