March: Money for Human Needs, Not Endless Wars
Biden is calling for an increase of the military budget in 2023 to $813 billion, while funds can not be found for education, housing, COVID-19 prevention and treatment, or addressing the climate crisis. This is unacceptable!
Join us in supporting the Poor People’s Campaign: a National Call for Moral Revival.
4:30 pm: Gather with BFP at 2 Broadway across from National Museum of the American Indian.
5:00 pm: March up Broadway, past Wall Street to
6:00 pm: Mass meeting at Trinity Church
(89 Broadway) (will be live-streamed)
Background:
The “Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls Mobilization Tour” will make at least ten stops nationwide to “Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate people for a Movement That Votes.” The Monday April 11 event in NYC will build momentum for the Saturday June 18 event in Washington, DC: “Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls”. Faith leaders and artists will join the Poor People’s Campaign to demand that this nation do MORE to live up its possibilities:
- MORE to fully address the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the denial of health care, militarism and the war economy and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism.
- MORE to change the narrative and build the power of those most impacted by these injustices.
- MORE to realize a Third Reconstruction agenda that can build this country from the bottom up and realize the nation we have yet to be.
The “Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington and to the Polls” will be a generationally-transformative declaration of the power of poor and low-wealth people and our moral allies to say that this system is killing ALL of us and we can’t…we won’t…we refuse to be silent anymore!
“It is NOT just a day of action. It is a declaration of an ongoing, committed moral movement to 1) Shift the moral narrative; 2) Build power; and 3) Make real policies to fully address poverty and low wealth from the bottom up.” – Bishop William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
Note COVID protocol per the Poor People’s Campaign for the April 11 event:
All participants for the indoor meeting at Trinity Church will need to wear mask and be able to show proof of vaccination. Temperature checks will be taken upon entering the Mass Meeting. Physical distancing will be expected and enforced at all times. Participants at the Mass Meeting will also be asked to check-in via the Trinity Church website for COVID-19 contact tracing.
