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What is the Poor People’s Campaign? In 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted communities across the country. Their name was a direct cry from the underside of history: The Poor People’s Campaign.
Today, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is co-chaired by Rev. Dr. William Barber, II, and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis has picked up this unfinished work.
- We rise to demand that the 140 million poor and low-income people in our nation — from every race, creed, color, sexuality, and place — are no longer ignored, dismissed or pushed to the margins of our political and social agenda.
- We rise not as left or right, Democrat or Republican, but as a moral fusion movement to build power, build moral activism, build voter participation, and we won’t be silent anymore!
- We rise to change the moral narrative and demand that the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy/militarism, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism all be ended.