Resources From Around the Coalition: Trump FY19 Budget Edition

Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/02/22/resources-around-coalition-trump-fy19-budget-edition/#.WpAsEoPwYdU By Lecia Imbery February 22, 2018 On Feb. 12, the Trump administration released its Fiscal Year 2019 budget request. Since then, CHN’s members have been busy analyzing the proposal and pointing out the many ways it would slash … Continued

Share a Message in Support of Fast-Food Workers Seeking Better Pay and Union Rights

From the Poor People’s Campaign (https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/): In 1968, Martin Luther King watched as a teacher in Marks, Mississippi cut an apple in four to feed four hungry students. That sight moved him to tears and inspired him to join with … Continued

Decrying ‘Dog-Eat-Dog System,’ #PoorPeoplesCampaign Kicks Off 40 Days of ‘Moral Action’

Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/02/05/decrying-dog-eat-dog-system-poorpeoplescampaign-kicks-40-days-moral-action Published on Monday, February 05, 2018 by Common Dreams “We are witnessing an assault on the poor, on immigrants, on black and brown people, and on the Earth, and we can’t let it happen any longer.” By Jessica … Continued

Help Build the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

From the Kairos Center (https://kairoscenter.org/): Our nation needs a moral revival. Systemic racism. Poverty. A war economy. Ecological destruction. A distorted national morality. These enmeshed evils are tearing apart the country’s social fabric. That’s why today, poor and disenfranchised people, … Continued

Documenting the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

From the Kairos Center (https://kairoscenter.org/): AMERICA WILL BE is a film project documenting how organizers across the country are building the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival to help us become the nation we’ve not yet been. The project emerged … Continued

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis: Reflections on Religion, the Bible, and the Movement to End Poverty

From the Kairos Center (https://kairoscenter.org/): “The God I believe in and the God in the Bible is one of action, one who defends life and stands against injustice.” —Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis Read this conversation between Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis … Continued