[1]Sign the petition for a moral response to COVID-19

Dear MoveOn member,

We're Reverend Dr. William Barber II and Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, the
co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral
Revival. 

So much of this country is in economic free fall in response to COVID-19,
while many Americans were already at rock bottom before the virus hit. 

We need to ensure that the resources going to address this pandemic meet
our needs for universal health care, living wages and work protections,
and adequate income and anti-poverty programs—and do not just go to cover
the rich. Even the current legislation still isn't enough to address the
extent of this crisis. 

[ [link removed] ]We need your voice: Sign the petition calling on Congress for a moral
response to COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us into an unprecedented national
emergency. This emergency, however, results from a deeper and much
longer-term crisis—that of poverty and inequality and of a society that
ignores the needs of 140 million people who are poor or who are a $400
emergency away from being poor.

These millions of people are in dire need of critical attention
immediately. We call on you to fulfill your moral and constitutional
responsibilities—expand the COVID-19 emergency provisions to care for us
all and enact our Moral Agenda immediately.

[3]Sign the petition

This pandemic will hit poor and impacted people hardest—those of us who
don't have access to health care, housing, water, decent wages, legal
status, stable work, or child care. Folks who are still working on the
frontlines to provide health care and other needs will be severely
impacted, too. And this moment is awakening all of us to the immoral
reality that has long been buried under the surface: before COVID-19,
nearly 700 people died every day because of poverty and inequality.

We cannot return to normal. Addressing the depth of the crises that have
been revealed in this pandemic means enacting universal health care,
expanding social welfare programs, ensuring access to water and
sanitation, providing cash assistance to poor and low-income
families, ensuring good jobs and living wages, establishing an annual
income, and protecting our democracy.

It means ensuring that our abundant national resources are used for the
general welfare, instead of wars, walls, and the wealthy—not just in times
of crisis but at all times.

[ [link removed] ]Sign on to the Poor People's Campaign's demands in response to
COVID-19.

Forward together, 
 
–Rev. Dr. William Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the
Poor People's Campaign

P.S. Last Thursday, we joined MoveOn for a Facebook Live to talk about the
connection between poverty and this pandemic, and what a moral response to
COVID-19 must look like. [ [link removed] ]You can watch that conversation here.


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