WASHINGTON, DC (June 22, 2022) – In the critical days following new bipartisan legislation being introduced in the Senate, Americans from across political parties and other divides continue to unite to urge Congress to quickly pass gun safety legislation.

Following a powerful and passionate march and moral assembly of poor and low-wage workers and faith leaders that drew thousands of people from every state in the nation, the Poor People’s Campaign has announced its plans for the midterm elections in November.

Thousands upon thousands of people lined Pennsylvania Avenue and even more watched online as impacted people shared their stories involving voting rights, the nation’s failure to respond to COVID, especially among poor communities, workplace rights, the need for health care and living wages, ecological devastation, homelessness, food insecurity, massive debut, and the day-to-day struggle of not having enough money to survive.

Why has our government abandoned us? That’s what poor and low-wealth people asked members of Congress during a briefing Wednesday on issues that included poverty, immigrant and Indigenous rights, ecological devastation, the denial of health care and militarism. 

Poor people and low-wage workers, along with the National Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign, will offer testimony to members of Congress on a “Third Reconstruction Agenda” to confront systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the denial of health care, militarism and the false narratives of religious nationalism and white supremacy. These testifiers are among 140 million people who are poor or low-income living in the US, accounting for over 40 percent of the population and nearly one-third of the electorate.

Poor People’s Campaign holds news conference Monday in DC to urge President Biden to meet with delegation from Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls on June 18

The Poor People’s Campaign will join street rallies against poverty and injustice on Saturday in New Jersey and Pennsylvania as it continues to build enthusiasm to #MeetUsinDC on June 18th for a generationally transformative gathering of poor and low-wealth people and their allies.

Low-wage workers, union and faith leaders joined the Poor People’s Campaign on Monday to ask President Biden to meet with poor people and to call on the nation to join the campaign for its assembly and march on June 18th.

Poor and low-wealth people from Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi declared Monday that they are the resurrection of the Poor People’s Campaign and that they will finish the work of that movement as a united force to lift from the bottom.

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival continues its march toward Washington with a rally Monday at the former Lorraine Motel in Memphis, where an assassin tried to silence the movement when he killed Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

California’s economy is so robust that its GDP of $3.4 trillion means it would rank as the fifth-largest economy in the world. And yet, a father of four suffering from COVID-19 was sent home to die because the doctor said it would be too expensive to treat him, his widow said during a Poor People’s Campaign rally in Los Angeles.

Bishop William J. Barber will receive the American Civil Liberties Union’s Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty on Saturday “for his indispensable role in the social justice movement and commitment to ending systemic racism and poverty.”

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and its 40 state coordinating committees, supported by over 170 mobilizing partners, over 20 religious and denominational bodies and a growing Prophetic Council of over 2,500 clerics, will hold the Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls.