The grassroots movement known as the Poor People’s Campaign aims to turn the exploited into a giant electoral force.
in blood-splattered aprons at meat plants mobilizing for their interests. See baggy-eyed nurses and fast-food staff take part in mass uprisings. Now imagine millions of poor people standing in long lines to vote. America would marvel at this sleeping giant, now awake., an anti-poverty protest and now voter drive movement led by William J.
“We launched the Poor People’s Campaign in 2018, with the largest wave of civil disobedience in the 21st century. And that happened across more than 30 states. We have been building since then. After that wave, leaders started coordinating committees.” Theoharis toldthat on March 23, there were “actions happening in 32 state capitals and bringing together low wage workers, poor, people without health care.” Adding: “We have the power of shifting the political calculus.
“Their faith was not ‘good things always happen,’” said Theoharis. “Nothing good had happened in their lives, but their faith was that something better could. I remember doing security at the encampments and having wrestling sessions with my faith and with God. I was in conversation with unhoused families on ‘where is justice and mercy?’ and also hearing a profound message that Jesus led a poor people’s campaign. It is now my theology.
A year before his assassination, King and top leadership of the Civil Rights Movement intensified their focus on poverty. They organized the Poor People’s Campaign to push the Johnson administration to pass a $30 billion anti-poverty package. Using the tactics of mass civil disobedience honed in the South, King planned to lead a protest camp at the National Mall. In April, 1968, a bullet silenced King forever. The campaign hung in limbo.
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The Poor People's Campaign Sets Out to Conquer Poverty and MilitarismPaul Shannon is Program Associate of the Peace & Economic Security Program of the American Friends Service Committee, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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