by Joan Baptist, Chris Caruso, and Amy Miller
Last summer, 150 people marched from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to the United Nations in New York to bring to the attention of a world audience the Kensington Welfare Rights Union's belief that the present US welfare reform is a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They brought with them stories of people who have gone without the basics needed to sustain life as a result of welfare cuts and current policies. Read about "The March For Our Lives."
A "coffin" filled with stories of human rights violations caused by the welfare-reform laws was presented to Human Rights officials at the United Nations. For more information about the work of the Kensington Welfare Rights Campaign or the Freedom Bus, visit their web page at http://www.libertynet.org/~kwru/
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