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September, '98 Labor Party Press

New Freedom Tour:
Freedom from Uemployment,
Hunger and Homelessness

©Harvey Finkle, Impact Visuals

"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family." So says the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed in 1948 by the U.S. and many other countries. From

June 1 to July 1, a busload of activists toured the country to organize support for that forgotten promise. Along the way, the "Economic Human Rights Campaign," sponsored by the Kensington Welfare Rights Union and the National Welfare Rights Union, did some organizing for the Labor Party.

James Pfluecke and Galen Tyler coordinated an effort that brought about two dozen new people into the Labor Party and garnered several hundred signatures on our 28th Amendment Campaign petition.

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Organizing Notes ...

• Service Employees International Union, one of the nation’s largest unions, mailed out the Labor Party’s convention call.

• When the United Mineworkers of America mailed out the convention call, it spurred a new crop of UMWA locals to affiliate with the Labor Party.

• After assigning an organizer to do LP recruiting for two months, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees affiliated 18 new local and regional bodies (see the interview with Mark Barbour in this issue). BMWE now has 36 Labor Party affiliates.

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