Join the Maryland Poor People's Campaign to discuss "Poverty, by America" by Matthew Desmond.
Sessions will be held Mondays in the evening and earlier in the day on Wednesdays for each week—starting on Monday, June 16.
More details & Zoom registration at mdppc.org/book2025
We stand for a revolution of values.
We stand for policies that allow all to thrive, not stuggle to survive.
We are a resurrection, not an insurrection.
Join us!
#MDPPC #PoorPeoplesCampaign #SystemicRacism #SystemicPoverty
Hurricane Beryl acted like Israel, now 60 trucks and World Central Kitchen are struggling to deliver food, because #SystemicPoverty means the infrastructure for relief is undeveloped; and reliance on overstressed (not bombed) volunteers is meant to continue reducing self reliance with the NGOs the #FailedStateDepartmentOfMeritlessBlinken line up before regime change. There’s even a “Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job”.
#UNRWAFeedsRefugeesFromIsraeliGenocide
https://www.texasobserver.org/hunger-hurricane-houston-beryl/
“The field of the poor may yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.” (Prov 13:23)
How many of these injustices are normalized as we are raised with them, and go unquestioned?
#BiblicalStudies #Bible #theology #SocialJustice #Poverty #SystemicPoverty #Proverbs
Key to #Deuteronomy 16’s & 26’s demands to include the #impoverished & #disadvantaged (widows, orphans, sojourners) at festivals is to ensure that the #marginalized are seen
#SystemicPoverty thrives on making the poor the “other” and, when possible, keeping impoverished folks away from those with means/influence
These Deut statutes encourage interaction, community-building, and care
#BiblicalStudies #liberation #BiblicalEthics #BiblicalEconomics
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code.
In the summer of 1995, more than 700 Chicago residents died during a week-long heatwave. This #PBS documentary highlights the connections between #systemicpoverty, #racialinequality, and vulnerability to #environmentalcrises. #IndependentLens https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/cooked-survival-by-zip-code/
In the summer of 1995, Chicago experienced an unthinkable disaster, when extremely high humidity and a layer of heat-retaining pollution drove the heat index up to more than 126 degrees. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of this tragic heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the […]
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