Nonviolent Direct Action Planned in Boston on May 21st. Sign up for CD and Support

A week after the historic re-ignition of the Poor People’s Campaign, poor people, clergy and advocates will intensify a six-week season of nonviolent direct action by marching on the Massachusetts State House to demand elected officials take immediate steps to confront systemic racism.

To participate in CD or support you must attend our training that will start at 10 am on Monday at Friends Meeting, 6 Chestnut st., Boston.  

The Rally will begin at 2 PM at the William Gould Shaw / 54th Regiment Monument, Boston Common on the bottom of steps immediately across Beacon St. from the State House.

Following the Rally there will be a march to the State House and some people will participate in Civil Disobedience.

Last week, campaign co-chairs the Revs. William J. Barber II and Liz Theoharis were among hundreds arrested nationwide in the most expansive wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in U.S. history, kicking off a six-week season of direct action demanding new programs to fight systemic poverty and racism, immediate attention to ecological devastation and measures to curb militarism and the war economy.

Please RSVP to Help us calculate the number of people who may wish to do civil disobedience, and the number of people who can do support.