Uniquely for an event of this kind, representatives from the struggles themselves spoke up about the need for a New Poor People’s Campaign-this was truly a gathering of movement leaders and organizers, speaking from the heart about what the New PPC needed to be a movement to end poverty forever, led by the poor. The teach-in organized the call for a New Poor People’s Campaign around the “four horsemen” of poverty, racism, militarism, and ecological devastation (and adding voting rights and healthcare). Barber’s Repairers of the Breach and the Kairos Center-held a packed teach-in all day at National City Christian Church. Yet leaders of social movements, grassroots organizers, and progressive clergy weren’t going to hold their breath and wait for Trump’s sudden conversion. Theoharis appeared on MSNBC to promote the call. Barber and the Kairos Center’s co-executive director Rev. The day had started early with a press conference of religious leaders, who issued a stern demand to then President-elect Trump: meet with us in a local Washington church to discuss how your administration can support a moral agenda. Liz Theoharis, and others to call for a New Poor People’s Campaign. But this wasn’t a party at one of the hip cocktail bars on 14th Street-it was a Watch Night service at the historic Metropolitan AME Church, convened by Rev.
to raucously sing, hold hands, and welcome in 2017 with hopeful resolutions about what they would change in the coming year.
On December 31st, 2016, right before midnight, a crowd gathered together in Washington, D.C. This post is taken from the call for a New Poor People’s Campaign website, with permission.
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