S’bu Zikode, one of the founders of Abahlali baseMjondolo — South Africa’s 50,000 strong shack dwellers’ movement — joined Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis in an important conversation to discuss the visions, strategies and points of connection between AbM and the Poor People’s Campaign last week.
Judge Kavanaugh’s record indicates that he would stonewall movements against poverty, militarism, and racism for a generation. If Kavanaugh is seated despite the dangers he represents, then we must mobilize like never before, this year and again in 2020, to vote out extremists who threaten our rights.
What is the leadership of the poor and how are the poor the new and unsettling force that we need to change the structures of our society? Read the third chapter of a forthcoming book from the Kairos Center, on the call for and the work of organizing the new Poor People’s Campaign.
In August, the Kairos Center’s John Wessel-McCoy visited Cherri Foytlin and L’eau Est La Vie Camp in Louisiana, where water protectors are in the midst of a fierce struggle against the construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Read John’s reflection to learn more about this key struggle of the dispossessed.
AMERICA WILL BE is a film project documenting how organizers across the country are building the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival to help us become the nation we’ve not yet been.
Learn more about the Kairos Center’s Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis’ theological call for ending the abomination of systemic poverty, out from Eerdmans on April 21, 2017.
A collection of Poor People’s Campaign resources for study on poverty today, history, and Dr. King’s vision, created in collaboration with the national organizing tour towards a new Poor People’s Campaign for today. Includes concept papers about the call for a new Poor People’s Campaign, writings about key struggles of the poor today, important passages from Rev. Dr. King’s writing and speeches, and more.