Poor People’s Campaign 40 Days of Moral Action: Kairos Toolkit—Week 1
Week One (May 13–19)
Somebody’s Hurting Our People: Children, Women, and People with Disabilities in Poverty
Featured Blog Posts:
Barbara Smith and NYS Poor People’s Campaign: Women in Poverty, Women in Leadership
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Post Text: Women’s voices must be heard! This spring @nysppc organized a #PoorPeoplesCampaign event in NYS hosted by @emilywestmc & @TheBarbaraSmith on how racism, poverty, war, & environmental devastation affect the lives of women & how women organize to fight them: https://bit.ly/Week1BarbaraSmith
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Post Text: Kymlee Dorsey on women in poverty & leadership: “I started realizing I am part of the #PoorPeoplesCampaign…I believe that from this group we all will go out and become these little ripples that will start to unite our world.” @nysppc https://bit.ly/Week1BarbaraSmith
Rev. Dr Liz Theoharis: The Persistent Widow and the Power of Poor People
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Post Text: “I tell you tonight. We are this persistent widow. We need justice … And we will keep coming back, and coming back, and coming back. And we will win. I believe that we will win.” Read @liztheo’s powerful sermon for Week 1 of the #PoorPeoplesCampaign: https://bit.ly/Week1RevTheoharis
From Our Archive:
Aaron Scott, Queer and Trans Leaders in the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
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Post Text: “The #PoorPeoplesCampaign is here for poor LGBTQ people from the projects to the trailer park and everywhere in-between.” -Aaron Scott, @WA_PPC Read Aaron’s full piece on queer and trans leaders in the Poor People’s Campaign here: https://bit.ly/LGBTQPPC
Shailly Gupta Barnes, Developing a Moral Vision: An Interview with Shailly Gupta Barnes, Tri-Chair of the Souls of Poor Folk Audit
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Post Text: Poor women must be at the forefront of the #PoorPeoplesCampaign because more than 70% of people living below the poverty line are women and children! Learn more in @Kairos_Center’s interview with @shaillybarnes, tri-chair of the Souls of Poor Folk Audit: https://bit.ly/MoralAudit