Tuesday, October 09, 2018

“I have been left behind, and it shows” The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival


Dear Alfred,
Just now, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival began its second live hearing to ensure that our voices, concerns, and demands cannot be ignored.
Testifiers like Mary Jane Shanklin will tell their elected reps and others about life in rural Kansas—where there’s no fresh water, supermarket, or newspaper—but a urologist has opened shop next door because the incidence of kidney and bladder cancer from water pollution is so high.
Or Roberta Hickman, whose husband survived a war but couldn’t survive the Agent Orange welts on his legs, which many vets can’t afford to treat.
GIVE TODAY
Mary Jane and Roberta are joined by other testifiers in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Wisconsin and more, who will speak to voter suppression, unjust immigration policies, and poverty.
In many heavily poor and rural states, politicians have been sticking their fingers in their ears and whistling pretty loudly to avoid us.
But as loudly as the politicians and others try to whistle us away, we’ll be louder. Folks like Mary Jane and Roberta are at a breaking point, and feigning ignorance won’t work anymore.
Let’s keep the momentum going.
Forward together, not one step back,
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
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