Rochester, New York organized a Walk to End Poverty as part of the Campaign Nonviolence Week of Actions Sept 21-27th. They received great press in their local paper, too! About two dozen people assembled in downtown Rochester Saturday, marching to locations throughout downtown that work to reduce poverty and violence and also to call attention to the link between the poverty and violence. Organizer Ellen Lankhorst, a member of the First Church Congregational UCC in Rochester, said the theme of Saturday’s march was to end “the violence of poverty.” - Fosters Daily Democrat (Read the whole article fosters/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140928/GJNEWS_01/140929384/0/SEARCH) Campaign Nonviolence is a nationwide movement to connect the dots between war, poverty, and the climate crisis. Over 240 actions took place Sept 21-27th all around the country. Learn more and join in! campaignnonviolence.org
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 03:20:30 +0000
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