We’re committing to go full, all-out in building the #PoorPeoplesCampaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in this moment of our national sickness. When we see political and physical insurrection; when we see assaults on the poor and low-wealth;
when we see wide-spread assaults on voting rights and democracy; when we see misinformation campaigns and billions spent to divide us; in this moment, we are committed to mobilizing the largest mass assembly of poor people & low-wage workers in this nation’s history on June 18.
Our deadline is victory!
RSVP now for the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington & To the Polls, June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
Rev. Dr. @LizTheo, co-chair of the #PoorPeoplesCampaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, “Our democracy is on its deathbed. ... The earth is on fire, so we’re signing up ambulance drivers! ... See you on June 18th, and from there!”
These are the real numbers of poverty and low-income in this country. We don’t hear about them in the media, but we should! #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Hearing now from poor and low-income testifiers now, like Sara Fearington, a fast food worker in Durham, NC. #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Lakin Dillingham from Knox County, Alabama:
Robert Taylor in St. John’s Parish, Louisiana:
Family farmer Mark Pringle from Yates Center, Kansas:
Undocumented mother Kenia Alcocer from Los Angeles, California:
Callie Greer with @AlabamaPPC: “Poor people are actually the heartbeat of this world. And y’all have been mistreating us for a long time. ... Are we asking for too much? Of course not!” RSVP now for June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
We’re not demanding too much for poor and low-income Americans. We’re actually trying to help this nation save itself.
Denita Jones with @Texas_PPC speaking live now: “Do you hear us? ... Hear me, and hear us well! The moral resurrection is upon you, and it’s time to decide now which side are you on?” RSVP now for June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
Too many poor and low-income people have died. 700 people per day, before COVID, and we can’t stand for that anymore. So we’re coming — June 18. #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Emilee Johnson with @Mississippi_PPC: “Exploitation does not have a color or a party. I’m here as a survivor of sex trafficking, formerly incarcerated, and living in long-term recovery from drug addiction, and I’m a low-wage worker.” RSVP now for June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
Robin Brown with @OhioPPC: “I am a parent advocating for environmental justice and equality for our lead-poisoned children. ... We need change. We ARE the change!” RSVP now for June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
.@MaryKayHenry@SEIU: “We are nursing home workers ... We are fast food workers ... We are janitors and airport workers and hospital workers and public workers ... We can build the nation that our children deserve!” RSVP now for June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
Rabbi @JonahPesner@TheRAC: “We are in a time of great moral crisis. ... Our democracy itself is under attack. ... But we know that our safety is in our solidarity, and the redemption of our nation may yet come ...” RSVP now for June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
Dr. Wendsler Nosie @ProtectOakFlat: “Mother Earth is being destroyed. ... It’s so important for us to be involved to work together so can have a clear understanding of building a better world for everyone.” RSVP now for June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
.@RepBarbaraLee: “This is a clarion call, it’s a clarion call to step up and make sure and make certain that the policies in this country address the fact that we’re a country, supposedly, of liberty and justice, justice for ALL.” RSVP now for June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
“The only way that Congress is going to move is because of the people.” —@RepBarbaraLee
.@SenWarren@EWarren: “We have a one-in-a-generation opportunity to pass critical legislation that supports working families. ... We have a chance to address this moral crisis ...” RSVP now for June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
“The pieces are all there. This is our moment. It is truly a crisis, a moral crisis, and we in Congress need to step up. We in the Senate need to step up. We do that with your support. ... I’m committed to the cause. I will be with you every step of the way.” @SenWarren@EWarren
.@AlvJc@BRepairers: “We move forward to June 18, 2022, and beyond, not a day but a declaration of an ongoing movement to build power and to pass policies that make a difference for the poor from the bottom up.” RSVP now for June 18: poorpeoplescampaign.org/rally-map/
We should have never had a separation of the infrastructures of our democracy (voting rights), our daily lives (living wages, health care, etc.), and our roads, bridges, and technology. We have to shift the moral narrative, because we’ve been talking about this wrong.
If you stand for the filibuster, you stand against 56 million Americans—Black, brown, native, and white—who used means to vote in 2020 that are currently under attack in state legislatures across the country. You stand against the 140 million poor and low-income Americans.
With one vote against raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hr, Manchin and Sinema and others blocked lifting 32 million Americans and 41% of Black workers who would’ve been lifted out of poverty. #PoorPeoplesCampaign
We’re not the insurrection, we’re the resurrection. We’re getting ready to engage in a tour across the country. Right now we’re having 1,000+ people calling in to Manchin, Sinema, McConnell, and Schumer every day: actionnetwork.org/petitions/a-na…#PoorPeoplesCampaign
“Times like this demand that people put themselves out there, engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and moral direct action. We know that this is what has the power to actually make the power structures of our nation to say yes ...” —Rev. Dr. @LizTheo#PoorPeoplesCampaign
We will push toward June 18 and beyond to make sure that the voices of the 140 million poor and low-income Americans are heard! #PoorPeoplesCampaign
We’re not begging the government. We’re trying to save the nation! This nation cannot continue with 43% of its people living in poverty and low-income.
Think about the moral crisis we’re in when, in the middle of a pandemic, politicians don’t have the heart to make sure every American has healthcare.
We are rallying the sleeping giant of the poor and low-income Americans who make up 30% of the electorate in this nation. The beaten down group of people who, for years, have not heard anyone speaking to their conditions, but who are now rising up!
For years, we’ve been fed a pernicious myth that poverty is only an issue for Black people. This myth not only demeans Black people – with racist images of Black mothers on welfare dominating the imaginations of so many Americans – but also obscures the poverty of tens of millions of white people.
When you frame it as being poor people are Black, other folks are working, what you're doing is dismissing millions of poor and low-wage white people.
This form of mythology is designed to keep Black and white people from working together who really are allies and unified when it comes to the experience of poverty in this country.
In a unified act of solidarity, @GovBillLee joined governors of the former slaveholding states Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Alabama to make a joint statement this week against the @UAW's efforts to unionize autoworkers in the South.
Calling the union a “special interest,” the governors claimed that unions threaten not only good jobs, but also the “values we live by.”
As a preacher from the South, I am tired of politicians trying to co-opt faith with talk about “values” when they do not have the facts to back up their claims.
The truth is that workers are building power in the South and politicians who’ve made immoral partnerships with corporate interests are feeling the heat.
It’s past time for all God’s people to stand up for living wages and union rights.
We're in North Carolina with the @NC_PPC for the final tour stop on the Moral March to the Polls Tour. We are calling on state governments to enact a #ThirdReconstruction agenda, that’s not about left versus right politics, but about what’s right versus what’s wrong.
@NC_PPC In North Carolina, there are 3.5 million poor and low-wealth eligible voters. If we mobilize and organize together, we have the power to change voting outcomes in every election in our state.
@NC_PPC We cannot be silent while politicians prioritize corporate interests over the needs of the poor. From Asheville to Charlotte and Wilmington to Raleigh, we must demand change and fight for a North Carolina and a country that works for all.
Last night, I lent my voice to a multi-faith vigil in front of the White House, calling for a ceasefire to stop the indiscriminate killing.
People from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions around the world are coming together to cry for peace. 1/4
Some say cease-fire, some say a “cessation of hostilities,” some say humanitarian pause. Some just say, “Stop for the babies!” But the world is experiencing a kind of Pentecost as people cry out in different tongues with a unified call to end the violence. 2/4
We believe that every human being is created in the image of God. Both the Talmud and Islamic teaching say that to save a single life is to save all humanity, and Jesus extends the law of love for kin and neighbors, even to those who are our enemies. 3/4
All over the world, I have seen & joined Muslims, Jews, Christians, & people of conscience nonviolently saying we must stop the killing, end the indiscriminate bombing, end the violence of apartheid, resist the lure of revenge, & study war no more.
After Oct 7, I saw many Jews, Muslims, & Christians denounce the violent terrorist acts of Hamas against innocent civilians, including women & children.
This week I’ve watched Jews, Muslims, & Christian stand together to call for a ceasefire, a humanitarian pause, or, in the language of one old church mother, “JUST STOP, STOP, STOP!”
Poverty is a policy choice, reflecting low wages, the high costs of living and the unwillingness of politicians to act. 1/4
In Mississipi, there were 1.3 million poor and low-income people, accounting for 46% of the population. 2/4
A MS household w/ 2 adults and 2 children needs to earn over $21/hour. Yet the current minimum wage is a shameful $7.25/hour. That means a person must work 86 hours/week to afford a two bedroom apartment! 3/4