The Women's Economic Agenda Project (WEAP) is committed to attaining economic human rights for all people.  In a land of abundance, there is no reason anyone’s basic human needs should not be met. WEAP is diligently working to organize the poor, low-income workers, and unemployed into a movement to achieve a vision of a world without poverty and despair, a world that Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of in his Poor People's Campaign of 1968.

We boldly demand that the United States uphold its 1948 signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which declares every person has the right to food, housing, education, communication, health care, and a living wage job. Our voices are heard loudly from Oakland to Pennsylvania, and from New York to Louisiana. We are committed to using every possible opportunity to give voice to the plight of poor women, low-income families, and all of our community supporters. For the past 26 years, we have been fighting for the basic human right to live with decency and dignity.

WEAP is committed to the belief that until the most oppressed among us are free, none of us are truly free. Poor people and women disproportionately occupy the bottom strata of society, and that is why we focus our efforts on their behalf. Whether it is our Health Care is a Human Right trainings or our work around developing low-income leaders who can advocate for themselves and their communities, we strive to spread the word that we need a movement of people speaking up for themselves to demand what they need.

Our efforts are paying off. Under the California Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, WEAP has organized seven major marches and bus tours throughout California, more than 100 teach-ins and educational events, two Truth Commissions & Public Hearings on the need for universal health care, and recorded nearly 2,000 economic human rights violations. While we address the needs of our local community, we also realize that our efforts must not stop there. In a nation where the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, we consciously engage in efforts to lessen the inequality gap. We believe it is vital to continue fighting against the institutional structures and government and corporate policies that try to keep so many of us down. We believe that we can make a difference and know that we already have.

This website is a space for the voices of the poor and low-income, employed and unemployed alike, and their supporters.  It is also a place to learn and be educated on issues that are ignored or distorted by the mainstream media and a majority of politicians.  We invite you to use the many engaging and educational resources and tools found throughout our website and encourage you to share them with everyone you know.  Please join us in the building of a movement that demands the basic economic and civil rights for which so many of our foremothers and fathers gave their lives.