Endorsement of the California Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
PPEHRC Mission Statement
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 work to accomplish this through advancing economic human rights as named in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such as the rights to food, housing, health, education, communication, and a living wage job.
PPEHRC Vision Statement
The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign is building a movement that unites the poor across color lines. Poverty afflicts Americans of all colors. Daily more and more of us are downsized and impoverished. We share a common interest in uniting against the prevailing conditions and around our vision of a society where we all have the right to health care, housing, living wage jobs, and access to quality primary and secondary education.
The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign includes people of many backgrounds. We are mothers, fathers, children, and grandparents; we are the unemployed, the working poor, the downsized, the homeless, the victims of welfare reform and NAFTA, the cast-asides of the new economy; we are social workers, religious leaders, labor leaders, artists, lawyers, and other people of conscience; we are young and old; we are able-bodied, deaf, and disabled; we live in rural areas and in urban centers.
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.
We do not seek pity. We do seek power to end conditions that threaten all of us with economic human rights violations denying us our birthrights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
We accept anyone or any organization into this Campaign who unites with these principles.
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We, ______(organizational name), stand by the principles set out in this Mission and Vision Statement. In so doing, we offer our organizational endorsement to the effort to build the PPEHRC in California and nationally.
This endorsement is the first item in becoming part of the PPEHRC General Membership. Membership entails organizational endorsement, support of one PPEHRC event per year, one organizational economic human rights educational per year, and participation in the General Congress of the PPEHRC every 2-3 years. To commit to membership, please contact us.
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Women’s Economic Agenda Project • 449 Fifteenth Street, 2nd Floor• Oakland, CA 94612•(510) 986-8620