The theme of the campaign’s second week will be “Linking Systemic Racism and Poverty: Voting Rights, Immigration, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the Mistreatment of Indigenous Communities.” Truthful Tuesday Teach-in May 22 – 7:30 – 9:30 pm at Festival Center 1640 Columbia Rd, NW
The theme of the campaign’s second week will be “Linking Systemic Racism and Poverty: Voting Rights, Immigration, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the Mistreatment of Indigenous Communities.” Location: Shiloh Baptist Church, 1510 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, United States
Rally at the US Capitol! On Monday, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will launch a season of nonviolent moral fusion direct action in Washington, DC and across the country, and we need you to join us. In communities across America—Black, white, brown and Native—we have …
In preparation for the first direct action Rally at the US Capitol at 2pm, all are invited to train for non-violent resistance activities (sit in, possible arrests) AND also as support allies (signing activists in, taking video, providing food, possible visits to those in jail, etc). You cannot participate in …
Did you know that only 15 cents of every federal discretionary dollar goes to anti-poverty programs? Meanwhile, in 2017 the U.S. spent $668 billion on the military, and that number is only getting higher. But this war chest doesn’t make us safer at home or abroad. In 2012, an average …
Poor People’s Campaign–Direct Action Training April 29, 3-7pm; Commonwealth Baptist Church 700 Commonwealth Ave, Alexandria, VA 22301 RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpYz945X6qs3n1d1Q4Kb8EWtF0MedAmhAJ2JN0crL88aprBQ/viewformhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpYz945X6qs3n1d1Q4Kb8EWtF0MedAmhAJ2JN0crL88aprBQ/viewform Themes for upcoming weeks of action: Week 1 (May 13-19) – Somebody’s Hurting Our People: Child poverty, Women, and People with Disabilities Week Two (May 20-26)– Linking Systemic Racism and Poverty: Voting …
Read Mark R. Rank’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about children and poverty and the impact on our nation: When Children Grow Up Poor, The Nation Pays a Price. NOTE: Some news outlets have a pay wall, and you can only read a limited number of articles monthly.
LFA leader, Jack Calhoun, has written a blog post about the unconscionable budget/tax bill. November 30, 2017: A Christmas Gift from the Poor to the Rich, the Republican tax Bill.
