Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival

Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival
Named after Poor People's Campaign
Location
  • United States
Co-chair
 William Barber II
Co-chair
 Liz Theoharis
Website www.poorpeoplescampaign.org

Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival is an American anti-poverty campaign led by William Barber II and Liz Theoharis.[1][2]

They are planning "40 days of coordinated action in the spring of 2018 at statehouses across the US".[1][3] According to Jelani Cobb, writing in The New Yorker, the movement demands "federal and state living-wage laws, equity in education, an end to mass incarceration, a single-payer health-care system, and the protection of the right to vote."[4]

The campaign takes its name from the original 1968 Poor People's Campaign, which was an effort to gain economic justice for poor people in the United States, organized by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and carried out under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy in the wake of King's assassination.[3]

On May 21, 2018, 21 protesters were arrested in Nashville, Tennessee.[5]

On June 4, 2018, 16 protesters were arrested in Topeka, Kansas.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Heuvel, Katrina vanden (5 December 2017). "Opinion - A new Poor People's Campaign wants to change how society defines morality". Retrieved 15 April 2018 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  2. ↑ "Rev. Barber & Rev. Theoharis: It's Time to Fight for America's Soul". Time. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 Barber, Reverend William; Theoharis, Dr Liz (15 April 2018). "America once fought a war against poverty – now it wages a war on the poor". the Guardian. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Cobb, Jelani. "William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump". The New Yorker. Retrieved May 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ Allison, Natalie (May 22, 2018). "21 Poor People's Campaign demonstrators blocking traffic arrested in downtown Nashville". The Tennessean. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  6. ↑ Moore, Katie (June 4, 2018). "16 arrested in fourth week of Poor People's Campaign protests in Topeka". The Topeka Capital-Journal. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
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