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DESCRIPTION:Third Reconstruction Agenda Campaign: Close the Wealth Gap 
 California\n\nMonday, Jan. 16, 3 PM PT\n\nRegister: 
 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpdO2grDkuHNKhMaGrB7Pwh93UoDSLmhM4\\n\nThis 
 year on January 16th, MLK Day, California Poor People’s Campaign will be 
 honoring \nDr. King’s legacy by hosting readings of the PPC 3rd 
 Reconstruction Agenda. This is part of the launch of our new Third 
 Reconstruction Agenda campaign: Close the Wealth Gap CA!\n\nWe will share 
 stories about the impact of the wealth gap on our lives and communities, as 
 well as what difference having the political will to adopt and implement 
 the comprehensive campaign demands will make, for all of us.\n\nWhen we 
 lift from the bottom, everybody rises!\n\n- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 -\n\nThird Reconstruction: Fully Addressing Poverty & Low Wages From the 
 Bottom Up.\n\nYou can read the Third Reconstruction Agenda here: 
 https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Third-Reconstruction_long_9-15.pdf\n\nOn 
 May 20, 2021 the co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, Rev. Dr. 
 William J. Barber, II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, joined Representatives 
 Pramila Jayapal and Barbara Lee as they announced a non-partisan 
 congressional resolution to support this movement, entitled: Third 
 Reconstruction: Fully Addressing Poverty & Low Wages From the Bottom 
 Up.\n\nThis historic effort comes as a response to years of 
 movement-building and emerges from the pain and organizing power of the 140 
 million. It reflects an omnibus vision to restructure our society from the 
 bottom up, recognizing that in order to build a true Third Reconstruction 
 we must simultaneously deal with the interlocking injustices of systemic 
 racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the denial of health care, 
 militarism and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism that 
 blames the poor instead of the systems that cause poverty. \n\nIt is one 
 part of a broader movement to realize a Third Reconstruction, which we are 
 building across the country in the Poor People’s Campaign’s 45 state 
 coordinating committees and network of more than 250 labor and 
 organizational partners and hundreds of faith partners, and dozens of 
 national faith bodies. \n\nAs Frederick Douglass wrote during the years 
 leading up to the First Reconstruction, “power concedes nothing without a 
 demand.” From Appalachia to Alabama, the Carolinas to California, the 
 Borderlands to the Bronx, from the hood to the holler, we are organizing 
 the power of the nation’s 140 million to ensure that the abundance we 
 live in is marshalled towards the needs and priorities of the poor. We are 
 carrying forward the legacies of the First Reconstruction and the Second 
 Reconstruction and their demands for equity, liberty and justice for 
 all. \n\nForward together, not one step back! \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/15/18853829.php
SUMMARY:Close the Wealth Gap CA! MLK Day Reading of PPC Third Reconstruction Agenda to End Poverty
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/15/18853829.php
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