Statement on Gov. Hochul’s 2025 State of the State Address
Our response to New York Gov. Hochul’s 2025 State of the State Address.
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"Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back have crafted an ode to the often-dismissed power of poor and working-class people ... a must have for every organizer" Maurice Moe Mitchell, National Director Working Families Party![]()
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Thanks Maurice Moe Mitchell for the wonderful words about the new book: “You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty.” The book by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back is set for release from Beacon Press on April 8, 2025. ![]()
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WHO ARE OUR LEADERS? WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT KINGS.![]()
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The struggle at the heart of the Biblical stories we were reading was over the question of who would dictate society’s priorities: landlords, creditors, bureaucrats, and generals; or communities of farmers, shepherds, and manual laborers. The struggle waged by the ancient prophetic movements against the monarchies of Israel and Judah was over the basic question of how land and labor and the earth’s abundance would be used: to feed and clothe and house and care for people, or to build palaces and temples, mansions and military garrisons for the elite. ![]()
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The struggle today is over similar questions: will society be led – and led to its destruction – by financiers, energy executives, speculators, war-mongers, and tech magnates, or will it be saved by the world’s poor and increasingly economically outcast majority?
Who Are Our Leaders? What the bible says about Kings. - Kairos Center
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The God of the Hebrew Bible is a God who is found, and whose will is revealed and served, in the struggle of poor and oppressed people to overthrow the
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