The Real News Network
July 17, 2020
Poor People’s Campaign Co-Chairs Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Rev. Dr. William Barber II want to seize this moment with a broad-based, multi-racial movement to change an ‘impoverished democracy.’
For a Better America, We Need to Address Interlocking Injustices
Morning Consult
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis & Rachel O’Leary Carmona
July 14, 2020
On the surface, 2020 feels like it can be defined by adversity. The year began with an unprecedented pandemic, and a corresponding public health and economic crisis. The COVID-19 quarantine was followed by mass protests in response to the police killing unarmed people of color.
Yet, from that adversity a movement was strengthened that is growing in power every day.
A Moral Agenda for a Troubled America
CNN
By William J. Barber II and Liz Theoharis
June 21, 2020
(CNN) In public demonstrations that have spread around the world, a multicolored coalition for racial justice has taken to the streets since the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. Their slogan, “Black Lives Matter,” is reverberating across America, and politicians have scrambled to draft legislation to satisfy their demands.
Interview on NPR’s All Things Considered
All Things Considered on NPR
June 21, 2020
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with the Revs. William Barber II and Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, about the group’s virtual convening this weekend.
Interview on Canadian Television
CTV News (Canada)
June 21, 2020
What the Courage to Change History Looks Like
The New York Times
By William Barber II, Liz Theoharis, Timothy B. Tyson and Cornel West
June 19, 2020
Since the casual killing of George Floyd on camera, unprecedented protests — not policy papers — have radically shifted public opinion in support of the battle against systemic racism. The new nation being born in our streets may yet blossom into Langston Hughes’s “land that never has been yet / and yet must be” — but only if this movement refuses to let its truths be marched into the narrow cul-de-sac of “police reform.”
Interview on MSNBC by Ali Velshi
MSNBC
June 20, 2020
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis interviewed by Ali Velshi on MSNBC, Saturday, June 20, 2020.
We Rise Together: Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis’ Sermon on June 20, 2020
The following sermon was given by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Director of the Kairos Center and Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, during the Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington on June 20, 2020. Join the movement here.
Dismantle the War Economy
openDemocracy
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Stephen Miles
June 19, 2020
2020 began with a near-war with Iran – the deadly upshot of a bomb-first-ask-questions-later approach to world affairs.
Then came a pandemic – a public health disaster made all the more lethal by our leadership’s utter indifference to the lives of the people, especially the poor and people of color.
