Thursday, June 10, 2010
Loraine, OH - The Morning Journal: Video Coverage of the Caravaners/ Marchers
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Article from The Morning Journal
VIDEOS: Poor People's tour stops in Lorain, hosts events today
Published: Thursday, June 10, 2010
LORAIN — A national effort to raise awareness about poverty around the country will host events today in Lorain and Sandusky.
The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights campaign arrived in Lorain yesterday and will make its way through Huron Township and Sandusky.
The tour began April 4 in New Orleans and is heading toward the U.S. Social Forum on June 21 in Detroit.
National organizer Cheri Honkala compared the economic conditions of Ohio to those in states along the Gulf of Mexico, where residents continue to rebuild their hurricane-damaged towns and now must deal with a disastrous oil spill.
The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights campaign arrived in Lorain yesterday and will make its way through Huron Township and Sandusky.
The tour began April 4 in New Orleans and is heading toward the U.S. Social Forum on June 21 in Detroit.
National organizer Cheri Honkala compared the economic conditions of Ohio to those in states along the Gulf of Mexico, where residents continue to rebuild their hurricane-damaged towns and now must deal with a disastrous oil spill.
“You guys have some of the highest poverty rates in the entire country and unemployment rates and devastated population of youth and elderly,” Honkala said yesterday as the traveling group assembled in Lorain’s Veterans Memorial Park.
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