Liz Theoharis

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How Dobbs Is an Attack on Us All

Tom Dispatch
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
July 19, 2022

When I was the age that my daughter is now, my favorite sweatshirt had the words “Choice, Choice, Choice, Choice” in rainbow letters across its front. My mom got me that sweatshirt at a 1989 rally in response to Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. In that case, the Supreme Court upheld a Missouri law restricting the use of state funds and facilities for abortion, an early attempt to eat away at Roe v. Wade.

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The Takeaway WNYC: Deep Dive – The U.S. Anti-Poverty and Labor Movement

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The Takeaway with Melissa Harris-Perry
WNYC New York Public Radio
July 1, 2022

On June 18, 2022 the Poor People’s Campaign led a mass demonstration in Washington, D.C. Thousands of people from all over the country attended. Ahead of the march, we spoke with the Poor People’s Campaign co-chairs Bishop William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Director of Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary. 

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Statement from the Kairos Center, Repairers of the Breach, & the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival on the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade

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The Current US Supreme Court Is Not Constitutionally Legitimate. Dobbs is a watershed attack that will come to be known as an infamous consolidation of an unrelenting extremist assault on this country’s gains for equality and justice.

by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, and Shailly Gupta Barnes
June 25, 2022

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KPFK / Free Speech TV: Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis interviewed by Sonali Kolhatkar for Rising Up with Sonali

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Rising Up with Sonali
KPFK / Free Speech TV
June 8, 2022

Bishop William Barber II and Rev. Liz Theoharis, the co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, have written a letter to President Joe Biden requesting a meeting with the White House ahead of their June 18th March on Washington. In the letter, the two leaders reminded Biden that when he addressed their gathering in September 2020, he “promised that ending poverty would be more than an aspiration in your administration.”

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King Center Beloved Community Talks: Understanding The Triple Evils – Poverty

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The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
May 31, 2022

As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.” Join The King Center for Part 3 of our 3-part virtual Beloved Community Talks series on the Triple Evils, as we explore the roots of poverty, its devastating effects on humanity, and pathways to eradicating it.

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Hidden in plain sight: The force fueling America’s covid catastrophe

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The Washington Post
By The Rev. William J. Barber II and The Rev. Liz Theoharis 
April 5, 2022

In Hinds County, Miss., where nearly half of all residents are poor or low income, about 3 in 100 people have died of covid-19. Olivia Womack, a student at the University of Mississippi who grew up in Hinds County, has lost 20 members of her extended family to the coronavirus.

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Means Testing Will Ruin the Expanded Child Tax Credit

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Restrictive means tests keep Americans poor, sick, hungry, and homeless. It’s time to debunk the tired old lies they’re based on.

Common Dreams
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Shailly Gupta Barnes
February 3, 2022

Lawmakers are scrambling to revive the Child Tax Credit after Senator Joe Manchin effectively killed it along with the Build Back Better Act.

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