Please join us Sunday, November 7 at 10:30am for our 3rd PA Poor People’s Campaign Outreach Study Group! Each session we delve into and discuss a section of the Jubilee Platform (www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/about/jubilee-platform/) together with the Third Reconstruction resolution (https://www.3rdreconstruction.org/#resolution). This is a place for us to learn and grow together as a movement.

November’s study topic is: Protect and honor the rights of first nations, indigenous and native people.

We are honored to hear from Indigenous organizers in the Poor People’s Campaign, followed by break-out discussions and reflections as a group.

** Please note: remember to turn your clocks back 1 hour Sunday morning! **

“The Court refused to acknowledge my children’s Native heritage and the protections granted to us by The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). This country has a long and ugly history of forcibly separating families. We are seeing the continuation of this brutal legacy today. Immigrant families at our borders were indigenous to these lands long before colonization. My children have a right to live with their family. My children have sovereign nation status rights to be recognized. I will always fight for my children's rights.” - Jennina Gorman, speaking at a PA Poor People’s Hearing in Harrisburg

When Indigenous people on reservations face cruel decisions that trace all the way back to wartime treaties; when corporations frack and drill on their sacred lands and poison their aquifers, the politics of rejection and policy violence against the poor are still far too real. - Reverend Dr. William Barber

Also, if you are interested in helping plan future outreach study groups, we have meetings on Wednesdays at 6pm. Just let us know!

Forward together! Not one step back!

PS. We encourage you to watch the Apache Stronghold Prayer Rally to Protect Oak Flat, held on October 20 in San Francisco, where Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and others from the Poor People’s Campaign spoke in solidarity. Apache Stronghold is in a fight to protect the sacred land of Oak Flat (Chi'chil Biłdagoteel) from being transferred to Resolution Copper, whose leaders plan to turn the site into one of the largest copper mines in the world. The government has repeatedly attempted to take the lands from the Apache nation. Their case was heard at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on October 22. They also held a teach-in with the California Poor People’s Campaign. For more information about how to support Apache Stronghold, check out their website http://apache-stronghold.com.