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Digital MASS POOR PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY this Saturday!

A National Call for Moral Renewal
Mass Poor People's Assembly and
Moral March on Washington

is going digital
June 20, 2020 (7am & 3pm PDT)

On June 20th, the Poor People's Campaign will hold the largest digital and social media gathering of poor and low-wealth people, moral and religious leaders, advocates, and people of conscience in this nation’s history. The Poor People's Campaign is a movement of tens of thousands of people across the country who are organizing to end the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. JOIN THEM NOW!

PLEDGE TO JOIN HERE & NOW!

ON SATURDAY, JUNE 20, hear poor and impacted people testify about their experiences of systemic racism, poverty, militarism, immigration and more, introduced by activists and actors including Former Vice President Al Gore, Danny Glover, Erika Alexander, Jane Fonda, David Oyelowo, Wanda Sykes and Debra Messing.

The Mass Poor People's Assembly and Moral March on Washington is a 2.5 hour program that will be broadcast on SATURDAY, JUNE 20th, at 7am and 3pm PDT and again on Sunday, June 21 at 3pm PDT.

The Poor People's Campaign is organizing this gathering with more than 100 partner organizations including 16 religious denominations.


About the Poor People's Campaign:
In 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted communities across the country. Their name was a direct cry from the underside of history: The Poor People’s Campaign. 

Today, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has picked up this unfinished work. From Alaska to Arkansas, the Bronx to the border, people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. We understand that as a nation we are at a critical juncture — that we need a movement that will shift the moral narrative, impact policies and elections at every level of government, and build lasting power for poor and impacted people.

In the coming year, our ranks will increase as we broaden our efforts and stretch the banner of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival even wider. We rise together because:

  1. We rise to demand that the 140 million poor and low-wealth people in our nation — from every race, creed, color, sexuality and place — are no longer ignored, dismissed or pushed to the margins of our political and social agenda. 
  2. We rise not as left or right, Democrat or Republican, but as a moral fusion movement to build power, build moral activism, build voter participation, and we won’t be silent any more!
  3.  We rise to change the moral narrative and demand that the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy/militarism and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism all be ended. 
  4. We rise to challenge the lie of scarcity in the midst of abundance.
  5. We rise to lift the voices and faces of poor and low-wealth Americans and their moral allies with a new vision of love, justice, and truth for America that says poverty can be abolished and change can come.

 



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