Last year, the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign won a grant through the Scribe Video Center’s eSights, eSounds new media program, which was funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project aims to highlight the stories of people whose economic human rights have been and are being violated. These truly compelling stories are crucial to shattering widely held stereotypes and misconceptions about who are the poor and why poverty exists, illuminating the essential contradictions about poverty in America by raising questions such as, why should children go hungry or without an education in the richest country in the world? should older adults be foreclosed and evicted from the homes? Who should have healthcare and who should not?
PPEHRC has always used the internet. The internet is a critical tool for building a modern movement. It allows us to connect with the growing networks of people being thrown into poverty throughout the country from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the Gulf Coast to the Rust Belt. As Dr. Martin Luther King said in 1967:
"there are millions of poor people in this country who have very little, or even nothing, to lose. If they can be helped to take action together, they will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force in our complacent national life."
This is what we are doing and the Faces of the Fallen project is a part of our strategy.
You can help us by:
1. Going to the site: http://www.economichumanrights.org/fof/
2. Review the site, try adding your story, navigate it,etc. Basically, try to braeak it.
3. When you're done, send some feedback by clicking the link title, "Give us some feedback" in the bottom right hand corner.
We are also exploring new names for the project and how to "brand" it. Specific feedback or suggestions around that would be helpful. While we can't say we'll make every suggested change, your feedback is very appreciated. Thanks in advance and we're looking forward to hearing what you think.
