In this rich land of ours, about 45 million people regularly experience hunger and food insecurity, nearly 80 million are uninsured or under-insured when it comes to healthcare, and close to 10 million live without housing or are on the brink of homelessness. As conditions worsen, we aren’t sitting back. We're getting in step, and we’re taking action, because we know change happens from the bottom up. The PA Poor People’s Campaign is a growing force of poor and dispossessed working class people who are united across race, region, and religion! We represent politically independent organizations who are coming together to fight back against systemic poverty and economic insecurity, systemic racism, the denial of health care, ecological devastation, wealth inequality and rampant militarism.

The member organizations of the PA Poor People’s Campaign are gearing up for a Season of Action this Spring. Join us as we unite for support, strategy, and survival, and organize for our human rights! When we get organized we win! Join us!

Join the Lancaster County, PA chapter of the National Union of the Homeless Saturday April 18th 9:30am-3:15pm for a Political Education and Organizing Strategy Summit as a part of our work towards building a New Underground Railroad for Today.

We invite those who are either already organizing with us and those interested in learning more or getting involved. We will start the day out with introductions and an in depth study of our Theory of Change.

We will then break for lunch and afterwards dive into some local People’s History of our work in the region around the St. Joseph’s Hospital local campaign “Take Back St. Joseph’s” (legacy) that ran from December 2018 - September 2020.

We learned a lot during the “Take Back St. Joseph’s” (legacy) campaign and connected with many in the community through that organizing fight. We studied the People’s History of St. Joseph’s Hospital and the Abolitionist movement in South Central PA. We learned about and organized several Projects of Survival and developed as leaders both in Put People First! PA and the National Union of the Homeless and organized across various fronts of struggle through that campaign from healthcare, housing, the criminalization of the poor, etc.

After our People’s History study session we will move into next steps and commit to continuing to move our current local organizing work forward such as “People’s Benefits Clinics” and welfare rights organizing, “Revolutionary Lawyering” and our medical equipment program.

We are now entering a new organizing phase in the South Central PA region where we have begun to form and develop a modern day Underground Railroad Projects of Survival network as a part of the work in building a Poverty Abolitionist Movement across Pennsylvania.

This event is open to those interested in getting involved in the organizing work of the National Union of the Homeless or partner organizations, faith leaders, and others who wish to get involved in the organizing work to build a Poverty Abolitionists Movement.