Join ‘End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing’ on March 8
Published on February, 40 2023
During the 2021 Season of Nonviolent Moral Direct Action, there was a Women’s Moral Monday March on Washington (Nonviolent Moral Direct Action led by Women on the anniversary of the Women’s Convention at Seneca Falls) on July 19. This photo by Jeff Heeney pictures Rev. Liz Theoharis, Kenia Alcocer, and other women at that march.
by Rev. Rowan Fairgrove, EPs
WILPF San Jose
March 2023
Save the date for the upcoming webinar:
“End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing”
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 – 12:30-2:30 pm Pacific; 2:30-4:30 pm Central; 3:30-5:30 pm Eastern
RSVP: https://bit.ly/CAPPCM8
The California Poor People’s Campaign is organizing this webinar for International Women’s Day. This is an important moment to recognize the struggles and contributions of women in our communities and our movement.
Current co-sponsors are Global Women’s Strike, National Welfare Rights Union, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and Code Pink, and we are reaching out to other national partners who focus on women’s issues.
Confirmed speakers are Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revivial, Shailly Gupta Barnes, Policy Director for the Kairos Center, and Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI). In the bottom-up tradition of PPC, the program will include testimony from those impacted and music.
This event will focus on women’s poverty and its impact on our families and wider communities, as well as the impact on women and children of all the PPC pillars (the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and the false narrative of Christian nationalism). Women, in our unpaid caregiving work alone, contribute $10.9 trillion to the economy, yet in the United States, women and children are 70% of the poor. Around the world, the stats are similar.
Register for the March 8 webinar “End Women’s Poverty” here.
To get involved in planning, contact california@poorpeoplescampaign.org
