Posts by John Wessel-McCoy

On Monuments, Movements, and the Mental Terrain

By John Wessel-McCoy

"The fate of these monuments should be deeply connected in our mind…
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“Cruel Manipulation of the Poor”: How the Ruling Class Rules

By John Wessel-McCoy

In describing the Vietnam War as a “cruel manipulation of the poor”…
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“L’eau est la vie”: Water is Life in Louisiana

By John Wessel-McCoy

In August, the Kairos Center's John Wessel-McCoy visited Cherri Foytlin and L'eau…
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The Three Reconstructions: A Poor People’s History Tour

By John Wessel-McCoy

A part of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral…
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The Southern Strategy in Coffee County — Olivia Pearson on Trial in Georgia

By John Wessel-McCoy

The trial of city commissioner Olivia Pearson in Coffee County, GA is…
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“I’ll Vote On” — The History of Voter Suppression in Alabama and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

By John Wessel-McCoy

Drawing on Skylight's timely film "I'll Vote On," John Wessel-McCoy explains how,…
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Watch: John Wessel-McCoy speaks about the New Poor People’s Campaign on Radical Imagination

By John Wessel-McCoy

The Kairos Center's John Wessel-McCoy is featured on this week's episode of…
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Frederick Douglass is still alive, but not in the way Trump thinks

By John Wessel-McCoy

Our nation's president appears to believe the Lion of the Abolitionist Movement…
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Open letter of thanks to fasting OUR Walmart workers

By John Wessel-McCoy

An open letter of thanks to fasting OUR Walmart workers, after a…
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Remembering Jose Guerrero

By John Wessel-McCoy

Jose Guerrero was a working class intellectual – the best kind of…
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STAND with Dignity

By John Wessel-McCoy

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against…
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A Truth Commission Begins in Bayou La Batre, Alabama

By John Wessel-McCoy

On November 7-8, 2014 our Gulf Coast Poor People’s Campaign team visited…
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