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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear friends,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please find below a call for a March and other
activities that will be organized by the Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign in St. Paul, Minnesota - US on 2 September 08.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For friends in the US, please join the
march.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For friends outside, you may send few lines to
support such a big campaign in the US. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For more information, confirming your participation
or sending comments, please get in touch with <STRONG>Jen Cox</STRONG>
through <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><A
href="mailto:INFO@ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG"><STRONG>INFO@ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG</STRONG></A><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT face=Arial> and</FONT><STRONG>
</STRONG></SPAN><A
href="mailto:JEN@ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG"><STRONG>JEN@ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG</STRONG></A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Web: <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><A
href="http://www.ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG"><STRONG>WWW.ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG</STRONG></A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All the best,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hani Serag<BR>Global Secretariat
Coordinator,<BR>People's Health Movement (PHM)<BR>Email: <A
href="mailto:secretariat@phmovement.org">secretariat@phmovement.org</A><BR>Web:
<A
href="http://www.phmovement.org">www.phmovement.org</A><BR>===========================<BR>Hosting
Organization<BR>Association for Health and Environmental Development
(AHED)<BR>17 Beirut St., APT.# 501 - Heliopolis, Cairo - Egypt<BR>Tel.: +20 2
22565613<BR>Fax: +20 2 22565612<BR>Web: <A
href="http://www.ahedegypt.org">www.ahedegypt.org</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">POOR
PEOPLE’S </SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt; COLOR: white; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">ECONOMIC
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=Title-Professional
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; BACKGROUND: white; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 4.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 4.0pt 0cm 4.0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">MARCH
FOR OUR LIVES: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=Title-Professional
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; BACKGROUND: white; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 4.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 4.0pt 0cm 4.0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Money
for Housing and Health Care, Not for War!!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=Title-Professional
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0cm; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0cm; BACKGROUND: white; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0cm; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0cm; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 4.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 4.0pt 0cm 4.0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">DURING THE
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
ELECTIONS<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">As
the U.S. Elections approach, the Poor of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
will March to insist that:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">ANOTHER WORLD IS
POSSIBLE!! <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">ANOTHER UNITED STATES IS
NECESSARY!!</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">.
<B><o:p></o:p></B></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">On September 2nd, 2008,
the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) will hold a massive
non-violent <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">“MARCH FOR OUR LIVES”</B>
during the Republican National Convention in <st1:City w:st="on">St.
Paul</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:State> in the
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> to demand <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">“MONEY FOR HOUSING AND HEALTH CARE, NOT FOR
WAR!” </B>The PPEHRC has led the largest marches of the poor during the last two
<st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> presidential elections,
at the Republican Conventions in <st1:City w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:City> in
2000 and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York
City</st1:place></st1:City> in 2004, in which George W. Bush was named as
presidential candidate. The Republican National Convention (RNC) is where the
Republican Party will name their party’s presidential candidate, as the people
of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> vote for
George W. Bush’s successor for president of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">In the days preceding
this year’s <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">March for Our Lives </I></B>in <st1:State
w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:State>, poor and homeless people will lead <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Poverty Reality Tours</B> through <st1:City
w:st="on">Minneapolis</st1:City> and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">St. Paul</st1:place></st1:City>. We will hold a <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">National Truth Commission </B>and a <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">World Court of Women</B><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333"> about poverty, war and human rights violations under the
Bush Administration, both in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> and in different parts
of the world</SPAN>. Poor and homeless families from across the country who will
be joining us will stay in a national “<I>Bushville</I>” tent city, an
encampment that will demonstrate the conditions of poverty caused by Bush
Administration policies, and serve as base of operations for our actions
throughout the week. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">A
CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION AND SUPPORT<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">We call on the
International Community, on movements, networks, campaigns and unions around the
world to join us for this historic event at this crucial time in
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> and world history.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">The March
for Our Lives and other activities at the RNC will be an important step in
PPEHRC’s ongoing efforts to build a broad movement led by the poor for economic
human rights in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Inspite 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>. For we are convinced that when the
American people are organized to struggle for our own interests in unity with
the peoples of the world, not in the interests of the U.S. government against
the peoples of the world, that it is then that “<I>Another World</I>” truly will
be “<I>Possible</I>.” </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">As we approach this
pivotal election, we are determined to ensure that the poor, the homeless and
the uninsured of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>, together with movements from
around the world, have a voice to demand a new direction for our country and for
the world. We need the presence and solidarity of the international community as
we organize the poor and the most marginalized sectors of the
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> population to march en masse to
declare: <SPAN style="COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">“<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Another</B> <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">World is Possible, Another
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> is
Necessary!”</B><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"></SPAN></B><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">WE ASK THE INTERNATIONAL
COMMUNITY TO ACCOMPANY US AT THIS TIME:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">As a Human Rights Monitor:
</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">During the last two
elections, in the time before and during our marches at the Republican
Conventions, the PPEHRC has experienced a high level of government <SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333">surveillance, infiltration, sabotage, harassment and
</SPAN>threats of long-term imprisonment of leaders, and of children of marchers
being taken by the government. We need international Human Rights Monitors to
monitor, document and expose any human rights violations committed against
participants in the March.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">As a witness and participant in the
National Truth Commission and the World Court of Women:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> <SPAN style="COLOR: #333333">Help us
expose the reality of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> economic model by highlighting the stories
of families in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> who are suffering and dying
under this model. Testify to poverty and war caused by the Bush Administration
around the world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">Join us for exchanges
between movements,</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"> unions and organizations
from across the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and movements and networks from all over
the world. <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help cover the events in August and
September</B> for your organization’s, network’s, or movement’s <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">website or press.</B> Help us show the
world the reality of the poverty and human rights violations in the
<st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region>, the truth about the
<st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> electoral process, and to
show the world that people of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> are resisting our government and
fighting for “Another U.S.” <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Come help
us:</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">We need interns and volunteers
before and during our RNC events</B> to help with translation, internet
coverage, media, outreach and organizing among the poor, documentation of
economic human rights violations in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>, and preparation for the week’s events and
for the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> and international delegations
that will be coming.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">IF YOU
ARE UNABLE TO COME, HOLD A SOLIDARITY EVENT IN YOUR COUNTRY, TO EXPRESS THE
UNITY BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THE POOR OF THE UNITED STATES AND MOVEMENTS AROUND
THE WORLD</SPAN></I></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">.
</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">Let us
know what you are doing and we will include it on our website and news
coverage.<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><o:p></o:p></I></B></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">Poor People’s Economic
Human Rights Campaign<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">****
2008 Republican National Convention****<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"
align=center><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; mso-ansi-language: IT"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Aug. 1 - 30
<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:State> Poverty Bus
Tour<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">We will make stops in communities
throughout <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:place></st1:State> to expose conditions created by
“free trade agreements” and other neoliberal policies, to share experiences,
exchange ideas, collect human rights documentation, and join local actions in
the fight for economic human rights. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Aug. 29 <SPAN
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</SPAN>World Court Of Women<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">PPEHRC will host a World Court of Women to
expose poverty and war in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> and around the world caused by the
Bush Administration, before a jury of human rights defenders and movement
leaders from around the world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Sept. 1<SPAN
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</SPAN>March to Stop the War!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">On the first day of the convention, PPEHRC
will join the ‘March to Stop the War!’, bringing together the issues of poverty
and the war in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. We will march to stop the wars
– at home and abroad!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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1<SUP><SPAN
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</SPAN></SUP>National Truth Commission on human rights violations in the
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">After the march, we will gather to hear
stories of resistance and struggle told by people from communities across the
country who have suffered economic human rights violations here in the richest
country in the world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><U>March for Our Lives:</U> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">Money for Health
Care and Housing, Not for War!</SPAN></U></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'; FONT-VARIANT: small-caps"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Century Gothic'">We will march because as poverty, hunger,
unemployment and homelessness grow throughout the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> and the world, political leaders
from both major <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> parties have abandoned us. We
cannot afford to be silent. We cannot afford to be "disappeared" from the public
eye and the political debates as our families suffer. We<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>will bring together thousands of poor
people, along with community organizations from across the country, students,
social workers, union members, lawyers, religious leaders, international
delegations and everyone who stands for social and economic human rights. <B
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href="http://www.economichumanrights.org/">WWW.ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG</A><SPAN
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href="mailto:INFO@ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG">INFO@ECONOMICHUMANRIGHTS.ORG</A><SPAN
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