Introduction

The World Courts of Women exist to rewrite our histories, reclaim our memories, and find new visions for our times. The Courts of Women are public hearings that exist to share voices of survival and resistance from the margins. Those gathered at the World Court on Poverty in the US: Disappeared in America PMA, along with the host organizations, seek to break the silence on poverty as a violation of both women’s rights and human rights. We reject the myth that dire poverty only exists outside of the boundaries of the US and demand an end to the tremendous violence of poverty that impacts our children, our families, and our communities. The effects of globalization, the increase in wealth disparity, and dismantling of the social safety net have pushed our communities into destitution while corporate powers and banking institutions have profited tremendously at our expense.

We link our struggles here in the United States to the struggles of poor people throughout the World.  We are committed to uniting the poor as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty everywhere and forever.  This resolution of action is a reflection of decades of work and we are lifted up by the efforts of many organizations that have fought tirelessly to eliminate injustice.

• We are the mothers of children experiencing the pangs of hunger.
• We are the families who have lost our homes to foreclosure due to the tremendous greed of bankers and politicians.
• We are the incarcerated fathers who were ripped from our families by the prison industrial complex.
• We are the homeless veterans who have been abandoned by the government we fought to protect.
• We are the mothers who fear and suffer from the separation of our families due to our immigrant status.
• We are the millions of uninsured in this country who suffer and die daily due to lack of adequate health care.
•We are the youth that have been thrown away by a government that has continuously revoked all our after-school programs, public libraries, and recreation centers.
• We are the workers who struggle every day to make ends meet while corporations reap billions in profit from our labor.
• We are the immigrants who work tirelessly in a country that denies us basic human rights.
• We are the educators that find ourselves incapable of developing the leadership of our youth while schools are shutting down and funding is cut back.
• We are the women who survive and resist in a world that perpetuates tremendous violence at our expense.

See WEAP's thoughts on this momentous event HERE.

Click HERE for the Resolution of Action


The scheduled date is tentatively Fall 2010 and WILL change. Check back often for further information