The following interview between Aaron Noffke of the Institute for Policy Studies and Fernando Garcia, the founder and executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, was conducted as part of The Souls of Poor Folk Audit of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
“Take away our poverty, not our children!” The following is a transcript of Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis’ sermon for Week One of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival’s 40 Days of Moral Action. It was given at National City Christian Church in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, May 13, the first day of the 40 Days.
May 1968 is the 50th anniversary of both the Poor People’s Campaign and the Catonsville Nine action. In our current era of renewed civil disobedience with the new Poor People’s Campaign, Daniel Berrigan and Martin Luther King, Jr. suggest that nonviolence, beyond its strategic considerations, offers a way of transfiguration — especially for the imagination.
In March, the Capital Region of NYS organized a Poor People’s Campaign event in Troy, NY hosted by Barbara Smith and Rev. Emily McNeill. The event focused on how racism, poverty, militarism, and environmental devastation affect the lives of women, and how women are organizing to fight them. Read our transcript of the event here.
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.