Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls Mobilization Tour

media release: The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival continues its march toward Washington with in-person marches and rallies in North Carolina and Wisconsin, the home states of the co-chairs on Monday, March 28. This joint stop of the Mobilization Tour will start at 5pm ET in Raleigh, North Carolina, and at 5pm CT in Madison, Wisconsin, as the PPC:NCMR demands that this nation adopt policies that lift from the bottom. In Madison, gather starting at 4:30pm at the Capitol at the top of State Street; a march begins at 5 pm around the Square, before convening at First United Methodist Church for the assembly at 6 pm.

The actions will call attention to the needs of the forty four percent of poor and low-income people in North Carolina and the thirty five percent in Wisconsin and the 140 million people nationally who were poor or low-income before COVID.

Impacted people and faith leaders from Virginia and South Carolina will join the Raleigh stop while the Wisconsin stop will include those from Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota including a member of the Chicago Homeless Union, an indigenous young person fighting the Line 5 pipeline, and others.

The co-chairs of the PPC:NCMR have deep connections to these states, and each will join the march and rally in their state. At the Madison event: The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis was raised in Milwaukee, in a family dedicated to social justice. Her mother was a faith based peace and justice activist. Her father - who passed away this past summer - broke open the FBI during the era of Director J. Edgar Hoover. He served as a professor and was active on voting rights and defending our democracy. Speakers in Madison also include the Rev. Dr. Alvin Jackson, co-chair/executive director of the Mass Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington.

At the North Carolina event: Bishop William J. Barber II, who was born in Indianapolis in 1963, moved to his father’s hometown of Roper, North Carolina, in 1968. He is pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and president of Repairers of the Breach.

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​Background:​

The Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls Mobilization Tour will make at least ten stops nationwide to Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate people for a movement that votes as we move towards the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls on June 18, 2022. For more information please visit: poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18

They will be joined by faith leaders and artists to demand this nation do MORE to live up its possibilities:

• MORE to fully address the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the denial of health care, militarism and the war economy and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism.

• MORE to change the narrative and build the power of those most impacted by these injustices.

• MORE to realize a Third Reconstruction agenda that can build this country from the bottom up and realize the nation we have yet to be.

The reality of 140 million people who are poor or low-wealth and just one $400 emergency away from being poor – and who represent every race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, ability and political party and account for 43.5% of the people living in the richest nation in the world – is a moral crisis.

Other cities on the tour include: Cleveland,DC, New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Memphis and the Delta of Mississippi.

The Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington and to the Polls on June 18, 2022, will be a generationally-transformative declaration of the power of poor and low-wealth people and our moral allies to say that this system is killing ALL of us and we can’t…we won’t…we refuse to be silent anymore!

“It is NOT just a day of action. It is a declaration of an ongoing, committed moral movement to 1) Shift the moral narrative; 2) Build power; and 3) Make real policies to fully address poverty and low wealth from the bottom up.” - Bishop William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis