TODAY: Poor People’s Campaign Hosts ‘Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington D.C. and to the Polls’
June 29, 2024
TODAY: Poor People’s Campaign Hosts ‘Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington D.C. and to the Polls’
Impacted poor and low-wage workers, advocates, and moral leaders will share testimony and uplift the campaign’s 17-Point Agenda of policies and demands, which have the power to eliminate poverty and low wealth
Groundwork’s Lindsay Owens to deliver remarks
Today, June 29th, at 10 a.m. ET, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will host the Mass Poor People’s & Low Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington D.C. and to the Polls. Groundwork Collaborative Executive Director Lindsay Owens will deliver remarks at the event.
The gathering will take place at 3rd and Pennsylvania Ave, NW in Washington D.C. The three-hour program will include powerful testimonies from impacted people, advocates, and moral and religious leaders. They will highlight the Poor People’s Campaign’s 17-Point Agenda of policies and demands, calling for all elected leaders to center the needs of the over 135 million poor and low-wage people and workers across the United States.
Members of the media can RSVP by completing this form. You can watch a livestream of the event here.
EVENT INFORMATION
WHEN:
Saturday, June 29, 10 a.m. ET
WHERE:
3rd & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
WHO:
- Impacted poor and low-wage workers and people, advocates, and moral and religious leaders
- The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (national and state chapters)
- Bishop William J. Barber, II, DMin, National Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign; President and Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach; Professor of Public Theology and Public Policy and Founding Director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School
- Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, National Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Executive Director, Kairos Center
- A growing coalition of local and national organizations (click here for list of mobilizing partners)
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