December Member of the Month, The Poor People’s Army

 Poor Peoples Army, December 2025, Member of the Month

The Poor People’s Army, also known as the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, formed out of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union in the 1990s. We are a 3-decades-old movement that came out of the welfare rights and anti-poverty movements of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, founded and led by poor people, homeless people, and people at the bottom who want the power to control their own destinies.

The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign is building a movement that unites the poor across color lines. Poverty afflicts Americans of all colors. Daily, more and more of us are downsized and impoverished. We share a common interest in uniting against the prevailing conditions and around our vision of a society where we all have the right to health care, housing, living wage jobs, and access to quality primary, secondary, and higher education.
 

The PPEHRC just wrapped their first episode of Taking It Back, premiering in December on Wednesdays at 5:30pm on PhillyCAM TV!