Faces of the Fallen

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FACES OF THE FALLENThis project aims to highlight the millions of Americans who have not fared well in the last four years due to economic human rights violations- those who have been laid off, denied healthcare, lived in shelters and went without food for their families.THE CURRENT SITUATION:While US foreign policy finds us engaged in conflicts in different parts of the world, there is an unreported but deadly war going on within our own borders. This war on America's poor and working families has left many of us without our economic human rights to food, housing, healthcare, education and living wage jobs. Over the past four years, our conditions have worsened. There are now over 31 million Americans living in poverty. 12.2 million children in our nation are poor, with over 1.35 million of them homeless. Over 43 million Americans have no healthcare and there are currently almost 10 million unemployed Americans.Part of the reason that this war on the poor continues and why the poor are not surviving, is that our suffering has been made invisible. The poor have been disappeared from not only the welfare rolls and the workforce, but from the media and the political debates. Our stories are not told and our images are not seen. Our invisibility has allowed for our situation to be ignored by our politicians, who have not placed a priority on addressing the increasing number of poor families and our worsening conditions. We know that in order to win this war and to survive, whatever the next administration may be, the faces of America's poor must be shown. If the general public knew our stories and saw our faces, we know that something would be done. The timing is critical, as the next few months will dictate the priorities of the next elections and the focuses of the next administration. We need economic human rights to be a priority over the next four years, or many of us who have been abandoned by political parties in the past, simply will not make it. Betty Sherwood Baker Rosemary Cole Kayla Frawley Sarah Freni-Rothschild Kieran Holcomb Rene Maxwell John Joseph McKelvey Sarah Messina Melissa Roland John & Barbara Stadler Leathian Trivonovich Michael Valent

Alice

Michelle

Al Barlow

Christina Densmore

Roy Stevens

Ann TurnerErica & Galen

Emine Gurel

Christopher Turner

Cely Coleman

Gail Muhammad

Alfonso Massoni

Maria Venellaz

Francia Ruiz

Tawana Bethea

Alex Velazque

Shelia TolerWe Need Your Help to Document the Faces Of the FallenA major project of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is documenting economic human rights violations across the United States. This evidence has been taken to the United Nations and other international bodies, where we have officially presented our grievances on behalf of poor people in this country. Many people in other countries do not believe that poverty really exists in the United States. By bringing these stories to the international level, we intend to let the truth be known to the whole world.We're asking everyone we know to get out into their community and conduct face to face interviews with people who are experiencing economic human rights violations. We need you to talk with people about what's going on in their lives and invite them to share their story with the world by including it in the Faces of the Fallen Documentation Project.Because economic human rights have been so silenced in this country, many people do not believe that they have the right to survive. Documenting human rights abuses can also be an opportunity for human rights education. Teaching people to see their struggles as part of a bigger fight for human rights rather than seeing only their individual faults and failings is an important part of the Campaign.What you can do:This project essentially has two parts: documenting the faces and stories of economic human rights violations experienced by poor and working Americans; and telling those stories and showing those faces in every arena we can.We need all the help we can get in collecting this evidence.

 

 

 

 

DOCUMENTATION1. Submit your documentation over the web using our on-line documentation form or2. Download sample documentation form to print - long form or short form.3. The complete Universal Declaration of Human Rights in English (print version) or Spanish (print version); one-page flyer with UDHR Articles that focus on Economic Human Rights.4. Guide to Documenting Economic Human Rights Violations, including tips and samples.5. Sample documentation cases collected in Philadelphia: read the stories of Alice, Betty, Erica and Galen, and Michelle.Telling our Stories:Then we must ensure that their stories of hunger, unemployment, homelessness, and healthcare denial are heard by those who hold power over their situations. Telling the stories will take a number of forms.• The Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign will is holding monthly vigils on the each month at the United Nations, commemorating these 'Faces of the Fallen' leading up to August 30th's March For Our Lives.• We will highlight the stories and faces of the fallen from each region of the country on the PPEHRC website.• This fall we will be compiling the stories into a multimedia exhibit to be shown on college campuses and community centers across the country. Please contact us about bringing the exhibit to your area.Contact the Campaign to find out information about Faces of the Fallen documentation in your area. www.economichumanrights.org | www.marchforourlives.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LOVE PEOPLE AND USE THINGS -

NOT LOVE THINGS AND USE PEOPLE.Have nothing to do with the evil deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. Ephesians 5:11

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places." (Eph. 6:12).