MEMBERS OF
Poor People's
Economic Human
Rights Campaign
DeKalb
Alliance
for
Economic Human Rights
LINC (Low Income Networking and Communications) Project
Email
us!
vip_people@yahoo.com
VIP
People
c/o Vincent
Gervais
217 South
2nd Street #283
DeKalb,
IL 60115
815-758-3479
Poverty and Community Organizing
DeKalb Conference on Economic Justice
Friday:
Pre-conference
seminars:
Kay Harned "Self-sufficiency
& Self-esteem: Unattainable Goals of Welfare Reform"
Paul Street "Corporate Welfare"
Opening Plenary
Panel:
Welcome and Introductions
Christine Orland "DeKalb
& the Economics of Poverty in the 90's"
Panel Discussion by Local Residents
Saturday:
Morning Get-together.
Panel of Local Community
Activists:
Bread for the World
DeKalb Welfare Watch
Hope Haven
Mi Casa Es Su Casa
VIP People
Kensington
Welfare Rights School Human Rights School. Topics include:
- Welfare Reform: What's Happening
and Why
- The 6 Panther P's - KWRU's Organizing
Model
- Student Activists in the Economic
Human Rights Campaign
- Social Workers in the Movement
to End Poverty
- Documenting Human Rights Violations
- Direct Action - From Food Distribution
to Tent Cities: Projects of Survival and Organizing Tools
Report from the March
of the Americas
Sunday:
Community Roundtable
on Local Issues
Important Links:
Kensington Welfare Rights Union and the Economic Human Rights Campaign
Chicago Coalition to Protect Public Housing
LINC (Low Income Networking and Communications) Project
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
March 16, 2000:
VIP People and DeKalb CAEHRs
complete letter writing campaign assisting in the Call
to Action.
February 14 2000:
VIP People and DeKalb Alliance
present comments
on CDBG Consolidated Plan regarding housing issues in the city of
DeKalb .
February 2-8 2000:
VIP People attend the EHRC
Planning Meeting.
November 12-14 1999:
VIP People co-sponsored
the
Poverty
& Community Organizing: Dekalb Conference on Economic Human Rights
October 1999:
Participated in the
March
of the Americas
October 28, 1999:
VIP People protested
in solidarity with the
Chicago
Coalition to
Protect
Public Housing
March
on City Hall