Category: Articles

The moment is ripe for a different kind of popular movement that confronts divisive lies and builds broad coalitions for the common good.

Religion News Service
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II & Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
August 8, 2022

(RNS) — This summer’s made-for-TV Congressional hearings have outlined a seven-step plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Days of testimony have revealed astonishing details about the determination of former President Trump to subvert democracy.

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By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis & Diane Swords, Ph.D.
The Syracuse Post-Standard
August 5, 2022

This week marks the 77th anniversary of the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For many, nuclear war may feel like a relic of that terrible history and of a time of great power struggle and the Cold War arms race. But that is a delusion we can no longer afford to maintain. Today, the war in Ukraine, growing tension in the South China Sea (evidenced by Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit), and more are reminding us just how close we are to global catastrophe.

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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 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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.  

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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

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