Wed, 8 Jul 1998 14:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 14:12:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Franklin Wayne Poley Subject: The Growing Anti-Workfare Movement. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 14:00:47 -0700 From: Andrew Mitchell To: ow-watch-l@netserver.web.net Subject: OW-WATCH-L Fw: Miwaukee meeting The following message was sent to me from ACORN and I promised to forward it to the OW-WATCH list. ---------- > From: Campaign Director > To: andy@welfarewatch.toronto.on.ca > Subject: Miwaukee meeting > Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 3:09 PM > > ACORN invites you to participate in a National OrganizersU > Summit on Welfare Reform this summer in Milwaukee, > from July 25-27. > > ACORN, joined by labor unions, religious organizations, > and national political leaders, is sponsoring this Summit to > call attention to the consequences of welfare reform, and to > highlight the work of the many organizations that are > mobilizing welfare and workfare recipients to fight back. > > Over 1000 ACORN members from around the country, > along with representatives from scores of other community, > church, and labor organizations, will be coming to > Milwaukee for this event. We chose Milwaukee because > WisconsinUs W-2 program has come to symbolize the worst > abuses of so-called welfare reform. WisconsinUs welfare > recipients have been forced off the rolls in record numbers, > and most have ended up in oppressive sub-minimum wage > workfare slots, or have fallen Rthrough the cracksS onto the > uncertain charity of soup-kitchens, shelters, and > overburdened relatives. A sponsoring committee led by > Milwaukee ACORN and other local organizations working > with W-2 recipients is hard at work planning this event. > > The highlight of the Summit will be a Hearing on Sunday, > July 26, at which a panel of national leaders will be taking > testimony from welfare and workfare recipients from around > the country. The composition of the panel is still in > formation, but early confirmations have come from Linda > Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice President of the AFL- > CIO; Professor Frances Fox Piven, long-time expert on > welfare rights; well-known writer Barbara Ehrenreich; and > former Administration official Peter Edelman, who resigned > to protest the Clinton welfare legislation. > > Among those testifying will be workfare workers from New > York City who recently voted 17,000 to 200 for form a > union; workfare recipients from Los Angeles who just won a > precedent-setting grievance procedure; welfare recipients > from Boston who just won a commitment from the city to > spend welfare-to-work funds to move people into living > wage jobs; and many other courageous leaders of an > emerging national welfare/workfare rights movement. This > gathering will be unique in its focus on the voices and > experiences of welfare and workfare recipients themselves: > the majority of ACORN members and Summit attendees > have first-hand experience with the welfare system, and are > involved in local and statewide fights against welfare reform. > > The Summit will also include workshops and training > sessions for welfare and workfare leaders and organizers, on > issues such as: how to build effective welfare and workfare > rights organizations; how to impact state and federal policy > issues; how to combine service delivery, including legal > services, with organizing; how to work with community > organizations, unions, and other organizations; and much > more. > > This promises to be an important and well-covered event, > which will play a significant role in amplifying the voices of > welfare and workfare recipients who are struggling first > hand with the consequences of this countryUs disastrous > experiment in ending welfare. 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We chose Milwaukee because > WisconsinUs W-2 program has come to symbolize the worst > abuses of so-called welfare reform. WisconsinUs welfare > recipients have been forced off the rolls in record numbers, > and most have ended up in oppressive sub-minimum wage > workfare slots, or have fallen Rthrough the cracksS onto the > uncertain charity of soup-kitchens, shelters, and > overburdened relatives. A sponsoring committee led by > Milwaukee ACORN and other local organizations working > with W-2 recipients is hard at work planning this event. > > The highlight of the Summit will be a Hearing on Sunday, > July 26, at which a panel of national leaders will be taking > testimony from welfare and workfare recipients from around > the country. The composition of the panel is still in > formation, but early confirmations have come from Linda > Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice President of the AFL- > CIO; Professor Frances Fox Piven, long-time expert on > welfare rights; well-known writer Barbara Ehrenreich; and > former Administration official Peter Edelman, who resigned > to protest the Clinton welfare legislation. > > Among those testifying will be workfare workers from New > York City who recently voted 17,000 to 200 for form a > union; workfare recipients from Los Angeles who just won a > precedent-setting grievance procedure; welfare recipients > from Boston who just won a commitment from the city to > spend welfare-to-work funds to move people into living > wage jobs; and many other courageous leaders of an > emerging national welfare/workfare rights movement. This > gathering will be unique in its focus on the voices and > experiences of welfare and workfare recipients themselves: > the majority of ACORN members and Summit attendees > have first-hand experience with the welfare system, and are > involved in local and statewide fights against welfare reform. > > The Summit will also include workshops and training > sessions for welfare and workfare leaders and organizers, on > issues such as: how to build effective welfare and workfare > rights organizations; how to impact state and federal policy > issues; how to combine service delivery, including legal > services, with organizing; how to work with community > organizations, unions, and other organizations; and much > more. > > This promises to be an important and well-covered event, > which will play a significant role in amplifying the voices of > welfare and workfare recipients who are struggling first > hand with the consequences of this countryUs disastrous > experiment in ending welfare. 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