Call for Conference Participation

Social Welfare Action Alliance (SWAA), formerly Bertha Capen Reynolds Society, and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) invite your participation in their joint 2009 conference Building the Unsettling Force: A National Conference to Abolish Poverty being held July 16-Sunday July 19 at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.

This conference is being organized to provide a forum for people to share ideas, inspire, and motivate each other. We will strive for collective actions based in sound analyses-actions that can be taken locally, regionally, and nationally when we leave this gathering.

Abolish poverty in these times of increasing joblessness, homelessness, hunger, and unemployment? We say
‘yes' and turn to the wisdoms of Martin Luther King, who envisioned an organized "unsettling force" built across racial lines that would spark a "revolution of values" to reorganize our society.

Community activists and organizers, social workers, human service workers, students, faculty and all who are concerned with meeting human need and claiming economic human rights are encouraged to propose workshops, roundtables, panel discussions, presentations, papers, skill-building sessions, and more. Participatory formats are especially encouraged. We also seek proposals for cultural contributions in the form of music, poetry, art, drama, and multimedia presentations. We invite you to submit your proposal by fax to 216-651-2633 or e-mail to mpardasani@fordham.edu. Please include the following:

• A cover page indicating title of the proposal and the names, addresses, and affiliations of all presenters.
• A 200 word proposal linked to the conference theme.
• Proposed format & amount of time desired

Note: No presentations on Thursday. We may contact you for approval to combine presentations. Updates at www.socialwelfareactionalliance.org.

For questions or assistance, contact Manoj Pardasani (SWAA), 212-636-6622 mpardasani@fordham.edu or Larry Bresler (PPEHRC), 216-651-2606 lbresler@economichumanrights.org.