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June 23rd – Mass rally and 24-hour vigil in Washington, D.C. and Global Day of Solidarity

CALL TO ACTION:On Saturday, June 23 we will be headed to the US Capitol for a massive March to Fight Poverty in Washington, D.C. The rally will begin at 10am.

In the face of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, war economy/militarism, and distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism— We must engage in mass nonviolent moral direct action. We must have mass voter registration and mobilization. And we must engage in mass power building in poor and low wealth communities declaring We Won't Be Silent Anymore!!!!!
Join us as we show our elected leaders we will no longer allow attention violence to keep poor and disenfranchised people down.
The International Alliance of Inhabitants  is proud to join the campaign in releasing these demands.

A Poor People’s Moral Agenda

Big news. The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival unveiled a Declaration of Fundamental Rights and Poor People’s Moral Agend guiding the ongoing 40 days of moral action happening in over 30 states and the District of Columbia.

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House keys, not handcuffs! (Western Regional Advocacy Project)

The agenda includes demands for major changes to address systemic racism, new programs to lift up the 140 million Americans living in poverty, immediate attention to ecological devastation and measures to curb militarism and the war economy.  This agenda includes a repeal of the 2017 federal tax law, implementation of federal and state living wage laws, a path to universal single-payer health care, and clean water for all. The campaign is calling for the immediate restoration and expansion of the Voting Right Act, automatic registration at the age of 18 and an end to extreme, racist gerrymandering.

The International Alliance of Inhabitants  is proud to join the campaign in releasing these demands as widely as possible. We hope you will join us.

SIGN ON: Ensure these demands are heard loud and clear in every state house in the country and the U.S. Capitol.

Fifty years after the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign declared that silence was betrayal, we are coming together to break the silence and tell the truth about the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and our distorted moral narrative.

If silence was betrayal in 1968, revival is necessary today.

Make that revival possible by adding your name to the Poor People s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival s demands.

 

MORAL AGENDA BASED ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

Over the past two years, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has reached out to communities in more than 30 states across this nation. We have met with tens of thousands of people, witnessing the strength of their moral courage in trying times. We have gathered testimonies from hundreds of poor people and we have chronicled their demands for a better society. The following moral agenda is drawn from this deep engagement and commitment to these struggles of the poor and dispossessed. It is also grounded in an empirical assessment of how we have come to this point today. The Souls of Poor Folk: Auditing America report reveals how the evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, and the war economy and militarism are persistent, pervasive, and perpetuated by a distorted moral narrative that must be challenged.

We must stop attention violence and see the human and economic costs of inequality. We believe that when decent people see the faces and facts that the Souls of Poor Folk Audit presents, they will be moved deeply in their conscience to change things. When confronted with the undeniable truth of unconscionable cruelty to our fellow human beings, we must join the ranks of those who are determined not to rest until justice and equality are a reality for all.

This document is organized in two parts:

• Declaration of Fundamental Rights and Poor People’s Moral Agenda
• The history behind and moral justification of this agenda

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