Poor People's Campaign

Tonight was the first public meeting of our local Poor People’s Campaign, a movement developed and led by Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. They are calling for volunteers to train for forty days of civil disobedience, May 13 to June 21, 2018. Of course I volunteered. 

From their flyer: “By engaging in coordinated and collective nonviolent civil disobedience and direct action across the nation, we will confront the enmeshed and inseparable evils of systemic racism and other forms of discrimination, poverty, the war economy, and ecological devastation; begin to shift the distorted moral narrative of our nation; advance common demands for transformative change; and build power to continue this fight long after June 2018.” 

Interested? Sign up here. (Should the link not work, just go to poorpeoplescampaign.org )