Maryland Poor People's Campaign
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Movement to overcome syst racism, poverty, eco devastation, war economy & distorted moral narrative Chaired by @stokes417.bsky.social & @mbpuskar.bsky.social #EverybodysGotARightToLive #FightPovertyNotThePoor #PoorPeoplesCampaign mdppc.org/links
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HAPPY FALL!!

Get cozy while helping a great cause with a Maryland #PoorPeoplesCampaign hoodie.
Our online shop is OPEN!!

►mdppc.org/shop

#HappyFall #Fall2025 #MDPPC #CozyFleece #Hoodie
In 2024, 41.4% of Americans lived in poverty or one emergency away from it. As conditions and reporting get worse, we will all need to do three things: organize, organize, & organize!

Full breakdown at kairos.ghost.io/poverty-numb...

Huge thanks to @povertycenter.bsky.social for these estimates!
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In 2024, 41.4% of Americans lived in poverty or one emergency away from it. As conditions and reporting get worse, we will all need to do three things: organize, organize, & organize!

Full breakdown at kairos.ghost.io/poverty-numb...

Huge thanks to @povertycenter.bsky.social for these estimates!
New #Medicaid work requirements in the #OBBBA, combined with the Trump admin’s attacks on labor protections, particularly around #disability, are devastating many #disabled & chronically ill people who want to work.
HAPPY FALL!!

Get cozy while helping a great cause with a Maryland #PoorPeoplesCampaign hoodie.
Our online shop is OPEN!!

►mdppc.org/shop

#HappyFall #Fall2025 #MDPPC #CozyFleece #Hoodie
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“The liturgies found in this collection are not just words, but powerful acts of justice and compassion that invite us into right relationship with each other, with creation, and with God.”

Richard Rohr, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation

Visit: WePrayFreedom.org

#WePrayFreedom
Thank you to sister Stephanie for representing the #MDPPC at @thirdactmd.bsky.social 's Sun Day event today in #Baltimore! Poor & low-income folks are disproportiately affected by the #ClimateCrisis, and affordable #GreenEnergy solutions are key!

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
We’re kicking things off tonight with some of the smartest activists working to oppose the Trump regime’s authoritarian takeover. Join us to discuss the vision, urgency, and strategy behind the next national day of action on October 18: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Maryland #PoorPeoplesCampaign remembers those lost 24 yrs ago & the many lost since due to heinous policy choices.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Dr. King

#EverybodysGotARightToLive #September11 #LovingResurrection
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"Such 'Christian' politicians regularly misuse Biblical passages to blame the impoverished for their poverty. There is never a suggestion that the rich, who have stolen people’s wages and engorged themselves by denying them healthcare, are in any way to blame."

Read on!
truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump Admin, GOP Continue to Weaponize Bible to Punish Poor, Defend Imperialism
Willfully misinterpreting the Bible to justify what passes for “law and order” has only intensified in recent decades.
truthout.org
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✨ Launch day ✨

These prayers rise from the wisdom of poor and dispossessed communities—embodied practices that transform, empower & reclaim the sacred as collective action for justice. #WePrayFreedom

👉 bit.ly/WePrayFreedom
Join CASA & DC-based organizations that are joining together in a campaign to end Trump admin’s takeover of the District of Columbia. The rally will be this Saturday, Sept 6 at Malcolm X Park.

Buses are available from Baltimore, MD, & Arlington, VA.
More info at wearealldc.com

#PoorPeoplesCampaign
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ONE WEEK LEFT to preorder “We Pray Freedom”! (link in bio)

“No one is getting left behind this time, we get there together or never get there at all.” –Joshua Blaine from "We Get There Together, Passover Seder: The Ritual”
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Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.

Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
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Join us TONIGHT for a powerful gathering with Freedom Church of the Poor, featuring Tony Eskridge as he shares “Love Is, for Tyre” — a moving poem written in response to the killing of Tyre Nichols.

🕕 6PM ET | 5PM CT | 3PM PT
📍 Zoom only
📲 RSVP: kairoscenter.org/freedomchurch
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This is beautiful movement music! #TaxTheRich
Republican Mike Flood’s comments being drowned out by chants of “tax the rich” at his town hall
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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people.

We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?
Maryland Poor People's Campaign has signed on to this letter in solidarity with trans and nonbinary members.

Whether an individual or an organization or a congregation, please also sign on. #everybodysgotarighttolive
@kairoscenter.org
I have signed on. Please, anyone seeing this, read over the letter and sign on as well! As an individual or org! #everybodysgotarighttolive
We are collecting signatures for an open letter affirming the dignity and divinity of trans and nonbinary people.
SIGN ON bit.ly/TRANSAFFIRMATION

*Please read and share with your faith communities before Aug 1st!

**We have over 400 signatures!

#FreedomChurch #TransRights
For tonight's book circle session, MD PPC began by playing "Brand New Day":
"So God please continue to forgive me for my sins & discrepancies
And carry me while armed with love & peace as my only weaponry" #RIPMalcolmJamalWarner

youtu.be/LeHlq_3z1zY?...
@mbpuskar.bsky.social @stokes417.bsky.social
Brand New Day (feat. Ledisi & Robert Glasper)
YouTube video by Malcolm-Jamal Warner's Miles Long - Topic
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