The Poor People's Campaign And The Religious Left

May 25, 2018 12:58 PM

From healthcare to tax and immigration, Rev William Barber and the Poor People’s Campaign are driven by faith to focus on the disadvantaged ‘Jesus never charged a leper co-pay’ (The Guardian). The revitalized Poor People’s Campaign calls for ‘a moral agenda based on fundamental rights.’ THE SOULS OF POOR FOLK is an audit of the state of poverty, systemic racism, and militarism since the last campaign 50 years ago. Find a campaign event near you.
posted by The Whelk (6 comments total)

Eighteen people from the PPC got arrested on the light rail tracks in Minneapolis the other day

n.b. "Correction (May 22, 2018): Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this story contained comments from one of the groups protesting ICE that should have been offset by quotation marks and attributed."

So for a minute, an awesome minute, there was a paragraph of this story that read: ICE chases people down as if they are hunting animals and they terrorize individuals, communities and families with impunity.

Anyway, this thing is good. Here's a long read. Martin Luther King, Jr. and America’s Fourth Revolution: The Poor People’s Campaign at Fifty

And a long listen. The Dig: A New Poor People’s Campaign with Nijmie Dzurinko
posted by clavicle at 1:53 PM on May 25, 2018 [6 favorites]

Rev. Barber may be a bodhisattva. I hope he can alter public discourse like MLK did.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 2:52 PM on May 25, 2018 [7 favorites]

Sign me up. (I.e. I just signed up) Fuck fascists. Fuck capitalism.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 10:30 PM on May 25, 2018 [4 favorites]

i love everything about this.
posted by dogheart at 8:35 AM on May 26, 2018

I've just started following the Twitter feed of the co-chair, the Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. Thank you for this post!
posted by Rosie M. Banks at 9:32 AM on May 26, 2018

How the Freedom Rights Budget sought to end poverty for all Americans
posted by The Whelk at 12:26 AM on May 29, 2018