Poor People's Campaign
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Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is associated with the Democratic Socialists of America, Liberation Road and the League of Revolutionaries for a New America and was founded to "combat poverty, racism, militarism, and ecological devastation."[1]
Communist
Sema Hernandez was in 2018, one of the Texas state leaders of the Poor People's Campaign. She attended the the national Poor People's Campaign event in Washington DC where she was a featured speaker. While there Sema also had a dance with Rev. Barber!.[2]
Institute for Policy Studies
The Institute for Policy Studies produced a report "in support of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival:"
- "This campaign, marking the 50th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders, aims to build a broad and deep national movement rooted in the leadership of the poor and dispossessed as moral agents and reflecting the great moral teachings to unite our country around a transformative agenda to combat poverty, racism, militarism, and ecological devastation. We worked in collaboration with the Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, and the Tri-Chairs of the Campaign's Audit Committee, Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Dr. Timothy Tyson, and Shailly Gupta Barnes.[3]
- Editor: Sarah Anderson, Global Economy Project Director and Inequality.org co-editor
Contributors
- Marc Bayard, Project Director, Black Worker Initiative
- Phyllis Bennis, Project Director, New Internationalism
- John Cavanagh, Director
- Karen Dolan, Project Director, Criminalization of Race and Poverty
- Stevon Felton, Next Leader
- Maha Hilal, Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow
- Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director, National Priorities Project
- Aaron Noffke, Poor Peoples Campaign Research Assistant
- Sam Pizzigati, Associate Fellow and Inequality.org co-editor
- Basav Sen, Project Director, Climate Policy
- Joanna Williams, Next Leader
- Design: Kenneth Worles, Jr.
Acknowledgements
- Jacqui Patterson, NAACP;
- Joshua Rovner, The Sentencing Project;
- Linda Couch, LeadingAge;
- William Hartung, Center for International Policy;
- Michael Zweig, U.S. Labor Against the War;
- David Wildman, United Methodist Church's General Board of Global Ministries; and
- Laura Flanders, The Laura Flanders Show
Endorsing Partners
- 350.org
- A Philip Randolph Institute
- About Face (Iraq Veteran’s Against the War)
- Adalah Justice Project
- Advocates for Youth
- AFSCME American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO
- Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc
- American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
- American Federation of Teachers
- American Friends Service Committee
- Assembly to End Poverty
- Auburn Theological Seminary
- Bend the Arc
- Beyond Extreme Energy
- Campaign to Take on Hate
- Center for Popular Democracy
- Center for Progressive Renewal/Convergence
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
- Coalition Against Corporate Higher Education
- Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases
- Coalition of Veterans Organizations
- CODEPINK
- CWA Communications Workers of America
- Define American
- Democracy Spring
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Doctors for America
- Dream Defenders
- Earth News Channel
- Ecumenical Poverty Initiative
- Elder-Activists
- Episcopal Church
- Every Mother Is A Working Mother Network
- Faith in Public Life
- Faith Matters Network
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Food and Water Watch
- Fraciscan Action Network
- Freedom Road Socialist Organization
- Friends Committee on National Legislation
- GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders
- Global Women’s Strike
- Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition
- Green Faith
- Housing Works
- IKAR
- Interfaith Moral Action on Climate
- Interfaith Worker Justice
- Islamic Society of North America
- Jewish Voice for Peace
- Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
- Memphis Center for Urban and Theological Studies (MCUTS)
- MPower Change
- Micah Challenge USA
- Micah Institute
- Military Families Speak Out
- Move To Amend
- Movement for a People’s Party
- Movement in Faith
- Muslim Peace Fellowship
- Muslim Public Affairs Council
- National Black Justice Coalition
- National CARES Mentoring Movement
- National Council of Churches
- National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
- National LGBTQ Taskforce
- National Physicians Alliance
- National Welfare Rights Union
- National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)
- NETWORK
- Network of Spiritual Progressives
- On Earth Peace
- Our Revolution
- Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights
- Parity
- Partisan Press
- PayDay
- Peoples Climate Movement
- Physicans For a National Health Plan (PNHP)
- Picture the Homeless
- Presbyterian Church (USA)
- Presbyterian Church (USA), Racial Ethnic & Women’s Ministries
- Progressive Doctors
- Progressive National Baptist Convention
- Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
- Red Letter Christians
- Religions for Peace USA
- Religious Institute
- Revolutionary Love Project
- Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference
- Sankofa.org
- SEIU Service Employees International Union
- Shalom Center
- Showing Up for Racial Justice
- Social Welfare Action Alliance
- Sojourners
- Southern Aids Coalition
- Students United for a National Health Program
- T’ruah
- The Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
- Transform Network
- UCC [Climate Justice Council]]
- UFW United Farm Workers]]
- UHCAN | Working for Health Care Justice
- Undocu-Black Network
- Union of Reform Judaism
- Unitarian Universalist Association
- UNITE HERE
- United Church of Christ
- United Food and Commercial Workers
- United for Peace & Justice
- United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society
- United Methodist Women
- United National Antiwar Coalition
- United Steel Workers (USW)
- US Human Rights Network
- US Labor Against the War
- Veterans for Peace
- Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP)
- WhyHunger
- Women of Color/ Global Women’s Strike
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
- Women’s March
- World Beyond War[4]