Sojourners
By Kelly Brown Douglas & Liz Theoharis
March 26, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed an ongoing crisis that has long been ignored — endemic injustice and growing inequality.
This current health crisis has called faith communities to account. On our watch, poverty has reached epidemic proportions; children are being neglected, the homeless are ignored, and immigrants are dehumanized.
The Nation
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
March 20, 2020
The experiences and organizing efforts of the homeless can teach us all about taking action together in this unprecedented time.
Early last week, Americans woke to news of the largest one day oil price drop in history. Since then, stocks on Wall Street have continued to plummet and the Fed has materialized, overnight, $1.5 trillion for investors.
Sojourners
By Liz Theoharis
March 18, 2020
As the current public health emergency deepens, it is revealing and worsening broader economic and social emergencies that we have been confronted with for many years. These are emergencies caused by the lack of health care, affordable housing, living wages, labor rights, voting rights, and environmental protection, by war, police violence, the criminal justice system, and policy violence of all kinds.
CNN
by William J. Barber and Liz Theoharis
February 17, 2020
As the primaries turn towards Nevada and South Carolina, there is ongoing discussion about how voter turnout impacted the outcome in New Hampshire. To understand voter participation in 2020, we need to go back and take a look at what happened in 2016.That year was the first election without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act.
The Boston Review
By Liz Theoharis
February 13, 2020
The Trump administration’s sanctions against Iran and cuts to SNAP benefits are two sides of the same war that the rich are waging against the global poor.
The Nation
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Joyce Ajlouny
December 11, 2019
Faith leaders are calling on presidential candidates to reallocate money away from the military and toward housing and food-aid programs.
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.
“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.
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.
By William J Barber II and Liz Theoharis
The Hill
June 16, 2019
With President Trump’s official announcement of his 2020 campaign scheduled for June 18 and dozens of Democratic candidates running for their party’s nomination, the next 18 months promise a level of political campaigning that will exhaust even the most engaged voters. But another campaign cycle that simply engages the normal political fault lines of left versus right cannot address the moral and economic crisis of the present moment.
