Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #151: Empowering the Souls of Poor Folk, with Rev. Liz Theoharis
Description:
[contentblock id=belabored-info]
Half a century after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. set out on a march to demand equality now, the poor are still marching. But they’re no less impassioned and they come, as King once said, “to demand that the government address itself to the problem of poverty.” We speak to Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s campaign along with Rev. Dr. William Barber. The longtime welfare rights organizer talked about why people are marching across the country for economic justice and “moral revival.” They are making their political de...