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Meet us in DC on June 18th for the Mass Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls

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Mittwoch, Juni 1, 2022
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WASHINGTON, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and its 40 state coordinating committees, supported by over 170 mobilizing partners, over 20 religious and denominational bodies and a growing Prophetic Council of over 2,500 clerics, will hold the Mass Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls.

Key Points: 
  • The 140 million poor and low-income people include 43% or all adults; 52% of children; and 73% of women.
  • In 2022, 52 million people are working for less than $15 an hour, mainly in Southern states.
  • Before the pandemic, 53 cents of every federal discretionary dollar went to the military, and only 15 cents to anti-poverty programs.
  • ET, Saturday, June 18th, at 3rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, assembly and march.

The Poor People’s Campaign, the movement that MLK’s killer tried to silence, returns to Memphis on Monday for a rally at the site of his assassination

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Donnerstag, Mai 19, 2022
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King was assassinated in 1968, he had come to Memphis to support the striking sanitation workers as part of the Poor Peoples Campaign.

Key Points: 
  • King was assassinated in 1968, he had come to Memphis to support the striking sanitation workers as part of the Poor Peoples Campaign.
  • Now the PPC: NCMR the movement that MLK, the National Welfare Rights Organization, and faith leaders began is coming to Memphis to say: We wont be silent anymore.
  • As Bishop William J. Barber II, co-chair of the PPC: NCMR, said in Memphis in 2017, Memphis cannot continue to be known as a place of Kings death.
  • All the states joining the Monday program suffer from high poverty and the lack of living minimum wage:

Poor People’s Campaign Rally and March in L.A.: Monday, May 16th

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Freitag, Mai 13, 2022
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ABOUT the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

Key Points: 
  • ABOUT the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
    The PPC:NCMR has picked up the unfinished work of Rev.
  • 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 Peoples Campaign.
  • Sent on behalf of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival by AHFs Housing Is A Human Right housing advocacy division.

SPECIAL REPORT: The Poor People's Pandemic Report is a political bombshell showing that COVID-19 deaths are disproportionately tied to poverty and low wealth

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Donnerstag, März 31, 2022
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WASHINGTON , March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A report to connect COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. to both poverty and race will be released April 4 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., by the Poor People's Campaign and a team of world renowned economists, researchers and experts.

Key Points: 
  • "Even in a global pandemic, there hasn't been a systematic assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on poor and low-income communities.
  • COVID-19 data collection does not include data on poverty, income, or occupation, alongside race and pandemic outcomes.
  • The Poor People's Pandemic Digital Report and Intersectional Analysis addresses this knowledge gap and exposes the unnecessary deaths by mapping community characteristics and connecting them with COVID-19 outcomes."
  • The Poor People's Campaign is asking pastors and leaders of congregations across the country to speak on the same theme.

Taking to the streets: Poor People's Campaign in North Carolina & Wisconsin march, hold rallies to support policies that lift from the bottom & fight those killing, hurting the poor and low-wealth

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Mittwoch, März 23, 2022
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MADISON, Wis., March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival continues its march toward Washington with in-person marches and rallies in North Carolina and Wisconsin, the home states of the co-chairs on Monday, March 28.

Key Points: 
  • The co-chairs of the PPC:NCMR have deep connections to these states, and each will join the march and rally in their state.
  • Bishop William J. Barber II, who was born in Indianapolis in 1963, moved to his father's hometown of Roper, North Carolina, in 1968.
  • He is pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and president of Repairers of the Breach.
  • co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
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