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DESCRIPTION:Join us for "Moral Policy in a Time of Crisis", an online conference on 
 poverty issues in America, with a focus on the urgent struggles and policy 
 solutions of the poor and dispossessed.\n\nThe conference will address the 
 topic of poverty in America and how it is interlocked with systemic racism, 
 health care in-access, the erosion of labor rights, environmental 
 injustice, militarism and the war economy, and more, and the importance of 
 creating human rights based policy solutions that need to and must happen 
 in our nation.\n\nFriday, October 23 – Saturday, October 24\n\nRSVP: 
 https://actionnetwork.org/forms/register-for-the-kairos-policy-conference-october-23-24\n\nASL 
 interpretation\nOpen-captioned in English\nTraducción en español (Spanish 
 translation)\n\nHost: Kairos Center of Religions, Rights and Social 
 Justice, \nalong with Repairers of the Breach and Poor People's 
 Campaign\n\nSponsoring Partners:\n\nCenter for Economic and Policy Research 
 (CEPR)\nNational Union of the Homeless\nUnion de Vecinos\nPut People First! 
 PA\nNonviolent Medicaid Army\nMichigan Welfare Rights Organization\nRaise 
 Up NC!\nNational Women's Law Center\nFood and Water Watch\nInstitute for 
 Policy 
 Studies\n____________________________________________________________\n\nVIRTUAL 
 CONFERENCE: Moral Policy in a Time of Crisis: Poverty & Policy 
 Solutions\n\nWe are living through a kairos moment, a time defined by both 
 extraordinary danger and possibility. All around us the old ways of the 
 world are crumbling and millions more are joining the ranks of the 
 unemployed, uninsured, unhoused, unfed, and unwell. To dig ourselves out of 
 the wreckage of the present, we desperately need a new moral vision, a 
 blueprint for society that values and defends all life. This is what the 
 Poor People’s Jubilee Platform offers. \n\nThe Jubilee Platform is not a 
 proposal to tinker around the edges. Rather, it is a plan to reconstruct 
 society around the needs and hopes of the poor, from economic and racial 
 justice to an end to militarism and ecological devastation. “Jubilee” 
 is a reference to the ancient moral commitment to cancel debts, release 
 slaves, pay fair wages, provide for the poor and hungry, and allow the land 
 to recover from overuse and abuse. Jubilee was not merely a set of ideas, 
 but a comprehensive economic program that centered those who were most 
 impacted by the injustice of the day.\n\nThe conference will begin with a 
 keynote by Kairos Center Director Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Rev. Dr. 
 William J. Barber II, President of Repairers of the Breach. We will also 
 hear from organizers, economists, policy experts, theologians, historians, 
 musicians, and other leaders on how we arrived at this moment of crisis and 
 what we can do to chart a new way forward.\n\nThis is a free virtual 
 conference, but all participants must register to attend. See below for the 
 agenda.\n____________________________________________________________\n\nCONFERENCE 
 AGENDA \n\nDAY 1: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23\n\n11am-noon: Keynote\n\nReaching back 
 into the long history of Jubilee and Reconstruction to understand the 
 possibilities of today, with:\n\nRev. Dr. Liz Theoharis (Kairos) and Rev. 
 Dr. William J. Barber II (Repairers of the Breach), co-chairs of the Poor 
 People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival \n\nnoon-12.30pm: 
 BREAK\n\n12.30-2pm: The Right to Welfare and an Adequate Standard of 
 Living\n\nLooking at the history of poor people’s organizing and the 
 policy frameworks that have both influenced and been shaped by their 
 struggles, with:\n\nAnthony Prince (National Union of the Homeless), Dawn 
 Plummer (Pittsburgh Food Policy Council), Kenia Alcocer (Union de Vecinos), 
 Kristin Colangelo (National Union of the Homeless), Maureen Taylor 
 (Michigan Welfare Rights Organization), Salaam Bhatti (Virginia Poverty Law 
 Center), and Shawn Fremstad (Center for Economic and Policy 
 Research)\n\n2-3 pm: BREAK\n\n3-4.30pm: The Right to Work with 
 Dignity\n\nHow our current economy is leaving workers behind and why we 
 must think about work, labor, and jobs in a new way, with:\n\nBen Wilkins 
 (Fight for 15 and Raise Up NC!), Beth Kontos (AFT Massachusetts), Chris 
 Caruso (Kairos), Darrick Hamilton (The New School), Shana Bartley (National 
 Women’s Law Center), Shailly Gupta Barnes (Kairos) and Sheree Aleen 
 (Fight for 15)\n\n\nDAY 2: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24\n\n6:30-8am: Facing the 
 Long History of Systemic Racism\n\nContending with the injustices of 
 systemic racism from the first chapter of U.S. history to the present, 
 with:\n\nCiara Taylor (University of the Poor), Leonardo Vilchis (Union de 
 Vecinos), Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College), Roz Pelles (Repairers of the 
 Breach), and Wendsler Nosie Sr. (Apache Stronghold)\n\n8-9am: 
 BREAK\n\n9-11.30am: The Right to Health and a Healthy 
 Environment\n\nBuilding power to change a death-dealing system into one 
 that protects the sources of life, with:\n\nAvery Book (Vermont Workers’ 
 Center), Brigitte Kahl (Union Theological Seminary), Mikaela Curry 
 (Kentucky Poor People’s Campaign), Nijmie Dzurinko (Put People First! 
 PA), Noam Sandweiss-Back (Kairos), Sharrelle Barber (Drexel University), 
 and Sharon Lavigne (Rise St. James)\n\n11.30-12.30pm: BREAK\n\n11.30-1pm: 
 Providing for the Common Defense\n\nRedefining the ideas of national 
 security and common defense, with:\n\nCharon Hribar (Kairos), Lindsay 
 Koshgarian (National Priorities Project), Kyle Bibby (Common Defense), 
 Savina Martin (Freedom Church of the Poor), and representatives from the 
 Kentucky, New York, and Wisconsin state campaigns of the Poor People’s 
 Campaign\n\n1-1.30pm: BREAK\n\n1.30-3.15pm: 
 CLOSING\n____________________________________________________________ \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/19/18837706.php
SUMMARY:Moral Policy in a Time of Crisis: Poverty & Policy Solutions Virtual Conference (Day 1)
LOCATION:Online/virtual conference (FREE)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/19/18837706.php
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