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Minnesota Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign

URGENT!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



SHERIFF EVICTING ROSEMARY WILLIAMS AT THIS MOMENT:

COMMUNITY MOBILIZED TO SAVE HER HOME, ARRESTS LOOMING



After months of fighting for her home of many decades, Rosemary Williams is being
evicted at this moment, 2:15pm, Friday Aug. 7, by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s
Department.

We are here today to stand with Rosemary Williams who is in a position not unfamiliar to many living in the United States—she is threatened with police violence and imprisonment for simply remaining in her home. While many would like to reduce Ms. Williams’ situation to being merely an unfortunate consequence of our current financial times, anyone familiar with the history of the shelter system, public housing, and its attendant massive prison system knows that the criminalization of poverty is nothing new in America.