FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   July 2, 2009

CONTACT: Khalilah Collins, Executive Director, (502) 432-2029   

At 12 pm today, leaders of Women in Transition and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign will hold a press conference to announce plans for a July conference and march themed: Building an Unsettling Force, Fighting to End Poverty. PPEHRC National Organizer Cheri Honkala will speak and members of WIT will be available for comment.

The march will include poor people from Louisville, Kentucky, and the Nation speaking out and demanding their economic human rights and an end to poverty. It begins 3 pm Friday the 17^th of July at Memorial Park on 4^th and Kentucky streets and will spread its message around Louisville.

The conference is being organized to provide a forum for people to share ideas, inspire and motivate each other.  We will strive for collective actions based on sound analyses-actions that can be taken locally, regionally, and nationally when we leave this gathering. More on the conference below.

What: Press Conference

Where: Offices of Women in Transition, 219 West Ormsby Ave in the basement of the Kling Center

When. 12 pm, July 2^nd

Who: Cheri Honkala, PPEHRC National Organizer

           Women In Transition

 

A NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO END POVERTY

JULY 16^TH – JULY 19^TH, 2009

SPALDING UNIVERSITY

 

Hosted by Women In Transition (WIT), the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and the Social Welfare Action Alliance will convene their national conferences in Louisville, KY.  Community activists and organizers, social workers, human service workers, students, faculty and all who are concerned with meeting human need and claiming economic human rights will together to discuss how to abolish poverty in these times of increasing joblessness, homelessness, hunger and unemployment.  We turn to the wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, who envisioned an organized "unsettling force" across racial lines that would spark a "revolution of values" to reorganize our society.

 The conference will include workshops, panel discussions, Harvey Finkle art exhibit, a demonstration for economic human rights, and a concert in Shelby Park (People's Fest).

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Peter Cooper
Media Coordinator
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
economichumanrights.org
512/924/7561