Building a movement to confront division and hate
Channel: Pennsylvania Poor People's Campaign Videos
Date: 2023-08-08

PA PPC Monthly Political Education - June 2023

Learn from movement leaders who are directly impacted by well-funded bigotry campaigns like the current attacks on drag shows and trans youth, immigrants, and critical race theory (a thinly veiled attack on Black people and other people of color). 

LGBTQIA+ young people represent between between 20 and 40 percent of all homeless youth in the country. And we will also learn from historical examples of how the ruling class sows division, and how people's movements overcome those divisions and win, building the mass movement we need to win justice.  

We'll hear from and have a discussion with:

- Rhea Hodgson, PA Coalition for Trans Youth
- Kearni Warren, One PA, Chester resident and organizer against Covanta waste incinerators
- Movement of Immigrant Leaders in PA (MILPA)
- Jazmyn Henderson, ACT UP Philadelphia
- Marin Exler, MarchOnHarrisburg
- As well as with faith leaders and other directly impacted people across Pennsylvania.

Find out how you can be part of a mobilization this summer in Philadelphia against a conference organized by Moms for Liberty, a national hate group central to encouraging violence and discrimination against our LGBTQIA+ siblings, immigrants, people of color, and more.

We will study how and why corporations, the military, and the wealthy invest large amounts of money and energy into distorted moral narratives that push us to hate our poor and dispossessed neighbors instead of organizing across lines of division to fight for our human rights against their attacks on us all and against the environment.

We will name, detail, and expose the centrality of systemic racism, bigotry, and hate in maintaining economic oppression, as poverty and economic inequality cannot be understood apart from a society built on white supremacy.

This is part of a series of educational sessions organized by the PA Poor People’s Campaign on the first Monday of every month. These educationals are a great way to learn more about the campaign in Pennsylvania and how you, your congregation, or your organization can become a part of a movement committed to ending the interlocking injustices.

The Pennsylvania Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival is state-based, with national leadership from Rev. Barber with the Repairers of the Breach and Rev. Theoharis, with the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary.