Kenia Alcocer of the California PPC:NCMR on how the power of the vote is not realized when the undocumented community, black communities, First Nations communities, Puerto Ricans, DC residents, the poor, and criminalized communities are disenfranchised from the voting process.
Our democracy is under attack — this year, as Election Day nears, we must be a movement that votes. Read some powerful excerpts from testimonies at our recent Poor People’s Hearings on increased attacks on voting rights and attempts at voter suppression in the contemporary US.
Watch the full conversation between Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, director of the Kairos Center, and Willie Baptist, our co-coordinator of Poverty Scholarship and Leadership Development, on the Kairos Center’s history and mission — the first of a series of webinars to celebrate our 5th anniversary!
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.
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.