Rev Dr Liz Theoharis

Rev Dr Liz Theoharis is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign. She is the author of "Always with Us?: What Jesus Really Said about the Poor" (2017).
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Views Thursday, June 04, 2020 America for the Rich or the Poor? In the summer of 1995, when I was 18, I started visiting Tent City , a temporary encampment in an abandoned lot in northeast Philadelphia. About 40 families had taken up residence in tents, shacks, and other makeshift structures. Among them were people of various races, ages, and sexual... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 08, 2020 Poor People’s Campaign: We Refuse to Allow Politicians and Big Corporations to Balance State Budgets by Denying Rights From the beginning of this pandemic, the response of our elected officials has prioritized private profits over saving lives. Kentucky Senator and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell came out in opposition to federal support for state budgets, specifically mentioning state pensions as unworthy of being... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Inequality and the Coronavirus My mom contracted polio when she was 14. She survived and learned to walk again, but my life was deeply affected by that virus. Today, as our larger society attempts to self-distance and self-isolate, my family has texted about the polio quarantine my mom was put under: how my grandma fearfully... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 17, 2019 'Everybody Has the Right to Live': The Visionary Budget at the Heart of Our Moral Uprising CD editor's note: The following excerpt was written as the foreward to the new report— Poor People’s Moral Budget: Everybody Has the Right to Live —released jointly by the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and the Institute for Policy Studies on Monday, June 17, 2019. “We... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 28, 2019 Trump Wants to Give 62 Cents of Every Dollar to the Military. That's Immoral Donald Trump recently unleashed his dark vision for our nation and our world, in the form of his budget request to Congress . A budget shows our values more clearly than any tweet, campaign speech or political slogan. It’s what marries detailed, dollar-and-cents policy decisions to deeper political... Read more |