Background Briefing with Ian Masters
November 27, 2024
“With 66 million million poor folks who are white and 30 million low-wage Americans not voting in the recent election, we discuss a strategy for a Third Reconstruction based on moral values like a living wage and health care and speak with the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, Co-Chair with Reverend William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She is the Co-Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice and has spent the past two decades organizing amongst the poor in the United States. The author of Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor and We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign, co-authored with Reverend William Barber, we discuss her article at Tom Dispatch, “How to Survive Trump—America’s Nero.””