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“What Jesus Really Said About the Poor: The Call for a Movement to End Poverty”
Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, Kairos Center, Union Theological Seminary, NYC

Free and Open to the Public

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth; Jewish Studies Program; Religion Department; African and African American Studies; and The William Jewett Tucker Center.

Convened by Professors Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professorship of Jewish Studies and Vaughn Booker, Assistant Professor of Religion and African and African American Studies.

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ABSTRACT:

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival builds on the legacy of Dr. King and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign to organize the poor and dispossessed to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, militarism, environmental devastation and our distorted moral narrative. Over the summer of 2018, the Campaign launched an unprecedented wave of non-violent civil disobedience across the country. Now grassroots leaders in over forty states are at the beginning of a massive organizing drive of the poor. Join Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign alongside Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, to discuss the work of the Campaign and its vision going forward.

In 2018, alongside the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber, Theoharis helped to launch the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Over the coming years, the campaign will organize poor people across race, religion, geography, political party and other so-called lines of division to fuel a moral revolution of values in the country. Theoharis has been recognized for her work by many national bodies, including the Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn for Peace, the New York Council on American-Islamic Relations and the 2018 Politico Magazine Top 50 list of “thinkers, doers and visionaries who are driving American politics and policy.”