John,
On June 7, we will join over 40 states in holding a local press conference to demand that their US representatives demonstrate their political and moral commitment to ending poverty by signing on to a Congressional Resolution titled, "Third Reconstruction: Fully Addressing Poverty and Low-Wages from the bottom up."
The DC Poor People's Campaign is proud that our congressional representative, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, has already signed on to this Resolution. Read the Resolution's text here.
Will you join us at 12:00 pm at the Reagan Building as we rally for a Third Reconstruction?
As the moral agents of our time, and drawing on the transformational history of the First Reconstruction following the Civil War and the Second Reconstruction of the civil rights struggles of the 20th century, we need a Third Reconstruction to revive our moral and political commitments to democracy and the founding principles of the country. With this resolution, we (1) acknowledge the deep harms we have suffered from systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the denial of health care, militarism and the false narrative of white supremacist nationalist extremism and (2) commit to heal and transform the nation by addressing these interlocking injustices, beginning with those most impacted, with moral and just laws and policies.
There are 295,000 poor and low-income people in DC. This includes 60% of
children (73,000), 49% of women (175,000), 68% of Black people (210,000), 60% of Latinx people
(44,000), and 18% of White people (44,000). We can't wait another 50 years for change to come—the time to act is now.
Forward together,
The DC Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
