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...welfare rights movement we have been working as a minority group hoping that the majority acts favorably towards us," Wiley said yesterday...
...Wiley said that his new organization, the Movement for Economic Justice, will serve as a nationwide grassroots movement organizing the 120 million people "who have a direct economic stake in more adequate income, tax reform, and adequate health care...
...Wiley said that initially his organization would function on two levels. First, he said that grassroots organizers were already working in some areas to organize tax clinics for low-and middle-income tax-payers in 20 cities. Second, Wiley said that he hoped to start a Citizens Lobby for Economic Justice in 40 key congressional districts to make Congress more responsive to poor and middle-income people's issues...
...Wiley said that he expected the Citizens Lobby for Economic Justice to take an active role in the 1974 and 1976 elections...
...Wiley is at Harvard for a month as a fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Politics. He said that he hoped to "gather basic facts on his constituencies and research the history of the welfare rights organization." He will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Burr...