Podcasts about national welfare rights union

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth: Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran, joins us to discuss President Joe Bidens plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year. For our weekly Earth Watch, in the context of our ongoing coverage of the climate catastrophe, we speak with Devlin Kuyek on corporate greenwashing and small farmers and social movement struggles for community-controlled and biodiverse food systems. Washington D.C. food security campaigners who are with the Grey Panthers of Washington, D.C. and the National Welfare Rights Union join us to discuss an upcoming webinar focusing on poverty and food security in the Washington, D.C.-Maryland area.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we focus on the intersection between caregiving and poverty. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the U.S. government has been distributing checks to people in order to stop the economy from collapsing. However, it still refuses to consider providing an income for family caregivers, whose work is generally depended on and has increased as a result of the pandemic. Family unwaged caregivers " most of whom are women, including mothers and grandmothers, and the most impoverished women on welfare " provide care for relatives, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities. Amid this crisis, they are expected to pick up the slack without any acknowledgement of the value or resources for their work. The International Labor Office has estimated that women do two-thirds of the world's work for five percent of the income. And according to a report released by Oxfam in January 2020, women around the world perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid labor every day. Overall, the work of unwaged caregivers has been estimated to contribute at least $11 trillion to the global economy, according to a Human Development Report. Meanwhile, across the United States, over two million women are jailed every year, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. At least 80 percent of the women who go to jail annually are mothers, including nearly 150,000 women who are pregnant when they are admitted. Many of these women are poor and have been forced into drug abuse and criminal activity because of their unjust circumstances. As a result, oftentimes their children are forced into foster care and adoption, where they also face criminalization and abuse. Because of systemic poverty, caregivers, mothers and children are not only unvalued, but they are also forcibly separated and criminalized. Today, we bring you audio from a recent Truth Commission webinar entitled, Poverty in All its Forms is Violence: Caregivers Victimized by Poverty Speak Out! During today's program, you will hear from a multi-racial panel of mothers and other caregivers sharing their experiences of living in poverty. These include mothers who have had their children removed by child welfare not because of abuse, but because their families are impoverished or because their mothers were victims of domestic violence. Furthermore, you will hear insight as to how all of this is connected to poverty and systemic racism, the war economy, destruction of the environment and the violence and oppression of the market-focused economy. Lastly, our speakers discuss how they have come together with others to fight back in defense of other caregivers. The event was convened by the National Welfare Rights Union, an organization of, by, and for the poor in the United States and beyond.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we focus on the intersection between caregiving and poverty. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the U.S. government has been distributing checks to people in order to stop the economy from collapsing. However, it still refuses to consider providing an income for family caregivers, whose work is generally depended on and has increased as a result of the pandemic. Family unwaged caregivers " most of whom are women, including mothers and grandmothers, and the most impoverished women on welfare " provide care for relatives, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities. Amid this crisis, they are expected to pick up the slack without any acknowledgement of the value or resources for their work. The International Labor Office has estimated that women do two-thirds of the world's work for five percent of the income. And according to a report released by Oxfam in January 2020, women around the world perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid labor every day. Overall, the work of unwaged caregivers has been estimated to contribute at least $11 trillion to the global economy, according to a Human Development Report. Meanwhile, across the United States, over two million women are jailed every year, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. At least 80 percent of the women who go to jail annually are mothers, including nearly 150,000 women who are pregnant when they are admitted. Many of these women are poor and have been forced into drug abuse and criminal activity because of their unjust circumstances. As a result, oftentimes their children are forced into foster care and adoption, where they also face criminalization and abuse. Because of systemic poverty, caregivers, mothers and children are not only unvalued, but they are also forcibly separated and criminalized. Today, we bring you audio from a recent Truth Commission webinar entitled, Poverty in All its Forms is Violence: Caregivers Victimized by Poverty Speak Out! During today's program, you will hear from a multi-racial panel of mothers and other caregivers sharing their experiences of living in poverty. These include mothers who have had their children removed by child welfare not because of abuse, but because their families are impoverished or because their mothers were victims of domestic violence. Furthermore, you will hear insight as to how all of this is connected to poverty and systemic racism, the war economy, destruction of the environment and the violence and oppression of the market-focused economy. Lastly, our speakers discuss how they have come together with others to fight back in defense of other caregivers. The event was convened by the National Welfare Rights Union, an organization of, by, and for the poor in the United States and beyond.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we focus on the intersection between caregiving and poverty. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the U.S. government has been distributing checks to people in order to stop the economy from collapsing. However, it still refuses to consider providing an income for family caregivers, whose work is generally depended on and has increased as a result of the pandemic. Family unwaged caregivers " most of whom are women, including mothers and grandmothers, and the most impoverished women on welfare " provide care for relatives, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities. Amid this crisis, they are expected to pick up the slack without any acknowledgement of the value or resources for their work. The International Labor Office has estimated that women do two-thirds of the world's work for five percent of the income. And according to a report released by Oxfam in January 2020, women around the world perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid labor every day. Overall, the work of unwaged caregivers has been estimated to contribute at least $11 trillion to the global economy, according to a Human Development Report. Meanwhile, across the United States, over two million women are jailed every year, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. At least 80 percent of the women who go to jail annually are mothers, including nearly 150,000 women who are pregnant when they are admitted. Many of these women are poor and have been forced into drug abuse and criminal activity because of their unjust circumstances. As a result, oftentimes their children are forced into foster care and adoption, where they also face criminalization and abuse. Because of systemic poverty, caregivers, mothers and children are not only unvalued, but they are also forcibly separated and criminalized. Today, we bring you audio from a recent Truth Commission webinar entitled, Poverty in All its Forms is Violence: Caregivers Victimized by Poverty Speak Out! During today's program, you will hear from a multi-racial panel of mothers and other caregivers sharing their experiences of living in poverty. These include mothers who have had their children removed by child welfare not because of abuse, but because their families are impoverished or because their mothers were victims of domestic violence. Furthermore, you will hear insight as to how all of this is connected to poverty and systemic racism, the war economy, destruction of the environment and the violence and oppression of the market-focused economy. Lastly, our speakers discuss how they have come together with others to fight back in defense of other caregivers. The event was convened by the National Welfare Rights Union, an organization of, by, and for the poor in the United States and beyond.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we focus on the intersection between caregiving and poverty. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the U.S. government has been distributing checks to people in order to stop the economy from collapsing. However, it still refuses to consider providing an income for family caregivers, whose work is generally depended on and has increased as a result of the pandemic. Family unwaged caregivers " most of whom are women, including mothers and grandmothers, and the most impoverished women on welfare " provide care for relatives, children, the elderly and persons with disabilities. Amid this crisis, they are expected to pick up the slack without any acknowledgement of the value or resources for their work. The International Labor Office has estimated that women do two-thirds of the world's work for five percent of the income. And according to a report released by Oxfam in January 2020, women around the world perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid labor every day. Overall, the work of unwaged caregivers has been estimated to contribute at least $11 trillion to the global economy, according to a Human Development Report. Meanwhile, across the United States, over two million women are jailed every year, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. At least 80 percent of the women who go to jail annually are mothers, including nearly 150,000 women who are pregnant when they are admitted. Many of these women are poor and have been forced into drug abuse and criminal activity because of their unjust circumstances. As a result, oftentimes their children are forced into foster care and adoption, where they also face criminalization and abuse. Because of systemic poverty, caregivers, mothers and children are not only unvalued, but they are also forcibly separated and criminalized. Today, we bring you audio from a recent Truth Commission webinar entitled, Poverty in All its Forms is Violence: Caregivers Victimized by Poverty Speak Out! During today's program, you will hear from a multi-racial panel of mothers and other caregivers sharing their experiences of living in poverty. These include mothers who have had their children removed by child welfare not because of abuse, but because their families are impoverished or because their mothers were victims of domestic violence. Furthermore, you will hear insight as to how all of this is connected to poverty and systemic racism, the war economy, destruction of the environment and the violence and oppression of the market-focused economy. Lastly, our speakers discuss how they have come together with others to fight back in defense of other caregivers. The event was convened by the National Welfare Rights Union, an organization of, by, and for the poor in the United States and beyond.

For this week’s episode we are joined by Carolyn Baker of the General Baker Instituse in Detroit and a member of the National Welfare Rights Union and Sheila Xiao of Pivot to Peace. This episode explores the issue of poverty through a human rights framework— how it has been addressed in China and how it continues to be ignored in the United States. Join the National Welfare Rights Union this Thursday, March 18th at 7:00 ET/ 4:00PM PT for their Truth Commission- Poverty in All it’s Forms is Violence: Caregivers Victimized by Poverty Speak Out! You can find more info https://peoplesforum.org/event/truthcommission/

Today on Sojourner Truth, we celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month 2021 with an in depth discussion with two grassroots women's movement leaders: Marian Kramer of the National Welfare Rights Union and Selma James, founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign. The NWRO led the way for access to welfare benefits for thousands of single mothers who were previously denied. In 1965, Johnnie Tillmon of Watts, California, and President of the NWRO said: "If I were President, I'd start paying women a living wage for doing the work we are already doing child raising and housekeeping. And the welfare crisis will be over. Just like that. Housewives would be getting wages, too." The NWRO led a women's movement that pressed for the right to welfare and for increased money for impoverished caregivers, who were referred to as welfare mothers. They protested across the nation including against the Vietnam war. The NWRO was central in the organizing and success of the first Poor People's Campaign, which was called by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. months before his assassination. The NWRO experienced tremendous growth and popularity, more than doubling in membership from 10,000 in 1968 to 22,000 in 1969. Some say the organization had as many as 100,000 members by 1969. They believed the state had a responsibility to provide for all of its citizens in need. In 1987, the National Welfare Rights Union (NWRU) picked up the torch and continued the work of the NWRO, pursuing social justice for all members of society, especially those who have been excluded, like women and mothers. Marian Kramer and other leading members of the NWRU continue to mobilize poor and low-income people, public assistance recipients, caregivers, and the unemployed. On the other side of the Atlantic in the UK, aware of the importance of the welfare rights movement, Selma James founded the Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972. She was the first to put forward the demand for wages for housework at the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England. For decades, the International Wages for Housework Campaign has organized with unwaged workers in the home (such as mothers, housewives, and domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. On March 8, 2000, at the request of Irish women who were organizing a strike of women in Ireland the Wages for Housework Campaign called for a Global Women's Strike, demanding payment for all caring work. Women from more than 60 countries around the world participated in the protest and continue to be active today. Today, Global Women's Strike has joined with the Green New Deal for Europe and has launched a global campaign for a Care Income Now! to be paid to those who are caring for people and/or the environment.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month 2021 with an in depth discussion with two grassroots women's movement leaders: Marian Kramer of the National Welfare Rights Union and Selma James, founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign. The NWRO led the way for access to welfare benefits for thousands of single mothers who were previously denied. In 1965, Johnnie Tillmon of Watts, California, and President of the NWRO said: "If I were President, I'd start paying women a living wage for doing the work we are already doing child raising and housekeeping. And the welfare crisis will be over. Just like that. Housewives would be getting wages, too." The NWRO led a women's movement that pressed for the right to welfare and for increased money for impoverished caregivers, who were referred to as welfare mothers. They protested across the nation including against the Vietnam war. The NWRO was central in the organizing and success of the first Poor People's Campaign, which was called by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. months before his assassination. The NWRO experienced tremendous growth and popularity, more than doubling in membership from 10,000 in 1968 to 22,000 in 1969. Some say the organization had as many as 100,000 members by 1969. They believed the state had a responsibility to provide for all of its citizens in need. In 1987, the National Welfare Rights Union (NWRU) picked up the torch and continued the work of the NWRO, pursuing social justice for all members of society, especially those who have been excluded, like women and mothers. Marian Kramer and other leading members of the NWRU continue to mobilize poor and low-income people, public assistance recipients, caregivers, and the unemployed. On the other side of the Atlantic in the UK, aware of the importance of the welfare rights movement, Selma James founded the Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972. She was the first to put forward the demand for wages for housework at the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England. For decades, the International Wages for Housework Campaign has organized with unwaged workers in the home (such as mothers, housewives, and domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. On March 8, 2000, at the request of Irish women who were organizing a strike of women in Ireland the Wages for Housework Campaign called for a Global Women's Strike, demanding payment for all caring work. Women from more than 60 countries around the world participated in the protest and continue to be active today. Today, Global Women's Strike has joined with the Green New Deal for Europe and has launched a global campaign for a Care Income Now! to be paid to those who are caring for people and/or the environment.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month 2021 with an in depth discussion with two grassroots women's movement leaders: Marian Kramer of the National Welfare Rights Union and Selma James, founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign. The NWRO led the way for access to welfare benefits for thousands of single mothers who were previously denied. In 1965, Johnnie Tillmon of Watts, California, and President of the NWRO said: "If I were President, I'd start paying women a living wage for doing the work we are already doing child raising and housekeeping. And the welfare crisis will be over. Just like that. Housewives would be getting wages, too." The NWRO led a women's movement that pressed for the right to welfare and for increased money for impoverished caregivers, who were referred to as welfare mothers. They protested across the nation including against the Vietnam war. The NWRO was central in the organizing and success of the first Poor People's Campaign, which was called by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. months before his assassination. The NWRO experienced tremendous growth and popularity, more than doubling in membership from 10,000 in 1968 to 22,000 in 1969. Some say the organization had as many as 100,000 members by 1969. They believed the state had a responsibility to provide for all of its citizens in need. In 1987, the National Welfare Rights Union (NWRU) picked up the torch and continued the work of the NWRO, pursuing social justice for all members of society, especially those who have been excluded, like women and mothers. Marian Kramer and other leading members of the NWRU continue to mobilize poor and low-income people, public assistance recipients, caregivers, and the unemployed. On the other side of the Atlantic in the UK, aware of the importance of the welfare rights movement, Selma James founded the Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972. She was the first to put forward the demand for wages for housework at the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England. For decades, the International Wages for Housework Campaign has organized with unwaged workers in the home (such as mothers, housewives, and domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. On March 8, 2000, at the request of Irish women who were organizing a strike of women in Ireland the Wages for Housework Campaign called for a Global Women's Strike, demanding payment for all caring work. Women from more than 60 countries around the world participated in the protest and continue to be active today. Today, Global Women's Strike has joined with the Green New Deal for Europe and has launched a global campaign for a Care Income Now! to be paid to those who are caring for people and/or the environment.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month 2021 with an in depth discussion with two grassroots women's movement leaders: Marian Kramer of the National Welfare Rights Union and Selma James, founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign. The NWRO led the way for access to welfare benefits for thousands of single mothers who were previously denied. In 1965, Johnnie Tillmon of Watts, California, and President of the NWRO said: "If I were President, I'd start paying women a living wage for doing the work we are already doing child raising and housekeeping. And the welfare crisis will be over. Just like that. Housewives would be getting wages, too." The NWRO led a women's movement that pressed for the right to welfare and for increased money for impoverished caregivers, who were referred to as welfare mothers. They protested across the nation including against the Vietnam war. The NWRO was central in the organizing and success of the first Poor People's Campaign, which was called by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. months before his assassination. The NWRO experienced tremendous growth and popularity, more than doubling in membership from 10,000 in 1968 to 22,000 in 1969. Some say the organization had as many as 100,000 members by 1969. They believed the state had a responsibility to provide for all of its citizens in need. In 1987, the National Welfare Rights Union (NWRU) picked up the torch and continued the work of the NWRO, pursuing social justice for all members of society, especially those who have been excluded, like women and mothers. Marian Kramer and other leading members of the NWRU continue to mobilize poor and low-income people, public assistance recipients, caregivers, and the unemployed. On the other side of the Atlantic in the UK, aware of the importance of the welfare rights movement, Selma James founded the Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972. She was the first to put forward the demand for wages for housework at the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England. For decades, the International Wages for Housework Campaign has organized with unwaged workers in the home (such as mothers, housewives, and domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. On March 8, 2000, at the request of Irish women who were organizing a strike of women in Ireland the Wages for Housework Campaign called for a Global Women's Strike, demanding payment for all caring work. Women from more than 60 countries around the world participated in the protest and continue to be active today. Today, Global Women's Strike has joined with the Green New Deal for Europe and has launched a global campaign for a Care Income Now! to be paid to those who are caring for people and/or the environment.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month 2021 with an in depth discussion with two grassroots women's movement leaders: Marian Kramer of the National Welfare Rights Union and Selma James, founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign. The NWRO led the way for access to welfare benefits for thousands of single mothers who were previously denied. In 1965, Johnnie Tillmon of Watts, California, and President of the NWRO said: "If I were President, I'd start paying women a living wage for doing the work we are already doing child raising and housekeeping. And the welfare crisis will be over. Just like that. Housewives would be getting wages, too." The NWRO led a women's movement that pressed for the right to welfare and for increased money for impoverished caregivers, who were referred to as welfare mothers. They protested across the nation including against the Vietnam war. The NWRO was central in the organizing and success of the first Poor People's Campaign, which was called by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. months before his assassination. The NWRO experienced tremendous growth and popularity, more than doubling in membership from 10,000 in 1968 to 22,000 in 1969. Some say the organization had as many as 100,000 members by 1969. They believed the state had a responsibility to provide for all of its citizens in need. In 1987, the National Welfare Rights Union (NWRU) picked up the torch and continued the work of the NWRO, pursuing social justice for all members of society, especially those who have been excluded, like women and mothers. Marian Kramer and other leading members of the NWRU continue to mobilize poor and low-income people, public assistance recipients, caregivers, and the unemployed. On the other side of the Atlantic in the UK, aware of the importance of the welfare rights movement, Selma James founded the Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972. She was the first to put forward the demand for wages for housework at the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England. For decades, the International Wages for Housework Campaign has organized with unwaged workers in the home (such as mothers, housewives, and domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. On March 8, 2000, at the request of Irish women who were organizing a strike of women in Ireland the Wages for Housework Campaign called for a Global Women's Strike, demanding payment for all caring work. Women from more than 60 countries around the world participated in the protest and continue to be active today. Today, Global Women's Strike has joined with the Green New Deal for Europe and has launched a global campaign for a Care Income Now! to be paid to those who are caring for people and/or the environment.

Today on Sojourner Truth, we celebrate International Women's Day and Women's History Month 2021 with an in depth discussion with two grassroots women's movement leaders: Marian Kramer of the National Welfare Rights Union and Selma James, founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign. The NWRO led the way for access to welfare benefits for thousands of single mothers who were previously denied. In 1965, Johnnie Tillmon of Watts, California, and President of the NWRO said: "If I were President, I'd start paying women a living wage for doing the work we are already doing child raising and housekeeping. And the welfare crisis will be over. Just like that. Housewives would be getting wages, too." The NWRO led a women's movement that pressed for the right to welfare and for increased money for impoverished caregivers, who were referred to as welfare mothers. They protested across the nation including against the Vietnam war. The NWRO was central in the organizing and success of the first Poor People's Campaign, which was called by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. months before his assassination. The NWRO experienced tremendous growth and popularity, more than doubling in membership from 10,000 in 1968 to 22,000 in 1969. Some say the organization had as many as 100,000 members by 1969. They believed the state had a responsibility to provide for all of its citizens in need. In 1987, the National Welfare Rights Union (NWRU) picked up the torch and continued the work of the NWRO, pursuing social justice for all members of society, especially those who have been excluded, like women and mothers. Marian Kramer and other leading members of the NWRU continue to mobilize poor and low-income people, public assistance recipients, caregivers, and the unemployed. On the other side of the Atlantic in the UK, aware of the importance of the welfare rights movement, Selma James founded the Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972. She was the first to put forward the demand for wages for housework at the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England. For decades, the International Wages for Housework Campaign has organized with unwaged workers in the home (such as mothers, housewives, and domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. On March 8, 2000, at the request of Irish women who were organizing a strike of women in Ireland the Wages for Housework Campaign called for a Global Women's Strike, demanding payment for all caring work. Women from more than 60 countries around the world participated in the protest and continue to be active today. Today, Global Women's Strike has joined with the Green New Deal for Europe and has launched a global campaign for a Care Income Now! to be paid to those who are caring for people and/or the environment.

Every year, on December 10, International Human Rights Day is celebrated across the world. The day was selected to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on December 10, 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its stated purpose is to celebrate one of the first major achievements of the United Nations. The day is normally marked by high-level political conferences and meetings, in which world leaders make vague promises to uphold human rights in their respective nations. This year, in the United States, a diverse array of leaders from grassroots movements (including myself) marked the day by speaking out against homelessness and poverty. Millions of people across the United States are now at risk of becoming homeless because of the crisis and its economic impact. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, over 550,000 people experience homelessness on a single night. California has the biggest homeless population in the country, with 129,000 experiencing homelessness on a single night. Many of those are women, children and people of color. Campaigners for homeless rights, however, point out that these figures are likely low estimates, since they leave out dorm-less college students, people who are living in their cars, people who are temporarily staying with friends or family, and the housing insecure. In Los Angeles, there are at least 60,000 homeless people on the streets every night. Homeless encampments are springing up in every city across the United States. Nearly 140 million people in the United States live at or close to the poverty line, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. Women and children represent 73 percent of poor people in the United States, with a majority of them being Black and Brown. Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you exclusive audio from a webinar entitled, Winter Offensive Human Rights Day Virtual Gathering. The National Union of the Homeless and the National Welfare Rights Union, as part of what it calls the 2020 Winter Offensive, hosted a Human Rights Day Political Education and Panel Discussion Virtual Gathering in celebration of the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The event highlighted the history of struggle in the U.S. for our basic needs as humans, such as housing, healthcare, a living wage, and an adequate standard of living and our general welfare. The panel included national organizers from various fronts of struggle discussing their work to unite poor people and building politically independent organizations.

Every year, on December 10, International Human Rights Day is celebrated across the world. The day was selected to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on December 10, 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its stated purpose is to celebrate one of the first major achievements of the United Nations. The day is normally marked by high-level political conferences and meetings, in which world leaders make vague promises to uphold human rights in their respective nations. This year, in the United States, a diverse array of leaders from grassroots movements (including myself) marked the day by speaking out against homelessness and poverty. Millions of people across the United States are now at risk of becoming homeless because of the crisis and its economic impact. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, over 550,000 people experience homelessness on a single night. California has the biggest homeless population in the country, with 129,000 experiencing homelessness on a single night. Many of those are women, children and people of color. Campaigners for homeless rights, however, point out that these figures are likely low estimates, since they leave out dorm-less college students, people who are living in their cars, people who are temporarily staying with friends or family, and the housing insecure. In Los Angeles, there are at least 60,000 homeless people on the streets every night. Homeless encampments are springing up in every city across the United States. Nearly 140 million people in the United States live at or close to the poverty line, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. Women and children represent 73 percent of poor people in the United States, with a majority of them being Black and Brown. Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you exclusive audio from a webinar entitled, Winter Offensive Human Rights Day Virtual Gathering. The National Union of the Homeless and the National Welfare Rights Union, as part of what it calls the 2020 Winter Offensive, hosted a Human Rights Day Political Education and Panel Discussion Virtual Gathering in celebration of the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The event highlighted the history of struggle in the U.S. for our basic needs as humans, such as housing, healthcare, a living wage, and an adequate standard of living and our general welfare. The panel included national organizers from various fronts of struggle discussing their work to unite poor people and building politically independent organizations.

Every year, on December 10, International Human Rights Day is celebrated across the world. The day was selected to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on December 10, 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its stated purpose is to celebrate one of the first major achievements of the United Nations. The day is normally marked by high-level political conferences and meetings, in which world leaders make vague promises to uphold human rights in their respective nations. This year, in the United States, a diverse array of leaders from grassroots movements (including myself) marked the day by speaking out against homelessness and poverty. Millions of people across the United States are now at risk of becoming homeless because of the crisis and its economic impact. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, over 550,000 people experience homelessness on a single night. California has the biggest homeless population in the country, with 129,000 experiencing homelessness on a single night. Many of those are women, children and people of color. Campaigners for homeless rights, however, point out that these figures are likely low estimates, since they leave out dorm-less college students, people who are living in their cars, people who are temporarily staying with friends or family, and the housing insecure. In Los Angeles, there are at least 60,000 homeless people on the streets every night. Homeless encampments are springing up in every city across the United States. Nearly 140 million people in the United States live at or close to the poverty line, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. Women and children represent 73 percent of poor people in the United States, with a majority of them being Black and Brown. Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you exclusive audio from a webinar entitled, Winter Offensive Human Rights Day Virtual Gathering. The National Union of the Homeless and the National Welfare Rights Union, as part of what it calls the 2020 Winter Offensive, hosted a Human Rights Day Political Education and Panel Discussion Virtual Gathering in celebration of the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The event highlighted the history of struggle in the U.S. for our basic needs as humans, such as housing, healthcare, a living wage, and an adequate standard of living and our general welfare. The panel included national organizers from various fronts of struggle discussing their work to unite poor people and building politically independent organizations.

Every year, on December 10, International Human Rights Day is celebrated across the world. The day was selected to honor the United Nations General Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on December 10, 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its stated purpose is to celebrate one of the first major achievements of the United Nations. The day is normally marked by high-level political conferences and meetings, in which world leaders make vague promises to uphold human rights in their respective nations. This year, in the United States, a diverse array of leaders from grassroots movements (including myself) marked the day by speaking out against homelessness and poverty. Millions of people across the United States are now at risk of becoming homeless because of the crisis and its economic impact. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, over 550,000 people experience homelessness on a single night. California has the biggest homeless population in the country, with 129,000 experiencing homelessness on a single night. Many of those are women, children and people of color. Campaigners for homeless rights, however, point out that these figures are likely low estimates, since they leave out dorm-less college students, people who are living in their cars, people who are temporarily staying with friends or family, and the housing insecure. In Los Angeles, there are at least 60,000 homeless people on the streets every night. Homeless encampments are springing up in every city across the United States. Nearly 140 million people in the United States live at or close to the poverty line, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. Women and children represent 73 percent of poor people in the United States, with a majority of them being Black and Brown. Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you exclusive audio from a webinar entitled, Winter Offensive Human Rights Day Virtual Gathering. The National Union of the Homeless and the National Welfare Rights Union, as part of what it calls the 2020 Winter Offensive, hosted a Human Rights Day Political Education and Panel Discussion Virtual Gathering in celebration of the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The event highlighted the history of struggle in the U.S. for our basic needs as humans, such as housing, healthcare, a living wage, and an adequate standard of living and our general welfare. The panel included national organizers from various fronts of struggle discussing their work to unite poor people and building politically independent organizations.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our COVID-19 coverage on both the environmental and poverty fronts. In Northern California's Humboldt County, Redwood Forest Defense is participating in a tree-sit to oppose logging in the area. Our guest is Lupine, an active Redwood Forest Defender. On the homeless front, we speak with Anthony Prince of the Homeless Union and the Poor People's Campaign. Also, from Detroit, Michigan, another COVID-19 hotspot, we speak with anti-poverty warrior and campaigner Maureen Taylor with Michigan Welfare Rights and the National Welfare Rights Union.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the recent Poor People's Campaign Moral Congress held in Washington, D.C. from Monday, June 17 to Wednesday, June 19. At least 1,200 impacted people from states across the country attended. The Poor People's Campaign fights back against what it calls the evils of racism, poverty, the war economy and environmental devastation. It also has the goal of shifting what they call the moral narrative. The joint coordinators of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival are Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. Today, we hear voices from a powerful discussion held on Tuesday, June 18, at the Congress that I was involved in. It was titled, Everybody's Got A Right To Live: The Role of Women's and LGBTQ Rights Organizing in Winning Freedom for Poor People. Speakers included: Emily Nelson from Grace Harbor, Washington with Chaplains on the Harbor and the Washington State Poor Peoples Campaign; Bishop Tonyia M. Rawls with the Freedom Center for Social Justice in North Carolina; and myself. During the discussion, I spoke about my experiences as a participant of the Every Mother is a Working Mother network, the National Welfare Rights Union and Women of Color in the Global Women's Strike. The discussion was moderated by Rev. Emily McNeil, a minister in the United Church of Christ who directs the labor-religion coalition of New York State for the Poor People's Campaign.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We continue our coverage of the recent Poor People's Campaign Moral Congress held in Washington, D.C. from Monday, June 17 to Wednesday, June 19. At least 1,200 impacted people from states across the country attended. The Poor People's Campaign fights back against what it calls the evils of racism, poverty, the war economy and environmental devastation. It also has the goal of shifting what they call the moral narrative. The joint coordinators of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival are Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. Today, we hear voices from a powerful discussion held on Tuesday, June 18, at the Congress that I was involved in. It was titled, Everybody's Got A Right To Live: The Role of Women's and LGBTQ Rights Organizing in Winning Freedom for Poor People. Speakers included: Emily Nelson from Grace Harbor, Washington with Chaplains on the Harbor and the Washington State Poor Peoples Campaign; Bishop Tonyia M. Rawls with the Freedom Center for Social Justice in North Carolina; and myself. During the discussion, I spoke about my experiences as a participant of the Every Mother is a Working Mother network, the National Welfare Rights Union and Women of Color in the Global Women's Strike. The discussion was moderated by Rev. Emily McNeil, a minister in the United Church of Christ who directs the labor-religion coalition of New York State for the Poor People's Campaign.

This week on Off-Kilter, it’s midterm season — the time when members of Congress come home to their districts to tell their constituents just how hard they’ve been fighting for them, and why they should send them back to Washington. For a look ahead to the upcoming midterms — and a sneak peek at how Indivisible is working to bring change to Washington by supporting activists-turned-candidates taking on GOP incumbents through the “Indivisible 435” campaign launched earlier this week — Rebecca talks with Indivisible’s Chad Bolt. Next: One month after the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination, a group of faith leaders resuscitated the civil rights icon’s final project by launching the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. You’re probably familiar with campaign co-chair Reverend William Barber II from his leadership of the Moral Mondays movement. But less well known is his co-chair, the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, who has spent the past two decades working as an organizer with groups led by people in poverty, such as the National Welfare Rights Union and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Rebecca speaks with Rev. Dr. Theoharis about what’s behind the campaign — and how it’s trying to change the narrative on poverty in the U.S. Later in the show: TalkPoverty.org broke the story last week that Ohio is hoarding over half a billion dollars in unspent funds for poor families — and how when a bipartisan group of 70 rural mayors asked to use just a small portion of it to help struggling Ohioans afford their water bills… the state said no. Rebecca talks with Jack Frech, who spent nearly four decades working in an Ohio welfare office, as a caseworker and ultimately as itsdirector, to get the skinny on what’s going on in Ohio. But first: With horrifying immigration stories dominating the headlines, from families being separated at the border to people dying in ICE custody, Rebecca and Jeremy bring in a ringer — Claudia Flores, immigration campaign manager at the Center for American Progress Action Fund — for a special all-immigration edition of In Case You Missed It.

In this episode Joanna and Jason interview Willie Baptist.   Willie Baptist is a renowned anti-poverty organizer.  Coming to political awareness in the 1965 Watts uprisings, through the Black student movement, and as a shop steward with the United Steelworkers, Willie has ultimately dedicated 40 years to organizing the poor.  He provided vital leadership to the National Union of the Homeless, as formerly homeless father; the National Welfare Rights Union; the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign; and many other networks. Willie now serves as the Scholar-in-Residence of Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary (New York), which is dedicated to raising up generations of religious and community leaders dedicated to building a social movement to end poverty, led by the poor.  He is also the coordinator of the associated Poverty Scholars Program, a leadership development, technical assistance, and skills training program for grassroots organizers working around issues of economic justice, with the aim of building a national movement to end poverty united across lines of race, religion, geography and issue-focused organizing. Since 2007, the Poverty Scholars Program has focused on reigniting the Poor People's Campaign and finishing the unfinished business of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Willie has recently co-authored Pedagogy of the Poor, which draws on lessons from grassroots organizing and social theory for building a movement to end poverty.