Cleveland Gets Ready for Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign

In an op-ed printed in yesterday's New York Times, Lawrence Downes paints the situation of day laborers as one of both growing difficulty and organization. Placing them at the margins, often composed of struggling immigrants, Downes points out how much of the current debate of immigration does not speak to these workers. Beginning this Friday, July 15, the Poor Peoples' Economic Human Rights Campaign is being brought to Cleveland by Organize Ohio! for a national Truth Commission. Their aim is to provide "an important tool in bringing attention to the Economic violence poor and working people are suffering in this country."