Dear John,

The Poor People’s Campaign continues its march toward Washington with a Mobilization Tour virtual stop on Feb. 28 that includes Texas on the eve of the primary election there.

The priorities and demands of poor and low-wealth Texans and their neighbors in  Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Kansas will be front and center as we continue to demonstrate the voting and moral power of those most impacted by the policy violence of the US Congress and state legislatures. All these states suffer from high poverty, voter suppression, denial of healthcare and the lack of living minimum wage.

The Mobilization Tour will make at least 10 stops nationwide to Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate people for a movement that votes. 

Speakers will demand that this nation do MORE to live up to its possibilities:

• MORE to fully address the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the denial of health care, militarism and the war economy and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism.
• MORE to change the narrative and build the power of those most impacted by these injustices.
• MORE to realize a Third Reconstruction agenda that can build this country from the bottom up and realize the nation we have yet to be.

The reality of 140 million people who are poor or low-wealth and just one $400 emergency away from being poor – and who represent every race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, ability and political party and account for 43.5% of the people living in the richest nation in the world – is a moral crisis. 

In-person stops begin March 14 in Cleveland, followed by Madison, Wisconsin,  Raleigh, North Carolina, DC, New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Memphis and the Delta of Mississippi. 

Forward together, not one step back!

Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

Co-Chairs, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival