“No one much cares what happens to poor people in this country, including poor white people.” Rev. Sarah Monroe of Chaplains on the Harbor in Grays Harbor County, WA on how we can break the power of white supremacy among poor white people and organize to build a world where “every life has a chance.”
The growing movement of the poor in the United States, guided most recently by the hopeful breakthroughs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, has much to learn from Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa’s powerful, 50,000 strong shack dwellers movement.
The Kairos Center was founded at Union Theological Seminary, where James Cone brought his commitment to doing theology in the midst of working to transform society. The members of the Kairos Center have been shaped by his scholarship and commitment, and we honor his legacy.
The Kairos Center denounces the recent violence against Abahlali BaseMjondolo and defends the right of Abahlali to organize for its rights to housing, land and human dignity enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
These resources, including blog posts, graphics, and religious resources, were created and compiled by the Kairos Center as a contribution to the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. They are available for use by anyone who wants to learn more about the Campaign or promote its weekly themes.
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.