John,

We are just days away from the Mass Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington, DC and to the Polls! By the 1,000s we are coming from across the country as a forward together, nonviolent resurrection, NOT a divisive insurrection! When 800 people die each day from poverty. We must go out into the streets and cry: This is an unacceptable and abolishable reality! Our votes are demands! Fight Poverty! NOT the Poor! Forward Together! NOT One Step Back!

Credit: Sue Dorfman

My name is Angie Whitehurst and I live in Washington DC. Poverty comes in all shapes, sizes and forms. It is a state of pay the taxes or lose the house. Pay the electric or gas bill or freeze to death or burn up and die from heat exhaustion. I and many people across the country are hanging from the cliff.

Homelessness and poverty tend to go hand and hand. I have been there too and it can happen to anyone for many reasons. It’s the same whether you are left with nowhere to go; you got put out; the locks were changed; you got a divorce; or for many other reasons.

Poverty is a manmade construct, parallel to racism. That is manmade too. Neither should exist. When we make the change to no such thing, neither of these man-made states of existence will be missed. Let’s make it Now.

This is a time for a mass mobilization of consciousness around our 3rd Reconstruction social justice agenda that can expand democracy and human rights to ALL people. I am counting on you to join me!

Forward together,

Angie Whitehurst

DC Poor People's Campaign

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