'We have the resources to meet the needs of everybody,' says RevDrBarber. 'The only thing we don't have enough of is moral consciousness and the will to do what's right. And that's our job—to shift the moral narrative of this nation.'
"We are here to tell the stock exchange and Wall Street to stop trading our lives, that we want living wages and healthcare and clean air and voting rights."Demanding a new political discourse in which the poor are no longer blamed for their poverty in the wealthiest nation in history, hundreds of impoverished and low-income activists on Monday rallied in New York City and marched on Wall Street to take their demands directly to the center of U.S. wealth.
"We are here to tell the stock exchange and Wall Street to stop trading our lives, that we want living wages and healthcare and clean air and voting rights," Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival,Addressing the church meeting, Kelly Smith, a tri-chair of the New York Poor People's Campaign, confided:"I worry for my son. I worry that he'll be able to find a living wage.
That's when Poor People's Campaign co-chair Bishop William J. Barber II, Theoharis, and movement activists from across the United States will hold a Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and the Polls.as"a declaration of an ongoing, committed moral movement" to"build power, shift the political narrative, and make real policies to fully address poverty and low wealth from the bottom up.
Condemning"the false narrative of Christian nationalism and racism and militarism and climate devastation," Barber continued:
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