Join the Poor People’s Campaign and One Fair Wage on Monday, February 8 for safely-distanced Fair Wage Rallies in Washington D.C. and other U.S. cities, as well as a Digital Rally livestream, to support the Raise the Wage Act for a $15 minimum wage, a full, fair minimum wage for all!
Monday, February 8, 2021
Register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/hecmwNt6QE2iEhYUJGXN5Q2
Watch the Digital Rally here: https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/
One Fair Wage, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, together with service industry workers, employers and other allies are having a National Day of Action & Moral Monday event. Participating cities include:
MAIN EVENT: Washington, DC
San Francisco, CA
Chicago, IL
Denver, CO
New York, NY
Phoenix, AZ
…. as well as a Digital Event and other ways to participate remotely! All in-person events will include a safely distanced, outdoor rally following all Covid-19 protocols.
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14 Priorities for the First 100 Days: The PPC Sends New Demands to Washington
On behalf of the 140 million poor and low-income people in the country, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival – and our 45 state coordinating committees, thousands of religious leaders, scholars, economists, advocates and hundreds of supporting organizations – insists that the following policies from the Poor People’s Jubilee Platform take precedence during the first 50-100 days of the new administration and 117th Congress.
The 14 policy priorities include:
–Enact comprehensive and just COVID-19 relief that provides free testing, treatment, vaccines and direct payments to the poor
–Guarantee quality health care for all, regardless of any pre-existing conditions
–Raise the minimum wage to $15/ hour immediately
–Update the poverty measure
–Guarantee quality housing for all
–Enact a federal jobs program to build up investments, infrastructure, public institutions, climate resilience, energy efficiency and socially beneficial industries and jobs in poor and low-income communities
–Protect and expand voting rights and civil rights
–Guarantee safe, quality and equitable public education, with supports for protection against re-segregation
–Comprehensive and just immigration reform
–Ensure all of the rights of indigenous peoples
–Enact fair taxes and targeted tax credits
–Use the power of executive orders
–Redirect the bloated Pentagon Budget towards these priorities as matters of national security
–Work with the PPC to establish a permanent Presidential Council to advocate for this bold agenda
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SAFETY DURING COVID-19
Masks & Social Distancing is Required at All Times
If you have the following symptoms, please DO NOT participate in person. Even if you test negative for COVID-19 but have these symptoms, please refrain from in-person actions:
–Fever
–Shortness of breath
–Cough
–Headache
–Loss of smell or taste
CDC: Older adults and people who have severe underlying medical conditions like heart or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at higher risk for developing serious complications from COVID-19 illness.
CDC COVID-19 link: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html
