In Memory of Wardell Yotaghan

Wardell Yotaghan of the Coalition to Protect Public Housing in Chicago, IL recently died of a heart attack.

Statement by Cheri Honkala, Spokesperson for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and Director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union:

Today we grieve the passing of a member of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, a fighter who has been active for years in the struggle to preserve public housing and uplift the conditions of public housing residents.

Wardell was a symbol of hope, a beautiful ray of life amongst the depression of poverty that tried to smother the resident of the Chicago housing projects.

Recently he was working around the clock on this Saturday's, June 19th, March in Chicago, where he asked me to speak about the March of the Americas. The Saturday March itself, is about economic human rights violations and the ongoing needs of the Chicago Public Housing Tenants. His leadership will be missed and the members of the KWRU that traveled yesterday and myself will march each step this Saturday lifting our voices of the memory of a man who fought daily to stop the economic human rights violations happening in America. May God bless and be with him, his friends, and family (all of the poor) at this time of grief.

Read Wardell's Speech at the Economic Human Rights Tribunal