Poor People’s Assembly and March on Washington, June 20, 2020

by | Dec 18, 2019 | Economic Justice, Events & Updates, Military Spending, Poor Peoples Campaign, Racial Justice, Top Story

United for Peace and Justice is an endorsing partner of the Poor People’s Campaign, an innovative effort to connect issues of of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the war economy.  The Poor People’s campaign recently announced an assembly and march in Washington. D.C. on June 20, 2020.  Their launch announcement is below.

On this anniversary of the launch of the Poor People’s Campaign in 1967, we are more urgently committed than ever to building a broad and deep national moral movement – rooted in the leadership of poor people – to unite our country from the bottom up.

Over the next 200 days, we are going to Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate all across the country towards a Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington on June 20, 2020. Today our registration is LIVE!

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On June 20, 2020, we rise to speak truth, to challenge the distorted moral narrative, and to call this nation to the ethic of love and justice. We demand action.

We know the poor and dispossessed of this country must organize to address systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism.

The question isn’t how much it costs to address these moral issues, but what it costs us not to.

When there are 140 million poor, 43% of a nation, who are poor and low-income, in a country this rich, we must RISE! When over 250,000 people a year, over 600 people a day, die from poverty and low wealth, we must RISE!

If the rejected millions—the poor without health insurance, without living wages, without clean water, without voting protections—unite, we can move the moral and political  imagination of this country and revive the heart of the nation!

If you believe this movement is important, join us with your financial support by becoming a monthly sustainer or making a one-time donation.

We have solutions that will work. The only scarcity we need to worry about is the scarcity of will. We are building  power for a long-term moral fusion movement from the ground up, from Appalachia to Alabama, Kentucky to California, from the Deep South to the Wheat Belt.
Jacqueline, somebody is hurting our people and it’s gone on far too long. We won’t…We can’t…We refuse to be silent anymore. We must rise in the public square, in pulpits, in the voting booths, in state capitols and in the Congress.
Together we must rise!
Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II and Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis

President of Repairers of the Breach & Director of the Kairos Center

Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

 

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