The June 18, 2022 Mass Poor People and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls will be a generationally transformative gathering of poor and low wealth people, state leaders, faith communities, moral allies, unions and partnering organizations. Together we are building power for an agenda that lifts all people by challenging the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism.
Please register to join us in DC! Once you register, you’ll start receiving the Digital Drum beat, inspiring weekly messages from Poor People’s Campaign Co-chairs Bishop William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, about how you can keep up the enthusiasm about the programs happening on June 18th in Washington, D.C. for your community. 
UFPJ is proud to be a mobilizing partner with the Poor People’s Campaign. We encourage you to work with your organization to also join as a mobilizing partner. Sign up here.
Find a ride on a bus near you! Through the Poor People’s Campaign partnership with Rally Co., there are buses leaving across the country to get to the Mass Poor People and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. Check it out to see which one is closest to you. Click here for FAQ.
Want to do more? Sign up to be a mobilizing captain! There is still time to bring your friends, family, and community with you to Washington, D.C. As a mobilization captain, you will receive active updates on the latest news happening on June 18th. Sign up here. There will be a Rally Co. bus training on Tuesday, March 31 at 7:30 pm ET. Register here.
Read the Organizer’s Manual here.
Spread the word by using the Digital Toolkit and the weekly Digital Drumbeat email.
Volunteers are needed in DC. Sign up here.
Go live with us on June 18 via Facebook and Twitter.
Schedule
June 17: On the evening of June 17, we will be holding a special community meal and memorial service to mourn the loss of 1 million+ lives to COVID-19 and to ground ourselves and prepare for the assembly and march the following morning.
- Meal at 5:00 pm ET at Freedom Plaza
- Memorial service at the Lincoln Memorial at 7:30 pm ET
June 18: To kick off the morning, there will be a Shabbat Service co-organized by Jewish partners and open to all who find such a space meaningful. 8:00 – 9:15 am ET at Freedom Plaza.
- Gathering time for the march and assembly will begin between 9:00 -10:00 am ET at 3rd and Pennsylvania Ave, NW.
- Kick-off at 10:00 am ET
Mobilization Tour
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign has declared: “Refusing to address the interlocking injustices and evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation & the denial of health care, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism is constitutionally inconsistent, morally indefensible, politically insensitive, and economically insane.”
In the build up to the June 18 Mass Assembly in Washington, DC, the Poor People’s Campaign made tour stops in Alabama (virtual), Texas (virtual), Ohio, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Washington, DC, New York, Pennsylvania, California, and Tennessee, to do M.O.R.E. – mobilizing, organizing, registering and educating people for a movement that votes. The final tour stop before DC took place in Memphis, Tennessee on May 23, at the exact location where Dr, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968. The history of Memphis is crucial to this movement led by and for poor and low-income people. From the prolific sanitation strike in 1968, to the musical history of Beale Street, Memphis has the movement in its’ bones and the Poor Peoples’ Campaign is proud to be about of that history.
Watch this powerful 3-minute video to understand how the Poor People’s Campaign has picked up Dr. King’s unfinished business, weaving together the interlocking injustices of systemic poverty, racism, environmental devastation, militarism and the war economy and the distorted moral narrative of Christian nationalism into one “moral fusion” campaign.
This is our time; this is our movement! Join us on June 18 to go forward together, not one step back!!
