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
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
Sojourners
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
December 20, 2021
After months of negotiations, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) decided to kill the Build Back Better agenda. He made the announcement on Fox News Sunday, just days before an already-fraught holiday as we’re seeing COVID surges, essential workers still being paid wages of those considered expendable, and storms and extreme weather wreaking havoc on lives and livelihoods. When voicing his dissent for the Build Back Better agenda, despite making promises that he was negotiating in good faith since the summer, Manchin had the nerve to say: “I tried everything humanly possible.”
Some senators say Biden’s social and climate bill costs too much, but comparing it to the military spending plan they just passed suggests otherwise.
Politico
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Lindsay Koshgarian and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
December 16, 2021
This week, the families of 61 million children received their final payments under the expanded Child Tax Credit. This credit has kept 10 million children above the poverty line, but it is expiring as the Senate delays a vote to renew it through the Build Back Better Act.
Lifting from the Bottom So Everyone Can Rise
Tom Dispatch
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
November 7, 2021
When President Biden first unveiled the Build Back Better agenda, it appeared that this country was on the path to a new war on poverty. In April, he told Congress that “trickle-down economics have never worked” and that it was time to build the economy “from the bottom-up.”
