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
Life is a journey that
never stops
whether you walk, skip,
hop or trip -
there's always time
to take a dip.
While swimming in April,
don't fear the rain,
you're already wet,
and there's no one to blame.
If seen, don't be ashamed
-
it's not unnatural,
that's just how we're trained.
Cookie cutter presses
on the assembly line floor.
jam up the gears and
even the score.
When the system tries
to slow you
don't let it take control.
Fighting back to preserve
the flow.
Changing the world
with just your glow.
The brightness of man
starting to show.
Deal back blows that
have been felt,
for the machine may
begin to melt.
Cookie cutter presses
on the assembly line floor,
jam up the gears and
even the score.
Strike back the beast
that bit you.
Tooth for tooth is
the oldest truth,
the ways of man before
his youth.
Hang the king for the
knave he is,
Lording over that others
should slave.
With the Hydra slain,
the river is saved,
Burn it's ashes that
none remain.
Only then is freedom
regained.
© 2000 Joseph Campbell
THE DISAPPEARED
The voice not heard is a
face not seen in the spring
she cried for her people
oppressed, her husband broken,
her children starved
She called for her children her husband
her people to stand up to rise up
to walk out to shout no
more! and she disappeared
into the shadow of the man
Where the fat crows feed on the fattened
seeds of the people's bitter harvest
there is a sliver of silver on the sidewalk
where her final scream fell
hear the news hard now
She is the statistic not spoken.
(c) 2000, christine wolf
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