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WASHINGTON—Lark Yasmin, a soft-spoken single mother from Washington, D.C., put the entire plight of the nation’s 140 million poor and near-poor people into one pointed question: “Has anyone ever thought that America is unbearably hard to live in because we are left to fend for ourselves withou...
To End Poverty in the United States, End Militarism | Opinion Phyllis Bennis , Institute for Policy Studies On 6/9/21 at 12:30 PM EDT Movement leaders—including the Revs. William J. Barber II and Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the influential Poor People's Campaign—recently joined Representatives Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) on the U.S. Capitol lawn. Together they launched a visionary resolution to end poverty across the United States: the Third Reconstruction, which Lee and Jayapal introduced to Congress in late May. With a title asserting its plac...
Rev. William Barber has long been calling for a Third Reconstruction, a restructuring of U.S. policies to root out racism, poverty and other ills. Barber explains why he thinks now is the right time to push the vision forward. And, KCUR's Mackenzie Martin looks at how Henry Perry, the so-called "Barbeque King," built an American institution in Kansas City.
The co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign believes now is the right time to push forward his vision of a Third Reconstruction.
It’s Time to Fully Address Poverty and Low Wages from the Bottom Up! Drawing on the transformational history of the First Reconstruction following the Civil War and the Second Reconstruction of the civil rights struggles of the 20th century, the Third Reconstruction is a revival of our constitutional commitment to establish justice, provide for the general welfare, end decades of austerity, and recognize that policies that center the 140 million are also good economic policies that can heal and transform the nation. Emerging from the pain and organizing power of the 140 million people ...