The Moral Response to Homelessness
Tom Dispatch
By Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes
May 21, 2024
On April 22nd, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case that focuses on whether unhoused — the term that has generally replaced “homeless” — people with no indoor shelter options can even pull a blanket around themselves outdoors without being subject to criminal punishment.
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New Way: The Podcast of the 1001 New Worshiping Communities Movement
May 9, 2024
“The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis grew up in activism and stops at nothing to name, reclaim, and live out God’s solidarity with the poor and downtrodden. Rev. Liz is the Executive Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, & Social Justice; and the Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, a National Call for Moral Revival.
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The grassroots movement known as the Poor People’s Campaign aims to turn the exploited into a giant electoral force.
Truthout
By Nicholas Powers
April 3, 2024
Suppose 53 million low wage workers across the United States seized control of politics. See the hotel maids washing bedsheets and migrants in blood-splattered aprons at meat plants mobilizing for their interests. See baggy-eyed nurses and fast-food staff take part in mass uprisings. Now imagine millions of poor people standing in long lines to vote. America would marvel at this sleeping giant, now awake.
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The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States
Tom Dispatch
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
March 10, 2024
The slang definition of “unwinding” means “to chill.” Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo — all words that, on the surface, appear both passive and peaceful. And yet in Google searches involving such seemingly harmless definitions of decompressing and resting, news articles abound about the end of pandemic-era Medicaid expansion programs — a topic that, for the millions of people now without healthcare insurance, is anything but relaxing.
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The Powerful and Visionary Leadership of Young Activists Is Crucial in These Times
Tom Dispatch
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
January 18, 2024
“All Americans owe them a debt for — if nothing else — releasing the idealism locked so long inside a nation that has not recently tasted the drama of a social upheaval. And for making us look on the young people of the country with a new respect.” That’s how Howard Zinn opened his book The New Abolitionists about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the 1960s.
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White Christian nationalists have pushed an agenda eroding democratic norms — and have gained momentum by meeting people’s spiritual and material needs. Pro-democracy forces need to take note.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Rev. Liz Theoharis and Rahna Epting
December 1, 2023
There is no shortage of commentary and analysis about the dismal state of American democracy. At the core of our crisis is a powerful strain in the nation’s political culture that needs more attention from philanthropy: white Christian nationalism and its revolt against democracy.
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