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Dear John, Tonight, the Mid-South Mobilizing Committee of the Poor People’s Campaign is inviting everyone to Memphis for the final stop for the mobilization tour and you will not want to miss this! When we launched this tour in February to lead to the Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls, we knew the final stop had to be in Memphis because of this city’s history. And the video above shows exactly why. |
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Dr. King was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968 as he supported the strike of sanitation workers while working with others to build a poor people’s movement. However, as our co-chair, Bishop William J. Barber II said in Memphis in 2017: “Memphis cannot continue to be known as a place of King’s death. Where there’s a crucifixion, there must be a resurrection.”
Beginning at 4:30pm CT, we will watch our movement family march to show our power and unity and following, will rally at 6pm CT in front of the same Lorraine Motel at the National Civil Rights Museum. The stage will feature calls to action from impacted moral leaders from Tennessee and Alabama and our national co-chairs, with powerful movement music from theomusicologists. This program will be a strong finish to our powerful mobilization tour and we want you to join us!
The priorities and demands of poor and low-wealth people will be front and center as we debunk the lie of scarcity and declare that everyone has a right to live. We’ll put forward a Third Reconstruction agenda that demands, among other things: updating the poverty measure to reflect the real cost of living; enactment of a living wage; a guarantee of the right of all workers to form and join unions and guaranteed quality health care for all.
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 |
