Saturday, June 20, 2020

"What the courage to change history looks like"

PEACE CAMP: Saturday, July 20
In 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America. They sought to build a broad, fusion movement that could unite poor and impacted communities across the country. Their name was a direct cry from the underside of history: The Poor People’s Campaign.

Today, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has picked up this unfinished work. From Alaska to Arkansas, the Bronx to the border, people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.


And read Poor People's campaign co-chairs William Barber II, and Liz Theoharis - along with scholars Timothy B. Tyson and Cornel West, in the New York TimesWhat the Courage to Change History Looks Like.

"Even now, the ancient lie of white supremacy remains lethal. It has left millions of African-American children impoverished in resegregated and deindustrialized cities. It embraces high-poverty, racially isolated schools that imperil our children — and our future. It shoots first and dodges questions later. “Not everything that is faced can be changed,” James Baldwin instructs, “but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
845-786-6743 | presbypeacefellowship.org
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship | 17 Cricketown RoadStony Point, NY 10980

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