Join the Moral Fusion Movement - May & June 2020 - DIgital Rallies

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharris, President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray and Rev. Dr. William Barber II

Dear Friiend,

Please join the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC) on May 28th and again on June 20th, 2020 as the movement goes digital and urges folks to “Stay in place! Stay alive! Organize, Organize, Organize!” Join the #PoorPeoplesCampaign for 50 Days of Action: June2020.org.  The UUA, SideWithLove, and UUSJ have endorsed the PPC -- a leadership council has been formed (recent UU history with PPC here).

To show that UUs will rise-up for a justice-centered vision of American society, you can:

We understand that COVID-19 has forced the nation into an unprecedented emergency, unlike anything in our living memories. Yet the PPC’s Souls of Poor Folks Audit and Moral Budget show that the current emergency results from a deeper and much longer-term crisis — that of poverty and inequality, and of a society that has long ignored the needs of 140 million people who are poor or one emergency away from being poor. Long after the pandemic ends, folks will continue to suffer needlessly unless we change the moral compass of our democracy. 

Recall, in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others -- including UUs -- called for a “revolution of values” in America and sought to build a broad movement that could unite poor and dispossessed communities across the country. Today, the PPC has picked up this work.  People across the nation have joined under the banner of the Campaign to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, climate change and ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.

As UUs we are called to live our values and drive for justice. We were present for the civil rights movement and we must be present for this new moral fusion movement.  So we educate, mobilize, and advocate to change the structural oppressions that constrain the greatness of our nation.  That means we are for just, compassionate, and sustainable policies and programs to address what Rev. Dr. William Barber II terms the “systemic policy violence against poor people” and the dispossessed in American society (Statement: Budget Committee, U.S. House of Representatives).

June 20th is a movement milestone, not the goal. The goal is a beloved community of our nation’s peoples.  Join the movement!

Sincerely,

Pablo DeJesus

Executive Director, UUSJ

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Materials:

Voters in masks line up at Riverside High School for Wisconsin's primary election in Milwaukee. [Morry Gash/AP]

 

Pres. Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray being arrested May 2018 in Washington DC. Photo by UUSJ.

 

Pablo with UUs at the PPC's 2019 Moral Action Congress - Freedom School - Three Days of Moral Fusion Politics.

 

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