Justice Revival
Jun 30, 2022
In a Post-Roe America, how can Christians faithfully stand in solidarity for the rights of the poor?
Learn how the Dobbs v Jackson decision will affect poor and low-income people & our maternal health crisis. Plus, rich biblical insights & timely calls to action!
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
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.”
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.
The First and Worst Hit by Pandemics of Every Sort
Tom Dispatch
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
April 21, 2022
The 54th anniversary of the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., just passed. Dr. King was shot down while organizing low-wage sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.
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.
Tom Dispatch
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
February 27, 2022
As if killing the Child Tax Credit, blocking voting rights, gutting key climate legislation, and refusing living wages wasn’t enough, West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is now promoting legislation that further punishes the poor and marginalized.
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.
Black News Channel
By Rev. Dr. William Barber, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, and Abby Maxman
January 18, 2022
As the world reels from the omicron surge, it is time we reckon with a dramatic and immoral failure of the world’s power holders to meet the challenges of this historic pandemic. A new report out today from Oxfam finds that inequality has not only worsened over the last two years, it has become deadly.
As Congress debates voting rights and investing in the people, it’s important to understand the dark forces that underlie the increasingly reactionary and authoritarian politics on the rise in this country.
Tom Dispatch
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
January 11, 2022
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” — Archbishop Desmond Tutu
