MARCH 2ND PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLIES – JOIN US!

Join the Texas Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival on March 2nd at 11 AM CT as we march and rally, bringing the demands of poor and low-wealth people for living wages, healthcare, housing, immigrant rights, education, environmental justice, voting rights, women’s rights, and more directly to our lawmakers. Together we are taking back the mic from extremists and registering our votes as our demands!

Texas is joining 31 states across the nation who will be holding simultaneous assemblies and marches at their state capitals. We are going to Austin to deliver a moral indictment of the cynical priorities and immoral policies of the leadership of the Texas Legislature. Join with us –– poor people, clergy and faith leaders, and advocates ––  in building an action that will send a message to legislators who are responsible for the unrelenting policy violence against the 11. 8 million poor and low-income people in our state. We won’t be silent anymore!

Across the nation, poor people make up 30% of the electorate. And here in Texas, there are more than 7.1 million poor and low-income eligible voters. This is the power of the sleeping giant! Organizing and mobilizing poor and low-income voters means that we can build the Texas we believe in! It’s time for us to take back the mic from those who want to talk about everything else but the death-sentence of poverty in these yet to be United States. That’s why we are mobilizing around the issues that impact our communities most. If you believe in freedom, if you believe in living wages, healthcare, voting rights and stopping voter suppression, equal rights for all, worker and labor rights, environmental justice, access to housing, fully-funded public education, abolishing poverty, and the unity of love not the division of hate, join us on March 2nd, 2024 at 11am CT in Austin! 

Date: March 2, 2024

Time: March 11 AM – 12 PM, Rally 12 – 2 PM CT

Location: South Steps of the Texas Capitol

Address: 1100 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701

Confirmed Speakers for the Rally so far:

• Nyeka Arnold, Director, The Healing Project
• Rev. Erin J. Walter, Executive Director, Texas UU Justice Ministry
• Chas Moore, Austin Justice Coalition
• Melinda Hamilton, Mothers of Murdered Angels
• Rev. Jim Harrington, Missioner for Projecto Santiago, St. James’ Episcopal Church, Austin
• Sabrina Sha, Asian Texans for Justice
• Rabbi Rebecca Reice, Congregation Shir Ami
• Samantha Singleton, Border Network for Human Rights
• Kasey Corpus, Young Invincibles
• Liam Barr, Seminary of the Southwest, and St. James’ Episcopal Church, Austin
• Oscar Ponce, Coalición de Apoyo al MIgrante en su Nuevo Avance
• Phyllis Ruffin, Texas American Federation of Teachers

• Coretta Fontenot, Texas American Federation of Teachers

• Ashley Washington, Women’s Rights