Presenter: Linda Homer Poor People's Campaign
Talk Description: The National Poor People’s Campaign is founded on work done by many who came before us. In 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took up the call of the National Welfare Rights Organization and organized the National Poor People’s Congress. In our time, the National Poor Peoples Campaign rose from the shared work of The Repairers of the Breach and the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights & Social Justice, organized and led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. If we understand the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s-60’s to have been the 2nd Reconstruction, the National Poor People’s Campaign now represents the 3rd Reconstruction. In this election year—this time, fraught and entangled, in both new and systemic injustices—we can be overwhelmed by a sense that these challenges are insurmountable and unsolvable. Yet somehow, we are compelled to stand up, move forward, and raise our voices to address the interlocking injustices of systemic poverty, systemic racism, ecological devastation, the denial of healthcare, housing, education, living wages and voting rights, the tyranny of militarism and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism.
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| Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival | SPA Speakers Tent | and Education | Fri 20 Sep 2024 4:00 PM to 4:50 PM | Presenter: Linda Homer Poor People's Campaign Talk Description: The National Poor People’s Campaign is founded on work done by many who came before us. In 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took up the call of the National Welfare Rights Organization and organized the National Poor People’s Congress. In our time, the National Poor Peoples Campaign rose from the shared work of The Repairers of the Breach and the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights & Social Justice, organized and led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. If we understand the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s-60’s to have been the 2nd Reconstruction, the National Poor People’s Campaign now represents the 3rd Reconstruction. In this election year—this time, fraught and entangled, in both new and systemic injustices—we can be overwhelmed by a sense that these challenges are insurmountable and unsolvable. Yet somehow, we are compelled to stand up, move forward, and raise our voices to address the interlocking injustices of systemic poverty, systemic racism, ecological devastation, the denial of healthcare, housing, education, living wages and voting rights, the tyranny of militarism and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism. |
