Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Philadelphia Weekly: Fighting Against Foreclosures
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Homeowners take a radical stance on foreclosures.
By Daniel Denvir
Posted Feb. 16, 2010
Original Article: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/Fighting-Against-Foreclosures.html
Kensington Welfare Rights Union Coordinator Galen Tyler was on the march in 2000.
Ray Sanchez is three months behind on his mortgage payments. The North Philadelphia native is confident that Bank of America, which took over his mortgage after subprime connoisseurs Countrywide Financial went south, will soon move to foreclose. But Sanchez isn’t looking for an apartment or thinking about crashing with friends—he’s not going anywhere.
“I couldn’t just give up all my hard work. The house is basically my dream come true,” says 30-year-old Sanchez, who was laid off last year after working four years at Home Depot. “I’ve done everything I’m supposed to do.“
Standing up to save his home, Sanchez has joined a movement of homeowners that are preparing to resist foreclosure—and face arrest if need be. The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign is currently reaching out to property owners across the city and linking them up with neighbors who are in a similar predicament so that they can resist en masse. If the police come to evict them, homeowners and community supporters will employ non-violent civil disobedience and refuse to leave the property.
The Campaign is a national organization that grew out of Philly’s Kensington Welfare Rights Union, whose housing takeovers and protests during the economic boom of the ’90s drew national attention to the plight of the working poor and homeless. With the foreclosure epidemic now dragging even middle-class families into crisis, Philadelphia is once again poised to become the epicenter for the radical housing rights movement.
“It’s like a finger in the dam,” says the Campaign’s executive director Cheri Honkala, discussing an expected surge of home foreclosures. “And it’s going to burst.”
The foreclosure crisis has already forced millions from their homes and brought the global economy to its knees. In January alone, 88,000 people had their homes repossessed, a 31 percent increase from last year. By this June, an estimated 5.1 million Americans are expected to be “underwater,” according to The New York Times, meaning they will owe more on their home than the property is worth.
Activists say Obama has gone soft on banks that refuse to modify loans, occasional tough talk notwithstanding. Now, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign says grassroots action is the only option left.
“People always say ‘Cheri doesn’t work within the system,’” says Honkala. “Well, the system doesn’t work.”
Honkala, 47, has been an irritant to Philadelphia officials over the past decades. The brash and energetic founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union and Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign has led building takeovers and established tent cities full of the homeless and poor. After leaving the city for two years, the formerly homeless mother of two and longtime welfare recipient is back in town and busy organizing homeowners facing foreclosure—and she knows what she’s doing.
The Kensington Welfare Rights Union was founded in 1991 to protest for the rights of welfare recipients, demonized in the media as lazy welfare queens. Honkala and the organization were immortalized in Inquirer reporter David Zucchino’s 1997 book The Myth of the Welfare Queen .
The Union’s first action was to take over an abandoned welfare office at the corner of Front and York, which they turned into a community center—until police arrested them. Many arrests would follow: in houses, apartments, churches and at the Liberty Bell. Honkala says the Union has secured housing for hundreds of Philadelphia families, many of whom have also been arrested in protest actions. Honkala has been arrested over 80 times.
During the late ’70s Honkala became pregnant at age 16 after years bouncing around the Minnesota child welfare system. She and her 8-year-old ended up homeless and sleeping in her car until a drunk driver totaled it. Hearing that the government kept the heat on in publicly owned properties so the pipes wouldn’t freeze, she moved into an empty house owned by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She was arrested so she moved in to another. And then another.
Honkala has spent the last two years organizing back in her native Twin Cities, helping five local women resist foreclosure and organizing raucous protests against the 2008 Republican National Convention. Having established a new Campaign chapter, she returned to Philadelphia in August and is working out of offices in a Fishtown Lutheran church.
Housing activism in Philly slowed down in her absence, and Honkala says the powers that be are not happy she’s back.
“When I came back to the city, I went down to the foreclosure court,” says a bemused Honkala. “They ID’d me and escorted me out.”
In an ironic twist, Honkala says the city offered her work as a housing counselor after hearing of her return, a job she unsurprisingly refused.
“She just got back into town. Let’s offer her money so she doesn’t do the crazy shit she does,” says Honkala, laughing as she imagines what people in City Hall must have been thinking.
Philadelphia has received accolades for its foreclosure prevention program, which has helped keep a number of homeowners off the street. But while she concedes the situation in Philly is slightly better than in most cities, Honkala is not impressed. “What Philly has done is put you on life support even though they’re eventually going to pull the plug.”
The political and legal climate to resist foreclosures couldn’t be better. For one, almost everyone hates the banks. Secondly, the courts seem to be coming around. Banks packaged mortgages into complex securities and sold them off during the housing bubble. It made them a lot of money in the short run, even though it eventually brought down the economy. But in their rush to make big money, many banks didn’t keep accurate records of property ownership, and courts have recently ruled that if a bank can’t definitively prove that it owns a home, it can’t foreclose on it.
By Daniel Denvir
Posted Feb. 16, 2010
Original Article: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/news-and-opinion/Fighting-Against-Foreclosures.html
Kensington Welfare Rights Union Coordinator Galen Tyler was on the march in 2000.
Ray Sanchez is three months behind on his mortgage payments. The North Philadelphia native is confident that Bank of America, which took over his mortgage after subprime connoisseurs Countrywide Financial went south, will soon move to foreclose. But Sanchez isn’t looking for an apartment or thinking about crashing with friends—he’s not going anywhere.
“I couldn’t just give up all my hard work. The house is basically my dream come true,” says 30-year-old Sanchez, who was laid off last year after working four years at Home Depot. “I’ve done everything I’m supposed to do.“
Standing up to save his home, Sanchez has joined a movement of homeowners that are preparing to resist foreclosure—and face arrest if need be. The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign is currently reaching out to property owners across the city and linking them up with neighbors who are in a similar predicament so that they can resist en masse. If the police come to evict them, homeowners and community supporters will employ non-violent civil disobedience and refuse to leave the property.
The Campaign is a national organization that grew out of Philly’s Kensington Welfare Rights Union, whose housing takeovers and protests during the economic boom of the ’90s drew national attention to the plight of the working poor and homeless. With the foreclosure epidemic now dragging even middle-class families into crisis, Philadelphia is once again poised to become the epicenter for the radical housing rights movement.
“It’s like a finger in the dam,” says the Campaign’s executive director Cheri Honkala, discussing an expected surge of home foreclosures. “And it’s going to burst.”
The foreclosure crisis has already forced millions from their homes and brought the global economy to its knees. In January alone, 88,000 people had their homes repossessed, a 31 percent increase from last year. By this June, an estimated 5.1 million Americans are expected to be “underwater,” according to The New York Times, meaning they will owe more on their home than the property is worth.
Activists say Obama has gone soft on banks that refuse to modify loans, occasional tough talk notwithstanding. Now, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign says grassroots action is the only option left.
“People always say ‘Cheri doesn’t work within the system,’” says Honkala. “Well, the system doesn’t work.”
Honkala, 47, has been an irritant to Philadelphia officials over the past decades. The brash and energetic founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union and Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign has led building takeovers and established tent cities full of the homeless and poor. After leaving the city for two years, the formerly homeless mother of two and longtime welfare recipient is back in town and busy organizing homeowners facing foreclosure—and she knows what she’s doing.
The Kensington Welfare Rights Union was founded in 1991 to protest for the rights of welfare recipients, demonized in the media as lazy welfare queens. Honkala and the organization were immortalized in Inquirer reporter David Zucchino’s 1997 book The Myth of the Welfare Queen .
The Union’s first action was to take over an abandoned welfare office at the corner of Front and York, which they turned into a community center—until police arrested them. Many arrests would follow: in houses, apartments, churches and at the Liberty Bell. Honkala says the Union has secured housing for hundreds of Philadelphia families, many of whom have also been arrested in protest actions. Honkala has been arrested over 80 times.
During the late ’70s Honkala became pregnant at age 16 after years bouncing around the Minnesota child welfare system. She and her 8-year-old ended up homeless and sleeping in her car until a drunk driver totaled it. Hearing that the government kept the heat on in publicly owned properties so the pipes wouldn’t freeze, she moved into an empty house owned by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She was arrested so she moved in to another. And then another.
Honkala has spent the last two years organizing back in her native Twin Cities, helping five local women resist foreclosure and organizing raucous protests against the 2008 Republican National Convention. Having established a new Campaign chapter, she returned to Philadelphia in August and is working out of offices in a Fishtown Lutheran church.
Housing activism in Philly slowed down in her absence, and Honkala says the powers that be are not happy she’s back.
“When I came back to the city, I went down to the foreclosure court,” says a bemused Honkala. “They ID’d me and escorted me out.”
In an ironic twist, Honkala says the city offered her work as a housing counselor after hearing of her return, a job she unsurprisingly refused.
“She just got back into town. Let’s offer her money so she doesn’t do the crazy shit she does,” says Honkala, laughing as she imagines what people in City Hall must have been thinking.
Philadelphia has received accolades for its foreclosure prevention program, which has helped keep a number of homeowners off the street. But while she concedes the situation in Philly is slightly better than in most cities, Honkala is not impressed. “What Philly has done is put you on life support even though they’re eventually going to pull the plug.”
The political and legal climate to resist foreclosures couldn’t be better. For one, almost everyone hates the banks. Secondly, the courts seem to be coming around. Banks packaged mortgages into complex securities and sold them off during the housing bubble. It made them a lot of money in the short run, even though it eventually brought down the economy. But in their rush to make big money, many banks didn’t keep accurate records of property ownership, and courts have recently ruled that if a bank can’t definitively prove that it owns a home, it can’t foreclose on it.
Labels: Cheri Honkala, Countrywide, Galen Tyler, KWRU, Obama, PPEHRC
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Penn Haven protests poverty
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Original Article: http://thedp.com/article/penn-haven-protests-poverty
1/29/2010
Students from Penn Haven join other activist groups in a Center City demonstration against federal foreclosures
A group of about 50 protesters blocked off the junction outside the Federal Building. The rally was among a series of protests aross the country calling for a freeze on foreclosures.
Amid a chorus of chanting, drumming and singing, Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign member Jeff Rousset said, “I might get arrested later.”
A group of about 50 protesters blocked off the junction outside the Federal Building. The rally was among a series of protests aross the country calling for a freeze on foreclosures.
Spearheaded by PPEHRC, the protesters included students from Penn Haven.
Penn Haven’s mission is to learn how to best serve the homeless community, and it is “looking into all methods of getting equality for the homeless” College senior and Penn Haven member Jessie Streich-Kest said.
According to lead organizer, Cheri Honkala, “We have a federal emergency.”
As the recession drives more and more people from their homes out on to the streets, the group of demonstrators took to the streets. In addition to PPEHRC and Penn Haven, Kensington Welfare Rights Union and others partook in the rally.
“Last night Obama didn’t really mention anything about housing,” said KWRU member Natasha Euler.
According to Euler, the protesters were there to make sure that the government resolves the housing crisis.
“We see families everyday who come in to our office with small children who are homeless — we think that this is an emergency,” she said.
The activists’ answer to the housing crisis is a combination of protests for long-term gain and setting up the homeless in abandoned homes until the housing crisis abates, according to Honkala and Rousset.
Rousset’s explained his justification for squatting: “People are more important than property.”
The winter is especially cruel to the homeless, according to Honkala, and “it’s more important to keep people alive” than to stay within the bounds of the law.
No one was arrested at yesterday’s rally. Philadelphia Police Captain William Fisher said, “As long as it’s a peaceful protest … we’ll tolerate street blockages.”
But Honkala, who has been arrested during the course of prior protests, said facing down the police is part of PPEHRC’s plan to draw attention its cause.
“We really need to show our elected officials that we’re serious,” Honkala said.
Honkala said, “We will start to have arrests.”
Penn Haven Activism Coordinator and former Daily Pennsylvanian staff writer College senior Jimmy Tobias had prepared himself for arrest. He was one of the eight Penn students who attended.
“What we’re trying to do … is to be in solidarity with [the community],” Tobias said.
PThe housing crisis isn’t exactly going to disappear anytime soon, College senior and Penn Haven member Elena Stein said. But “as we listen to out neighbors … it becomes more clear how to help.”
For now, she said, the answer is still nebulous. “Come back to me in 10 years about that.”
01/29/2010
1/29/2010
Students from Penn Haven join other activist groups in a Center City demonstration against federal foreclosures
A group of about 50 protesters blocked off the junction outside the Federal Building. The rally was among a series of protests aross the country calling for a freeze on foreclosures.
Amid a chorus of chanting, drumming and singing, Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign member Jeff Rousset said, “I might get arrested later.”
A group of about 50 protesters blocked off the junction outside the Federal Building. The rally was among a series of protests aross the country calling for a freeze on foreclosures.
Spearheaded by PPEHRC, the protesters included students from Penn Haven.
Penn Haven’s mission is to learn how to best serve the homeless community, and it is “looking into all methods of getting equality for the homeless” College senior and Penn Haven member Jessie Streich-Kest said.
According to lead organizer, Cheri Honkala, “We have a federal emergency.”
As the recession drives more and more people from their homes out on to the streets, the group of demonstrators took to the streets. In addition to PPEHRC and Penn Haven, Kensington Welfare Rights Union and others partook in the rally.
“Last night Obama didn’t really mention anything about housing,” said KWRU member Natasha Euler.
According to Euler, the protesters were there to make sure that the government resolves the housing crisis.
“We see families everyday who come in to our office with small children who are homeless — we think that this is an emergency,” she said.
The activists’ answer to the housing crisis is a combination of protests for long-term gain and setting up the homeless in abandoned homes until the housing crisis abates, according to Honkala and Rousset.
Rousset’s explained his justification for squatting: “People are more important than property.”
The winter is especially cruel to the homeless, according to Honkala, and “it’s more important to keep people alive” than to stay within the bounds of the law.
No one was arrested at yesterday’s rally. Philadelphia Police Captain William Fisher said, “As long as it’s a peaceful protest … we’ll tolerate street blockages.”
But Honkala, who has been arrested during the course of prior protests, said facing down the police is part of PPEHRC’s plan to draw attention its cause.
“We really need to show our elected officials that we’re serious,” Honkala said.
Honkala said, “We will start to have arrests.”
Penn Haven Activism Coordinator and former Daily Pennsylvanian staff writer College senior Jimmy Tobias had prepared himself for arrest. He was one of the eight Penn students who attended.
“What we’re trying to do … is to be in solidarity with [the community],” Tobias said.
PThe housing crisis isn’t exactly going to disappear anytime soon, College senior and Penn Haven member Elena Stein said. But “as we listen to out neighbors … it becomes more clear how to help.”
For now, she said, the answer is still nebulous. “Come back to me in 10 years about that.”
01/29/2010
Labels: Federal Building, Foreclosure, KWRU, Penn Haven, PPEHRC
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Philly Protesters Seize Street to Demand Housing Rights
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by Jeff Rousset | Philly Indymedia Center | 12.05.2009
Original Article: http://phillyimc.org/en/philly-protesters-seize-street-demand-housing-rights
Police watched as more than 100 people blocked a busy intersection at 6th and Market yesterday, near the Federal Building, to call attention to the nation's housing crisis.
Police watched as more than 100 people blocked a busy intersection at 6th and Market yesterday, near the Federal Building, to call attention to the nation's housing crisis. Speakers questioned national priorities, with President Obama sending 30,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan as thousands of Americans continue to be pushed into poverty and homelessness. The group, organized by Kensington Welfare Rights Union and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, demanded a moratorium on evictions, and vowed massive nationwide civil disobedience at the end of January if Obama has not taken adequate steps to address the housing issue.
Protesters gathered at the Federal Building at 11 am holding signs and banners, wearing colorful cardboard houses, beating drums in rhythm, and chanting “What do we want? Housing! When do we want it? Now!” Lead by about a dozen disabled individuals in wheelchairs, the group marched to the intersection of 6th and Market and picketed in a large circle, blockading the entire intersection, before converging on the south side of the intersection and blocking traffic across all of 6th Street. A number of people spoke to the gathered crowd, including two women whose homes were recently foreclosed.
“I was renting a home and received a letter stating my house was going up for foreclosure because the owner had not been paying his mortgage. A week later the sheriff was knocking on my door giving me five minutes to leave,” said Starleen Pringle, a longtime resident of Philadelphia.
Pringle said she was forced to immediately leave her home of three years, along with her nine year old daughter and seven year old son, even though she already paid full rent for the month.
“I wasn't even allowed to get school clothes for my daughter the next day,” said Pringle. “They said, 'If you touch or take anything we're gonna lock you up.'” She had to make an appointment to later return to her house and collect all her belongings under a sheriff's supervision.
“Every 15 seconds in this country someone's home is foreclosed!” announced Cheri Honkala, one of the rally organizers, and a national organizer for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC). “We want to know what the government is going to do for these people!”
PPEHRC organized similar rallies across the country and demanded that the Obama administration make housing its top priority and increase the federal government's funding for affordable housing to the $83 billion dollar level it was at in 1978.
Honkala criticized the government for bailing out banks and corporations, and spending tens of billions of dollars to escalate war, while neglecting the swelling masses of Americans who are living in poverty and homelessness.
“Bail out the people, not the banks!” the group chanted in unison.
Another Philadelphia woman whose home was recently foreclosed spoke on the megaphone. “I'm homeless with my children,” she said with both her daughters, aged two and four, by her side. “I'm living in my car now. I want the government to get me a house so my kids don't get taken away from me by DHS.”
PPEHRC is demanding that Philadelphia immediately take measures to house its entire homeless population, which numbers around 4,000 people on any given day.
Last month dozens of people gathered at City Hall with the AIDS advocacy group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) to pressure Mayor Nutter to provide housing for the 8,000 people living in Philadelphia with HIV/AIDS who do not have access to adequate housing, one of the worst records for AIDS housing in any American city. People who are disabled and/or living with diseases are particularly hard hit by the nation's lack of housing and health care.
As the economic crisis continues to strangle poor and working Americans, the numbers of homeless keep rising in Philadelphia and throughout the country. Meanwhile, many of the banks that received billions of dollars in federal taxpayer bailout funds are the same ones evicting people and taking their homes. The banks keep posting high and even record profits. The people keep paying the price.
PPEHRC and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union announced that if President Obama does not adequately address the housing crisis there will be massive civil disobedience planned at federal buildings across the nation at the end of January, including Philadelphia. The highly energized crowd seemed fearless and ready for this escalation, even with police officers watching closely.
As one of the speakers said to the crowd, “The war is not over there in Afghanistan. It's right here in America!” The nonviolent soldiers seemed determined to keep fighting for economic justice until all their demands are met, and everyone has access to adequate housing.
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is a national coalition of over a hundred groups building a multiracial movement to unite the poor and fight for economic justice and human rights. Their website is http://www.economichumanrights.org
The Kensington Welfare Rights Union, according to their website, is “a multiracial organization led by poor and homeless families organizing for Economic Human Rights in the poorest district of Pennsylvania.” Their website is http://www.kwru.org
Original Article: http://phillyimc.org/en/philly-protesters-seize-street-demand-housing-rights
Police watched as more than 100 people blocked a busy intersection at 6th and Market yesterday, near the Federal Building, to call attention to the nation's housing crisis.
Police watched as more than 100 people blocked a busy intersection at 6th and Market yesterday, near the Federal Building, to call attention to the nation's housing crisis. Speakers questioned national priorities, with President Obama sending 30,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan as thousands of Americans continue to be pushed into poverty and homelessness. The group, organized by Kensington Welfare Rights Union and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, demanded a moratorium on evictions, and vowed massive nationwide civil disobedience at the end of January if Obama has not taken adequate steps to address the housing issue.
Protesters gathered at the Federal Building at 11 am holding signs and banners, wearing colorful cardboard houses, beating drums in rhythm, and chanting “What do we want? Housing! When do we want it? Now!” Lead by about a dozen disabled individuals in wheelchairs, the group marched to the intersection of 6th and Market and picketed in a large circle, blockading the entire intersection, before converging on the south side of the intersection and blocking traffic across all of 6th Street. A number of people spoke to the gathered crowd, including two women whose homes were recently foreclosed.
“I was renting a home and received a letter stating my house was going up for foreclosure because the owner had not been paying his mortgage. A week later the sheriff was knocking on my door giving me five minutes to leave,” said Starleen Pringle, a longtime resident of Philadelphia.
Pringle said she was forced to immediately leave her home of three years, along with her nine year old daughter and seven year old son, even though she already paid full rent for the month.
“I wasn't even allowed to get school clothes for my daughter the next day,” said Pringle. “They said, 'If you touch or take anything we're gonna lock you up.'” She had to make an appointment to later return to her house and collect all her belongings under a sheriff's supervision.
“Every 15 seconds in this country someone's home is foreclosed!” announced Cheri Honkala, one of the rally organizers, and a national organizer for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC). “We want to know what the government is going to do for these people!”
PPEHRC organized similar rallies across the country and demanded that the Obama administration make housing its top priority and increase the federal government's funding for affordable housing to the $83 billion dollar level it was at in 1978.
Honkala criticized the government for bailing out banks and corporations, and spending tens of billions of dollars to escalate war, while neglecting the swelling masses of Americans who are living in poverty and homelessness.
“Bail out the people, not the banks!” the group chanted in unison.
Another Philadelphia woman whose home was recently foreclosed spoke on the megaphone. “I'm homeless with my children,” she said with both her daughters, aged two and four, by her side. “I'm living in my car now. I want the government to get me a house so my kids don't get taken away from me by DHS.”
PPEHRC is demanding that Philadelphia immediately take measures to house its entire homeless population, which numbers around 4,000 people on any given day.
Last month dozens of people gathered at City Hall with the AIDS advocacy group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) to pressure Mayor Nutter to provide housing for the 8,000 people living in Philadelphia with HIV/AIDS who do not have access to adequate housing, one of the worst records for AIDS housing in any American city. People who are disabled and/or living with diseases are particularly hard hit by the nation's lack of housing and health care.
As the economic crisis continues to strangle poor and working Americans, the numbers of homeless keep rising in Philadelphia and throughout the country. Meanwhile, many of the banks that received billions of dollars in federal taxpayer bailout funds are the same ones evicting people and taking their homes. The banks keep posting high and even record profits. The people keep paying the price.
PPEHRC and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union announced that if President Obama does not adequately address the housing crisis there will be massive civil disobedience planned at federal buildings across the nation at the end of January, including Philadelphia. The highly energized crowd seemed fearless and ready for this escalation, even with police officers watching closely.
As one of the speakers said to the crowd, “The war is not over there in Afghanistan. It's right here in America!” The nonviolent soldiers seemed determined to keep fighting for economic justice until all their demands are met, and everyone has access to adequate housing.
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is a national coalition of over a hundred groups building a multiracial movement to unite the poor and fight for economic justice and human rights. Their website is http://www.economichumanrights.org
The Kensington Welfare Rights Union, according to their website, is “a multiracial organization led by poor and homeless families organizing for Economic Human Rights in the poorest district of Pennsylvania.” Their website is http://www.kwru.org
Labels: Affordable Housing, Cheri Honkala, Foreclosure, KWRU, Obama, Philadelphia, PPEHRC, Starleen Pringle
Friday, October 23, 2009
Philly Zero Evictions Rally: 12/3 at 11AM Federal Building (Download Flyer)
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PA Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and Kensington Welfare Rights Union holding a "Zero Evictions Rally" at the Philadelphia Federal Building between 6th and 7th on Market St. on December 3rd at 11AM to demand money for families to stay in our homes and not for war.
Download the flyer: ZeroEvictions2009event.pdf
STOP FORECLOSURES! Homeowners need a moratorium to stop foreclosures now!
www.economichumanrights.org / Contact: Cheri 267-439-8419
Download the flyer: ZeroEvictions2009event.pdf
STOP FORECLOSURES! Homeowners need a moratorium to stop foreclosures now!
www.economichumanrights.org / Contact: Cheri 267-439-8419
Labels: Cheri Honkala, KWRU, PA PPEHRC, Philadelphia, Zero Eviction Day
Monday, September 28, 2009
PA PPEHRC: People's Caravan to Harrisburg Sept. 22nd
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KWRU's Galen Tyler spoke for KWRU and Tim Dowlin spoke for PA PPEHRC in Harrisburg, PA at the Capitol Building on Tuesday, September 22nd as a part of the People's Caravan at March and Rally.
Labels: Galen Tyler, Harrisburg, KWRU, PA PPEHRC, Tim Dowlin
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
“Social Movements for Economic Human Rights: Perspectives from the Street"
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Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research OPEN HOUSE
Featuring: HARVEY FINKLE
"Social Movements for Economic Human Rights: Perspectives from the
Street"
Thursday July 16, 2009
6:30-8:30
University of Louisville, Ekstrom Library room 258
Join us to celebrate the creation of Louisville's first Civil Rights
Driving Tour brochure, view powerful photographs by Harvey Finkle, and
enjoy good eats and the company of good people.
Harvey Finkle is a documentary still photographer who has produced a
substantial body of work concerned with social, economic, political and
cultural issues. His work has been extensively exhibited and published
including a book entitled "Readers" and five catalogues of major
exhibits, "Urban Nomads", a documentation of KWRU and the Poor
Peoples' Economic Human Rights Campaign, "STILL HOME: The Jews of
South Philadelphia", "PHILADELPHIA MOSAIC: New Immigrants in
America", "The JOBS Project/ Inside Out: A Prison Reentry
Program", and "The Many Faces of WOMEN'S WAY".
This event will launch: Building the Unsettling Force, A national
conference to end poverty organized by Women in Transition (WIT), Poor
People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEFRC), and Social Welfare
Action Alliance (SWAA).
Call Jardana Peacock with questions: 502-852-6142
Featuring: HARVEY FINKLE
"Social Movements for Economic Human Rights: Perspectives from the
Street"
Thursday July 16, 2009
6:30-8:30
University of Louisville, Ekstrom Library room 258
Join us to celebrate the creation of Louisville's first Civil Rights
Driving Tour brochure, view powerful photographs by Harvey Finkle, and
enjoy good eats and the company of good people.
Harvey Finkle is a documentary still photographer who has produced a
substantial body of work concerned with social, economic, political and
cultural issues. His work has been extensively exhibited and published
including a book entitled "Readers" and five catalogues of major
exhibits, "Urban Nomads", a documentation of KWRU and the Poor
Peoples' Economic Human Rights Campaign, "STILL HOME: The Jews of
South Philadelphia", "PHILADELPHIA MOSAIC: New Immigrants in
America", "The JOBS Project/ Inside Out: A Prison Reentry
Program", and "The Many Faces of WOMEN'S WAY".
This event will launch: Building the Unsettling Force, A national
conference to end poverty organized by Women in Transition (WIT), Poor
People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEFRC), and Social Welfare
Action Alliance (SWAA).
Call Jardana Peacock with questions: 502-852-6142
Women In Transition is a grassroots organization run by and for poor people
working to create a world where everyone's economic human rights are provided.
Women In Transition
219 West Ormsby Avenue
Louisville, Kentucky 40203
502.636.0160
witadmin@witky.com
www.witky.com
219 West Ormsby Avenue
Louisville, Kentucky 40203
502.636.0160
witadmin@witky.com
www.witky.com
Labels: Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, Harvey Finkle, KWRU, KY, Louisville, Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, Spaulding University, SWAA, WIT
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