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Human Rights on Wheels
Katz, Alyssa | December 28, 1998 issue

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Backed up by a posse of hyperenergetic college students and recent graduates, the core of the bus-riding crew consisted of three dozen adults, teenagers and kids: some homeless, some just the other side of homelessness, some born not so long ago into the economic margins, and all but the very youngest angry enough to commit themselves to changing the conditions that have kept them there. When the U.N. commemorated the official milestone on December 10, 1998, there were high-level bows to political and civil rights, but among U.S. congratulators, virtual silence on economic rights. For years human rights activists have aimed to correct this imbalance, and Kensington Welfare Rights Union has joined them.

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HUMAN rights; HUMAN rights workers; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; COLLEGE students; CONSTITUTIONAL law; CIVIL rights
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