National organizations will stand united alongside the Poor People’s Campaign and share details about efforts to mobilize 15 million poor and low-wage voters nationwide.
Leaders are organizing around an agenda to expand democracy to all people and end the crisis of death by poverty and low-wealth, which kills 295,000 people each year.
The Poor People’s Campaign says, “We are a resurrection, not an insurrection.”
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WASHINGTON – Bishop William J. Barber II, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, will on Monday co-host a press conference at the National Press Club to announce the “Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C.: A Call to the Polls and to Vote.” The June 29th assembly will kick off four months of outreach to 15 million poor and low-wage infrequent voters.
According to the study Waking the Sleeping Giant: Poor and Low-Income Voters in the 2020 Elections, there are approximately 85 million poor and low-wage eligible voters in this country who represent at least 30% of the electorate. In so-called battleground states it’s close to and over 40%. The coalition is challenging politicians from both sides of the aisle to engage these voters and to address the crisis of death by poverty and low-wealth, which kills 295,000 people each year.
At the press conference, the Poor People’s Campaign will be joined by impacted poor and low-wage workers, representatives from over thirty state coordinating committees, leaders from major religious organizations and denominations, labor unions, and other advocates. Leaders will detail their plans to mobilize the one-third of U.S. voters who are poor and low-wage to demand that candidates for public office in 2024 endorse a moral agenda that will earn their support and energize them to vote in this year’s election.
WHEN: Monday, April 29, 10 a.m.
WHERE: Conference Room, National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20045
WHO:
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Poor and low-wage voters
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Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival local State Tri-Chairs (includes local impacted person, local faith leader, and local social justice advocate)
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National Anchor Partners (to be announced during press conference)
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Bishop William J. Barber, II, DMin, national co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign; President and Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach; Professor of Public Theology and Public Policy and Founding Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School
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Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, national co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival; Executive Director of Kairos Center
For more information, contact Joe Ward, jward@breachrepairers.org, 929.475.2051
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