Congratulations from the Kairos Center to Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, who has been consecrated Bishop for his work building a new Poor People’s Campaign with Repairers of the Breach! We see no better candidate for Bishop than he in this time and in this place. We are all in need of his moral and spiritual guidance, care, and charge. The Kairos Center affirms his apostolic call.
Shailly Gupta Barnes of the Kairos Center reflects on the Capital Region Truth Commission on Poverty in Schenectady, New York, hosted by the Labor-Religion Coalition of New York State as a part of the Truth Commission process of the new Poor People’s Campaign.
The Tenant March on Washington from Fannie Mae to the HUD building to the home of a Blackstone lobbyist was led by a large banner declaring that we must “Stop Trump’s War on the Poor.” In this declaration, we are reminded of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s sobering warning of a society that neglects the least of these.
The Poor People’s Campaign assembled at NY City Hall to rally against racist voter suppression laws. After the rally and press conference, we delivered a letter on voter suppression in the U.S. to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, declaring that voting rights are human rights and that the U.S. is in clear violation of our innate rights.
This Bible study is the fourth in a series developed to foster conversations about the biblical and theological significance of the New Poor People’s Campaign.
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.
Essays, books, and more from Kairos Center staff, members, Fellows, and Poverty Scholars. Including: our collection of writings on religions and social movements, “The Spirit of Struggle”; Willie Baptist’s “The Pedagogy of the Poor”; and selections from our blog and more than 10 years of work, thinking, and writing.
A collection of New 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.