Amy Miller of the Kairos Center writes a love letter from the movement to end poverty today to the movement to end slavery, reflecting on what she learned about building a social movement from the University of the Poor’s recent course on Abolition.
What is the power of religion and human rights in building movements for justice and equality in our world today? Watch Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis’ important conversation on religion, human rights, and movement-building with Hindu leader Swami Agnivesh and Dr. John J. Thatamanil last fall.
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis on the many examples of the battle for the Bible that is going on today, including Jerry Falwell Jr.’s recent comments, #BibleLiteracy, and what the Bible really says about how religious leaders must help social movements challenge the powers and principalities.
On MLK Day 2019, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis visited the California Homeless Union and the CA Poor People’s Campaign in Paradise, CA, who have been organizing among California’s poor and dispossessed in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires that have recently pushed 50,000 people into homelessness.
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.