The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has launched a national Mobilization Tour leading to June 18, 2022. Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. The Mobilization Tour will make 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, leading to the historic Assembly and March in Washington, DC on June18. Click here to watch a 1-minute promo.
According to Bishop William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, National Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: “It is NOT just a day of action. It is a declaration of an ongoing, committed moral movement to 1) Shift the moral narrative; 2) Build power; and 3) Make real policies to fully address poverty and low wealth from the bottom up.”
The Poor People’s Campaign believes that any nation that ignores nearly half of its citizens is in a moral, economic and political crisis. There were 140 million people who were poor or one emergency away from economic ruin before the pandemic. Since March 2020, while hundreds of thousands of people have died, millions are on the edge of hunger and eviction, and still without health care or living wages, billionaire wealth has grown by trillions.
There are abundant resources to meet our needs, and we march to summon the political will to do so. America must have a moral revolution now. It is time to nonviolently disrupt, protest, shake up and alter the direction of our nation towards a moral agenda of love, truth, justice and equal protection under the law.
On June 18, 2022 the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls will be a generationally transformative and disruptive gathering of poor and low wealth people, state leaders, faith communities, moral allies, unions and partnering organizations. We are building power for an agenda that lifts all people by challenging the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism!
Click here for an Organizer’s Manual with more details about the June 18 Mass Poor People’s & Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the polls.
Start making plans to go to the Washington, DC! Click here to RSVP for June 18.
Help get the word out! Click here for a Digital Toolkit with graphics, videos, Rally Bus rideshare information, sample social media posts and more.
United for Peace & Justice is proud to be a mobilizing partner with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. We encourage you to find your State Committee and join the Campaign!
