From the Poor People’s Campaign (https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/):
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, fellow national co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC): A National Call for Moral Revival, and Rev. Dr. William Barber recently held a press conference at National City Christian Church in Washington, D.C., to announce a multi-state, We Must Do M.O.R.E. tour. M.O.R.E. stands for Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering and Educating people for the movement who will vote.
The PPC will work to unite many of the 140 million poor and low wealth people and their allies, and organize a powerful movement that can shift our priorities and compel political leadership to advance a moral agenda to challenge the five interlocking injustices — systemic racism, systemic poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.
The tour officially launched in El Paso, Texas and is now heading to over 20 states over the next 9 months (dates/locations subject to change):
- Texas (9/16 – 9/18)
- North Carolina (9/27 – 9/30)
- Maine (10/10)
- New Hampshire (10/11)
- Kentucky (10/25 – 10/28)
- California (12/11)
- South Carolina (1/10 – 1/13)
- Iowa (1/15)
- Washington, DC (1/29)
- Massachusetts (2/5)
- New York (2/7)
- Alabama (2/28 – 3/2)
- Arkansas (3/6 – 3/9)
- Washington (3/21)
- Missouri (3/26)
- Kansas (3/28)
- Michigan (4/3 – 4/6)
- Wisconsin (4/16)
- Ohio (4/23)
- Pennsylvania (4/25)
- Mississippi/Tennessee (5/15 – 5/18)
- Washington, DC (6/20)
The M.O.R.E. tour will culminate on Saturday, June 20, 2020 with a Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington.
When there are 38 million poor children, the nation must act. We are here to push an agenda for the poor and ensure that they are invisible no more. Please join us at a We Must Do M.O.R.E. tour stop near you.
Forward together, not one step back!
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