Reflecting on the "Blessed" and "Beautiful" in Wonderful World

Heart of America in songs and singers Louis Armstrong, Kate Smith, Ray Charles

Commentary, excerpt, editing by Carolyn Bennett

  

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  ullied “Beautiful” – American leaders together with their paymasters and “partners” are gravely failing America’s promise. They create the terror they claim to be curbing. Sober reflection demands their recall – as it is imperative for world health and survival. America, America … may grace be shed on thee and crown thy good with societal good from sea to shining sea.

 

“America the Beautiful” written by poet Katharine Lee Bates (music composed by organist/choirmaster Samuel A. Ward) was first published in 1910. Ray Charles (b. Ray Charles Robinson, September 23, 1930; d. June 10, 2004); American singer-songwriter, musician and composer, a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s; Ray Charles’s version of “America the Beautiful” lit up U.S. R&B Charts in 1976 during the United States celebration of its 200th anniversary.

Ray Charles “America the Beautiful” 1970s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUjr8EVgBg

  

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   ejected “Blessing” – American leaders together with their paymasters and “partners” are gravely failing America’s promise. They create the terror they claim to be curbing. Sober reflection demands their recall – as it is imperative for world health and survival. This Land that we love, “Stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above.… God, bless America, My home, sweet home.”

“God Bless America” written by songwriter Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised in 1938 was made a classic recording by and became the signature song of Kate Smith. Kate Smith (b. Kathryn Elizabeth Smith, May 1, 1907; d. June 17, 1986) known also as “The First Lady of Radio”: American singer, contralto; well known for her rendition of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America.”

Kate Smith “God Bless America,” 1930s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yrTJdarwy0

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  linding selfishness – American leaders together with their paymasters and “partners” are gravely failing America’s promise. They create the terror they claim to be curbing. Sober reflection demands their recall – as it is imperative for world health and survival. Satchmo saw Skies of blue, clouds of white / Bright blessed days, dark sacred nights [and sang compellingly] … What a wonderful world.

  

“What a Wonderful World,” written by songwriters Bob Thiele (as  "George Douglas") and George David Weiss, first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1967. Louis Armstrong (b. August 4, 1901; d. July 6, 1971), nicknamed “Satchmo” and “Pops”: American jazz trumpeter, singer, and influential figure in jazz music

Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” 1960s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU

 

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his spirit of America and a world view represented in poet, song, songwriter and singer looks on more than a hundred years, back to the first publication of Bates’ poem as “America the Beautiful”; but even further, to more than 200 years, if we reflect on Ray Charles’ bicentennial version of “America the Beautiful” looking to America’s 1776 Declaration. The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America in Congress July 4, 1776 (Excerpt):  

“… We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all … are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among [people], deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that [humankind] are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them [the people] under absolute Despotism,

…it is their right [and] their duty to throw off such Government and to provide new Guards for their future security.

“Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present [leadership]

…is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

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A lifelong American writer and writer/activist (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence. Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/08UNCONSCIONABLE/prweb12131656.htm http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-000757788/UNCONSCIONABLE.aspx Her books are also available at independent books in New York State: Lift Bridge in Brockport; Sundance in Geneseo; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center in Buffalo; Burlingham Books in Perry; The Bookworm in East Aurora

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Crimes against The People: Gov't officials breach Bill of Rights 4 et al

1776 Declaration

Declaration of Independence 

July 4, 1776 -July 4, 2013

Constitution of the United States of America 1787

Bill of Rights 1789

Excerpt by Carolyn Bennett

Preamble: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense (this does not mean wage domestic or foreign wars), promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

  

Government Officials
Breach
what they swear to uphold:
The Constitution of the
United States of America

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution were proposed by the Congress on September 25, 1789. They were ratified by the following states, and the notifications of the ratification by the governors thereof were successively communicated by the President to the Congress: New Jersey, Nov. 20, 1789; Maryland, Dec. 19, 1789; North Carolina, Dec. 22, 1789; South Carolina, Jan. 19, 1790; New Hampshire, Jan. 25, 1790; Delaware, Jan. 28, 1790; New York, Feb. 4, 1790; Pennsylvania, March 10, 1790; Rhode Island, June 7, 1790; Vermont, Nov. 3, 1791; and Virginia, Dec. 15, 1791. Ratification was completed on Dec. 15, 1791.

The amendments were subsequently ratified by Massachusetts, March 2, 1939; Georgia, March 18, 1939; and Connecticut, April 19, 1939.

Fourth Amendment

Amendment [IV] The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Wikipedia note: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA): “By law, NSA's intelligence gathering is limited to foreign communications, although there have been incidents involving domestic collection, including the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy.

“The National Security Agency is divided into two major missions: the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID), which produces foreign signals intelligence information, and the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), which protects U.S. information systems.…
 “The National Security Agency (NSA) is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S. government communications and information systems, which involves information security and cryptanalysis/cryptography.”

Protest

Directed by at least a lieutenant general or Vice Admiral, “the NSA is a key component of the U.S. Intelligence Community, which is headed by the Director of National Intelligence. The Central Security Service is a co-located agency created to coordinate intelligence activities and cooperation between NSA and other U.S. military cryptanalysis agencies. The Director of the National Security Agency serves as the Commander of the United States Cyber Command and Chief of the Central Security Service.” 

Remember this Declaration 1776

Continental Congress
1776

“…Prudence  … dictate(s) that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that [human beings] are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism

[I]t is their right

[I]it is their duty

[T]o throw off such government, and

[T]o provide new guards for their future security.… 

  

MOVEMENT: “Restore the Fourth”

Restore the Fourth Nonviolent protests are being planned for major U.S. cities to coincide with commemoration of the national day of independence.

Restore the Fourth is a grassroots, non-partisan movement established in the belief that “the government of the United States must respect the right to privacy of all its citizens as the Fourth Amendment clearly states. 

Restore the Fourth seeks to bring awareness to the abuses against U.S. civil liberties and the erosion of the cornerstone of democracy. 

 Inalienable rights of the people protected by (guaranteed under provisions of) the Constitution of the United States of America have been secretly violated by the activities of the National Security Agency (NSA). 

 Restore the Fourth was created to demonstrate to U.S. leaders the permanence of the rights of American citizens and the importance of transparency in addressing its constituency. 

Restore the Fourth aims to prove that when these rights are idly ignored, the parties responsible will be held accountable for their actions.

Independence Day in the United States of America is the annual celebration of nationhood. 

It commemorates passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

Sources and notes

Constitution of the United States (IV Amendment, Preamble, notes) at Britannica

NSA notes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

Restore the Fourth sites, http://www.restorethefourth.net/about-us/

http://www.restorethefourth.net/

Independence Day USA (1776-2013)

Restore the Fourth rallies, large nonviolent protests are being planned in major cities throughout the United States to coincide with the national holiday day commemorating independence.

Demonstrations will send a singular message: “the government of the United States of America must adhere to its constitutionally-dictated limits of power and respect the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.”

Plans and outreach are developing through reddit and Facebook. Cleveland, Ohio’s July 4 rally is planned for Edgewater Park.

“Current needs include all manner of supplies (sign materials, flags, pamphlets, flyers, buttons, stickers, coffee, etc.), speakers, media outreach people, social media coordinators, pamphleteers and more.”

“Restore the Fourth Rally Being Planned in Cleveland,” Posted by Eric Sandy on Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:23 AM, http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2013/06/11/restore-the-fourth-rally-being-planned-in-cleveland

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Greens choose veteran Poor People’s Economic Human Rights leader Chris Honkala

2012 Green Party Vice President with Jill Stein for President

Compiled and edited by 
Carolyn Bennett

We do not seek pity. We seek power that ends human rights conditions threatening all people. Violations of economic human rights deny the birthright to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness reads the mission of the organization founded by Cheri Honkala.

The woman chosen for vice president by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has been called “a speaker with a powerful message about ending poverty in America.”

Who is she?

Minnesota-born Pennsylvanian Cheri Honkala is a leading advocate for human rights who speaks worldwide about the struggle against poverty in the United States and the denial of basic economic human rights. She has brought life stories and voices of America’s poor and homeless people to the United Nations Human Rights Commission/Council, to the World Social Forum, and to other international bodies.

Cheri Honkala is National Coordinator for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign.

Listed among her efforts, in addition working with the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, are speaking to 148 governments at the United Nations about ending poverty in America; leading a March of the Americas, the World Summit of the Poor, and a 125-mile march of homeless and poor from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to the United Nations in protest of welfare reform and poverty as a violation of economic human rights.

Cheri Honkala has served on the Urban-Rural Mission, the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, the Pennsylvanians for Choice, the Alliance of Native Americans, and the Annie Smart Leadership Development boards of directors, among others. She refused to sign the Pennsylvania Agreement of Mutual responsibility (AMR on behalf of all welfare recipients on the grounds that without adequate guarantees of childcare, healthcare, and jobs at a living wage, the AMR is an unfair contract). Pennsylvania newspapers have named her among “the region’s 100 most powerful” and “Woman of the Year.”

Cheri Honkala is an American anti-poverty advocate, founder of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) and founder of the National Coordinator of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign.

In June of 1977, Cheri Honkala and other members of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union organized the “‘March for Our Lives’ from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to United Nations in New York to protest human rights violations in the United States caused by welfare reform.” 

In 2011, Honkala was the Green Party candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This coming Saturday, Green Party 2012 presidential candidate Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala are expected to be officially nominated at the Green Party national convention in Baltimore, Maryland.


What is Honkala’s
Poor People’s Economic Rights Campaign?

The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign is a rising movement “that unites the poor across color lines,” says the organization’s published mission.

“Poverty afflicts Americans of all colors. Every day 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, secondary, and higher education.

“The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign includes people of many backgrounds: mothers, fathers, children, and grandparents; 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 live in rural areas and in urban centers.”

Anchored in

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

“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 by promoting economic human rights as anchored in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Articles 23, 25, and 26. These articles provide for the human right to housing, health care, a living-wage job, and education.

Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
1948
Eleanor Roosevelt 

“The founding creed of the United States of America (the 1776 Declaration of Independence proclaiming equally the 'unalienable rights') asserting Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness inspired the formulation of rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed by the United States in 1948. However, while it claims to defend human rights, the United States of America has consistently ignored and undermined the global consensus on economic human rights.”

Full implementation of these rights means that “our country, the richest, most powerful in the world, would be living out the true meaning of its creed.

“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 birthright to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Biographer Anne Roth wrote about Cheri Honkala: “What she is fighting for seems to be a chance for our entire nation’s poor to meet the basic needs for survival. 

This is not a fight for a bigger handout, but a fight for a realistic opportunity to exist under the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Sources and notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cheri_Honkala&printable=yes

http://old.economichumanrights.org/about/about.html

http://www.speakersforanewamerica.com/speakers/cheri.html

“Biography of: Cheri Honkala” (author: Anne Roth), http://www1.appstate.edu/~clarkne/socm/bios/honkala.htm

Appalachian State University, http://www1.appstate.edu/~clarkne/socm/bios/honkala.htm

KWRU

The Kensington Welfare Rights Union is a progressive social justice, political action, and advocacy group of, by, and for the poor and homeless operating out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and led by Galen Tyler. The group was formed in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood in April of 1991.

KWRU is a part of the national organization, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, a coalition of grassroots organizations, community groups, and non-profit organizations committed to uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty. KWRU is also a member of the steering committee of the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition. The KWRU was written about in David Zucchino’s book Myth of the Welfare Queen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Welfare_Rights_Union

Myth of the Welfare Queen

A reviewer of David Zucchino’s 1999 work said the author had “written an unsentimental yet powerful narrative describing life in the trenches of the welfare system,” a recounting that “reminds us that we cannot disregard the urgency of poverty [because] it affects all of us regardless of economic situation or anyone’s opinion of welfare recipients.”

“Zucchino’s attempt to deconstruct the myth of the welfare queen exposes many unsavory details about life below the poverty line: trash-picking, sex for money, children left in charge of other children.

“This book invites readers step into the shoes of a desperately poor person, leaving behind moral judgments and uninformed opinions.”

The Myth of the Welfare Queens “is a story of two women on welfare, a chronicle of daily life with Cheri Honkala, a welfare recipient and activist, and Odessa Williams a welfare grandmother.”

POOR PEOPLE'S ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN

Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign

Larry Bresler, Executive Director

2671 Haddam Road

Cleveland, Ohio 44120

Phone: (216) 651-2606

email: lbresler@economichumanrights.org

or

email: info@economichumanrights.org

March to Fulfill the Dream Contacts:

Cheri Honkala

phone: 267-439-8419

email: cherihonkalappehrc@gmail.com

Jeff Rousset

phone: 845-642-8145

email: jeffppehrc@gmail.com

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign

 Artists/Musicians Affiliate Members

Alpha Platoon / Seattle

B Girl Media / Seattle

Carvell Holloway for Strokely/California

De-Bug / San Jose CA

Elena Rose Productions/California

Gathering of Hearts / Kentwood, Louisiana

Harvey Finkle Photography / Philadelphia

Hip Hop Congress

Junkyard Empire/California

Just Artistic Terrorism / Minneapolis

Kevin Sandbloom/California

Lady T for Natural High/California

Mark Webber/California

Poor Rich Kids (PRK ) / Philadelphia

Raz-B (formerly of B2K)/California

Rebel Diaz / Bronx NY

Rock & Rap Confidential/California

Rock A Mole Productions/California

Rondavoux Records / California

Street Level Youth Media / Chicago

Talissa Love/California

Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural/California

True Mutiny / Minneapolis

Umojafest P.E.A.C.E. Center / Seattle

Untold Legacy Production Company / Kentwood, Louisiana

Zumix Radio/Boston

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign Members

Agape Love Ministry to the Homeless (Cleveland OH)

Alabama Arise

Alexandria United Taxi-drivers Organization (Alexandria, VA)

Alternatives for Developing Change (Chico, CA)

Arise for Social Justice (Springfield, MA)

ASL Advocates (Euclid, OH)

Big Creek People in Action (Caretta, WV)

BOSS and Street Spirit (Oakland/Berkeley, CA)

California PPEHRC Committees

CCove (Philadelphia, PA)

Center for Economic and Social Rights (New York, NY)

Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (international)

Centro Comunitario Juan Diego (Chicago, IL)

Centro de Trabajadores Agriculas (El Paso, TX)

Chattanoogans and North Georgians for Economic Rights - CHANGER (Chattanooga, TN)

Coalition of Immokalee Workers (Immokalee, FL)

Coalition to Protect Public Housing (Chicago, IL)

Community Homeless Alliance Ministry (San Jose, CA)

Deaf and Deaf-Blind Committee on Human Rights

(North Olmsted, OH)

Delaware Housing Coalition (Dover, DE)

Direct Action Welfare Group (Charleston, WV)

Domestic Workers (Los Angeles, CA)

The Employment Project (New York, NY)

Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland (Cleveland, OH)

Friends & Residents of Arthur Capper and Carrollsburg

(Washington, DC)

Georgia Human Rights Union/Project South (Atlanta, GA)

Hip Hop Congress (National)

The Nashville Homeless Power Project (Nashville, TN)

Human Rights Tech (Philadelphia, PA)

Idahoans Struggling in Solidarity (Boise, ID)

Independent Media Center-Philadelphia (PA)

Iowa PPEHRC ( Iowa City, IW)

Ithaca Workers Rights Center (Ithaca, NY)

Jesus People Against Pollution (Columbia, MS)

JEDI for Women (Salt Lake City, UT)

Just Housing! (Aurora, IL)

Kensington Welfare Rights Union (Philadelphia, PA)

La Mujer Obrera (El Paso, TX)

Lifetime (Oakland, CA)

Loring Nicolett Alternative School (Minneapolis, MN)

Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA, CAN)

Louisiana Injured Workers (New Orleans, LA)

Low-Income Self-Help Center (San Jose, CA)

Luzerne County Residents Union (Wilkes-Barre, PA)

Massachusetts Welfare Rights Union (Mattapan, MA)

Miami Valley Full Employment Council (Dayton, OH)

Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (Detroit, MI)

Mid-South Peace & Justice Center (Memphis, TN)

Minnesota PPEHRC (Minneapolis, MN)

Mississippi MAP (Jackson, MS)

Mormons for Equality and Social Justice (Salt Lake City, UT)

National Alliance of HUD Tenants (Nat)

 National Welfare Rights Union

 Network of Spiritual Progressives ( Pittsburgh, PA)

New Jersey STEPS

 New Jerusalem (Philadelphia, PA)

 New Labor (NJ)

 North Carolina Farmworkers Project

 Ohio Empowerment Coalition ( Cincinnati, OH)

 Organizer's Learning Center (IL)

 Organize! Ohio

People Organized to Win Employment Rights

 (San Francisco, CA)

 Poor People United (Rochester, NY)

 Poor Voices United (Atlantic City, NJ)

 Portland Organization to Win Economic Rights (Portland, ME)

 Real Change (Seattle, WA)

 The Refuge (St. Petersburg, FL)

 Rochester Poor People's Coalition (Rochester, NY)

 Rochester SWAA ( Rochester, NY)

Rock A Mole Productions (Los Angeles, CA)

 The Rural Coalition (national)

 San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness (San Francisco, CA)

The Simple Way (Philadelphia, PA)

 Sisters Of The Road (Portland, OR)

Sisters Together Ending Poverty (Boston, MA)

 Skylight Pictures (New York, NY)

 Social Welfare Action Alliance (national)

 Southerners for Economic Justice (Durham, NC)

 Southsiders Together Organizing for Power (STOP) (Chicago, IL)

 Stand for Our Neighbors (Washington, DC)

 STOP Targeting Ohio's Poor (Cleveland, OH)

 Tampa Bay Action Group (St Petersburg, FL)

 TRASA (Salt Lake City, UT)

 UNC Housekeepers Union (Chapel Hill, NC)

 United Clevelanders Against Poverty (Cleveland, OH)

 United Workers Association (Baltimore, MD)

 U.S – El Salvador Sister Cities

 Voices of Illinois Poor People (Dekalb, IL)

 West Virginia Listening Project (WV)

 Women's Project (Little Rock, AR)

 Womens Economic Agenda Project (Oakland, CA)

 Women in Transition (Louisville, KY)

 Western Regional Advocacy Project (Multi-State)

Youth Action Research Group (Washington, DC)

PPEHRC Coordinating Council Members

 Ethel Long-Scott, WEAP

 Bonnie Macri, JEDI

 Cecilia Perry, PPEHRC legal committee

 Galen Tyler, KWRU

 Khalilah Collins, Women in Transition

 Monica Beemer, Sisters of the Road

 Jesse Vear, Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights

 Anne Patterson, MN PPEHRC

 Mary Bricker Jenkins, Social Welfare Action Alliance

 Carol Steele, Coalition to Protect Public Housing

 Diane King, United Clevelanders Against Poverty

 Shamako Noble, Hip Hop Congress

PPEHRC Staff

 Larry Bresler, Executive Director

 Cheri Honkala, National Organizer

 For other information, email info[at]economichumanrights.org

http://old.economichumanrights.org/members.html

http://old.economichumanrights.org/contact.html

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