The Coronavirus Crisis and the Crisis of Poverty: Resources for Study
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We are in the midst of an unfolding public health crisis due to the coronavirus. And we at the Kairos Center know that this crisis results from a deeper, much longer-term crisis — that of poverty and inequality and of a society that despises the poor and ignores the needs of the 140 million poor and low-income people in this country.
Check here for updates and analysis from the Kairos Center and our network on this continuing situation, including demands from organizations and movements on the frontlines of the poor organizing the poor.
The Coronavirus Crisis and the Crisis of Poverty: A Message from Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
A Veteran’s Reflections Upon the Invasion of Iraq in a Modern Pandemic
T.J. Thompson
Plagues Expose the Foundations of Injustice
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
Sojourners
The Revival of the National Union of the Homeless
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
The Nation
Our moral obligation to health during the COVID-19 pandemic
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
Religion News Service
The particular peril of coronavirus for poor people — and then everyone else
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
Arkansas Times
In This Kairos Time, Will We Embody Church?
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas
Sojourners
In Times Like These…
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Repairers of the Breach
Prayer Will Not Stop the Coronavirus
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove,
The Nation
Think kids won’t suffer from COVID-19? Wrong: It threatens them with more poverty, hunger, homelessness
Karen Dolan
Market Watch
Statement and Demands on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Put People First! PA
Coronavirus: A Call for Solidarity in a Time of Crisis
Abahlali baseMjondolo
National Water Shutoff Moratorium
Food & Water Watch
Coronavirus Demands
Los Angeles Tenants Union
COVID-19 McDonald’s Demands
Fight for $15
North Carolina’s People’s Platform for Social and Economic Survival and Beyond Us
WRAP Statement Regarding COVID-19
Western Regional Advocacy Project
Analysis: What does this pandemic mean for poor people in Vermont?
Vermont Workers’ Center
Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP):
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