Category: Video

Ending Poverty with Liz Theoharis

Vineyard Justice Network
Interviewed by Sydney Wilson
August 6, 2016

In today’s spotlight interview, VJN interviewed Liz Theoharis from the Kairos Center in New York. In this video she gives us her take on how to address the issue of poverty and homelessness and how church leaders can create environments where people of affluence and people experiencing poverty can live together in christian community.

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Imagining A New Poor People’s Campaign that Ends Poverty

Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Interview by Jim Vrettos for The Radical Imagination
January 24, 2016

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. started the Poor People’s Campaign as a social movement to end poverty. Today nearly 35 million Americans are still living in poverty, despite the country’s collective wealth.

On this episode of “The Radical Imagination;” host Jim Vrettos, a sociology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice sits down with the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis and Willie Baptist, of the Kairos Center, to discuss strategies for building a new Poor People’s Campaign and eliminating poverty.

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