WILPF Holds an Exciting Kick-Off Event With the Poor People's Campaign
Published on March, 23 2022
By Emily Keel
WILPF liaison to the PPC
March 2022
On February 16, our solidarity committee for the WILPF Poor People's Campaign rally hosted a virtual meeting well attended by WILPF and featuring Rev Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the PPC, and Noam Back, our liaison from the campaign. Branch members from across the nation gathered, eager to hear the logistics of getting to Washington DC on June 18. We will represent WILPF in this campaign to unite people to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.
Rev Liz told us that June 18 in DC is “not a day but a declaration of the power that poor and low-income people are building to be able to shift priorities and structures to be around the needs and demands of the 140 million poor and low wealth people–people whose lives and livelihoods are at stake and do not need to be.” “We must come forward with power and shine a light on what is possible and what is necessary.”
In order to support this moral agenda and campaign for justice, we ask that you make plans to attend the June 18 rally and march on DC and to the polls. We will give you more information about securing a ride with a bus near you, reducing the capacity for this event to be safer from COVID. The campaign is addressing safety issues with public health advisors. We will gather all WILPF members in one location outside and march in unity with our banners and signs because, as Rev Liz said, “If we truly want peace, we do have to work for justice.” See this 3-minute video of WILPF branches' participation with the PPC from the past. Let's make it a momentous gathering for all of us on June 18.
Please visit the PPC website and RSVP for the June 18 event. On the website, you can find your state committee. Sign up to learn more about what your state is doing, support them with a donation, and attend an event in person or virtually. Make sure to follow the campaign on Facebook. There are abundant resources to meet the needs of the poor, and we march to summon the political will to do so!
You may contact Emily Keel for more information at ekkeel@protonmail.com
