Poor People’s Campaign
A Family Caregiver Against War at Poor People’s Campaign rally
By Eric Gjertsen, Payday men’s network
We see it is those of us at the bottom, starting with women and children in the Global South, who are killed or forced to kill others who are just as poor, while the money we need to survive is stolen from us.
Read MoreA caregivers’ delegation for Child Tax Credit
By Payday
In December 2021, we joined a caregivers’ delegation to the PPC Moral Monday action in Washington, DC to press for passage of the Build Back Better Act, in particular the continuation of the extended Child Tax Credit (CTC).
Read MoreHalf of US Farmers had a income below zero’
By Payday
On 13 June 2020, Dean Kendall, subsistence farmer and member of Payday, spoke on the poverty of US farmers ‘half of whom had a farm income below zero’ in 2019.
Read MoreIndustrial agriculture is the main thief
Speech by Dean Kendall, subsistence farmer and member of Payday
By subsistence farmer I just mean I grow for own use, letting me scrape by on a pittance of social security and meager wages from odd jobs. I don’t make an income from the farming.
Read MoreJoining the Poor People Campaign
By Payday men’s network
The PPC brings people together in a cross-movement “fusion” coalition, against the “four evils” of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy and militarism, and ecological devastation. Those most impacted are the voices that are front and center in the PPC.
Read MorePoor People’s Campaign is launched
By Payday
The Poor People’s Campaign launched with 40 Days of Action in state capitols around the country on the day after Mother’s Day, March 2018.
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