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DESCRIPTION:POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN 2018: Rally in the California State Capital \n\nIn 
 the face of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the 
 war economy/militarism, and the distorted moral narrative of religious 
 nationalism — we must engage in mass nonviolent moral direct action. We 
 must declare that we won't be silent anymore about the war on the 
 poor!\n\nWhen: June 18, 2018 @ 12:30 PM\n\nWhere: California State Capitol 
 North Steps, 1315 10th St B-27, Sacramento 95814\n\nSCHEDULE\n\n8:30am-9am: 
 Arrive Sign-up for Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action and support role 
 training @ Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1300 N St, Sacramento 95814. If 
 you are participating in Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action, or 
 supporting as a Marshal, Medic or Peacekeeper you must join this training. 
 (even if you have already been trained!)\n\n8:30am-12:00pm: Final Training 
 for everyone planning on participating in the Direct Action or as a Marshal 
 or Peacekeeper.\n\n12:30pm: Rally at NORTH CAPITOL STEPS\n\nVOLUNTEER: Are 
 you able to help volunteer with set-up or take down of the campaign? The 
 revolution requires the dishwashers and movers. 
 http://bit.ly/PPCVOLUNTEER\n\nHOUSING: Fill in this form: 
 http://bit.ly/PPCHOUSING\n\nThe Bay Area Carpooling: Please fill out this 
 form and local organizer will be in touch soon: 
 http://bit.ly/2IwHBtX\n\nPARKING FOR DAY OF EVENT: IF YOU WANT FREE PARKING 
 FOR THE DAY YOU CAN PARK AT TARGET (2505 Riverside Blvd, Sacramento) and a 
 shuttle will take you to the church for training or the rally. Call or text 
 Mario to let him know when you need a shuttle: 916 224-4400. If you do end 
 up getting arrested and kept overnight your car is allowed to stay parked 
 there. Otherwise you can park your car in a garage downtown for an average 
 of 
 $15/day.\n\nhttps://actionnetwork.org/events/rally-in-the-california-state-capital-on-june-18?rel=nofollow&source=widget\n\nA 
 MORAL AGENDA BASED ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS\n\nOver the past two years, the 
 Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has reached out 
 to communities in more than 30 states across this nation. We have met with 
 tens of thousands of people, witnessing the strength of their moral courage 
 in trying times. We have gathered testimonies from hundreds of poor people 
 and we have chronicled their demands for a better society. "The Souls of 
 Poor Folk: Auditing America" report reveals how the evils of systemic 
 racism, poverty, ecological devastation, and the war economy and militarism 
 are persistent, pervasive, and perpetuated by a distorted moral narrative 
 that must be challenged.\n\nWe must stop the attention violence that 
 refuses to see these injustices and acknowledge the human and economic 
 costs of inequality. We believe that when decent people see the faces and 
 facts that the Souls of Poor Folk Audit presents, they will be moved deeply 
 in their conscience to change things. \n\nWhen confronted with the 
 undeniable truth of unconscionable cruelty to our fellow human beings, we 
 must join the ranks of those who are determined not to rest until justice 
 and equality are a reality for all.\n\nFUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES\n\n1. We are 
 rooted in a moral analysis based on our deepest religious and 
 constitutional values that demand justice for all. Moral revival is 
 necessary to save the heart and soul of our democracy.\n\n2. We are 
 committed to lifting up and deepening the leadership of those most affected 
 by systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and ecological devastation 
 and to building unity across lines of division.\n\n3. We believe in the 
 dismantling of unjust criminalization systems that exploit poor communities 
 and communities of color and the transformation of the “War Economy” 
 into a “Peace Economy” that values all humanity.\n\n4. We believe that 
 equal protection under the law is non-negotiable.\n\n5. We believe that 
 people should not live in or die from poverty in the richest nation ever to 
 exist. Blaming the poor and claiming that the United States does not have 
 an abundance of resources to overcome poverty are false narratives used to 
 perpetuate economic exploitation, exclusion, and deep inequality.\n\n6. We 
 recognize the centrality of systemic racism in maintaining economic 
 oppression must be named, detailed and exposed empirically, morally and 
 spiritually. Poverty and economic inequality cannot be understood apart 
 from a society built on white supremacy.\n\n7. We aim to shift the 
 distorted moral narrative often promoted by religious extremists in the 
 nation from issues like prayer in school, abortion, and gun rights to one 
 that is concerned with how our society treats the poor, those on the 
 margins, the least of these, women, LGBTQIA folks, workers, immigrants, the 
 disabled and the sick; equality and representation under the law; and the 
 desire for peace, love and harmony within and among nations.\n\n8. We will 
 build up the power of people and state-based movements to serve as a 
 vehicle for a powerful moral movement in the country and to transform the 
 political, economic and moral structures of our society.\n\n9. We recognize 
 the need to organize at the state and local level—many of the most 
 regressive policies are being passed at the state level, and these policies 
 will have long and lasting effect, past even executive orders. The movement 
 is not from above but below.\n\n10. We will do our work in a non-partisan 
 way—no elected officials or candidates get the stage or serve on the 
 State Organizing Committee of the Campaign. This is not about left and 
 right, Democrat or Republican but about right and wrong.\n\n11. We uphold 
 the need to do a season of sustained moral direct action as a way to break 
 through the tweets and shift the moral narrative. We are demonstrating the 
 power of people coming together across issues and geography and putting our 
 bodies on the line to the issues that are affecting us all.\n\n12. The 
 Campaign and all its Participants and Endorsers embrace nonviolence. 
 Violent tactics or actions will not be 
 tolerated.\n\nhttps://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/\n\nArticle on Poor 
 People's Campaign renewed 50 years after Martin Luther's King Jr's call for 
 poverty justice in 1968 ("Sacramento Bee"): 
 http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article213234889.html\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/15/18815690.php
SUMMARY:Poor People's Campaign 2018: Rally in Sacramento
LOCATION:California State Capitol building, 1315 10th St B-27, Sacramento, CA 95814
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/15/18815690.php
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