Uniting the Poor as the Leadership Base of the Movement to End Poverty
PWG National Planning Meeting at the Highlander Center in Tennessee May 11 - 12
The USSF is grounded in an understanding that successful social movements are always led by those most affected. The Poverty Working Group of the USSF has been working for months to bring poor people from across the country to Detroit for this historic opportunity to unite and create strategic plans for action. At a time when corporate control of the planet continues to concentrate the world’s wealth into fewer hands and spread poverty to the masses, it is more crucial than ever that the poor and unemployed are in the leadership of the movement to end poverty.
The USSF Poverty Working Group, co-organized by Detroit-based Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and National Welfare Rights Union, and the national Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, wants to invite you to attend our poverty program, led by poor folks at the forefront of the movement to end poverty.
Our program includes:
PWG SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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Monday 6/21 |
Tuesday 6/22 Day 1 |
Wednesday 6/23 Day 2 |
Thursday 6/24 Day 3 |
Friday 6/25 Day 4 |
Saturday 6/26 Day 5 |
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10am - 12pm March to Fulfill the Dream: Caravan and National Press Conference Group: Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign Time/Location: 10am - Caravaners meet at intersection of Cass Ave and W. Willis St. and drive off together. 11am - March to Fulfill the Dream State of the Union Address at Central United Methodist Church, 23 E. Adams Ave. |
8am – 9:30am Youth Meet and Greet
Short Film Location: Poverty Tent |
8am – 9:30am Political Educational on the Nature of Globalization and its impact on the destruction of the social contract Location: Poverty Tent |
8am – 9:30am Political Educational on Developing the Leadership of the Poor Location: Poverty Tent |
8am – 9:30am Developing Leadership: Methods of resistance in challenging the school to prison track Location: COBO Hall: Main Auditorium - Merchandising Area |
10am
Group: Poverty Working Group Location: COBO Hall: W2-64 |
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10am – 12pm
Group: Poverty Working Group Location: Cobo Hall |
10am – 11:30am Political Educational on Immigrant Rights as a part of the developing movement of the poor. Location: Poverty Tent |
10am – 11:30am Youth, Hip Hop, Arts and Culture Panel
Location: Poverty Tent |
10am Review + Ratify PWG Resolution of Action
Location: COBO Hall: Main Auditorium |
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Time: TBD Rally at DTE Energy that will join Opening March to USSF
Group: Michigan Welfare Rights Union
Location: DTE |
10am – 12pm Workshop Keepin’ it Universal: Hip Hop and Strategies for Social Change
Group: Hip Hop Congress Location: Woodward Academy: Auditorium |
10am - 12pm Workshop Building a National Tenant Movement to Save Our Homes Group: National Alliance of HUD Tenants
Location: Cobo Hall: W2-70 |
10am – 11:30am Political Educational on Developing the Leadership of the Poor. Location: COBO Hall: Main Auditorium - Merchandising Area |
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3 – 5pm
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1:00 – 5:30 pm PMA World Court on Poverty in the U.S.: Disappeared in America Group: Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign Location: Cobo Hall: M3-32 |
1:00 – 5pm Workshop How to Claim the Right to Housing and the City: Take Over, Take Back, and Take it to the City Group: International Alliance of Inhabitants Location: Cobo Hall: DO-5B
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1pm – 5:30 pm PMA What the Health Happened and How Do We Get the Health Care We Need? Group:Healthcare NOW! Location: Cobo Hall: M3-31 |
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3:30 – 5:30pm Workshop Group: Lifetime Location: WSU Student Center 16 |
1:00 – 5:30pm Workshop Voices from the Front and a Vision of a New Society Group: People’s Tribune & Tribuno del Pueblo Newspaper Location: Cobo Hall: D3-18
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7pm - 9pm Arts & Culture Program Location: Poverty Tent | 7pm - 9pm Arts & Culture Program Location: Poverty Tent | 7pm - 9pm Arts & Culture Program Location: |
MARCH TO FULFILL THE DREAM
New Orleans to Detroit
April 4th - June 21st
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign's March to Fulfill the Dream is a poor people's caravan from New Orleans to Detroit documenting stories of poverty and resistance and organizing folks to attend the USSF. The caravan has visited 17 cities so far highlighting the massive spread of poverty and growing inequality in the wealthiest country in the world. Marches, demonstrations, and truth commissions have united hundreds to support local struggles for housing, health care, and human rights. Members of poor communities in almost every city visited plan to drive to Detroit to build the national movement to end poverty! The PWG is fundraising and coordinating to make sure everyone from along the March route and across the country can attend the USSF.
Check out more about the March to Fulfill the Dream at PPEHRC's website: economichumanrights.org
To support the participation of the poor at the USSF please click the button below!
You may also send a check in any amount to:
USSF2010
att. Marian Kramer, PWG Co-chair
23 East Adams St
Detroit, MI 48226
For more information please email poverty@lists.ussf2010.org.
Another world is possible. Another U.S. is necessary. Another Detroit is here!
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