[asia-apec 1755] California Economic Human Rights Bus Tour

[Anuradha Mittal]

GET ON THE BUS! JOIN THE CALIFORNIA ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS BUS TOUR

To build a national movement for economic human rights in the United 
States, Food First is organizing the 2001 California Economic Human 
Rights Bus Tour, to be held from May 29 to 31. This follow-up to our 
successful 1999 Georgia Bus Tour will draw public attention to growing 
poverty and hunger in this country, and the powerful grassroots 
campaigns that address these injustices.
	
Representative John Conyers called Food First’s 1999 tour "the most 
important thing I’ve done this year." With this in mind, the 2001 tour 
will again bring congressional representatives, state legislators, local 
officials, and the national media on the bus. They will hear first-hand 
testimonies and policy recommendations, emphasizing the need for bolder 
initiatives and a greater community role in policy making.
	
The tour will highlight campaigns for justice in California and expand 
the call for economic human rights to a national level. Planned stops 
include a kickoff event at the St. Mary’s Center in Oakland, a downtown 
Oakland walking tour hosted by Building Opportunities for Self 
Sufficiency (BOSS),  of low income workers’ housing that is slated for 
destruction and business development, the Day Laborers’ Center in San 
Francisco, and the fields of Salinas to witness the United Farm Workers’ 
fight for fundamental economic human rights to safe working conditions 
and access to basic health care.
	
Assaults on our country’s working poor continue to accelerate, and the 
California Economic Human Rights Bus Tour is a timely and dynamic 
opportunity to strengthen our networks in support of justice. Join with 
us in demanding economic human rights in the United States.
	
To support, endorse and participate in the California Bus Tour and our 
domestic campaign, Economic Human Rights: The Time Has Come!, please 
contact us at humanrights at foodfirst.org or call (510) 654-4400 x235.

Join the fight against hunger. For more information contact foodfirst at foodfirst.org.

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