Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign

Schedule for March for Our Lives

at the 2008 Republican National Convention

August/ September 2008

Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Aug 1st -23rd Minnesota Poverty Bus Tour
We will make stops in communities throughout Minnesota to expose violations of the human right to health care, housing, food, education, communication and living wage jobs, to share experiences, exchange ideas, collect human rights documentation, and join local actions in the fight for economic human rights. Throughout The journey, we will be hosting teach-ins, panels, workshops and performances to help further mobilize and grow the movement to end poverty in the United States.

Aug 24th -28th Poverty Reality Tours Of Minneapolis/St. Paul
We will be taking members of the national and international media, the human rights community, religious leaders and many others on Poverty Reality Tours of Minneapolis/St. Paul and surrounding areas, exposing the plight of people denied economic human rights in the Twin Cities.

Aug 29th World Court Of Women
PPEHRC will host a World Court of Women to expose poverty and war in The US and around the world caused by the Bush Administration, before a jury of human rights defenders and movement leaders from around the world.

Aug 30th Minnesota Truth Commission
Individuals from throughout Minnesota will present testimony detailing their experiences of economic human rights violations.

Aug 31st Basketball Game: PPEHRC Vs. The Billionaires For Bush
Arts & Culture Performances With PPEHRC Human Rights Choir

The PPERHC basketball team will face off against The Billionaires for Bush – a grassroots network of corporate lobbyists, decadent heirs, Halliburton CEOs and other winners under George W. Bush’s economic policies. Later, experience the power of resistance art, music and poetry as we as we celebrate the critical role art and culture play as a voice for this growing movement for economic human rights.

Sept 1st March To Stop The War!
On the first day of the convention, PPEHRC will join the “March to Stop the War!” tying the issues of poverty, homelessness and the health care crisis, under which millions of people in our rich country are suffering and dying, with the spending of trillions of dollars on an immoral war in Iraq. We will march to stop the wars – at home and abroad!

Sept 1st National Truth Commission On Human Rights Violations In The US
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.

Sept 2nd March For Our Lives: Money For Health Care And Housing Not For War!

Health care and housing should never be luxuries – not in the United States, not anywhere. Toward this end, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign calls for you to join us as we fill the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota in a powerful, peaceful demonstration for the right to health care, housing and all economic human rights. We will march because as poverty, hunger, unemployment and homelessness grow throughout this country, political leaders from both major 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. This September we will bring together poor and homeless people of every race, background and age, students, social workers, union members, lawyers, religious leaders, artists and everyone who stands for social and economic justice. We will make our voices heard as we “March for Our Lives to demand “Money for Health Care and Housing, Not for War!”

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March for Our Lives
September 2, 2008- 4 PM Mears Park, St. Paul, Minnesota
Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
http://www.economichumanrights.org
Ph: 612-821-2364