'We Are a Resurrection': Poor People's Campaign Rallies for Low-Wage Voters in DC

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Olivia Rosane is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Thousands of poor and low-wage workers and their supporters from religious, labor, and social justice organizations rallied in Washington, D.C. on Saturday and pledged to 'break the silence about poverty' and mobilize 15 million poor and low-income voters ahead of the November 2024 election. The Mass Poor People's and Low Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington, D.C.

Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, said: 'Those most impacted by injustice, organizing together, mobilizing together, and voting together can force the changes that we know we need that will be good for everybody.' She argued that putting the poor at the center of the struggle for democracy 'is what can save this nation.' 'We say poverty no more.

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