During the weekend of January 12th to the 15th, in Philadelphia, PA the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign will be hosting a number of activities. This activities will culminate with a day of Teach-in and March commemorating the 50's anniversary march held with Dr. Martin Luther King and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign community.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

January 12, 2018

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign

economichumanrights.org

Contact:

Cheri Honakala, (215) 869-4753

Friday, January 12th

Community Film Screening of Flesh and Blood & Cheri's Fundraiser Birthday Bash!

7:00 pm at Taller Puertorriqueno, 2600 N 5th St, Philadelphia, PA 19133

Panel following film with Darlene Elias, Cheri Honkala, Guillermo Santos, and Galen Tyler, moderated by Edgardo Gonzalez.

Sunday, January 14th

Exhibition of photos by Harvey Finkel of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights

3:00 pm at Greater Impact Worship Center, 2431 N. 6th Street, Phila PA 19133

Campaign's retracing of Martin Luther King's Poor People's March from Marks, MS to Washington, DC, twelve years ago.

Monday, January 15th

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day & 50th Anniversary of MLK's Poor People's Campaign Teach-in and march

3:00 pm at Greater Impact Worship Center, 2431 N. 6th Street, Phila PA 19133

March starts at 6th & Cumberland St.

Marching to PPEHRC office at 3552 N. 6th Street, Phila, PA 19140 from Greater Impact

Worship Center 2431 N. 6 th Street, Phila PA 19133

The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is committed to uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty.

We are committed to uniting the poor as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty everywhere and forever. We work to accomplish this aim through the promotion of economic human rights, named in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Articles 23, 25, and 26. These articles state our right to such provisions as housing, health care, a living wage job, and education. The founding creed of the United States of America, which asserts our rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, inspired the formulation of these human rights. Our government signed the UDHR in 1948; its full implementation would mean that our country would be living out the true meaning of its creed. This American Dream is possible because our country is the richest and most powerful in the world.

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