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Dear friend,

On April 8, we were thrilled to release You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take!, ([link removed]) our newest book by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back. We celebrated with music, storytelling, and the launch of our Survival Revival Organizing Tour. Over the next few months, we will travel around the country bringing lessons from thirty years of poor people’s organizing to congregations, schools, community centers, and mutual aid projects.

What is documented in this book and what we know to be true today is this: in poor and low-income communities reside wells of resilience. Such grassroots leaders—who we believe to be the real heroes and heroines of the nation—are poised to share lessons from this organizing and educating with millions more people who are joining their ranks because of policy violence and a looming recession.

Read on to learn more about how to help inspire and embolden our movement:

* Support & share the new book by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis & Noam Sandweiss-Back, You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty. Now available as an audio book!
* Add your voice by filling out a brief survey on community-based struggles
* Join us in honoring the legacy of Jean Rice from Picture The Homeless
* Participate in Holy Week Services being offered by the Freedom Church and numerous partner organizations
* Check out the latest article by Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis & Noam Sandweiss-Back

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(Photo by Steve Pavey, Hope In Focus. Altar at the book launch to remember those who came before us who still lead us in the movement to end poverty.)

You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take,

The Kairos Center
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You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take Launch!
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Survival Revival Organizing Tour Video
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Special Thanks to the Media Team of the NY PPC and especially Peter Kinoy for making this video for our survival revival organizing tour and release of You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take!
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Survival Survey

Fill out this brief survey on community-based struggles and affirm your interest in joining the Survival Revival - a bold new organizing drive among the poor.
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Jean Rice (July 1, 1939 – March 12, 2025) was a lifelong fighter for the rights of poor and homeless people in New York City, across the United States, and around the world. A passionate leader with Picture the Homeless—a powerful, grassroots organization led by homeless and formerly homeless people—Jean embodied the group’s guiding principle: “Don’t talk about us, talk with us.”

Jean Rice was a mentor, comrade, and friend—an irreplaceable part of the history of the Kairos Center. We honor his memory and carry forward his legacy as a true Poverty Scholar and Freedom Fighter.

Jean Rice, presenté!
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Holy Week with Freedom Church of the Poor
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We read and study the Bible from the perspective of the organized poor. From the view of the unhoused, the excluded and the left out; those who have been devalued, dispossessed, and violated by the systems and structures of our world, but who refuse to allow this system to have the final word and continue in a commitment to fight for the world God intended, a world of abundance where all thrive.
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April New York State Book Tour Dates
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Tom’s Dispatch: You Only Get What You Are Organized To Take

The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world --

including nine Americans -- expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in recorded history. Since then, an unholy marriage of billionaire investors, tech bros, Christian nationalists, and, of course, Donald Trump, has staged an oligarchic assault on our democracy. If the nation’s corporate elite once leveraged their relationships within government to enrich themselves, they’ve now cut out the middleman. We’re living in a new gilded age, with a proto-fascistic and religiously regressive administration of, by, and for the billionaires.
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