Voting is Power Unleashed: Moral Monday Mass Assembly

On September 14 at 7 PM ET, the Poor People’s Campaign will hold a mass digital assembly and teach-in: “Voting is Power Unleashed: Moral Monday Mass Assembly”. This online program will bring together thousands of poor and low-income people, community and faith organizations, and more as we plan to educate and empower ourselves on voter engagement, registration, and protection ahead of this consequential election season.

 

The program will be anchored by two prominent legal organizations, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Forward Justice, which will lead a massive and unique teach-in on voter participation and protection. We will also hear from poor and low-income folks who have experienced voter suppression as well as notable leaders, artists, activists, and the co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign.

Use this link to join as a co-sponsor. Once you sign-up, you can use this digital toolkit to spread the word far and wide.

As we show in a new report, poor and low-income people are a key section of the electorate, but their issues are rarely part of the political narrative. There are over a dozen states where just a small increase in turnout by poor and low-income voters in the 2016 presidential election and in 2018 midterms could have met or exceeded the margin of victory. Poor and low-income people are no longer waiting to be included in the national political narrative.

That is why September 14 is not a one-off event, but a launching pad for a national organizing campaign between now and November: We Must Do M.O.R.E. (Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering, and Educating). As a part of the M.O.R.E Campaign, we are encouraging at least 1000 faith and community organizations to sign-on to the Prophetic Pledge to turn-out 1000 people to the polls. And thousands more are signing-up as MORE Organizers to do outreach in their communities. We’d be thrilled to count you and your people in the numbers.

Forward Together!

Rev. Kazimir Brown & Dr. Adam Barnes

PPC Faith Partners Team