In September, the House Judiciary Committee held a field hearing in El Paso on border policies and the relationship between anti-immigrant rhetoric and domestic terrorism. Fernando Garcia, Executive Director of the Border Network for Human Rights, testified at the hearing.
Yom Kippur is a day to humble/afflict ourselves by giving our whole being to the liberation of the afflicted. What does that mean except to “unlock the fetters of wickedness and untie the cords of the yoke. To let the oppressed go free…”? We find atonement by building a society that lives the values of shabbat.
“After violence and poverty and white supremacy, a movement is breaking through.” On September 16, 2019, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis spoke at the first mass meeting of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival’s “We Must Do M.O.R.E.” Tour in El Paso, TX. Read her sermon here.
“We must study, unite, and mobilize!” This week the National Union of the Homeless meets in NYC for an intensive leadership training. Kairos will be sharing some of the stories that emerged from the NUH over the years. We begin with a piece by Savina Martin, documenting current conditions in Boston.
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.