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.
Yesterday, clergy and people of faith came together in Washington, D.C. for the March to Save Medicaid, Save Lives, to fight back against the life-threatening cuts to Medicaid that are being debated in the Senate right now.
What is the power of religions and human rights, and what is their relationship? The following essay, the keynote address given by Kairos co-director Larry Cox to the 2017 Bernstein Symposium on Religion and Human Rights at Yale University, goes a long way toward answering this question.
The Fourth of July is a time to remember the revolutionary spirit of the United States, the long and difficult fight that has been waged to realize a just society true to the founding principles of this nation — and to re-commit to the ongoing struggle for America to be.
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.