U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
 
Majority Office                                                                      Minority Office
Phone:  202-224-2151                                                             Phone:  202-224-4280
 
Thank them for their leadership on this issue and ask them to hold another hearing on domestic human rights implementation soon. You can make a recommendation on the issue that you would like them to consider, or suggest that they review implementation of each of the human rights treaties that the U.S. has ratified (race discrimination, torture, or civil and political rights).
 
If your Senator sits on the Subcommittee, please email or call them as well to thank them and urge them to hold more hearings on domestic implementation of human rights.
 
Subcommittee membership
 
Democratic Members
Dick Durbin, Illinois (Chairman)
Russ Feingold, Wisconsin
Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland
Ted Kaufman, Delaware
Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania
Al Franken, MinnesotaRepublican Members
Tom Coburn, Oklahoma (Ranking Member)
Lindsey O. Graham, South Carolina
John Cornyn, Texas

 
Copy and paste this message and forward it to five of your friends and ask them to call too.
 
Thank you for taking action!

TODAY DECEMBER 10th…how are you taking action? You should

CELEBRATE with a campaign supporter, JOBS with JUSTICE, MASSACHUSETTS at an IMMIGRANT WORKERS’ RIGHTS PANEL, 3 PM St. Paul’s Cathedral – 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA (or attend a local human rights event in your area) and make sure you…

CALL YOUR CONGRESSSIONAL REP. TO COSPONSOR H. RES. 416,

CALL FOR ECONOMIC RIGHTS

Find your House Rep Here – Click on Your State and You’ll be Directed to Your Rep’s website

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Use this as a starting point and feel free to add your own personal story about the importance of economic rights:

Hi I’m [Your Name}, a constituent in Congressman/Congresswoman [Your Representative’s Name]’s district. I’d like to leave a message for him/her.

I’m calling, in celebration of international human rights day and asking that he/she cosponsor H. Res. 416, a resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should become an international human rights leader by ratifying and implementing certain core international treaties, including the treaty for economic rights. I believe that health, housing, food security and decent job conditions and wages are necessary to fulfill the American dream and are therefore every American’s human right to obtain.

Thank You!

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“With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.

It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs…

With most of his co-workers laid off, Greg Dawson, a third-generation electrician in rural Martinsville, considers himself lucky to still have a job. He works the night shift for a contracting firm, installing freezer lights in a chain of grocery stores. But when his overtime income vanished and his expenses went up, Mr. Dawson started skimping on meals to feed his wife and five children.”

November 9th, 2009 7:02 PM

Millions in the United States lack access to affordable, adequate housing – UN

UN News Centre

9 November 2009 – An independent United Nations expert has warned that the United States is an increasingly expensive place to find housing, leaving many more people homeless at a time when the financial crisis is hitting hard across the country.

“Millions of people in the U.S. are spending high percentages of their income to make their monthly rent and mortgage payment, face foreclosure or eviction, and live in overcrowded and substandard conditions,” said Raquel Rolnik, the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, in a statement following her first official visit to the United States.

“The number of homeless continues to rise with increasing numbers of working families and individuals finding themselves on the streets. The economic crisis has exacerbated this situation.”

Read the article in FULL

Read it here: http://www.hnn.us/articles/119553.html

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Background Information on her Tour

Hear Some of the U.N. Special Rapportuer’s Commentary @ Free Speech Radio

Read where she toured at The Movement Blog for Housing Rights

Check out photos of the tour at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty’s flickr site

View Testimonies by U.S. citizens