Poor
People=s Forum:
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Linking the Poor Across the Americas
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Defend poor people all over the
world!
A Showing of "Battle for Broad" (about
last summer's Republican National Convention)
Friday September 28th, 2001, 7 pm
1536 U Street, NW, Washington,
DC
Organizations of the
poor, homeless, landless and unemployed from North, Central and South America
are uniting to SPEAK OUT against economic policies hurting the poor and workers
in the US and worldwide. Planned to respond to the annual meeting of the IMF,
we must now also SPEAK OUT against the military and economic policies of War
that threaten to devastate us all.
The event will feature
speakers representing the poor from across the hemisphere (listed below), and will include a screening
of the film "Battle for Broad" about the KWRU/ Poor People's Economic
Human Rights Campaign's massive non‑violent March for Economic Human
Rights on opening day of the Republican National Convention last year in
Philadelphia.
Confirmed Speakers:
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Cheri Honkala, Director, Kensington Welfare
Rights Union; National Spokesperson, Poor people's Economic Human Rights Campaign
(USA)
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Osmin Salinas, Association of Rural Communities
for the Development of El Salvador; CRIPDES (El Salvador)
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Stand By Our
Neighbors, Washington DC (USA)
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Jo Grey, Low Income
Families Together, LIFT (Canada)
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Monica Santana, Continental Cry of the
Excluded (Hemispheric) & National Coalition for Dignity & Amnesty
for Undocumented Immigrants (USA)
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Invited speakers
(yet to be confirmed): Landless Workers Movement, MST (Brazil); Coalition of
Immokalee Workers.
Sponsors
include:
The
Kensington Welfare Rights Union, Stand For Our Neighbors, US ‑ El Salvador
Sister Cities, the Continental Cry of the Excluded, LIFT, CRIPDES and DC Social
Welfare Action Alliance.
Refreshments
served. Donations accepted.
KWRU
contact Galen Tyler 215-203‑1945 KWRU web: www.kwru.org KWRU email kwru@kwru.org |
DC contact:
Athena 202-332-6615 |