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Mississippi Delta, USA. Preparing the national PPEHRC planning meetings for its 2010 march from the Delta to the US Social Forum

Name of the initiative:
Mississippi Delta, USA. Preparing the national PPEHRC planning meetings for its 2010 march from the Delta to the US Social Forum
Location on the map:
Country:
United States
Editor:
Nicola Sossass
Language:
English
Date of the initiative:
05/10/2009
Organizers:
PPEHRC
Contents:
During October, residents of the area will be preparing to host national PPEHRC planning meetings for its 2010 march from the Delta to the US Social Forum. The human right to housing will be a particular focus of the march.
Decisions:
The people of this extremely poor region have been neglected by federal and state government for many decades while their lands, homes, and groundwaters have suffered environmental degradation and people have been forced from their homes. Martin Luther King chose the region as the beginning point of his planned 1968 Poor People’s March to Washington, DC—a march he did not live to see but which PPEHRC has pledged to complete.
Themes:
Zero Evictions Campaign
Author:
Nicola Sossass