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DESCRIPTION:🚨 Media Alert 🚨 \n\nPRESS CONFERENCE RALLY to ANNOUNCE:\n\nMass Poor 
 People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March \non Washington & 
 to the Polls happening in June 2022\n\nFriday, Jan. 14 at 7 AM PT (10 AM 
 ET)\n\nAny & all people can watch via livestream: 
 https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/\n\nFB livestream: 
 https://www.facebook.com/anewppc/\n\nMembers of media may register here to 
 join in the press conference directly: 
 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4GkUXoLBAJ_wrzOOK8MVCexqU9GLMlUQ_o98yt625MOSGzg/viewform\n\nTwitter 
 post: 
 https://twitter.com/UniteThePoor/status/1480654963021914119\n\n\nPRESS 
 RELEASE:\n\nTHE POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN TO LAUNCH MASS POOR PEOPLE’S AND 
 LOW-WAGE WORKERS’ ASSEMBLY AND MORAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON AND TO THE 
 POLLS\n\nWhy? To challenge and push to change the immoral, scandalous and 
 continuous refusal to act and address the systemic devastation that plagues 
 140 million poor and low-wage Americans  (43% of adults and 52% of 
 children) by the entire Republican caucus and some Democrats – all backed 
 by a profit-driven ideology for the few. \n\nJoined virtually by poor 
 people, low-wage workers, religious leaders, 200 partner organizations, 
 coordinating committees from 45 states, economists and voting rights 
 advocates, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival 
 will announce plans for a Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ 
 Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls—June 18, 2022.  
 \n\nA news conference will be live streamed at 10A ET on Friday, Jan. 14. 
 Reporters can register here and the program will be live streamed here. 
 \n\nThere must be a Third Reconstruction in America. We must, in the 
 nonviolent moral tradition, put a face on the pain that obstructionism is 
 causing and shift the moral narrative, build power and place before the 
 nation and agenda and way forward that refuses to accept the lies of 
 scarcity and the constitutionally inconsistent, morally indefensible, 
 politically insensitive and economically insane politics we are witnessing 
 today. \n\nWhen COVID hit, things got worse for those suffering from 
 inequality in America. Poor and low-wage workers were the first forced to 
 go to work, the first to get sick, and the first to die. Billionaires made 
 over $2 trillion in the first 20 months of COVID, while 8 million more fell 
 into poverty.  Trillions of dollars were given to profit-driven 
 corporations, some without even going through Congress. \n\nBefore COVID 
 exposed the fissures of poverty and racism, a grotesque 250,000 people a 
 year (700 a day) died from poverty – not because of scarcity of resources 
 or progressive ideas, but a scarcity of moral consciousness  Before COVID, 
 millions were unnecessarily without health care and without a living 
 minimum wage in the wealthiest nation in history of world.\n\nBefore COVID, 
 voting rights had been under assault since the 2013 Shelby County vs Holder 
 decision; before COVID, millions of people were uninsured or underinsured; 
 before COVID, we were spending over 53 cents of every discretionary dollar 
 on the war economy. The politics of love and justice was already demanding 
 that we as a nation change.\n\nThen COVID hit and glaringly exposed the 
 fissures of systemic racism and poverty even more. Yet, because of the 
 outright obstructionism of McConnell’s extremist Republicans in the 
 Senate and the gradualism of so-called moderates like Senators Manchin and 
 Sinema, Congress has been unable to pass even watered-down responsive step 
 ($1.9 trillion over 10 years) to invest in the uplift of the 140 million 
 poor and low-wealth people in this nation. These same forces refuse to pass 
 the For the People Act or Voting Rights Advancement Act, hiding behind the 
 non-constitutional and historically regressive racist filibuster.   
 \n\nThis is why poor and low-wealth people (who represent 30% of the 
 electorate and 45% in battleground states) have decided to intensify and 
 embolden their outcry, outreach, and organizing to shift the moral 
 narrative in this nation. This moment demands a generationally 
 transformative action. Organizers insist that we cannot go back to the 
 normal before COVID. We must seize this opportunity to create a country 
 that works for all of us.\n\nIn 2020, the PPC:NCMR was able to have a mass 
 assembly online during COVID.  More than 2.7 million people showed up 
 online. Campaign leaders have now declared that “what was done online 
 must happen in the streets.” We must arrest the attention of a nation 
 held hostage by lies about scarcity, corporate greed and voter suppression. 
 \n\nAdvocates, representing many others, speaking at the press conference 
 will include representatives of SEIU, Fight for $15, Unite Here, Black 
 Voters Matter, and MoveOn. Faith leaders include Rev. Terri Hord Owens, 
 General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of 
 Christ); Jim Winkler, President, National Council of Churches; Rev. Dr. 
 Susan Frederick George, President, Unitarian Universalist Association; and 
 Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform 
 Judaism.  \n\nRepresentatives who introduced the Third Reconstruction: 
 Ending Poverty and Low Wealth from the Bottom Up have answered the call for 
 a mass movement, along with several others. The Third Reconstruction is a 
 House resolution with over 30 co-signers.\n\nLeading economist Dr. Jeffrey 
 Sachs, Director, Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, 
 with a cohort of economists, will join us to share economic analysis in 
 support of the PPC:NCMR. In March, a joint commissioned study will be 
 released to present findings pertaining to the inequitable economic and 
 political treatment of the poor that continues to threaten the future of 
 our democracy. \n\n“The Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ 
 Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls is not just a day 
 of action. This is a declaration of an ongoing, committed, nonviolent, 
 truth-telling, multi-racial, interfaith moral movement. We will 1) Shift 
 the moral narrative, 2) Build and Mobilize political voting power, and 3) 
 Make real policies to fully address poverty and low wealth from the bottom 
 up and protect and expand voting rights and the fundamental infrastructure 
 of our democracy,” said Bishop William J. Barber II, D.Min. and Rev. Dr. 
 Liz Theoharis, National Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign. 
 \n\nAmerica must address simultaneously systemic racism, systemic poverty, 
 denial of healthcare, ecological devastation, the war economy and the 
 distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism and white supremacy with 
 a movement agenda that brings together blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, and 
 Native Americans – people from every race, creed, color, region, 
 sexuality, united by a moral fusion agenda and long-term nonviolent moral 
 activism and analysis informed by our deepest constitutional and religious 
 values.\n\nBishop Barber is president of Repairers of the Breach, and Rev. 
 Dr. Theoharis is director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and 
 Social Justice. Repairers of the Breach and the Kairos Center are the 
 co-sponsors and anchor organizations of the Poor People’s Campaign: A 
 National Call for Moral Revival. 
 \n\nhttps://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/the-poor-peoples-campaign-a-national-call-for-moral-revival-ppcncmr-to-launch-mass-poor-peoples-and-low-wage-workers-assembly-and-moral-march-on-washington-and-to-the-po/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/11/18847290.php
SUMMARY:PPC Press Conf. & Rally: Launching the Mass Moral March on Washington DC & to the Polls
LOCATION:Online via livestream - watch from anywhere
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/11/18847290.php
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