Three months ago, tens of thousands of people stood with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC) in the nation’s capital, at the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls, to demand immediate and transformative action to address systemic injustice in our nation. The PPC declared that as a movement, we would take 7 next steps before the midterm elections, including a commitment to engage in mass voter education and mobilization in poor and low-income communities through every means available.
On September 19, The PPC launched a 50-day national voter outreach program to ensure that the poor and low-income voters are a deciding factor in the upcoming midterm elections. In 2020, the PPC reached over 2 million poor and low-income voters before the general election. Their study of the post-election data showed that an intentional effort to engage low-income voters around an agenda that addresses their critical needs has the potential to shift the nation’s policy priorities. This season the PPC aims to reach 5 million poor and low-wealth, low-propensity voters across 15 strategic priority states. With living wages, healthcare, voting rights and other issues critical to poor and low-wealth people on the ballot, this year’s elections are more crucial than ever. If we ever needed to vote for democracy & justice, we sure do need to vote now!
On September 22, a diverse group of faith leaders, whose various traditions make up millions of congregants across the country, joined Poor People’s Campaign national co-chairs Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis for an urgent Congressional briefing to implore our elected representatives to act before the midterm elections on living wages and voting rights, and to fight for the reinstatement and expansion of policies that research shows can immediately lift millions of families out of poverty. Watch the recording.
Throughout the next 50 days, thousands of PPC volunteers from across the country will be making phone calls, sending texts, knocking on doors, and canvassing neighborhoods making sure that poor and low-income people both have the tools they need to register to vote & have a voting plan.
United for Peace & Justice is proud to be a national mobilizing partner with the PPC. We urge you to get involved and actively participate in the voter outreach campaign! Sign up and join your state campaign here
