Freedom Church of the Poor: Winter Offensive: No Room at the Inn December 5, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST As the holiday season descends we re-read the story of Joseph and Mary from the perspective of the unhoused, the immigrant, and the marginalized. Unión de Vecinos, National Union of the Homeless and other leaders help us see the suffering and power in this story and show how it can be used to critique and
Moral Monday March on Washington December 13, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST With the pandemics of systemic racism, poverty, voter suppression and COVID-19 still wreaking havoc on our daily lives, our democracy, and our nation’s social and moral infrastructure, we need Congress
National Launch – Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls January 14, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST Joined virtually by *poor people *low-wage workers *coordinating committees from 45 states *religious leaders *200 partner organizations *Labor unions *economists and voting rights advocates the Poor People’s Campaign: A National
Rolling Vigil for Voting Rights January 15, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm EST As Congress debates whether it wants to save democracy by ending the filibuster and passing a bill to help ensure fundamental voting rights, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will hold a three-hour rolling vigil where impacted people from 35 states, of every race, color and creed, will draw the lines
Protect Voting Rights and Build Back Better Now! February 3, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST West Virginia pastors, miners and other workers hold a news conference demanding that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer hold a vote on voting rights and the Build Back Better plan. Also joining the news conference will be the co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Bishop William J. Barber Il
Shailly Gupta Barnes: Poor People’s Moral Budget February 4, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST Shailly Gupta Barnes, policy director at the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, presenting as part of Arizona State University School of Public Affairs, Religion and Public Policy Speaker Series, “Poor People’s Moral Budget” Join via Zoom at time of the event. Free
Launch of the June 18th Mobilization Tour February 14, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival invites you to join poor and low-income, directly impacted people, faith leaders, and moral advocates from Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee for the launch of The Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls Mobilization Tour with a
Sound the Trumpet: A Moral Cry for a Moral Crisis March 4, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST As we approach 57 years since the march across Edmund Pettus bridge, we are faced with the haunting reality that the forces that stood against equal voting rights are still at work. These same forces are not only opposing equal voting rights for all but are also oppressing living wages, denying universal healthcare, rejecting ecological
“God Always Has Somebody” | A Sermon by Bishop William J. Barber II March 6, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm EST Bishop William J. Barber II joins Pastor Otis Dion Culliver live from the historic Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, for the 57th Anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March.
Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee March 6, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST On Sunday, Bishop Barber and Rev. Dr. Theoharis will be among the leaders joining Vice President Kamala Harris in a march over Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the brutal Bloody Sunday beatings on March 7, 1965, during this first march for voting rights. Also joining them will be Elliott Smith, co-director of student mobilization