Join the Fight to make Housing a Human Right
We are suing the Federal government. Help protect families in our 30+ takeover houses. See the full petition here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/housing-is-a-human-right-petition/
HOUSING TAKEOVERS
"There are 10 unoccupied housing units for every one houseless person in Philadelphia," explains Elsa Noterman, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, who recently conducted a study with colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on available housing in cities across the U.S.
We believe the poor must take back the basic necessities of life. We prioritize #LivesOverLuxury. Housing & Urban Development has properties that sit empty for months and years, while families can’t afford places to live. There’s something wrong with that. We takeover these abandoned, government-owned properties and move in families with nowhere else to go. As of 2021, we have 30+ #takeover houses in the Philadelphia area. We need support with furniture and appliance donations, monetary donations, and labor for cleaning, moving, and repairs. Support this work at: bit.ly/TakeoverPetition
MOBILE FOOD PANTRY

We deliver free food to people in Philly.
We are currently providing free food and supply delivery to families who need it. Text 215-869-4753 or email PoorPeoplesArmy@gmail.com with:
- your name,
- address, and
- number of adults and children in your family–
We will get you a bag of groceries from what is in our mobile food pantry that week.
PRESS
#PoorPeoplesArmy declares VICTORY in securing housing voucher and backrent for Manisha!
We received confirmation from the head of Housing Authority of Chester County and a County Commissioner that Manisha will be getting her back rent paid, the Bozzuto Group will not go forward with her eviction, they will lower rent, and the housing authority will provide a voucher to cover and keep her in this accessible apartment she’s been in for 3+ years. Congrats Manisha! Join PoorPeoplesArmy.com
https://whyy.org/articles/advocates-rally-for-chesco-woman-facing-eviction-after-loss-of-long-sought-housing-voucher/
STATEMENTS


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Statement of PPA International Committee May 2021
Statement of the International Committee
Poor People’s Army / Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
May 2021 commenced with the global commemoration of International Workers Day (May Day), over a year when the COVID-19 plague disrupted life across the planet. It was.a celebration for the first post-pandemic action in the streets for many, not least of which in or in solidarity with nations in struggle noted in the IC’s statement earlier this Spring. Workers and nationally oppressed peoples fought in struggles against oppression and oppressors’ non-action and criminal neglect in a global plague. Palestinians are in a valiant struggle against the land-stealing, people-starving and prison-making apartheid regime whose only response to the suffering is savagery: armed attacks, lynchings, mass media lies, and extremist violent unlawful entry into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, all right on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, the conclusion of the holiest month of the Muslim calendar.
Colombians have been marching in the streets against the murderous US-allied narco-regime headed by Iván Duque, who proposed, and then withdrew due to people’s resistance that resulted in the police killings of yet-innumerable protesters, a so-called “Sustainable Solidarity” tax bill that would have expanded the tax burdens to lower-income people while lowering business taxes. This is besides the endless rampage of the Colombian state in killing peasant, labor Black and Indigenous activists.
Indigenous nations across the Earth are in a global struggle against environmental racism and attempted erasure of their peoples and cultures. People in Brazil and India are fighting for life against the Bolsonaro and Modi regimes who refuse to hear the cries of Covid justice and instead causing mass death of poor and Indigenous peoples.
The Biden administration continues the dedication of the US to endless sanctions as well as endless war. The good news on this front is that the countries affected are working to circumvent the US sanctions regime through alternative economic structures, including
decreasing reliance on the US dollar for trade, breaking its monopoly on petroleum sales. These countries are also ensuring the distribution and production of their own COVID vaccines that are critical in advancing global vaccine justice. It is critical that people in the US know that there are effective alternatives to medicine for profit.
Statement of PPA International Committee 3/3/21
Statement on the International Situation
International Committee
Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign/Poor People’s Army (March 2021)
The Poor People’s Army seeks to end poverty and the wicked economic system that created it in the United States and to help the struggles around the world. Therefore, it is essential that we are informed about each other’s struggles.
Our movement is led by poor people. We, PPEHRC do not believe anyone should “speak for us” not the “professionals” or the politicians, Republican or Democratic.
The Poor People’s Army stands in solidarity with the movements across the globe fighting
poverty and an end to miserable living conditions. There is no indication the Biden Administration will change policies of previous administrations in how it meddles in the affairs of other countries. The following are only some of the countries where the US has had a deadly impact (for more than a century in many cases):
- In Haiti, people have taken to the streets to protest for democracy and the removal of the US-backed president who is refusing to leave office after the end of his term.
- In the Philippines, Indigenous, Moro, and poor people are defending themselves against mass killings and kidnappings of activists and supporters of democracy by the government of the fascist president Duterte, an ally of the US.
- In India, Punjabi farmers have occupied the capital to stop the enactment of laws by the pro-US Modi government that would take away the right to sell their food at fair prices without big businesses profiting from them.
- In Syria, the US has bombarded the northern area in another attempt to punish the country for refusing to allow its destruction by US-backed infiltration.
- Yemen is in a brave struggle against genocide from US sanctions. Starvation, destroyed infrastructure and nonstop armed attacks by the US-backed absolute monarchy of Saudi Arabia.
- Western Sahara is fighting against occupation and a “border” wall by Morocco, a US ally.
- Puerto Rico continues the struggle against the US- imposed austerity junta after mass demonstrations forced a poor-shaming governor to resign.
- The sovereign Kumeyaay and Tohono O’odham nations on both sides of the US-México border have fought to stop border walls from desecrating their sacred lands.
- Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba fight to overcome overwhelming US sanctions as they participate in programs to create and distribute COVID vaccines without US interference.
Notice that the same government, regardless of who is in Congress or the White House, that
keeps poor people without food, housing or income inside its borders is also responsible for
poverty and destruction beyond the border. This is called imperialism. To fight it, poor people
need to know power in themselves and know that oppressed peoples all over the Earth are
struggling too. This understanding, this knowledge is solidarity, and it is what we need to make
a future that improves the lives of poor people everywhere.
The Poor People’s Army carries on the internationalist spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King’s original
Poor People’s Campaign. We need unity and struggle everywhere. Join us!
Long live international Solidarity!
The Struggle Continues!
International Committee
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1505 W. Allegheny Ave.
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215-869-4753
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