Saturday July 31, 2010
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Poor People's Movements

Welfare Rights Committee launches campaign to tell the candidates: “Undo the cuts to the poor!”
Staff | Saint Paul, MN | 7/10/10
On July 8, members of the Welfare Rights Committee (WRC) gathered outside the Ramsey County welfare office, holding signs and passing out fliers urging...
Economic Crisis, Welfare Rights Committee
Welfare Rights Committee activist Angel Buechner speaks at U.S. Social Forum
Staff | Detroit, MI | 7/07/10
Podcast of Angel Buechner, of the Minnesota-based Welfare Rights Committee, at the U.S Social Forum, June 24, at the workshop “Building the people’s...
US Social Forum, USSF, Welfare Rights Committee
Interview with Rosemary Williams at the U.S. Social Forum
Staff | Detroit, MI | 7/01/10
Fight Back! interviewed Rosemary Williams, an important leader in the struggle against home foreclosures, at the U.S. Social Forum on June 24.
Eviction, Foreclosure, Rosemary Williams, US Social Forum, USSF
Struggle to stop resegregation of Wake County schools heats up as 4 civil rights activists are arrested in NC
Kosta Harlan | Raleigh, NC | 6/16/10
Four activists were arrested during a Wake County Board of Education meeting, June 15, as the struggle to stop the resegregation of Wake County schools...
NAACP, Resegregation, Reverend William Barber
Newark rally attacks crisis of foreclosure and homelessness
Staff | Newark, NJ | 6/03/10
The Community Coalition against Foreclosure and Homelessness rallied here, May 22, to demand that effective measures be taken by government to help...
Community Coalition against Foreclosure and Homelessness, People's Organization for Progress
Newark rally attacks crisis of foreclosure and homelessness
Staff | Newark, NJ | 6/03/10
The Community Coalition against Foreclosure and Homelessness rallied here, May 22, to demand that effective measures be taken by government to help...
Community Coalition against Foreclosure and Homelessness, People's Organization for Progress
Governor Pawlenty slammed on last day of Minnesota legislative session
Linden Gawboy | St. Paul, MN | 5/18/10
“You need a permit to do that,” the cops told the group of women writing last-minute posters outside Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s office, May 17. The...
AFSCME 3800, Minnesota Coalition for a People's Bailout, Welfare Rights Committee
Minnesota’s poor people’s movement welcomes court decision against Pawlenty
Welfare Rights Committee | Minneapolis, MN | 5/07/10
Welfare Rights Committee hails Supreme Court ruling on unallotment, demands legislature take action for poor and working people.
Budget crisis, Tim Pawlenty, unallotment, Welfare Rights Committee
Minnesota Supreme Court rules against Governor on unallotment
Staff | St. Paul, MN | 5/05/10
Fight Back! interviewed Linden Gawboy, a leader of the Welfare Rights Committee and the Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bailout on the implications of...
Governor Pawlenty, Minnesota Coalition for a People's Bailout, Welfare Rights Committee
New Jersey protest demands banks be held responsible for housing crisis
David Hungerford | Irvington, NJ | 4/18/10
The People’s Organization for Progress (POP) held a protest at the Irvington, New Jersey branch of Wachovia, a subsidiary of Wells Fargo, April 17....
People's Organization for Progress