What: "An Unsettling Force" A documentary about the movement to end poverty
When: Friday, September 27, 2024 at 6 pm
Where: The Park Church - Beecher Hall (enter via parking lot door near Gray St.)
"We've got to make this a new story" - Rev. Dr. William J. Barber I|
Join Freedom Church of the Poor of Elmira to Celebrate this brand-new Poor People’s Campaign Film.
Freewill Donation welcomed!
For more information contact: Becca Forsyth bforsyth770@yahoo.com or Connie Seifert: andrucilla3@gmail.com
An Unsettling Force” tells the story of a bold new social movement to end poverty in the United States, led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. 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 clergy to launch a national movement led by poor and working class people.
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 - worked together, picking up the baton from the freedom fighters of the Civil Rights Movement.
In this contested election season, we know that the poor and dispossessed are the SWING VOTE! We know that the poor make up between 30-40% of the electorate around this country and they don’t tend to vote because they don’t hear the issues that impact them being spoken about by politicians.
The Poor People’s Campaign has vowed to engage 15 million poor and low-income voters at this crucial moment in our nation’s history. The only way to make real, lasting change is for this powerful block to come together and rise above the division and hatred to bring about true unity and equality.
Watch the trailer at the bottom of the Unsettling Force Movie Page.
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