The
Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) is widely acknowledged as a leader in marrying human-rights standards the right, for instance, to workplace safety--with grass-roots activism for economic justice.
When Honkala, head of the
Kensington Welfare Rights Union in Philadelphia, grew frustrated with HUD's notorious paperwork last year, she quietly moved 17 families into 12 vacant HUD properties.
The
Kensington Welfare Rights Union built a tent city, "Bushville USA," on the lawn of the Health and Human Services Department, only to see it dismantled within minutes and its 200 occupants removed by security officials.
Mazzocchi: The LP's constitution provides that 50% of the leadership be women, that it would reflect the racial composition of the nation, and also, it has a large percentage of poor people's organizations, like the
Kensington Welfare Rights Union, which is an affiliate.
At about the same time, the
Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), a group based in Philadelphia that is made up largely of low-wage families, homeless workers and people on public assistance, organized a monthlong march for economic human rights from Washington, DC, to the UN in New York City.
A group of USAS students went on a delegation to the
Kensington Welfare Rights Union in July, and hundreds of students participated in the group's protest march during the Republican National Convention.
Long before last fall's demonstrations against the World Trade Organization put protest back on the map, Philly ACT UP and the
Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) pioneered the in-the-face-of-power activism that rocked Seattle.
With Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, members of the
Kensington Welfare Rights Union [see Alyssa Katz, "Human Rights on Wheels," December 28, 1998] and dozens of people from organizations that work with and for the poor, we saw firsthand that despite eight years of economic growth and low levels of unemployment and inflation, America remains afflicted by pervasive poverty and a growing gap between rich and poor.
They are members of the
Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), and the tour was the most ambitious project of the organization's yearlong campaign coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.