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.