| LOUISVILLE, KY - August 11 - The Kensington Welfare Right’s Union (KWRU) will bring their month long campaign to Louisville on August 7-9, 2003 to commemorate the 35th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign. The Poor People’s March for Economic Human Rights will retrace the march planned by King before his assassination.
Over the past 35 years, economic conditions for America’s poor have deteriorated. The growing healthcare crisis in America has left 71 million people without healthcare this year. Of those who are living in poverty, 80 million are children. As the economic situation in American worsens, so does the plight of the unseen poor and homeless in this country. To bring this issue to the forefront, the KWRU has called on those of all races to join them in demanding an end to poverty and economic human rights violations. The arrival in Knoxville will include a public speak out by the city’s poor which the KWRU will document A major part of the Economic Human Rights Campaign is documenting economic human rights abuses across the United States. This evidence will be taken to the United Nations and other international bodies, where the KWRU continues to officially present their grievances on behalf of poor people in the United States.
The march began in Marks, TN on August 2, 2003 and will continue on through Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and culminate in a tent city on the National Mall in Washington D.C on August 23rd, 2003. From the 24th-29th the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign will set up a tent city, Bushville, in the heart of the capital, with or without a permit.
WHO: Cheri Honkala, Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Representatives from Solutions to Issues of Concern to Knoxvillians
Poor and Homeless Families
WHEN: August 12, 2003
March begins at 9am at 3204 E. Magnolia Ave Between Mary and Beaman
(speak outs and testimonials occurring throughout the route)
10:30 —11:00am Speak out at MLK
12:00- 1:00 Speak Out against Proposed Demolition of Austin Homes
2:00pm Press Conference at City Hall (end of March)
WHERE: 400 Main Street between Day and Walnut Street
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