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Category: Interviews
Trump Declared War on the Poor–And the Poor Are Fighting Back
The Real News Network
Interview by Marc Steiner
December 6, 2019
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced plans to cut SNAP benefits that could drive millions further into poverty. Liz Theoharis of the Poor People’s Campaign and Karen Dolan of IPS join The Real News Network to discuss the implications.
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis On The We Must Do M.O.R.E. Tour & Poor People’s Campaign
“Sojourner Truth” with host Margaret Prescod
Pacifica Radio
September 24, 2019
We’re excited to be joined by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, a joint coordinator along with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign, a National Call for Moral Revival. The Campaign, which was first started by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just months before his assassination, has been revived and has a base across 40 U.S. states. The campaign is challenging what it calls the five pillars of evil: poverty, racism, the war economy, environmental devastation and the nation’s distorted moral narrative.
Building a Movement Centered on Poor People
The Basic Income Podcast
August 9, 2019
One of the most prominent advocates of guaranteed income is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who led the Poor People’s Campaign in the 1960s to demand economic justice for those living in poverty in the United States. The Poor People’s Campaign has been revived in recent years by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Rev. Dr. William Barber and aims to combat the challenges facing poor people at a systemic level. This includes issues as diverse as climate change, workers’ rights, housing, and economic empowerment. Importantly, the campaign puts poor people at its center as a driving, shaping force. Rev. Theoharis joins the podcast to discuss the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and how the work of the campaign connects to universal basic income.
TED Talk: A Call for Moral Revival
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II talk at TEDWomen 2018 on the organizing, mobilizing, and power-building among the poor and dispossessed that is the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
Get Ready for the Poor People’s Campaign
A conversation with campaign co-chair Rev. Liz Theoharis about finishing what MLK started.
The Nation
Interview by Greg Kaufmann
May 13, 2018
This Mother’s Day, at a moment when people in poverty are facing unprecedented attacks on their basic living standards, a new Poor People’s Campaign launches.
‘The Center of Gravity is in the Local Work’: Liz Theoharis on the Poor People’s Campaign
Rev Dr Liz Theoharis interviewed by Erik Gunn
The Progressive
May 1, 2019
An ordained Presbyterian minister and veteran social justice organizer, the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis co-chairs the Poor People’s Campaign with the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II. Founded half a century ago by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the campaign was revived in late 2017 by Barber and Theoharis to empower the nation’s poor and marginalized people, and help build coalitions to address their challenges.
How the Poor People’s Campaign Is Building a ‘New Electorate’
The Nation
January 21, 2019
A conversation with Reverend Liz Theoharis on the campaign’s broad agenda for 2019.
By Greg Kaufmann
On New Year’s Eve, Reverend Drs. Liz Theoharis and William Barber II, co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, laid out the campaign’s plans for 2019. The Poor People’s Campaign will continue its pursuit of an audacious agenda: eradicating poverty and systemic racism; addressing ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy; and changing the narrative about poverty in this country from one that demonizes the poor to one which recognizes their strengths and vision while questioning the morality of current public policy.
Rev Dr Liz Theoharis interviewed by Robert Amato
Poverty and inequality under Trump: human rights under threat
The Guardian
June 26, 2018
The Guardian partners with the UN and the Graduate Institute in Geneva to discuss a burning issue for America.
A panel debate with Philip Alston (UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty), Rev Dr Liz Theoharis (co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival), Kenneth Roth (executive director, Human Rights Watch), Catherine Flowers (rural development manager, the Equal Justice Initiative). Moderated by Ed Pilkington (the Guardian’s chief reporter in the US)
On Tuesday, 26 June the Guardian moderated a discussion at the Graduate Institute in Geneva to discuss a burning issue for America: how the country’s vast inequality and the Trump administration’s apparent determination to exacerbate it are posing a direct threat to human rights.