PHA-Exchange> Truth Commission on HR Violations, Right to Health in USA

[Jennifer Cox]

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) Holds National Truth Commission on Human Rights Violations in the USA
   
  While US foreign policy finds us engaged in conflicts in different parts of the world, there is an unreported but deadly war going on within our own borders. This war on America's poor and working families has left many of us without our economic human rights to food, housing, healthcare, education, communication and living wage jobs. There are now over 31 million Americans living in poverty. 12.2 million children in our nation are poor, with over 1.35 million of them homeless. Over 43 million Americans have no healthcare and there are currently almost 10 million unemployed Americans. 
   
  Part of the reason that this war on the poor continues and why the poor are not surviving, is that our suffering has been made invisible. The poor have been disappeared from not only the welfare rolls and the workforce, but from the media and the political debates. Our stories are not told and our images are not seen. Our invisibility has allowed our situation to be ignored by our politicians, who have not placed a priority on addressing the increasing number of poor families and our worsening conditions. We know that in order to win this war and to survive, the faces of America's poor must be shown. If the general public knew our stories and saw our faces, we know that something would be done. The timing is critical. We need economic human rights to be a priority or many of us who have been abandoned by political parties in the past, simply will not make it.
   
  Join us as we share in the tradition of our brothers and sisters from around the world and hold a Truth Commission to expose these human rights violations and gross economic violence. Send us your stories! Come bear witness to our struggles!
   
  Click here for more information on our Faces of the Fallen Documentation Project.
   
   
  NATIONAL TRUTH COMMISSION
Cleveland, Ohio
July 15th-17th, 2006
   
  July 15th
Truth Commission
Hear the stories of resistance of those whose economic human rights have been violated here in the richest country in the world.
   
  July 16th
Celebration of Art & Culture
Join us as we celebrate the critical role art and culture play as a voice for this growing movement of the poor.
   
  July 17th
Day of Action
March with us in a call for the human right to health care in this country!
  For more information email Cecilia Garza at cecilia at economichumanrights.org
or Larry Bresler at lbresler at organizeohio.org

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