2004: THE CANNERS CAMPAIGN

PTH’s Canners’ Campaign launched just after the Republican National Convention in 2004. PTH civil rights leaders raised the issues of police harassment that interfered with their ability to work.

These issue areas included subsistence work such as canning, day labor and panhandling. The civil rights campaign voted to create a new Economic Justice sub-committee to conduct outreach and research. Markus Frensch, an intern, was instrumental in supporting the organizing and participatory research work of the Canners Campaign.

The Canners committee had its first meeting in October of 2004. PTH members joined the canners campaign and Jean recruited his cousin Eugene Gadsen to campaign meeting. Markus recruited his friend Ana Martinez DeLuco.