Category: Interviews

Background Briefing with Ian Masters

A Third Reconstruction Based on Moral Values Like a Living Wage and Health Care

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Background Briefing with Ian Masters
November 27, 2024

“With 66 million million poor folks who are white and 30 million low-wage Americans not voting in the recent election, we discuss a strategy for a Third Reconstruction based on moral values like a living wage and health care and speak with the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, Co-Chair with Reverend William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She is the Co-Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice and has spent the past two decades organizing amongst the poor in the United States.

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Co-Create Community in Abundance: A Conversation with Liz Theoharis

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New Way: The Podcast of the 1001 New Worshiping Communities Movement
May 9, 2024

“The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis grew up in activism and stops at nothing to name, reclaim, and live out God’s solidarity with the poor and downtrodden. Rev. Liz is the Executive Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, & Social Justice; and the Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, a National Call for Moral Revival.

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Can the Poor People’s Campaign Change the Outcome of the 2024 Elections?

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The grassroots movement known as the Poor People’s Campaign aims to turn the exploited into a giant electoral force.

Truthout
By Nicholas Powers
April 3, 2024

Suppose 53 million low wage workers across the United States seized control of politics. See the hotel maids washing bedsheets and migrants in blood-splattered aprons at meat plants mobilizing for their interests. See baggy-eyed nurses and fast-food staff take part in mass uprisings. Now imagine millions of poor people standing in long lines to vote. America would marvel at this sleeping giant, now awake.

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New York Historical Society Interview – Voices of Faith: Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

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Voices of Faith: Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
New York Historical Society Interview
August 30, 2023

The eighth annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women’s History in March explored how women and LGBTQ+ people have transformed not only their own faith but also the religious lives of their communities. Today, we are highlighting one of those voices, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary to discuss how her own personal journey impacted her core philosophies.

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Rev Liz on Real News Network

The Media Amplifies Bigotry but Ignores Working Class Organizing. That’s by Design.

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Dr. Liz Theoharis of the Poor People’s Campaign discusses the role of media in suppressing the working class movement—and how stories of people fighting back can be used to inspire others.

The Real News Network
Interview by Maximillian Alvarez
March 28, 2023

In the midst of the largest strike wave in the US in a century, corporate media is more focused on amplifying the bigotry and fearmongering of right-wing politicians and their base than on covering working class movements.

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A Conversation with Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

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Interview by Union Theological Seminary
November 2022

“We envision a world without poverty, without racism, without the destruction of the earth. This kind of common good is big, but it is completely possible,” Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis urged. “We have no real scarcity. We just have a scarcity of political will and moral consciousness to do the right thing.” 

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis is a Union alumna and serves as Director of the Kairos Center for Religion, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary, and Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis interviewed by Grace Ji-Sun Kim for Madang podcast

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Interview by Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Madang podcast
The Christian Century
August 22, 2022

”Here in the 20th episode of Madang, I converse with activist and scholar Liz Theoharis about her new book, We Cry Justice.  

We discuss how she began to co-chair the Poor People’s Campaign, poverty, social justice, basileia, and jubilee. It is an informative discussion on how to read the Bible and get involved in social justice work. This book is challenging and provocative as it provides new ways of reading of the Bible from the perspectives of poor and marginalized people.”

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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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