The dreamer was slain. What became of his dream? Today we are called not to mere memorial, but to resurrection. We are organizing the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival because we believe that the time for commemorations is over.
Until the recent teachers’ strike, typical coverage of West Virginia has consisted mainly of stereotypical “Trump country” stories. The state’s reality is quite a bit different. In this piece, WV native Rick Wilson gives us some important facts about his state that the Poor People’s Campaign should know.
In this interview, we speak to Rev. Emily McNeill and Joe Paparone, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival leaders from the Labor-Religion Coalition of NYS. They have been working for years in NY to build up the power of poor people.
Dr. King knew that it would be the poor taking action together that could lead the way to the enactment of the Kerner Commission’s policy recommendations, but also that its recommendations were insufficient to transform a society structured around racism, economic exploitation and militarism.
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.
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 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.