Screening of WE CRIED POWER and Discussion
Start: 2020-09-02 18:30:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)
End: 2020-09-02 20:30:00 UTC Eastern Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-04:00)
This is a virtual event
Join us and the NH Poor People's Campaign for a the movie WE CRIED POWER
and a short discussion with NH PPC leaders.
This movie does have captions.
This documentary tells the
story of a bold new social movement to end poverty in the United States,
led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. 140
million people in the United States are poor or low-wealth. In the
wealthiest society in human history, nearly half of the population lives
in poverty or is struggling to make ends meet and cannot afford a $400
emergency.
About the Film
We Cried Power tells the story of a bold new social movement to end
poverty in the United States, led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber and Rev.
Dr. Liz Theoharis. 140 million people in the United States are poor or
low-wealth. In the wealthiest society in human history, nearly half of
the population lives in poverty or is struggling to make ends meet and
cannot afford a $400 emergency.
Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign
-Reverend Barber, a pastor from a small town in North Carolina, joined
other clergies to launch a national movement led by poor and working
people. For We Cried Power during the Summer of 2018, thousands of
people – Black, white, Latino, First Nation, Asian, Jewish, Muslim and
Christian, people not of faith, gay, straight, young and old – work
together, picking up the baton from the freedom fighters of the Civil
Rights Movement.
The documentary We Cried Power is an intimate account of a “season of
resistance,” told through his eyes and the mothers, veterans, preachers,
and students who are the voices and founding members of this new
“fusion” movement. The film bears witness to the profound process by
which those without power decide not to accept their powerlessness.
Instead, they claim – through protest, dance, song, and poems, through
testimony and tears – their birthright: to live decent lives in the
United States of America.
Trailer https://vimeo.com/383590763/b39d6b011f