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A crowd gathers for the Mass Poor People\u2019s and Low-Wage Workers\u2019 Assembly and Moral March in Washington on June 18, 2022. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

By Jack Jenkins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON (RNS) \u2014 Thousands of clergy, union leaders, activists and scholars rallied near the U.S. Capitol on Saturday (June 18) at a march organized by the Poor People\u2019s Campaign, calling on Congress to take action and address the plight of millions of Americans who struggle with poverty and low income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis level of poverty and greed in this, the richest nation in the history of the world, constitutes a moral crisis and a fundamental failure of the policies of greed,\u201d thundered the Rev. William Barber II, a Disciples of Christ minister and co-chair of the Poor People\u2019s Campaign, as he opened the Mass Poor People\u2019s and Low-Wage Workers\u2019 Assembly and Moral March in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe regressive policies which produce 140 million poor and low-wealth people are not benign,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey are forms of \u2018policy murder.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What followed was a more-than-five-hour rally, featuring an array of mostly liberal-leaning speakers. Their theme was the way a complex of policy failures conspires to keep the poor in dire straits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The massive march \u2014 turnout, though lower than what organizers initially aspired for when they began planning roughly a year ago, was still sizable \u2014 was the culmination of years of organizing by the Poor People\u2019s Campaign, patterned after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s final project before he was assassinated in 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The modern iteration, led by Barber and co-chair the Rev. Liz Theoharis, advocates for legislation to address not only poverty, but also voting rights, immigration reform, abortion rights, labor rights, climate change, gun violence, housing and LGBTQ rights, among other things. The campaign also names five \u201cinterlocking evils\u201d in the U.S. \u2014 namely, \u201csystemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and our distorted moral narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event doubled as a show of progressive political force. Signs in the crowd called for a federal job guarantee, passage of the Green New Deal and new gun control laws. Several speakers represented secular progressive organizations, such as Greenpeace and Planned Parenthood, as well as various unions. The crowd cheered the activist academician Cornel West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But more than 20 clergy and other voices kicked off the event with an interfaith litany. Indigenous, Hindu, Muslim, Afro-Caribbean and Jewish traditions were represented, along with an array of Christian denominations, including the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The American Friends Service Committee, an arm of the Quakers, also appeared, as did Catholic Sisters of Mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Rev. Amanda Weatherspoon, a Unitarian Universalist minister, attends the Mass Poor People\u2019s and Low-Wage Workers\u2019 Assembly and Moral March in Washington on June 18, 2022. RNS photo by Jack Jenkin\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe gather on these streets in the spirit of the Prophet Amos, who declared: \u2018Hate evil, love good and establish justice in the public square,\u2019\u201d Sheila Katz, head of the National Council of Jewish Women, told the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crowd, too, was thick with clergy, many of whom wore shirts with slogans such as \u201cGod is love\u201d or \u201cJesus was a socialist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shane Claiborne, co-founder of the group Red Letter Christians and a fierce opponent of the death penalty and gun violence, sported a cross fashioned from a melted firearm. Claiborne applauded the focus on gun control at the rally, which he said reflected the surge in attention to gun violence in recent months after a slew of mass shootings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Prophets Micah and Isaiah, when they said God\u2019s people beat their swords into plowshares \u2014 that\u2019s people taking it into their own hands. They don\u2019t wait on change to come from the top down,\u201d Claiborne said. \u201cI think that\u2019s what\u2019s happening here. Water boils from the bottom up, and there\u2019s something happening in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elijah Anthony, wearing a colorful stole and holding a sign that read \u201cEverybody has a right to live,\u201d said he drove from Boston to attend the rally. A seminarian and member of the United Church of Christ, he works with a church that caters to the unhoused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony said he appreciated the Poor People\u2019s Campaign\u2019s encyclopedic approach to protest. \u201cThis is about dismantling systemic injustices, and I really love that the Poor People\u2019s Campaign talks about the interlocking social injustices that occur \u2014 that it\u2019s not just one thing, but we have to tackle everything together,\u201d Anthony said.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Elijah Anthony, from Boston, attends the Mass Poor People\u2019s and Low-Wage Workers\u2019 Assembly and Moral March in Washington on June 18, 2022. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The Rev. Amanda Weatherspoon, a Unitarian Universalist minister, huddled close to the stage with other clergy. \u201cOur principles and our values are centered around collective liberation,\u201d she said, noting that she was especially concerned about health care, income inequality and caring for the unhoused. \u201cOur denomination and my own congregation are very justice focused.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the Poor People\u2019s Campaign\u2019s expressed goals for the day was to impress on Congress the voting power of the poor and their allies. Last year, Reps. Barbara Lee of California, Pramila Jayapal of Washington state and Jamie Raskin of Maryland teamed up with Barber and Theoharis to unveil<\/a> a sweeping anti-poverty omnibus resolution called the \u201cThird Reconstruction: Fully Addressing Poverty and Low Wages From the Bottom Up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But President Joe Biden, who has endorsed the campaign\u2019s work, has yet to respond to Barber\u2019s repeated<\/a> requests<\/a> to host a summit on poverty at the White House, and the Third Reconstruction resolution hasn\u2019t gained widespread support on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barber and Theoharis reiterated their demands while addressing the crowd on Saturday, calling on Congress to \u201cpublicly acknowledge the pain of 140 million poor, low-wealth people\u201d and \u201ccommit to creating and supporting legislation that reflects our Third Reconstruction agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barber also voiced frustration with the lack of response from the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know the phones work and emails work,\u201d he said. \u201cWe demand a White House poverty summit with President Biden, to allow this administration to meet with a delegation of poor and low-wealth people, religious leaders and economists \u2014 now!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Rev. Neal Christie, a United Methodist minister, attends the Mass Poor People\u2019s and Low-Wage Workers\u2019 Assembly and Moral March in Washington on June 18, 2022. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Down Pennsylvania Avenue, the Rev. Neal Christie, executive minister for connected engagement with the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church, held a sign that demanded Congress pass the Third Reconstruction omnibus resolution. As a former staffer at the UMC\u2019s advocacy office on Capitol Hill, he understood the difficulty of getting laws passed. But, he said, \u201cWith Congress we have an opportunity to appeal to their moral conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barber vowed to keep up those appeals, announcing that the Poor People\u2019s Campaign would return to Washington in September for \u201cnonviolent direct action all day in the halls of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the event drew to a close, Barber approached the microphone and turned the event into something resembling an altar call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose of you that have got gray hair, God has kept you alive for one more fight,\u201d he said. \u201cThose of you who are middle-aged like me, God is telling you to fight because you\u2019re living off the fight of other people. Those of you that are young, God has said it\u2019s time for you to sign up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barber said he had been \u201cwrestling with death<\/a>\u201d amid the pandemic, feeling guilt about those who have died while he continues on as an immunocompromised person. But after consulting with God, he said, he got an answer from the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe question is never, \u2018Why are you still here?\u2019 \u2026 The question is, \u2018What are you going to do?\u2019\u201d he said. He encouraged listeners to turn to their neighbor and say, \u201cAs long as I got breath, I\u2019m gonna use my breath to breathe a little more justice, and more love and more truth in this society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that, musicians began to play Tasha Cobbs Leonard\u2019s 2013 song \u201cBreak Every Chain,\u201d which the crowd took up, swaying together, hands raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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