What kind of commitment does it take to help the needy defend themselves against the greedy?  This website will help you explore that question.  Over the past 26 years, the Women's Economic Agenda Project (WEAP) has fought for the elimination of poverty through a social justice framework.  Our vision is a simple one that believes all people have a human right to live with dignity.  Economic human rights are guaranteed to us under the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These include the right to housing, health care, a living wage, education, communication, and nourishment.  We are inspired and educated by the courage of both the employed and unemployed poor who daily engage in countless battles against greed and oppression.

In our 26 years of work, WEAP has fought for mothers on welfare; alongside unions for living wage jobs, healthcare, and just contracts; and with nurses, doctors, and patients against the closings of healthcare clinics and for a universal health system, to name just a few. Through the years we have built partnerships with warriors, teachers, and leaders in churches, union halls, community centers, recovery houses, technology centers, university campuses, and on the streets and under bridges. With these partners, we have documented, protested, and educated that poverty is an economic human rights violation. However, we know that it can't stop here. Recognizing and understanding the problem is only the first step. We also know that we must educate around solutions. For this reason, we teach about the Just Health Care Campaign, which seeks to guarantee healthcare to all Americans for less money than we pay now. We also teach about the importance of a movement to end poverty, to make housing affordable for all people, to guarantee workers rights, and to set a real living wage in America.

WEAP bases its methodology on the understanding that when we operate from our strengths, we are able to make a powerful impact. We use teach-ins to educate and empower people on their rights, and we march and protest to give voices and faces to the millions fighting for their lives.  We know that only our work together to build a mass social movement for change will allow us to reclaim our economic human rights.  We have designed this website as a place to assist in building that social movement by including numerous educational tools and resources.  We encourage you to dig in and start learning, spread the word, and do what you can to advance our cause for justice.  You can read informative news on our News & Notes, use our comprehensive Health Care Toolkit to further educate yourself and others, document your human rights violations today by taking our online Health Care Survey, donate to the cause, and much more. As we continue the march to eliminate poverty, we are guided by the words of Sister Pollard, a 70-year-old civil rights foot soldier in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, "My feets is tired, but my soul is rested."