Injustice at Home
U.S. injustice has deep historical roots: the theft of Native American lands, slavery, centuries of racism and anti-immigrant policies, and profound income and wealth inequality. The legacies of these injustices persist and intersect today. The median wealth of a Black or Latinx family is only a small faction of that of a white family. Native American water and lands continue to be devastated by petroleum pipelines, coal and uranium mining. Muslim-Americans have experienced a wave of Islamophobia, while individuals seeking to enter the U.S. at our southern border are denied the right to seek asylum and detained in pens. UFPJ was founded on the principle that there will be no true peace without addressing the myriad injustices of U.S. society.
Countdown to June 20, 2020! Join the Poor People’s Campaign Mass Digital Justice Gathering
History teaches us that it is exactly in moments like these that a movement of the many is necessary to force the nation into action. In the midst of a pandemic, economic collapse, a racial justice uprising, militarization of the police, and more, the key to real and...
California Poor People’s Campaign Virtual Town Hall Sat., June 13, 11am PST
California Poor People’s Campaign Virtual Town Hall Saturday, June 13, 2020•11:00 AM • Pacific Daylight Time Everybody’s Got a Right to Live! We Won’t Be Silent Anymore RSVP here to attend the town hall Host Contact Info: info(at)ppcbayarea.org In the context of the...
Join the Poor People’s Campaign this Weekend: Online Teach-In, Interfaith Service & Day of Fasting and Focus.
We hope this finds folks safe and healthy. As history continues to turn around us, join us for a series of digital gatherings and actions over the coming three days to continue the collective work of fighting back and building our movement. And please RSVP for our...
Film Screening and Discussion: “We Cried Power”
United for Peace and Justice invites you to find inspiration and motivation as we host a screening of “We Cried Power ”on Tuesday, June 2 at 8:00-9:30 pm EDT; 7:00 – 8:30 pm CDT; 6:00 – 7:30 pm MDT; 5:00 – 6:30 pm PDT. We’ll watch and discuss this documentary about...
We Can’t Go Back to Normal: A Moral Response to Coronavirus
On May 21, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival launched a national day of action calling for people to Stay in Place! Stay Alive! Organize! Right now, states are beginning to reopen, against the best recommendations of doctors, public health...
Stop the War on the Poor: Combating U.S. Military and the War Economy
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are...
Online World Conference 2020: Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Resist and Reverse Climate Change; For Social and Economic Justice
April 25, 2020; 9 – 11 am EDT. Video of the World Conference can Now be watched here. Humanity faces two existential threats: increasing dangers of nuclear war and climate disruption, with its impact on world health. Human beings created these threats, which can only...
Poverty Amidst Pandemic: A Time to Break Silence
April 4, 2020 will mark the 52nd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s tragic and untimely assassination, and the 53rd anniversary of his prophetic speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” In the years following the September 11, 2001 terrorist...
The We must Do MORE (Mobilize, Organize, Register, and Educate) Tour.
The Poor People's Campaign We must Do MORE Tour is moving across the country to highlight 1) Poverty and Inequality 2) Systemic Racism 3) Ecological Devastation and 4) War and Militarism. Hear powerful testimonies, and share a moral vision for what this nation can...
Poor People’s Campaign Mobilization Meeting in Washington, DC February 22 2020
Dear UFPJ supporter, United for Peace & Justice (UFPJ) has signed on as a mobilizing partner of the Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington on June 20, 2020. We understand that the interconnected injustices of poverty, systemic racism,...
An Opportunity to Raise Your Voice for Environmental and Racial Justice!
We know that the Climate and the Environment are the biggest casualties of war, and that the Pentagon has the single largest carbon footprint in the world. UFPJ holds the health of our environment as part of the world with Peace and Justice we strife to manifest. As...
Coming to DC Soon – the Poor People’s Campaign MORE Tour
The Poor People’s Campaign MORE Tour will be in Washington DC soon. The We must Do MORE (Mobilize, Organize, Register, and Educate) (the Tour) began in September traveling to 22 states highlighting examples of 1) Poverty and Inequality, 2) Systemic Racism, 3)...