On June 29th, 2024 the Poor People's Campaign will return to DC for the Mass Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. When poverty remains the 4th leading cause of death in the United States and the reality of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the denial of healthcare, militarism and the false narrative of religious nationalism—interlocking injustices that are hurting more than 30 percent of the electorate—is sinful and immoral.

Tired myths are used to blame the poor for these conditions and to deflect attention away from the structural sin of poverty and the abdication of our elected leaders. The narrative that poor and low-wage people are apathetic about politics or don’t care enough to vote is just another one of these myths. In actuality, there is great, untapped power among these tens of millions of people, who often don’t see their demands– such as housing, healthcare, and living wages– reflected by those seeking election. They are like a sleeping giant and we have only felt its midnight stirrings. We are waking the Sleeping Giant.

On April 29th at 6pm, two months before what will surely be an historic march and mass assembly, Rev. Dr. William J Barber, II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Co-Chairs of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival invite you to attend this mobilization meeting to launch the DMV organizing and mobilizing towards the Moral March on Washington! Together, we can plan for a powerful and historic mobilization that wakes the sleeping giant of poor and low-income people in DC and across the DMV.