Attorneys and advocates for Christopher Shaw, the Black man paralyzed by a Beaumont police officer while in custody last year for public intoxication, will make an important announcement this week.

“Homicide is homicide no matter who commits it. But when the accusation and evidence point toward a sworn officer of the law, homicide becomes an act of terror performed by the very person sworn to protect and serve.

Following are the prepared eulogistic remarks from Bishop William J. Barber II at the celebration of life service on Aug. 2 in Greensboro for Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, who died July 19. Bishop Barber previously issued this statement about Rev. Dr. Spearman’s death.

For the next 14 weeks, the coalition leading Unlock Our Vote Freedom Summer Tour will host voter information and registration drives across the state as well as conduct phone and text outreach to potential voters.

Statement on the passing of the Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, religious, NAACP, civil rights and human rights leader, from Bishop William J. Barber II, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

Bishop Barber has signed a petition that calls on ”the White House and all government entities to secure Brittney Griner’s safe and timely return home” and also calls on Russia “to stop using her as a political pawn.”

On Friday, June 24, an extremist majority of the US Supreme Court overruled more than 50 years of legal precedent, taking away a previously recognized fundamental right for the first time in the court’s history.

To all women: I’m so sorry that this extreme court would vote to give a rapist more power over you than you have over your own body. In response to attacks on the poor, voting rights, living wages and now women’s bodies, the justice community’s response must be the most massive progressive voter turnout in the history of the nation.

Bishop William J. Barber II, co-chair of Poor People’s Campaign, President of Repairers of the Breach, joined by faith leaders, gun violence survivors, and responsible gun owners from across the country amid Senate gun safety vote and Supreme Court strike down of NY concealed carry law

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.

Labor organizations representing millions of workers will partner with the Poor People’s Campaign to mobilize for the upcoming Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls & will join a news conference Monday with workers & faith leaders who are urging President Biden to meet with a delegation of poor people and low-wage workers ahead of the assembly on June.

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.