We need a movement of those locked up and left out to come together and mobilize and organize and register and educate people for a movement that votes. Read Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis’ remarks on the mandate of this moment.
In the Kairos Center’s September Policy Briefing, Shailly Gupta Barnes speaks with leaders from the Nonviolent Medicaid Army who are organizing Medicaid Marches across the country to center the health care needs of the poor and dispossessed.
“Our manna is everyone who is hurting and turning around and fighting back.” Read this reflection on Exodus 16:2-16 by Daniel Jones, originally preached at the Freedom Church of the Poor’s September 20th online service.
“Our hope is not in an escapist theology. Our hope is in movement.” Read a special reflection on Exodus 3:1-15 for Labor Day from Rev. Letiah Fraser, originally preached on the Freedom Church of the Poor’s August 30th online service.
On October 23–24, the Kairos Center Presents: Moral Policy in a Time of Crisis, an online conference on the urgent struggles and policy solutions of the poor and dispossessed.
Watch Freedom Church of the Poor, hosted by the Reading the Bible with the Poor Cohort of the Kairos Center, LIVE each Sunday from 6:00pm–7:30pm ET on the Kairos Center’s Facebook page!
“A Poor People’s History of Wall Street” takes you through the concrete canyons of the command center for global capitalism and asks: Who does Wall Street benefit? How does Wall Street operate in society? And is the stock market the best way to measure the health of a society?
A collection of Poor People’s Campaign resources for study on poverty in the United States, history, Dr. King’s vision, and today’s Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.