Join us for a Moral Monday live from Jackson, Mississippi on April 19 at 3pm ET / 2pm CT / 12 pm PT! The Mississippi Poor People's Campaign will gather for a socially-distanced in-person rally with Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II standing with poor and low-income Mississippians at Smith Park (302 E. Amite St, Jackson, MS 39201) across from the Governor's Mansion. Everyone across the nation is invited to join us online at www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream

Standing on the shoulders of generations of freedom movements to emerge from the South, on Monday we will make a major campaign announcement about our upcoming national Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly to take place in June 2021, and plans for an in-person March on Washington in June 2022.

Mississippi is the birthplace of some of the greatest traditions in music, art, literature and democracy this nation has to offer. And yet for all that Mississippi has produced, it still stands as the poorest state in the nation. There are 1.3 million poor and low-wealth people in the state of Mississippi, including nearly 3 out of 5 children.

The attempts to further voter suppression in Mississippi reflect a coordinated, nationwide effort to stifle the power of a multi-racial fusion movement to make democracy real for the 140 million poor and low-income living in the U.S. When people are removed from voter rolls, when early voting and same registration are restricted, when people have their voting rights permanently stripped away, our democracy suffers. We must continue to cry aloud as Mississippi residents endure the intersecting pandemics of poverty, racism, voter suppression and COVID-19 while thousands were left without water and electricity for almost four weeks due to a crumbling infrastructure, the result of decades of neglect from state and federal leaders.

We are stronger together. Join us.

Forward together, not one step back!