Dear John,

Tonight is the longest night of the year in the richest country in the world. More than 10 million people are without housing or on the brink of homelessness, while more than 18 million homes stand vacant across the country.

As the days begin to lengthen again, we renew our efforts to organize for the world we so desperately need. There are three important events today that we hope you will join.

To learn more, read former Apache Chairman Wendsler Nosie speak on this struggle in his own words, and visit apache-stronghold.com

Join the Apache Stronghold for the Day of Prayer and Action at 12pm MST / 2pm ET to defend the sacred land Oak Flat. Speakers from the Poor People’s Campaign and Oyu Tolgoi Watch, activists from Mongolia who are also fighting monster mining company Rio Tinto, will join us. Learn what you can do to be engaged.

At 6pm ET/ 3pm PT, the Poor People’s Campaign is participating in a Town Hall with the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and other partners to launch an initial set of seven legislative priorities for the first six months of 2021.

Finally please join the National Union of the Homeless’ Annual National Homeless Memorial Day and Condemnation of Mass graves of unnamed poor and homeless men, women, and children in Potters’ fields around the countries and internationally at 7pm ET/ 4pm PT.

We honor the lives of those who have died by fighting on this day, and every day, to end poverty and homelessness.

Forward together, not one step back!

Rev. Dr. William Barber, II & Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis