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DESCRIPTION: 	 Save the Soul of America March and Freedom Bus Ride! \nSan Jose, 
 Hayward, Richmond, Vallejo, Oakland \nAUGUST 26- SEPTEMBER 2, 2002 
 \n------------------------------------------------------------------------\nWorking 
 people who never shared in the economic boom of the 1990s will set out Aug. 
 26 on an 8-day march and caravan from San Jose. The trek will document 
 shameful poverty as it winds through some of the poorest sections of the 
 East Bay to end in Oakland, which has the Bay Area's highest rate of 
 poverty. We will be highlighting the sacredness of life and connecting with 
 the extreme poor, those facing economic troubles for the first time and 
 those who morally reject the growing poverty that is plaguing our country. 
 \nThis is the third in a series of mobilizations aimed at building a new 
 movement to end poverty. Billed as a Freedom Ride against poverty, it will 
 link up more people across California interested in uniting workers who 
 have been economically displaced - the young, temporary workers, 
 immigrants, refugees of the dot-com revolution, the poor, the homeless, 
 those cast aside by both the new and the old economies. \nThe Women's 
 Economic Agenda Project (WEAP) of Oakland is teaming up with the Community 
 Homeless Alliance Ministry (CHAM) of San Jose for this important effort. 
 The march and caravan will hold daily teach-ins along the route to focus 
 attention on the need to speak out against poverty as a necessary part of 
 saving the soul of America. \nThe Freedom Riders and Marchers will be 
 reclaiming the guarantees signed two generations ago by United Nations' 
 member states that all people are entitled to basic economic human rights, 
 including food, housing, education, health care and a living wage. We 
 understand the need for a California Poor People's Economic Human Rights 
 Campaign that will challenge the heartless policies motivated by greed, 
 corruption and the drive to blaming the poor for the ills of America. Our 
 survival as working and poor people rests on our ability to unite in 
 support of economic justice policies. This includes white-collar workers 
 who fear takeaways, givebacks and layoffs, blue collar workers who have 
 trouble sustaining a decent life for their families, unemployed workers 
 looking for good jobs, and all people of goodwill who want to help stop the 
 war being waged on the poor. \nJOIN US ON THIS MARCH AND FREEDOM BUS RIDE!! 
 \n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/9743.php
SUMMARY:Save the Soul of America March and Freedom Bus Ride (8 Days)
LOCATION:*See www.weap.org for details of entire March and Bus Ride\n\nKick off is 
 at: First Christian Church ,		80 South 5th Street\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/9743.php
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