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California Poor People's Campaign
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Our votes tell the world that we won’t be silent anymore. We demand that the issues of 140 million poor & low-income people be addressed. If you believe it’s time to rise, join us!

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In this issue...
Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day
International Migrants Day march
Recap: Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe
Rev. Liz: "Is Trump the New Nero?"
Our Moral Moment: “Advent Joy Interrupts Reigns of Terror”
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Newsletter on pause for 2 weeks, back Jan 8
A graphic for Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day with the words Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day 2025 (Candle stick graphic) We Remember, We Rage, We Rise with a background of candle flames as from a vigil.
December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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In this issue…
Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe vigil
Recaps: Wood St. Fundraiser, People Over Billionaires, Redwoods Peace Colloquy
New report on mass detentions and deportations
Rev. Liz on the “Unsettling Advent”

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#CaliforniaPPC #UniteThePoor
Flyer for El Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe Friday Dec 12, 9:30am Placita Olvera (845 N Alameda Street, Los Angeles CA 90012) Wear white! Bring candles! Join Faith, labor, and community leaders for a peaceful and community protected, interfaith, prayer, service, procession, and vigil centered in peace, justice, and community care. All are welcome! There are a variety of logos across the bottom including CHIRLA, SEIU, LA Voice, and Unite Here! Local 11 There is a collage style graphic at the top with many activists all in shades of purple on a yellow background.
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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In this issue…
Wood Street Commons Holiday Party & Fundraiser
People Over Billionaires L.A. this Sat
Buy California for California makes an impact
Recap: Alameda County Food Bank policy meeting
“ICE Raids and Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked”

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Flyer for Wood Street Commons Holiday Party Fashion Show Fundraiser Friday Dec 5, 6pm-9pm at Omni Commons (4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland 94609) The flyer is decorated with winter holiday ornaments and lights.
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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In this issue…
Buy California for California launches today
Recap: rally for airline workers
Moral Mondays: mourning lives lost to policy violence
Prayer, ritual and “solidarity as nourishment
#CaliforniaPPC #UniteThePoor #MoralMovement

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Flyer for Buy California for California! features a photo of a grey haired man in an Acura uniform in front of an orange sign reading Lucas. The text says Buy California for California with the "o" in California replaced by a heart. Under that headline is a phrase "We spend where we get respect". From November 27th to December 31st. Sign the promise. bit.ly/buyCA4CA
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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In this issue…
Rally for airline catering workers
Alameda Food Bank’s December Policy Breakfast
Another way the “Big, Beautiful” budget causes harm
Recap: People Over Billionaires in SF
“Peter Thiel is wrong, St. John is right”: a Bishop Barber sermon

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Flyer with white letters on a red background featuring a photo of many workers holding signs at the bottom. The text reads Headline - City of L.A. - Hear the Flying Food Workers Voices We invite you to join catering workers at LAX for an action ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday tp demand the city hold serial law breaking Flying Food Group accountable. Tuesday Nov 25, 2025 Century Blvd and Jetway, Los Angeles 4:30pm-6:30pm
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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In this issue…
People Over Billionaires rallies
Tell our reps: Protect our healthcare!
Resources for Black immigrants
Bishop Barber on the end of the shutdown
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#CaliforniaPPC #MoralMovement #MoralBudget
#PoorPeoplesCampaign #FightPovertyNotThePoor
Flyer for People Over Billionaires November 15 Day of action There are photos of a man with a megaphone, a group of protesters with a People Over Billionaires banner and a woman hugging a child. There are nine logos of sponsors including ACCE, CHIRLA, SEIU, and California Black Power Network. Join us! - San Francisco, Los Angeles & San Diego
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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In this issue…
Give us back our SNAP
How the “Big, Beautiful” budget favors big business
Recap: Projects of survival statewide meeting
2 reports from the East Bay
Bishop Barber on redistricting

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#CaliforniaPPC #MoralMovement #MoralBudget
A photo of the California State Capitol dome in Sacramento, CA. The American flag and California flag fly in front of the lighted dome under a dark blue sky.
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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In this issue…
Act now to prevent hunger
The “Big, Beautiful” budget: Robin Hood in reverse
Recap: Statewide listening session
Faith leaders and protest

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#CaliforniaPPC #MoralMovement #FightPovertyNotThePoor #UniteThePoor #MoralBudget
A photo of the front of a bodega/convenience store with a sign proclaiming "We accept Food Stamps EBT".
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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In this issue…
How the “Big, Beautiful” budget terrorizes immigrant families
No Kings Day stories and pics
Wood Street Commons updates
Bishop Barber on the meaning of mass protest

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#CaliforniaPPC #MoralMovement
#FightPovertyNotThePoor #MoralBudget
A graphic with the PPC logo at the top and black text on a yellow background. A hooded skeleton with a scythe is by the headline, "Terrible ways the Congressional Budget causes harm." Text reads, "The GOP's 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery. Here is one of the worst things about it. It terrorizes immigrant families. The GOP budget provides $170 billion to arrest, detain, deport, and wall off migrants. That includes $45 billion for new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities — a vast increase that will primarily benefit private companies contracted to build and run them.
October 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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In this issue…
No Kings Day returns: find a rally
Another way the “Big, Beautiful” budget causes harm
Solidarity Is Sacred: Sukkot action
Info on SB 81: ICE out of our ERs
#CaliforniaPPC #MoralMovement
#FightPovertyNotThePoor
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A graphic with the PPC logo at the top and black text on a yellow background. A hooded skeleton with a scythe is by the headline, "Terrible ways the Congressional Budget causes harm." Text reads, "The GOP's 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery. Here is one of the worst things about it. It takes from the poor to give to the rich. The bill’s tax policies will overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest households. A Yale analysis of the bill’s combined tax and spending policies finds that the poorest 20 percent of households will suffer a net income loss of $700 per year on average, while the top 1 percent will get a $30,000 increase.
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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In this issue…
East Bay Ethical Investment Policy passes—our voices matter!
Recap: We the People Are Rising
Information on Trump’s “Project Homecoming”
New music from Arnaé Batson
The true meaning of the government shutdown

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#MoralMovement
A graphic with the PPC logo at the top and black text on a yellow background. A hooded skeleton with a scythe is by the headline, "Terrible ways the Congressional Budget causes harm." Text reads, "The GOP's 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery. Here is one of the worst things about it. It bars lawfully present immigrants from aid. Hundreds of thousands of lawfully present immigrants, including children, will lose access to Medicaid, the Children’ s Health Insurance Program, Medicare, ACA tax credits, and SNAP benefits. And 2.6 million U.S. citizen children who live with only an undocumented adult are expected to lose their Child Tax Credit."
October 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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In this issue…
We the People Are Rising march and rally
Squeezing states on SNAP
Tomorrow’s Ethical Investment Policy vote in Alameda County
Recap: Getting the PPC message to our senators
Bishop Barber in The Advocate
#CaliforniaPPC #MoralMovement
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A flyer for: We the People Are Rising march and rally Stop the hate. Stop the raids. March and rally. Saturday Oct 4, 10am 6th Street Bridge, Mateo Side, Los Angeles Billions of tax dollars become available this October to supercharge the immigration enforcement machine now that the Supreme Court handed ICE a blank check to racially discriminate while our communities lose union contracts, access to healthcare, and funding to education. We are not going to stand idly by. This is one struggle. One fight. Join us. About a dozen sponsor logos grace the bottom of the flyer.
October 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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In this issue…
Ethical investment policy in the East Bay
Recap: Bishop Barber’s L.A. Mass Meeting
Liberty Vans Launch
L.A. mayor meets with faith leaders
Our Moral Moment: “Listen to the children crying”

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#CaliforniaPPC #MoralMovement
A graphic with the PPC logo at the top and black text on a yellow background. A hooded skeleton with a scythe is by the headline, "Terrible ways the Congressional Budget causes harm." Text reads, "The GOP's 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery. Here is one of the worst things about it." It will take food from the mouths of hungry people New work requirements for SNAP benefits will take food assistance from millions, including children and veterans. As with Medicaid, these new requirements will have little effect on employment—but will cause more children to go hungry. At the bottom there is a tiny collage of PPC signs with the slogan Fight poverty, not the poor. The logos of Repairers of the Breach, The Poor People's Campaign, and the Kairos Center adorn the bottom
September 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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In this issue…
• Join Bishop Barber at two events in L.A.
• Another way the “Big, Beautiful” budget causes harm
• Laney College teach-in
• Rev. Liz on liberation theology
• Bishop Barber on Charlie Kirk
#CaliforniaPPC #MoralMovement
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A flyer for the Shine the Light of Truth! Mass Meeting for Moral Witness A photo collage of faith leaders at the US Capitol are imposed cover the Capitol Dome. Friday September 19, 2025 6:30pm Gather, 7pm mass meeting McCarty Memorial Christian Church (4101 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles 90018) Join Bishop Barber, faith leaders and people of conscience for a mass meeting to shine a light on immoral attacks against Latino and immigrant neighbors in the tradition of moral and nonviolent resistance. You have been chosen to stand in the power of nonviolence! We won't be silent anymore! Event info https://breachrepairers.org/get-involved/events/mass-meeting-for-moral-witness/ Live stream https://www.facebook.com/brepairers About a dozen sponsor logos grace the bottom of the flyer.
September 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"Deportations don't just affect those being deported; they ripple throughout the economy," says EPI President @hshierholz.bsky.social.

Learn more about how Trump’s deportation agenda will destroy millions of jobs: www.epi.org/publication/...
September 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Farmworkers feed America — often in dangerous conditions for low wages.

Last summer, at a legal clinic we hosted with @ufw.bsky.social, we heard directly from immigrant farmworkers about their experiences working in the field.

What they shared ⤵️
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Behind Every Meal: The Farmworkers Who Feed America
Over the summer of 2024, in collaboration with United Farm Workers, we sat down with several farmworkers, volunteers, and organizers to hear their stories.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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“Rosa” shared this pic of her crew returning to the fields to finish harvesting cilantro after their morning break near Moorpark CA. She works piece rate so needs to work as fast as she can but on especially hot days like today, must take a break so she can hydrate. #WeFeedYou
Farm workers returning to a field where they're harvesting cilantro
September 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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There is never a suggestion, of course, that the rich, who have functionally stolen people’s wages and engorged themselves by denying them healthcare, are in any way to blame, writes @liztheoharis.kairoscenter.org: www.commondreams.org/opinion/bibl...
Beware Rich Men Quoting the Bible to Punish the Poor | Common Dreams
​The Trump administration and its theological apologists are working overtime, using Jesus’ name and the Bible’s contents in even more devastating rounds of immoral biblical (mis)references.
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September 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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In this issue…
• New “Make Them Hear Us” series
• Dr. Wendsler Nosie tours CA
• Win for L.A. tourism workers
• Know-your-rights resources for Muslim immigrants
• Angeleno activists saluted in Our Moral Moment
• How the “Big, Beautiful Bill” does us dirty

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A graphic with the PPC logo at the top and black text on a yellow background. A hooded skeleton with a scythe is by the headline, "Terrible ways the Congressional Budget causes harm." Text reads, "The GOP's 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery. Here are some of the worst things about it."
September 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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In this issue…
• Make Them Hear Us fall campaign
• Apache Stronghold leader’s speaking tour
• Recaps: Labor Day across CA
• Our Moral Moment: The power of labor
• Rev. Liz on connection through ritual

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#PoorPeoplesCampaign #UniteThePoor #MoralBudget
A photo of a black woman with raised fist in front of a Poor People's Campaign sign. There is an overlay with the quote "We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
September 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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"Julia's" picking tomatoes CA San Joaquin Valley. " I get up at 2am to get ready for the day. We start work early cause of the heat. Once it gets hot, we can't harvest as fast. We usually work 4-5 hrs. It's hard, but this is peak season when we could earn the most." #WeFeedYou
Workers harvesting tomatoes
September 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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As kids head back to school this year, public education is under attack from Trump's assault on the Dept of Ed and the rise of voucher programs.

These attacks threaten to rob kids of a quality education.

Learn more in our new report: www.epi.org/publication/...
U.S. investment in public education is at risk: Vouchers, state budget austerity, and federal attacks on the Department of Education threaten children’s futures
Weak public K–12 education spending in the U.S. and the rising trend of Republican attacks on public schools threaten our children’s futures. The last decade has seen a flurry of high-quality studies ...
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September 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Only 11 days until “We Pray Freedom” hits the shelves! (preorder link in bio)

"Oramos por las almas de las personas fallecidas en los desiertos, en las montañas, en los rios y oceanos en su camino por una mejor vida." –ana g. lara lopez from “Día de los Muertos and All Saints' Day: The Prayer“
August 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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In this issue…
• Labor Day “Workers Over Billionaires” action
• Measure W update: Oakland petition for real solutions
• Resources for immigrant protection and defense
• Building the Let Them Hear Us campaign
• An Oak Flat emergency injunction

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The photo is from Oakland-based Housing & Dignity Project and shows an orange tent with a handwritten sign that says "Where Do We Go, Oakland?" And a printed sign that says "Housing is a Human Right" and "Resist Displacement, Protect Dignity" They are calling on Oakland residents to sign a petition (https://www.change.org/p/invest-in-solutions-to-homelessness-not-criminalization-of-the-poor) demanding the city council adopt an Encampment Management Policy based on evidence and human rights principles and to reject any proposal for sweeps and criminalization, which escalate the attacks on people experiencing homelessness.
August 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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In this issue…

- CA PPC fall organizing campaign
- New resource: 10 Terrible Ways the Congressional Budget Causes Harm
- Recap: A Southern Call to Conscience
- Recap: Vigil for the Taken
- Bishop Barber on the president’s D.C. takeover

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California Poor People's Campaign Newsletter Weekly news, updates and more August 21, 2025 Forward together, not one step back! On the cover: Some of the CA PPC delegates to the Poor People's Campaign Moral Poverty Action Congress in DC in June 2023 with raised fists, wearing various PPC tshirts with slogans just prior to engaging with our elected representatives in the offices.
August 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM