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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>
need solidarity statement from PHM globally on the current crisis in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
pha-exchange-bounces@lists.kabissa.org
[mailto:pha-exchange-bounces@lists.kabissa.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jennifer Cox<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, November 15, 2007
10:11 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> phmusa@lists.riseup.net;
pha-exchange@lists.kabissa.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> PHA-Exch> WSF Global
Day of Action, January 2008</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Hi PHM Friends,</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>We are forwarding this in
hopes that PHM circles around the world will join in this Global Day of Action
along with the Assembly of Social Movements and the World Social Forum (this
Global day of Mobilization is being held instead of the WSF this year, January
26, 2008). The Poor People's Economic HUman Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) a part of
PHM <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and also on the leadership of the WSF and ASM has been working on this Global
Day. </span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Please join us on January
26 and write to me (as PPEHRC International Relations Committee) and to the
website/contact below with any qeustions or thoughts on PHM's participation in
the GDA on any level. </span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Attached is the overall
call for the GDA and the PPEHRC's call, from the US Social Forum in JUne 2007.
Movements are encouraged to develop their own calls, activities and theme
areas.</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>See the mobilization
website for the call in many languages.</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Jen Cox</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>PPEHRC</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>From Mobilization 2008
working group:</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Dear friends,</span></font></b></strong><font
color=black face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>You are receiving this
letter due to your prior engagement to the World Social Forum process,
particularly through the mobilization and building of local Social Forum
Committees and local Social Forums.</span></font></b></strong><font
color=black face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>As you might know, the WSF
2008 brings a new concept! Instead of having a meeting in one specific city,
the idea is to mobilize everywhere we can in a Global Day of Action. On January
26th, any movement, group or organization can promote their own actions to
build "another possible world”. </span></font></b></strong><font
color=black face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Below you will find the
call for action issued by the WSF International Council. </span></font></b></strong><font
color=black face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Spread the information in
your cities and within your network contacts!!</span></font></b></strong><font
color=black face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%'><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'>Please send information on
the activities you are planning to </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><u><font
size=1 color=blue face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:blue;font-weight:normal'>globalaction@wsf2008.net</span></font></u></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal'> Soon, at the website <u>www.wsf2008.net</u>
it will be possible to publish the initiatives that are being planned
worldwide.</span></font></b></strong><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Verdana;color:black'> </span></font><font
size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span lang=ES style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:Verdana;color:black'> </span></font><font
color=black face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;color:black'> </span></font><font color=black face="Arial Unicode MS"><span
style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>ENGLISH</span></font></u></b></strong><font color="#333333"
face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><strong><b><font size=3
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:black'>Call for day of action / mobilisation January 26th 2008</span></font></b></strong><font
color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
color="#333333" face="Arial Unicode MS"><span style='font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>We
are millions of women and men, organisations, networks, movements, trade unions
from all parts of the world; we come from villages, regions, rural zones, urban
centres; we are of all ages, peoples, cultures, beliefs, but we are united by
the strong conviction that <br>
<br>
<strong><b><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>ANOTHER WORLD
IS POSSIBLE</span></font></b></strong> <br>
<br>
With all the richness of our plurality and diversity and our alternatives and
proposals, we struggle against neo-liberalism, war, colonialism, racism and
patriarchy which produce violence, exploitation, exclusion, poverty, hunger and
ecological disaster and deprive people of human rights. <br>
<br>
For many years we have been resisting and constructing innovative processes,
new cultures of organization and action from the local to the global, in
particular within the processes and <a
href="http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=4&cd_language=2"
target="_blank"><font color="#003399"><span style='color:#003399'>Charter of
Principle of the World Social Forum</span></font></a> from which this call
emerges. <br>
<br>
Aware of the need to set our own agenda and to increase the impact of these
thousands of expressions and manifestations, we are committed to strengthening
the solidarity and convergence amongst our struggles, campaigns, and
constructions of alternatives and alliances. <br>
<br>
<strong><b><font face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana'>We commit
ourselves to a week of action which will culminate in a Global Day of
Mobilisation and Action on January 26, 2008.</span></font></b></strong> <br>
<br>
With our diversity which is our strength, we invite all men and women to
undertake throughout this week creative actions, activities, events and
convergences focusing on the issues and expressed in the ways they choose. <br>
<br>
ACT TOGETHER FOR ANOTHER WORLD! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt'><b><u><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt'><b><u><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333;font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt'><b><u><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!</span></font></u></b><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt'><b><u><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>ANOTHER UNITED STATES IS NECESSARY!</span></font></u></b><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt'><i><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i><font size=2
color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt'><i><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i><font size=2
color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt'><i><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:#333333;font-style:italic'>Declaration read by Maurice Taylor of the Poor
People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) to 1500 people at the <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT ASSE<st1:PersonName w:st="on">MB</st1:PersonName>LY</span></b>
at the <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>UNITED</span></b> <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>STATES SOCIAL FORUM</span></b> on July 1, 2007 in
Atlanta, Georgia</span></font></i><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><i><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333;font-style:
italic'> </span></font></i><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><i><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b><b><font size=2
color="#333333"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>The
POOR PEOPLE’S ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (PPEHRC) announces its
participation in the GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AND MOBILIZATION on JANUARY 26, 2008,</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><font size=2 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333;
font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333;font-weight:
bold'>And calls on the people of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the world to join
in a “MARCH FOR OUR LIVES” to “STOP THE WAR AT HOME AND
ABROAD” at the Republican National Convention on September 2, 2008.</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><i><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333;font-style:
italic'> </span></font></i><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'> The
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) is building a movement
that unites the poor across color lines. Poverty afflicts people of all colors
in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
. Daily more and more of us are downsized and impoverished. We share a common
interest in uniting against the prevailing conditions and around our vision of
a society where we all have the right to health care, housing, living wage
jobs, and access to quality education. The Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign includes people of many backgrounds. We are mothers, fathers,
children, and grandparents; we are the unemployed, people without health care,
the working poor, veterans, the downsized, the homeless, the victims of welfare
reform and NAFTA, the cast-asides of the new economy; we are social workers,
religious leaders, labor leaders, artists, lawyers, and other people of
conscience; we are young and old; we live in rural areas and in urban centers.<br>
<br>
We are committed to uniting the poor as the leadership base for a broad
movement to abolish poverty everywhere and forever. We work to accomplish this
aim through the promotion of economic human rights, named in the </span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><a href="http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html"
target="_blank"><font color="#003399" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#003399'>Universal Declaration of
Human Rights</span></font></a></span></font><font size=2 color="#333333"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'> as Articles 23, 25, and 26. These
articles state our right to such provisions as housing, health care, a living
wage job, water, heat and education. While claiming to defend human
rights, the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has consistently ignored and undermined the global consensus on economic human
rights.</span></font><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'>From the
beginning, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign has dedicated
ourselves to building the United States Social Forum and to ensuring a large
presence of the poor from across the US here, as part of our efforts to create
a massive movement for our very lives, in the face of an economic system and a
government that has sentenced millions of us here in the United States and
billions of us around the world to death from poverty and war. </span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><strong><b><font size=2
color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333'> </span></font></b></strong><font size=2 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'>Here at the
United States Social Forum, we marched together from the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Martin</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Luther</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">King</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">History</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> to the
International Headquarters of Coca-Cola to insist that “Another world is
possible; Another U.S. is Necessary!” With this “March for Economic
Human Rights”, poor and homeless people from across the United States and
our brothers and sisters from around the world condemned economic human rights
violations in the richest country in the world, including violations of the
human rights to health care and water, while our government spends billions on
immoral wars abroad. We also protested human rights violations committed by
companies such as Coca Cola and Burger King, here in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> , in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Colombia</st1:country-region>
, in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and elsewhere, including violations committed under “free trade”
agreements such as the NAFTA and the FTAA. At <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Coca
Cola</span></b>, we delivered a charge for <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Crimes
Against of Humanity</span></b> to the corporation.</span></font><font size=2
color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'>This coming
year, 2008, marks the 60<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)</span></i>.
It also marks the next presidential elections here in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> ,
in which the successor to George W. Bush will be elected. In this election
year, and in honoring the anniversary of the UDHR, the PPEHRC will be stepping
up our efforts on both the national and international level to highlight for
the world the crimes of the Bush administration. At the same time, we will be
organizing the people of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
, in unity with the people of the world, to build a massive social movement to
fundamentally change the direction of our country, to bring about a future of
human rights and peace for all people in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and around the world.</span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333;font-weight:
bold'> </span></font></b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><strong><b><font size=2
color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333'>On January 26, 2008, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign will be joining people around the world in a Global Day of Action and
Mobilization, initiated by the Assembly of Social Movements and the
International Council of the World Social Forum. </span></font></b></strong><em><i><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333'>We call on movements and organizations worldwide to join in this
historic event.</span></font></i></em><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><strong><b><i><font size=2
color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></b></strong><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><strong><b><i><font size=2
color="#333333" face="Times New
Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Times New\000D\000A Roman";color:#333333;font-style:italic'>On
September 1, 2008, we will hold a massive “MARCH FOR OUR LIVES TO STOP THE
WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD” on Opening Day of the Republican National
Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul, in the United States. </span></font></i></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Times New
Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New\000D\000A Roman";color:#333333'>It is at this
Convention that the Republican candidate for the November presidential
elections will be named. In the days preceding the <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>March For Our Lives,</span></i> we will hold several <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Truth Commissions</span></i> and a <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>World Court of Women</span></i> to highlight before
the international community the economic human rights violations which people
across the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
have suffered under the Bush administration.</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
size=2 color="#333333" face="Times New
Roman"><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Times New\000D\000A Roman";color:#333333'> </span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><strong><b><font size=2
color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333;font-weight:normal'> </span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><strong><b><font size=2
color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>As the United States wages war around the
world, there is also a hidden but deadly war occurring in the United States, a
war which every day leaves millions of poor and working families of all races
in the US without basic economic human rights to food, housing, healthcare,
education, water, heat, communication and living wage jobs. As our government
spends billions of dollars on immoral wars abroad, thousands die every year in
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
without health care, housing, heat, water and food. And every day, it gets more
and more dangerous to organize the poor in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> , as the Bush
Administration seeks to stop this growing human rights movement in our country.
For organizing in our country, we have had our loved ones imprisoned under
false criminal charges, we have watched as our children have been taken away by
the government and put into institutions or more well-off families, we have
faced threats of imprisonment for up to 22 years on fabricated charges, and we
have been victims of constant surveillance, infiltration, sabotage and
harassment by the US government.</span></font></b></strong><font size=2
color="#333333"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'>Yet<strong><b><font
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-weight:normal'> while the situation of
poverty, war, repression and rampant human rights violations worsens both in
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and around the world, we know that the only answer is to organize a massive
social movement in our country and to unite it with peoples and movements
worldwide. </span></font></b></strong></span></font><font size=2 color="#333333"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><font size=2 color="#333333"
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'>With our
participation in the United States Social Forum, in the Global Day of Action
and Mobilization in January 2008, and at our March for Our Lives in September
2008, this growing movement of the poor in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> , stands among
millions of the world’s people in denouncing both the war and the
impoverishment of the world’s majority. Despite every effort to
keep the poor in the United States isolated and to divide us from the rest of
the poor internationally, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
joins with the U.S. and World Social Forums and with the Assembly of Social
Movements in building a global movement dedicated to creating another world
that is both possible and necessary, a world of human rights for all. </span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt'><strong><b><font size=2
color="#333333" face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
color:#333333;font-weight:normal'>Our fledgling movement of the poor for
economic human rights in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region>
is growing, and in spite of the increasing dangers and repression we confront,
we are committed to waking up this “sleeping giant” that is the
people of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>For we are convinced that when the people of
the United States are organized to struggle for their own interests, in unity
with the peoples of the world, not in the interests of the Bush Administration
against the peoples of the world, that it is then that “Another
World” truly will be “Possible.” </span></i></span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color="#333333" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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