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Liz Theoharis

As Trump Sows Division, Poor People's Campaign Ignites 'Transformative Action' to Address Interwoven Injustices

A detail from a poster for the the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington. (Image: Poor People's Campaign)

'The Poor, the Sick, the Homeless, the Children, the Low-Wage Workers': Moral Leaders Demand Coronavirus Relief for Most Vulnerable

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Rev. Drs. Liz Theoharis and William Barber

"We are asking people to call on the White House and Congress to enact relief for the people that Jesus cared about," say the Poor People's Campaign co-chairs.

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At House Hearing, Poor People's Campaign Demands End to 'Systemic Policy Violence Against the Poor'

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Not addressing poverty "is constitutionally inconsistent, it is economically...

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Instead of Death and Destruction, Poor People's Moral Budget Shows What It Looks Like to 'Invest in Life'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

The Poor People's Campaign event

"We can provide robust voting rights, decent jobs, and secure incomes, housing...

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Religious leaders

At White House Gates, Hundreds of Religious Leaders Demand Trump and His Enablers "Repent of Their Sins"

President Donald J. Trump

Led by US Under Trump, Global Military Spending Soared to Highest Level in Recorded History Last Year

The Poor People's Campaign

To Counter Trump's Fake Border Crisis, Poor People's Campaign Tour Aims to Expose 'Real Emergencies' Nation Faces

'Not Your Average Demonstration': Faith Leaders Arrested Demanding Demilitarization of US Border

Poor Peoples Campaign

'Take Away Our Poverty, Not Our Children!': Poor People's Campaign Caps Off 40 Days of Action

"Stop the War! Feed the Poor!": Arrests as Poor People's Campaign Marches in DC

Protesting 'Morally Repugnant' Trump Policies, Poor People's Campaign Demands Action on Housing, Health, and Climate

Poor People's Campaign Leaders Among Dozens Arrested Nationwide as Moral Movement Persists

#PoorPeoplesCampaign Kicks Off 40 Days of 'Moral Action' to Fight Injustice

Barber is on a 15-state public event tour to address issues of systemic racism, poverty, militarism and ecological devastation.

Rev. Barber: Systematic Racialized Voter Suppression is the "Election Hacking" the U.S. Must Address

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Poor People's Campaign

Rev. William Barber Launches Nationwide Tour Challenging Trump Border Emergency Declaration

Fight for $15

Thousands of Fast-Food Workers Strike, Protest Nationwide on 50th Anniversary of Historic Memphis Sanitation Walkout

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Valerie Vande Panne

A Visionary Blueprint to End Poverty—A Moral Budget for 2020

Jesse Jackson

Mobilizing the Poor People’s Campaign

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Rev Dr Liz Theoharis

'Everybody Has the Right to Live': The Visionary Budget at the Heart of Our Moral Uprising

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Rev Dr Liz Theoharis

Trump Wants to Give 62 Cents of Every Dollar to the Military. That's Immoral

Saurav Sarkar

Hundreds of Poor People's Campaign Activists Got Themselves Arrested for Racial Justice

Jeremy Brecher

The New Poor People’s Campaign: Seeds of a Non-Party Opposition?

Sarah Anderson

A New Poor People’s Campaign Is Gearing Up to Launch on Mother's Day

Lewis M. Steel

Radical New Leaders Are Reviving Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign

Philip Lederer MD

We Shall Overcome

Sarah Anderson

RIP Marc Raskin, Who Connected the Dots Between Inequality and War